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Tuesday November 26, 2024. 08:01 PM
In 1936, Georgia's Oglethorpe University president Dr. Thornwell Jacobs initiated the creation of the Crypt of Civilization, the world's oldest and largest time capsule. Located in Atlanta's Phoebe Hearst Hall, the vault was sealed on May 28, 1940, with instructions to...
Enthusiastic theatergoer and proud Congressperson from the State of Colorado Lauren Boebert has removed her 'America First pep talks' and offerings from Cameo. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! My money is on fear of an Ethics investigation, but...
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson blames the Church of England for the country's obesity rates, on the basis that the lack of spiritual nourishment leads people to binge eat. The obvious projection—Boris being an overweight atheist or agnostic with a history of...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! On November 16, neo-Nazi demonstrators who marched through Columbus's Short North area were shocked that people didn't roll out the welcome mat for their swastika-laden parade through the Short North. —...
A man in South Korea is off to jail after gaining weight to avoid being drafted into the military. The man, not named in reports, gained 44 pounds when his number came up. This placed him in a category that allowed him to do the national service required of young people in a ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the next U.S. health secretary, if Donald Trump has his way — extolls the virtues of heroin as if he were peddling a brain-boosting supplement on QVC. 'I was at the bottom of my class,' he confessed on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast a few months ago, ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Yesterday a redditor named joshcam posted a photo of a coin cell battery with purple colored dots arranged in three concentric semicircles. They posted: To the naked eye, these dots are an iridescent,...
Enough shoes went missing from a kindergarten in Japan's Fukuoka prefecture that staff at the school set up a video camera to see who was taking them. The culprit was soon revealed: a weasel. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post Footage exposes...
Relying on a chart from USA Today and a Reader's Digest article on weird things the government spends money on, Elon Musk's analysis can only be intended to distract. Either corporations can pay their fair share, or we can start cutting the military budget. — Read the rest ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Digital hardcore duo Machine Girl, with the late-October release of their new album MG Ultra still echoing, is making heir way across the United States. At Saturday's San Francisco show, the packed crowd ...
As if travel during Thanksgiving week wasn't hectic enough, planes collided at Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday — not once but twice. First, at around 11:00 a.m., an American Airlines flight that had just landed from London got too close to a Frontier...
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...
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