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Thursday May 1, 2025. 06:28 PM
Vice President JD Vance took a break from making unwelcome appearances around the world to cast a tie-breaking vote ensuring that Trump's 'make everything cost more' policy remains intact. As reported by CNN, the Senate's attempt to block Trump's cartoonishly high tariffs...
TL;DR: Stop overthinking it — this MacBook Air with an Intel processor is just $199.97. Less than 90 units left. Are you still reading this? Seriously? It's a MacBook Air for $199.97. There are fewer than 90 units left, and you're wasting precious checkout time. — Read the...
The Boox Mira Pro is a 25-inch, 3200×1800 16:9 monitor with HDMI ports, a USB-C port and DisplayPort. It has a handsome metallic finish, if rather thick bezels. Two qualities set it apart from other external displays. First, it uses E Ink Keleido 3, a color e-ink panel that...
A couple of years ago, Popkin here at Boing Boing wrote about the 'Phone of the Wind,' a beautiful phone booth created by Itaru Sasaki as a way to help him grieve a family member who had died from cancer. Sasaki installed the first iteration of the Wind Phone—an old...
PC World's Michael Crider reports that Office is now so slow to load that 'Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup.' The 'Startup Boost' function, soon to be available, frontloads the suite's apps so they are ready to use—at whatever cost to performance results from ...
This past weekend was the fifth annual European Gull Screeching Championship, where 60 seagull enthusiasts from 14 different countries competed with their finest seagull screeching talents to see who would be crowned the winner. According to CNN, the contest, which has been h...
A federal judge found that Apple wilfully refused to comply with the ruling in a 2021 antitrust case and ordered it to loosen rules on the App Store. Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker Epic Games had sued to force the company to allow third-party payment systems and to limit...
Join me in sending an enthusiastic 'happy birthday!' wish to Julio, Maryland Zoo's cute-as-can-be southern three-banded armadillo ambassador, who recently turned 17! The cute little armored fellow celebrated with a birthday 'cake' that was created to look like a termite mound...
Hirox made a 108-billion pixel scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring to market its high-resolution imaging hardware. Above, the glint of light on the pearl; below, a crack in the glint of light, and finally the glint of light in three dimensions. — Read the...
A Tasmanian short-beaked echidna named Adelaide recently turned 56, and the video footage from her birthday party is bringing me joy! She was presented with a beautiful cake that *looked* to be chocolate with purple frosting—but it was really made out of some of...
For once, 'Florida man' makes his fellow Floridians proud. Seventy-year-old Doug Hay was sitting in his living room when he heard a crash outside. When he and his wife went outside to investigate further, they found a bald eagle downed in the lake outside their home, and...
You may remember Buckshot Roulette, an indie horror game that made quite the splash by swapping out Russian roulette's typical revolver for a shotgun loaded with a variety of shells. Although the grimy industrial aesthetic (not to mention the grimy industrial soundtrack)...
ChatGPT, the favorite digital sycophant of thousands of tech bros, has been turned into a little too much of a doormat. Every AI model under the sun is apparently too woke nowadays, a complaint OpenAI has apparently taken notice of and corrected for. — Read the rest The...
Wednesday April 30, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Kick subscription fees to the curb—grab a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just $49.97 (reg. $219.99) through June 1. Imagine this: You're Neo. But instead of dodging bullets, you're dodging another monthly Microsoft charge just...
In today's episode of 'Make America Deflate Again,' President Trump told Americans to lower their expectations about the economy. As reported by Axios, Trump's solution to potential toy shortages is to pay more and get less: 'Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of ...
A woman whose pigs killed and by one account 'partially ate' a neighbor was ordered to pay a $200 fine, reports WTRF News from Pataskala, Ohio. Rebecca Westergaard, 74, was found dead outside her home on Mink Street after she failed to meet with family. — Read the rest ...
Impressively long if lacking girth, the Bayeux Tapestry narrates the Norman conquest of England. But how many penises are embroidered therein? Oxford professor George Garnett counts 93 cocks, 88 belonging to horses and the rest to humans. But now Bayeux tapestry scholar Dr...
Roz and Graham Hall from Stockton, England, run the Eagle Ukes YouTube channel. They found that their videos were being ripped off on TikTok—and doing very well there, with millions of views. But they learned to their dismay that TikTok has no particular interest in taking ...
MAGA cultists — who think Satan-worshipping Democrats eat babies while running the world – placed their redemption hopes in mythical 'Epstein files' that would expose it all. Their chosen messiah who was prophesied to deliver the receipts? Non other than Donald J Trump,...
Bit Pong is a digital table tennis game where the table is an enormous ball-sensitive display providing all sorts of pixelated shenanigans. It even folds up to allow solo play. It's described by its creator as 'the future of social gaming'—the demo (embedded below) reminds ...
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