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Thursday January 9, 2025. 06:00 PM
The British Museum has cracked a 4,000-year-old murder plot: Babylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 Mesopotamian clay tablets, four texts tell the story. The tablets, written in Old...
Most people attending former president Jimmy Carter's funeral today put their differences aside when it came to the presence of Donald Trump. Even former President Barack Obama was caught on camera actually yukking it up with the bitter ol' president-elect. (See video below, ...
Trump, blathering, wants Canada to become the 51st state. As many point out, this makes no sense constitutionally for his party, as the State of Canada would have some 50 U.S. Representatives and 60 electoral college votes. The House and presidency would turn a maple shade...
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What I love most about Lawrence Woodman's retrospective of Commodore VIC-20 word processors is how inappropriate its wide-pixel, low-res display is for that task. And yet he perservered! Commodore's VICWRITER has an interesting approach to dealing with the 22 character...
After creating the intended fear and chaos, it seems Elon Musk's bold promise to cut $2 trillion from the US Federal budget was vapor. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The Trump/Musk brainchild 'Department of Government Efficiency' was a ruse,...
George Santos, the criminally convicted congressman who got into the U.S. House of Representatives after the criminally useless New York Democrats failed to put up a fight in the Long Island race he ran in, will not be sentenced until April. — Read the rest The post George...
After 30 years, the Chicago franchise of the world-renowned Blue Man Group has darkened its stage for the very last time. GET BOING BOING AD-FREE But after the group's final official performance, the men in Blue reconvened outside of the theatre to hold both a funeral —...
Enron is back, baby! Well sort of. The trademark and branding associated with the company that famously pioneered the creative accounting industry was recently acquired by Connor Gaydos, a performance artist perhaps best known as one of the Birds Aren't Real guys. — Read the...
Scientists have found a way to use toxic masculinity for good. Australian researchers have successfully genetically engineered insect semen to be poisonous, reducing the number of female insects able to breed. A new technique inserts proteins from spider and sea anemone...
Nearly 6 out of 10 adults (57%) recently surveyed reported that they were planning to make New Year's Resolutions, and, to nobody's surprise, the top resolutions involved getting healthier either through diet or exercise. GET BOING BOING AD-FREE If you're one of those folks,...
Back in 2012, the outdoor company L.L. Bean celebrated its 100th anniversary by unveiling the 'Bootmobile,' a driveable vehicle created to look exactly like one of L.L. Bean's most iconic items—the duck boot, or what L.L. Bean calls the 'Maine Hunting Shoe.' — Read the...
The Palisades fire (the largest of the four major fires currently burning in Los Angeles) has forced 30,000 people out of their homes, destroyed more than 1,000 structures, and burned 15,832 acres so far, according to reports. Which means all of the Pacific Palisades —...
TL;DR: Luminar Neo is an AI-powered photo editor on sale for $144.97 (reg. $752). Have you looked at the price of wedding photographers? Bananas. Actually, getting professional photos for any occasion is pretty expensive, but that's usually because you're getting someone to...
Wednesday January 8, 2025. 11:38 PM
Capitol police arrested a man carrying three knives and a machete today at the Capitol Visitor Center — just hours before Donald Trump was scheduled to arrive. 'Our officers spotted a machete in the man's bag, stopped the X-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the...
This advertisement is run in partnership with StackCommerce TL;DR: Get 2TB of cloud storage for life with a $110 FolderFort subscription. A few days ago, I found an old flash drive with a bunch of pictures of my senior dog as a tiny, perfect puppy. — Read the rest The post...
Astronaut and astrophotographer Don Pettit gifted the world with the breathtaking video below of the Aurorea Borealis as seen from the International Space Station, approximately 250 miles above Earth. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! —...
In Napa Valley, California, a one-ounce South African Krugerrand gold coin valued at thousands of dollars was discovered in a Salvation Army donation bucket. Meanwhile, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, someone dropped an Elizabeth II gold coin valued at $2,700 into the...
Smug fraudster and MoviePass mastermind Ted Farnsworth finally faces justice after years of exploiting investors' dreams – but his potential 25-year sentence feels light for someone who made a career of destroying trust and retirement accounts. The 62-year-old serial...
Is Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France (1937 edition) the most pessimistic phrasebook ever published? What was meant as a practical tool for British tourists instead became an accidental masterpiece of travel anxiety literature, suggesting that a trip to France was less...
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