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Friday November 29, 2024. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: Tell your in-laws to pipe down in their native language with lifetime access to 14 different languages for 78% off through Boing Boing Shop. You know the best part of the holidays? Seeing family you haven't seen in a while. — Read the rest The post Learn their...
In this footage posted by Sports News, said to be recorded at 70,000 frames per second but played back at about 5 fps, a ball splats against a steel plate at 150 mph. That's quite a drive! I'm going to go out on a limb, though, and suggest that something is not quite...
As spotted in vending machines in Japan, the tiny Casio retro ring watch is coming to America! The Verge's Andrew Liszewski writes that it turned up on the company's U.S. website with a price tag—$120—and a December release date. We celebrate Casio Watch's 50th...
Denmark, roughly the area of Wisconsin, is to plant a billion trees, replacing 15 percent of the nation's farmland with forest. $6.1 billion was earmarked by legislators in compensation to the those whose property will become national parkland. Government figures report...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Nuisance litigation of the sort heralded by Cease 'n' Decist letters is on the rise, and I enjoyed reading Boondoggle and Doggle's (or rather Mark Chan and Adnan Aga's) amusing 'Continue and Persist'...
UFC strawweight Luana Pinheiro recently limped out the octagon after being elbowed in the anus during a fight—a move that would have been illegal until recently and which remains at the wrong end of sportsmanship. Healing is a slow process. — Read the rest The post UFC...
Jurassic Park may have the tourists, but Triassic Toilet serves up the science. The inner lives of dinosaurs are revealed in Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy, a study by Martin Qvarnström and others published in the journal Nature. —...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A discarded cigarette: what a perfectly French way to destroy centuries of French history. But Notre Dame was restored at staggering expense—the BBC reports €700m (about $750m) was spent—after the...
Candace Owens, an online influencer who graduated from standard right wingery to holocaust denial with some Hitler praise along the way, was denied entry to New Zealand. Officials cited her ban from Australia, what was due to her extremist positions—specifically 'remarks...
TL;DR: The first 100 customers can save 90% on Windows 11 Pro during this Black Friday sale — head directly to checkout. Everyone's talking about how AI is the future, but there's something they're not telling you. Instead of opening ChatGPT whenever you want to generate...
Thursday November 28, 2024. 11:00 PM
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The U.S. healthcare system is ruthless and profit-seeking by design. That it's also infested with frauds and crooks is an example of why the freedom in free markets rarely extends to customers. Federal agents detained hospital chain CEO Ralph de la Torre last week, reports...
TL;DR: Don't let that old film fester. Digitize your film and slides with the Kodak Slide N Scan Film and Slide Scanner, now on sale for $164.97 (reg $224) ahead of Black Friday. Attic, basement, shed, wherever it is, we've all run into that ancient, dusty collection of old...
'Alice's Restaurant Massacree' is both too tangentially related to Thanksgiving and too boring to give up 18 minutes. This scene from Addams Family Values best encapsulates today's US of A. Cheers understood the holiday: Happy holidays! LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT...
Jet Set Willy is a sprawling 8-bit classic requiring the player to tidy up his own vast mansion, infested with monsters after a party gone wrong. Pixel for pixel, every screen now fits on a modern 4K display, and Retro Games Look posted a video showing all of them animated...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Proposed not long ago, Australia's ban on under 16s on social media is already law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 ...
For your Thanksgiving viewing pleasure, here's a delightfully rousing tune performed in a most interesting manner. Behold this Austrian Tyrolean 'tongue choir' performing what Classic FM describes as 'a rumbling, a cappella chorus' created 'by flicking their tongues back ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The mid-20th century saw a huge surge in rocket-themed playground equipment, designed to capture the imagination of kids and celebrate space travel. Most of these rocket shaped jungle gym pieces were not ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Ravens are among the most cognitively advanced birds. They are known for their problem-solving abilities, tool use, social intelligence, communication skills, and amazing adaptability. Ravens, like many...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A life-sized Lego tram has been created to celebrate 137 years of public transportation in Budapest. The brick-built tram has an actual tram undercarriage and can be pulled on a fixed track. — Read the re...
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