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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The California Department of Motor Vehicles is sorry for issuing a vanity license plate mocking the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas. The license plate reads 'LOLOCT7' and was mounted on a Tesla ...
Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben Green of Oxford University and Mehtaab Sawhney of Columbia University proved there are infinitely many primes that can be written in a specific...
In the early hours of February 1, 1976, Elvis Presley's private jet touched down in Denver with a mission — to satisfy The King's craving for what might be the most decadent sandwich ever created. The Fool's Gold Loaf, a colossal creation from the Colorado Mine Company...
The enshittification of social media left her doomscrolling through a polarized feed, her brainrot deepening with every bratty meme war. Enshittification, brainrot, brat and now polarization have been selected by major dictionaries as their word of the year. Merriam-Webster...
French President Emmanuel Macron obviously didn't want to pick François Bayrou as his prime minister: the job interview reportedly went badly and the accouncement was made after Macron's own self-imposed deadline. But more right-leaning centrism it is for the increasingly...
In 1393, a French king who believed he was made of glass hosted a masquerade ball that ended in flames. The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) became one of history's most notorious party disasters, made even more bizarre by the host's deteriorating mental state. —...
Republican snowflake Scott Jennings had a meltdown on CNN when Democratic commentator Bakari Sellers gently touched him on the arm during a roundtable discussion about grocery prices. 'Don't touch me!' the frigid MAGA panelist snapped, triggering a burst of laughter from...
IEEE Spectrum reports on the discovery and scanning of a 1968 IBM demo of its Executive Terminal. Back then, it was a top of the line gadget for future-oriented businesspersons. It may now form a fantastic double-bill with another famed tech demo from that magical year. —...
Before a vaccine was developed in the 1950s, Polio killed millions and left many survivors so weak they depended upon machines to breathe. The last person to require an iron lung, Paul Alexander, died March 13, 2024 at the age of 78—a sad but heartening reminder that...
This is a viral example of pareidolia, a psychological phenomonenon that causes us to see meaningful things in nebulous stimuli, most famously faces. But the caption it comes with—'Does this image upset you?'—is even cleverer. In blacksmithing, 'upsetting' refers to the...
Oh my horses, there's going to be an M4 MacBook Air. Great googly moogly in a bouncy castle! And it might have a better camera. Jumpin' jellyfish on a unicycle! References in the latest edition of MacOS reveal the device's forthcoming availability. — Read the rest The post M...
Sean Hodgins made Become Anyone 2.0, an LED face mask that lets its wearer adopt the glowy, low-resolution appearance of anyone they please. If humans are not fooled, they will at least be entertained. And some surveillance systems may be fooled. — Read the rest The post...
Watch a horse scratch its head and make a funny face that is impossible not to laugh at. When this horse had to scratch an itch on its neck, it didn't hold back. The horse bends its head almost completely upside down, and has a field day rubbing against a fence. — Read the re...
You either put up with whatever piece of junk you can scrape together or you compete against the AI industry to get your hands on a decent GPU: life has been pricey for gamers of late. But Intel's $250 Arc B580 video card, already exciting buyers, is proving its mettle in...
This guy has mastered the art of hiding coins. In this funny yet impressive video, a man conceals a coin in a tangerine, which is then sealed inside of an egg shell (using paint and sculpting material to make the egg look perfectly whole again), which is then concealed...
One could be forgiven for calling Naughty Dog a one-trick pony. Since 2013, the vast majority of the studio's output has revolved around The Last of Us and little else – remakes, remasters, and ports, oh my! Studio head Neil Druckmann has been speaking about the studio's...
The journal Science has published a paper authored by an international group of leading scientists sounding the alarm on current efforts to create something called 'mirror life.' Link to an abstract of the paper is here. 'All known life is homochiral. — Read the rest The...
In the United States, the average American will spend $2000 this holiday season—traveling to see family, buying gifts, decorating, throwing parties, and more—and many will go (further) into debt doing so. To add insult to injury, many folks are already experiencing one...
Image from Wikipedia The post Take a trip to the Mountain Dew headstone in Johnson City, Tennessee: visit the resting place of the original bottle design appeared first on Boing Boing.
From Software boss Hidetaka Miyazaki has gone on record stating that Elden Ring as an IP is done for the time being, a sentiment echoed by the air of finality that seemed to linger around the game's sole expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree. — Read the rest The post Elden Ring i...
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