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mardi 4 février 2025, 19:16
Enjoy Atlas Obscura's list featuring 13 places that have cannonballs stuck in them. Usually, when a cannonball is launched it will destroy the area of the building that it hits. There have been many instances, though, where the cannon ball becomes lodged in its target...
Far-right, ultraconservative, misogynistic, anti-immigrant white supremacist performance artists, The Proud Boys, have lost the commercial rights to their logo and name. In December 2020, the Proud Boys vandalized a church in Washington, DC, and burnt its Black Lives Matter...
Recently, the world record for 'Fastest Limbo Skating Under Poles' was achieved by Shristi Dharmendra Sharma. This involves a series of horizontal, descenting poles that look humanly impossible to pass under. The fact that someone is able to do this on skates is amazing. —...
Kearns, Utah police charged Ashton Jonathan Mann, 23, with manslaughter after he allegedly shot and killed his friend. The two men were stoned on weed and messing with their guns in the garage. That's when Mann's friend bragged that he 'can dodge a bullet.' — Read the rest ...
While two men in Utah were getting stoned over the weekend, one told the other he was able to dodge bullets. And unfortunately, 24-year-old Ashton Jonathon Mann decided to test his friend's superpower — shooting and killing him in the process. — Read the rest The post...
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French scientist and balloonist Gaston Tissandier published this image of a 'swimming apparatus' in his book Les Récréations Scientifiques in 1883. The book is full of similarly amusing illustrations of his ideas, experiments and inventions. I wish I could take a ride on...
It doesn't matter that it's a Tuesday night, or that it's cold by LA standards. The online tickets for RRR sold out three weeks ago and the standby line is 15 people deep. During the winter months this line winds from the Vidiots hallway to the lobby, just past the wall of...
A small desk plaque reading 'Be kind to everyone' became contraband in a federal intelligence agency last week — confiscated during a late-night sweep by Elon Musk's DOGE squad as they purged offices of anything resembling diversity initiatives, according to Mother Jones....
Yesterday, everyone was complaining that The New York Times was ignoring the takeover of government by Elon Musk and the college-age cronies he claims it's illegal to name. Today, it's covering it—with language that makes it sound like the best thing that's ever happened...
Earlier incarnations of The Fantastic Four were not hits, but this time, Marvel has Pedro Pascal playing Reed Richards. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is a fifth shot at a Fantastic Four movie. — Read the rest The post Rich guy's...
Micah Toll bought a load of cheap electric excavators from China. By buying a shipping container-worth of them he got the price down to less than a well-used diesel skid steer—and they look like an amazing amount of fun. You might remember Toll from the $1700 mini electric ...
A drunk teacher who fell over repeatedly in a school pool after swigging from a wine bottle has been banned from the profession for at least two years, reports the BBC. 'The conduct of Mr Knight fell significantly short of the standards expected,' conclude investigators. —...
Natalie Cochran, a West Virginia pharmacist who killed her husband by poisoning him with insulin, was found guilty of first-degree murder and faces life in prison. Michael Cochran, 38, died in 2019; she didn't want him to find out about her $2m Ponzi scheme. — Read the rest ...
I've never wanted to read a fictional book less than Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale PhD's The You You Are, a tacky volume of second-hand self-help wisdom lurking within the quietly disturbing milieu of Severance. But now that Apple TV has actually made it into a real book, I find...
You already know who Hatsune Miku is. She's the most popular virtual act since Gorillaz, she's in Fortnite, and she made leeks cool again. But do you know Brazilian Miku? Despite the name, 'Brazilian' Miku actually refers to a worldwide trend of artists depicting Miku as a...
With shows like Subway Takes making the rounds recently, one could be forgiven for thinking that New York City was a constant madhouse of sports feuding and chopped cheeses. Mega-viral man-on-the-street show Sidetalk, however, takes this to a whole new level. — Read the rest...
Good news, New York! Your endless war on rats has achieved its first tiny victory, and all it took was discovering what the rest of civilization figured out circa 1922: putting garbage in containers with lids, reports The Times of London. — Read the rest The post NYC...
No matter how much time Donald Trump spends with Co-President Elon Musk, he can't get the hang of his new bestie's complicated first name. And so, yesterday, he once again called Musk by his default name, 'Leon.' While Trump was signing an executive order 'to create a...
Tired of all the dire political news? How about some dire medical news instead — scientists just discovered your brain is a landfill for tiny plastic particles — with concentrations up to 30 times higher than other organs. A cheery new study in Nature Medicine reports...
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