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Wednesday December 11, 2024. 05:57 PM
Luigi Mangione had allegedly planned to use a bomb to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson before settling for a 3-D printed gun. The 26-year-old shooter's spiral notebook, found on him when he was arrested at McDonald's, included a manifesto, as well as a 'to-do list'...
Slave to the attention economy, Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina had an award-winning foster youth advocate arrested for shaking her hand. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Folks who saw the event are shocked, confused, and outraged. —...
In 2004, a French author pulled off what many would consider impossible: writing an entire novel without using a single verb. Michel Dansel wrote a 233-page work called Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere) that eliminates what most consider an essential part of...
Water scoopers refilling off the California coast as they battle the Franklin Fire in Malibu is worth a gander. View on Threads LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The men and women of Cal Fire have their hands full this year. — Read the...
The 'manifesto' of Luigi Mangione, suspected of murder in the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, is a short denunciation of the U.S. healthcare industry. But for what its author is accused of, it might have been written by almost anyone who had ever been mistreated...
TL;DR: This 12-in-1 USB-C Hub is a tech dream wrapped up in a low-profile laptop stand for just $56.97 (reg. $99) through December 15. Sometimes, a product comes along that makes you wonder, Where has this been all my life? That's precisely how you'll feel when you meet the...
Boneless chicken doesn't have to be, ruled Ohio's Supreme Court, siding against a diner who choked on a bone and sued the restaurant that served it. The court affirmed its earlier judgement that landed on the same absurd justification: 'Boneless' refers not to the bones of...
Car Thing was Spotify's first hardware product, a simple touchscreen music player for car dashboards that piped tracks from the online service. After three years, it all became e-waste, discontinued by Spotify and cut off from the tunes. Spotify stopped making Car Thing...
Fay Gable and Robert Wenrich wed in 1951 and divorced in 1975. Then they wed again, in 2024. Both eventually remarried and remained with their spouses for many years until the spouses died. However, relatives say Gable and Wenrich always had a good relationship and often...
At A Single Div, web designer Lynn Fisher demonstrates the versatility of cascading style sheets, the markup that makes the web wonderful (or not, as the case may be). Everything on the page—artwork, color, animation, layout—is all accomplished by applying different...
The Onion bought Alex Jones' Infowars in a court-ordered bankruptcy auction, but a judge yesterday voided the result, saying it 'left money on the table.' Jones owes more than a billion dollars to families of children killed in a mass shooting he falsely claimed was a hoax....
My favorite new social media site is 'PlumesOfficiel,' which features Plumes, a French-speaking musician with the most gentle spirit who travels the world with his pink guitar, serenading animals. I love listening to his soft, soothing voice and his gentle guitar playing,...
Here is a delightful collection of images showing tushy trees. A tushy tree happens when a tree grows in a way that makes part of it resemble a pair of buttocks. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest The post See a delightfu...
Humans have entertained themselves with board games for thousands of years. Some, like chess and go, continue to be played today. However, many ancient games have been lost to history, with only boards and pieces found in places like the tomb of King Tutankhamun giving us...
Snowman-building season is officially here for those who live in colder regions. In an awe-inspiring photo posted by Got Weird, a 17 foot tall snowman towers obliquely over two little girls. The captions say that this tall snow fellow was built in 1963. — Read the rest The p...
When this lady unrolled her window to feed a large bovine she got more than she bargained for. The animal seemed like they were about to take a big lick of the food, when suddenly, they decided to lean into the car as far as possible and try to put their entire tongue onto...
TL;DR: Upgrade your PC and productivity with the Microsoft Office Pro 2019 + Windows 11 Pro bundle for $45.97 (reg. $428). You've heard of a tech upgrade, but have you met its cooler, more efficient cousin, the productivity upgrade? The Microsoft Office Pro 2019 and Windows...
Is it a good idea to suck out the venom out of a rattlesnake bite? The protagonist in the new dystopian series Earth Abides seems to think so (and he survives the bite, so perhaps the producers of the series believe so as well). — Read the rest The post Ish sucks venom from...
Calling Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau a 'Governor,' convicted felon President-elect Donald Trump also declared the country the 'Great State of Canada.' LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Likely taken as an insult by every Canadian,...
Tuesday December 10, 2024. 11:52 PM
Weather-related crop shortages are driving coffee prices to new record highs. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Roasters plan to pass the price increases on to the consumer, as a shortage of Arabica from Brazil and Robusto from Vietnam will leave ...
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