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Tuesday November 26, 2024. 04:04 PM
JavaScript is the name of the most popular and widely-used programming language. Due to a series of historical absurdities, such as the decision to name it after Java, a completely different language, JavaScript is now also a trademark registered to Oracle. — Read the rest ...
John Alfred Tinniswood (previously at Boing Boing) died Monday at 112. He was the world's oldest man. His family said Mr Tinniswood's final day was 'surrounded by music and love'. Mr Tinniswood, who was born on 26 August 1912, the same year the Titanic sank, became the UK's ...
The latest of some 5,780 exoplanets so far discovered outside our own solar system is described as a 'young' planet that may develop into a super-Earth: a world compositionally similar to our own but much larger.'Astronomers got lucky,' writes Mark Kaufman. — Read the rest ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! And if not, it's certainly a contender. Put the neon-green Cyberbeast out of your mind and feast your eyes on the Cyberdoge, a unique meeting of Elon Musk's terrible cars and Elon Musk's ancient taste in ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! See a tiny and ethereal looking Peruvian Dragon mantis swaying back and forth on a person's hand. When full grown, this mantis is relatively large. The females typically grow up to 4–5 inches (10–12...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Instead of arguing about politics at the dinner table this Thanksgiving, why not ask mom what happened to your childhood comic book collection? You'll all enjoy reviewing the final bids of the recent...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! I assure you that you are not prepared for how cute this motherboard is. Here is the COLORFIRE B760M-MEOW WIFI D5 ORANGE from Colorfire. So many cats and pawprints! — Read the rest The post MEOW...
A batch of raw milk sold in California comes with a freebie drinkers might not want: bird flu. Whole raw milk from Raw Farm, LLC, tested positive for the virus and has issued a voluntary recall for the batch, which has a best by date of November 27. — Read the rest The post...
TL;DR: Black Friday came early, so save 25% on the Toybox Alpha two 3D printer that comes with a catalog of 7,000+ prints and filament for $308.99 (reg. $415). Wondering what to get for your kids or nieces and nephews this holiday season? — Read the rest The post Your kids w...
Monday November 25, 2024. 11:25 PM
Each holiday season, I look forward to the new batch of Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories series from Biblioasis. This year marks the 10th anniversary of these beautifully designed pocket-sized books that revive the Victorian tradition of sharing spooky tales on Christmas Eve....
TL;DR: Save over 70% on the Seido knife set, which comes with eight blades handmade in Japan for only $109.97 (reg. $429) ahead of Black Friday. Are your knives letting you down right at the start of the year's busiest cooking season? — Read the rest The post Black...
A misunderstanding involving a Lyft ride in Florida led a McDonald's customer to threaten three ride-share passengers with a gun — but she accidentally shot her daughter instead. The 32-year-old mom allegedly thought someone was pointing at her rather than at the Lyft car, ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! It's the 50th anniversary of Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and there's a new edition out to celebrate it. In his essay for The Yale Review, cartoonist Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan,...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The MIT Press's Radium Age series continues to unearth fascinating proto-science fiction from the early 20th century. Series editor Joshua Glenn (who I'm fortunate to count as a friend and who listeners...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Earth is being hammered by the most powerful cosmic particles ever detected, according to new findings from a telescope array in Namibia's desert. These subatomic bullets pack 40 trillion electron volts...
Three Michigan hunters dropped dead while shooting for game — all in the first week of deer season. The men, ages 57, 65, and 83, all died from heart attacks, reports PennLive. At least two of the men died while dragging the heavy animals back to their vehicles, while the ...
As BlueSky grows, it's helpful to have some filters. SkySentry has a fantastic collection of well-maintained block lists. Click through to one of Sky Sentry's lists like 'Right-wing propaganda and their followers,' subscribe, and select Block ( or Mute if you want to let...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Of all the old gear I can't bring myself to part with, it's the tiny Pis that cling on hardest: there's always something cool to be done with them that has not yet been done. — Read the rest The post...
After years of using an Apple Magic Keyboard, I bought the Epomaker Th80 Pro. I am not going back. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! For years, I had a laptop on top of my standing desk. — Read the rest The post This budget hot swappable...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In 2018, Andrea James posted about drone cameras revealing dozens of previously unobserved lines in the Nazca desert. The New York Times now reports that hundreds more geoglyphs have been found there...
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