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Saturday December 7, 2024. 01:46 AM
A 57-year-old word nerd from New Zealand just won the 2024 Spanish-Language Scrabble World Championship — and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish. And yes, this is the same Nigel Richards we wrote about in 2015 who won the French Scrabble World Championship without knowing...
For the last several years, Tom Whitwell, has written an annual list of 52 things he's learned that year. He just posted his new one. Here are five samples: There are just 16 trademarked scents in the US, including Crayola crayons, Playdoh, an ocean-scented soft play in...
Friday December 6, 2024. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Save 45% on this HD monocular telescope, now available at the Cyber Week price of $22.97 (reg. $54) for only two more days. Are you stumped on what to get for your favorite adventurer this holiday season? You've already gifted them the cushiest hiking boots and...
Bend, Oregon, disagrees with a local critic who has been improving public art installations with googly eyes. Someone in Bend has been putting big googly eyes on public artworks that appear to need them. The City of Bend, in response, has spent nearly $1500 removing googly...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Long Island resident Beda Koorey, 76, is a lifelong Trekker. Such a fan of Star Trek that she had vanity license plates on her car emblazoned with NCC-1701, the registration number of the USS Enterprise. ...
Hawk Tuah Girl Hailey Welch's $HAWK shitcoin crashed and burned this week, vaporizing nearly half a billion dollars of investor money in what critics are calling a textbook pump-and-dump scheme. The social media influencer's initially surged 900% on Wednesday, before...
A couple of pups spotted a field mouse and went berserk, even bonking heads with each other as they frantically chased the little guy around a park. But when the mouse decided to stand her ground, staring her silly pursuers down, the confused doggos didn't know what to do...
The fine folks at QVC want to let you know that if you are among the million people who bought a pair of 'Temp-tations' oven gloves — which have all the heat protection of wet newspaper — and subsequently scorched the bejesus out of your fingers while removing your tray...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid used in veterinary medicine to knock out huge animals like elephants and rhinoceroses for surgery. It's apparently 10,000 times more stronger than morphine and 100 times ...
A vulture crashed into the cockpit of a small plane carrying five passengers, gruesomely hanging in front of the pilot's face for the rest of the flight. But the pilot, whose view was partially blocked by the dead bird, remained incredibly calm as he landed the plane at an...
There's a scene in Quentin Tarantino's 2015 Western, The Hateful Eight, where Kurt Russell grabs Jennifer Jason Leigh's guitar and smashes it against a wooden column. Turns out that wasn't just any old guitar — it was a priceless 1870s Martin acoustic on loan from the...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! New analysis of tiny spoons found attached to belts of Barbarian warriors at ancient burial sites suggest that the Roman-era Germanic soldiers snorted stimulants and other drugs to embolden them in...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Road workers on Federal Highway 105 in Hidalgo, Mexico were surprised when their construction project revealed an ancient pyramid dating back more than 1,000 years. The pyramid was part of a pre-Hispanic ...
Trump-pick for secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host accused of drinking on the job and sexual misconduct, is a 'WINNER' according to Donald Trump. And if this MAGA champ loses his confirmation, he may sue the woman who accused him of sexual assault in...
'I'm acutely aware that I could go any day now but — I don't know why — it doesn't concern me. I'm not afraid of it. I have that feeling — totally against anything intellectual — that I'm going to be all right.' — Read the rest The post 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke...
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The design language of body armor in science fiction has attained an optimum of implausibility. Form-fitting rigidity somehow allows unrestrained mobility in ways no fantasy of material science can entertain. Will someone involved please look for one moment at a real suit of ...
Muhammed is the most popular baby name in England for the first time. It pipped Noah for the top spot by less than 100, though when you include variants such as Mohammed it's been way ahead for years. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Skeleton Crew is pure 80s Star Wars fun. The kids are a classic 80s crew who ride (speeder) bikes and go on an accidental adventure. Major Tom (Coming Home) is a classic new wave song released in 1983....
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral has been closed since it was hit by a fire in 2019. It's now been restored and is set to reopen on Saturday. Among the celebrations of the event is a new nighttime sky show...
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