Charles Frederick Goldie's 1938 portrait of Māori elder Wharekauri Tahuna sold for $3.75m NZ ($2.2m US) at auction Tuesday, breaking records. Wharekauri Tahuna was one of Goldie's favourite subjects and… Read the rest of the article: Painting of Maori elder fetches record price

South Korea's president Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law last night and there are reports of troops trying to force their way into parliament there. Yoon is at odds with… Read the rest of the article: Martial law declared in South Korea

Thirteen years of service, one pancake meal: an IHOP server was fired for providing food to a hungry person who asked for it, reports Local 12 News WFLA in Lakeland,… Read the rest of the article: IHOP server fired after 13 years service for buying pancakes for hungry person

Men believe women want them to be sculptures of bone and pure muscle. Women believe men want them to be thin and hyperfeminine. They significantly overestimate the appeal of such… Read the rest of the article: Gigachads not so hot in attractiveness study

After destructive hurricanes hit Florida and the southeast this summer, conspiracy theories spread claiming that Democrats were controlling the storms to prevent people there voting for Donald Trump. Though no-one… Read the rest of the article: Florida weather modification ban would stop Democrats controlling the hurricanes

Ken Maguire writes about an odd trend in popular culture: the tendency for statues of celebrities to resemble them very badly. See, for example, those of soccer star Harry Kane… Read the rest of the article: Article about celebrity statues with poor resemblances

Brendan Nystedt writes that the popularity of pocket-size vintage digicams among young photographers is not just a fad, but an artistic statement. One of the biggest points of contention among… Read the rest of the article: What's the deal with vintage digicams?

A Delaware judge has again denied Elon Musk's bid to award himself a pay package at Tesla worth $56bn, upholding her own earlier ruling that the process leading to it… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk loses bid to award self $56bn pay package from Tesla

Flexbar is a MacBook-style horizontal touchbar as a discrete USB gadget, perfect for anyone who wanted one on their PC or who miss their disappearance from Apple's laptops. They're 10… Read the rest of the article: Flexbar is a USB gadget for anyone missing the Touchbar

Public Domain Review has a festive nativity featuring works that will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. In our advent-style calendar below, find our top pick of what… Read the rest of the article: Films, books and artwork entering the public domain in 2025

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Have you ever struggled to insert or remove a stubborn RJ45 plug? Now you can replace the problem with… Read the rest of the article: Magsafe ethernet cable available, finally

A legal presumption that computer data is infallibile may have led to a major scandal in the U.K: the jailing of hundreds of postal workers on false embezzlement claims tied… Read the rest of the article: Courts in UK may stop treating computer data as legally infallible

Passengers have traveled 13 trillion miles—2.3 light years—since the last serious airline crash affecting a U.S. carrier. How far have US airlines carried passengers since February 2009? According to the… Read the rest of the article: 13 trillion miles since the last fatal airplane crash in U.S.

Oxford University Press named "Brain Rot" its word of the year, referring to the deterioriation of one's mental state and intellect as a result of consuming content, especially online. It… Read the rest of the article: Brain Rot is Oxford's word of the year

If Elon Musk wanted to create a classic fantasy role-playing franchise with none of the wokery that now inhabits Dungeons & Dragons, he could do it a dozen times over… Read the rest of the article: Xungeons & Xragons: Elon wants to buy Hasbro and do to the game what he did to Twitter

Today I enjoyed reading Don't F*ck With Scroll, a particular but cromulent criticism of a trend on the web that drives me nuts: taking scroll away from the reader. Let… Read the rest of the article: Awesome minimalist websites

In this footage posted by Sports News, said to be recorded at 70,000 frames per second but played back at about 5 fps, a ball splats against a steel plate… Read the rest of the article: Splat! 70000 fps Video of a "golf ball" hitting a steel plate at 150 mph

As spotted in vending machines in Japan, the tiny Casio retro ring watch is coming to America! The Verge's Andrew Liszewski writes that it turned up on the company's U.S.… Read the rest of the article: Clock ring: tiny Casio retro watch coming to U.S. for Christmas

Denmark, roughly the area of Wisconsin, is to plant a billion trees, replacing 15 percent of the nation's farmland with forest. $6.1 billion was earmarked by legislators in compensation to… Read the rest of the article: Denmark to plant a billion trees

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Nuisance litigation of the sort heralded by Cease 'n' Decist letters is on the rise, and I enjoyed reading… Read the rest of the article: "Continue and Persist" letter encourages recipient to carry on