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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    2:52 am Fri, Feb 7, 2025
    What it was like working with procrastinator Douglas Adams on "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure from 1984

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams was a notorious procrastinator. When it became clear that he wasn't making progress on a text adventure game adaptation, Infocom sent… Read the rest of the article: What it was like working with procrastinator Douglas Adams on "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" game

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    4:32 am Thu, Feb 6, 2025
    Eggs lower heart disease death risk by 27%, new research shows gabrielocanu/shutterstock.com

    For years, doctors have warned patients with high cholesterol to avoid eating eggs because it would put them at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). But new research reveals… Read the rest of the article: Eggs lower heart disease death risk by 27%, new research shows

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    3:01 am Thu, Feb 6, 2025
    Mystery brain disease affecting hundreds in Canada: memory loss, seizures, and behavioral changes A preserved brain (Keni/shutterstock.com)

    In 2021, I wrote a short item titled "Canada investigating a cluster of 42 cases of a mad cow-like brain disease." CBC reported at the time that the first case… Read the rest of the article: Mystery brain disease affecting hundreds in Canada: memory loss, seizures, and behavioral changes

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    11:18 am Mon, Jan 13, 2025
    2018 essay: "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn" Smoke from Palisades Fire, as seen from Sherman Oaks, CA. January 10, 2024 (Carla Sinclair)

    Malibu mansions face the same statistical certainty of burning as inner-city tenements, yet receive vastly different levels of protection and support. As the late Mike Davis argued in his 2018… Read the rest of the article: 2018 essay: "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn"

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:15 am Mon, Jan 13, 2025
    Artist creates digital fluid simulation jewelry that flows like water Mixtela's Fluid Simulation Pendant for sale

    This handcrafted digital fluid simulation pendant creates pure magic — as you move it, light flows like liquid inside the golden case. The creator, Mitxela, assembled a grid of tiny… Read the rest of the article: Artist creates digital fluid simulation jewelry that flows like water

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:47 am Fri, Jan 10, 2025
    The trick that makes spot-the-difference puzzles ridiculously easy xpixel/shutterstock.com

    Daniel Wirtz thought he was watching a child prodigy at work. The 9-year-old girl on a German game show was solving complex spot-the-difference puzzles in seconds. "To my eye, both… Read the rest of the article: The trick that makes spot-the-difference puzzles ridiculously easy

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:11 am Fri, Jan 10, 2025
    Student says University of Washington has threatened to expel him for a course-trading app he built for class project [UPDATED]

    [UPDATE Jan 10, 2025 12:14P M. Kaim posted a followup to LinkedIn: "The university has determined that I have satisfactorily complied with their request to take down the site, and… Read the rest of the article: Student says University of Washington has threatened to expel him for a course-trading app he built for class project [UPDATED]

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    5:21 pm Tue, Jan 7, 2025
    Punk programmers and queer hackers expose Reagan-era tech corruption in Cory Doctorow's new novel, on Kickstarter now

    Cory Doctorow, my friend and longtime Boing Boing colleague, has a new Kickstarter campaign that has already raised over $46,000 for his upcoming novel Picks & Shovels. Set in 1982, this… Read the rest of the article: Punk programmers and queer hackers expose Reagan-era tech corruption in Cory Doctorow's new novel, on Kickstarter now

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:22 am Thu, Dec 26, 2024
    Geneticist claims humans evolved from pig-chimp mating Boing Boing/Midjourney

    Are humans the result of a pig and a chimpanzee mating? Maybe, says Eugene M. McCarthy, who holds a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Georgia, and specializes in… Read the rest of the article: Geneticist claims humans evolved from pig-chimp mating

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    4:38 pm Mon, Dec 16, 2024
    From Blade Runner to baking: Syd Mead's amazing gingerbread creations From 9:37 / 10:35 Syd Mead Explains His Amazing Gingerbread Castle/sydmead.com

    The visionary artist behind Blade Runner and Tron had a surprising holiday hobby: crafting intricate gingerbread castles. In a recently unearthed home video from 1990, Syd Mead (1933-2019) reveals his… Read the rest of the article: From Blade Runner to baking: Syd Mead's amazing gingerbread creations

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    4:41 pm Thu, Dec 12, 2024
    Man spends year creating aluminum iPhone housing from solid metal block Scotty Allen (Image used with permission)

    Scotty Allen, a former Google engineer, successfully machined an entire iPhone housing from a solid block of aluminum — a feat that took 11 month accomplish. "This is the start… Read the rest of the article: Man spends year creating aluminum iPhone housing from solid metal block

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:31 am Tue, Dec 10, 2024
    Wikipedia's 7-year yogurt spelling war was longer than three Shakespeare plays annierau, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    "There is one woman who mostly edits about hamsters, and always on her phone. She has never interacted with anyone else. Who is she? She's not part of any community… Read the rest of the article: Wikipedia's 7-year yogurt spelling war was longer than three Shakespeare plays

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    3:20 pm Fri, Dec 6, 2024
    Tom Whitwell's annual collection of 52 fascinating facts returns, featuring expensive calculators and trademarked scents Music Thing Modular Workshop System

    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… Read the rest of the article: Tom Whitwell's annual collection of 52 fascinating facts returns, featuring expensive calculators and trademarked scents

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:00 am Fri, Dec 6, 2024
    Famous movie prop "accident": 1870s Martin Guitar destroyed during filming of "The Hateful Eight" Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight. Courtesy photo

    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… Read the rest of the article: Famous movie prop "accident": 1870s Martin Guitar destroyed during filming of "The Hateful Eight"

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    8:28 am Fri, Dec 6, 2024
    99-year-old Dick Van Dyke dances barefoot in new Coldplay video Coldplay/YouTube

    "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… Read the rest of the article: 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke dances barefoot in new Coldplay video

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:08 am Thu, Dec 5, 2024
    Bluesky's bot invasion: AI accounts argue with everything you post hankschannel/YouTube

    Bluesky is being overrun by AI-powered disagreement bots, as YouTuber Hank Green says in this video. After posting his thoughts about Twitter and Bluesky differences to Bluesky, he received a… Read the rest of the article: Bluesky's bot invasion: AI accounts argue with everything you post

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    3:01 pm Wed, Dec 4, 2024
    An anti-boring book guide: six great gift picks

    Want to be that person who gives cool and unexpected books this season? Or maybe you're looking to treat yourself? Here are six titles that range from political satire to… Read the rest of the article: An anti-boring book guide: six great gift picks

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    9:48 am Wed, Dec 4, 2024
    Unknown disease kills up to 143 in Congo Joe Dordo Brnobic / Shutterstock.com

       LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A mystery illness has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two weeks. Health experts… Read the rest of the article: Unknown disease kills up to 143 in Congo

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    9:16 am Tue, Dec 3, 2024
    Small asteroid creates spectacular light show over Russia just hours after discovery Vadim Sadovski/shutterstock.com

    A 70-centimeter (27-inch) asteroid lit up the sky over Yakutia, Russia a few minutes ago as it burned up in the atmosphere. Here's a video. Alan Fitzsimmons, a professor who… Read the rest of the article: Small asteroid creates spectacular light show over Russia just hours after discovery

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    2:29 pm Fri, Nov 29, 2024
    Time capsule of 5 million random iPhone videos reveals life before Instagram YouTube

       LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a feature that allowed users to directly upload videos to YouTube from their… Read the rest of the article: Time capsule of 5 million random iPhone videos reveals life before Instagram

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