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Friday May 2, 2025. 02:00 AM
TL;DR: Get a 1-year Sam's Club membership (with auto-renew) for just $20—includes fuel savings, bulk buys, exclusive perks, and a bonus household card. Imagine walking into a store where the carts are oversized, the snacks abound, and the savings feel almost criminal. — Rea...
A pilot decided to fly right between a line of skiers on the Swiss side of the Pennine Alps over the weekend — practically grazing some hikers in the process. 'I witnessed a near-tragedy,' said mountaineer Luca Calzone, who shot the video during a ski-mountaineering race...
Thursday May 1, 2025. 11:53 PM
Harvard professor Roland Fryer says algorithms could solve the problem of deciding who to admit to universities 'far better than any committee armed with SAT scores, legacy flags and, worse, their gut instincts.' He writes in the Wall Street Journal, 'Evidence is clear that...
Most language apps start out as a fun new hobby and end up as an icon collecting dust next to your unused meditation app. But Qlango? Qlango doesn't guilt-trip you, pressure you, or try to teach you Shakespeare-level Spanish on day three. — Read the rest The post One low...
Donald Trump's biggest lie of the day so far is that he warned everyone about his tariff 'transition period' during his campaign. In an interview with ABC News, Trump said, 'I said all of these things during my campaign. I said, 'You're gonna have a transition period.'' —...
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'Flowers of the Sky' is a stunning collection of celestial art throughout the ages from the Public Domain Review. The artwork in this collection covers nearly a millennium of illustrations (chronologically) depicting comets, meteors, meteorites, and shooting stars. The...
The world's richest try-hard wants you to know Trump 'actually calls, like late at night' to make sure he gets his special ice cream. As USA Today reports, Musk spent an hour sharing cool-kid-table stories about his White House sleepovers. 'We'll be on Air Force One, and...
This sweet turtle named Root is missing his right front foot. Nobody knows how Root lost his foot, but his shell was becoming damaged from scraping against the floor as he walked. Root lives at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, where one of his caretakers came up...
Nothing says confidence in your boss's master plan like frantically stockpiling toilet paper in your Georgetown basement. As Rolling Stone reports, Trump administration officials are privately preparing for their own economic apocalypse while publicly insisting America is...
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...
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