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

UFC strawweight Luana Pinheiro recently limped out the octagon after being elbowed in the anus during a fight—a move that would have been illegal until recently and which remains at… Read the rest of the article: UFC fighter still in pain weeks after being elbowed in anus

Jurassic Park may have the tourists, but Triassic Toilet serves up the science. The inner lives of dinosaurs are revealed in Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of… Read the rest of the article: Fossilized dinosaur poop reveals their dietary secrets

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A discarded cigarette: what a perfectly French way to destroy centuries of French history. But Notre Dame was restored… Read the rest of the article: Notre-Dame prepares to reopen five years after fire that nearly destroyed it

Candace Owens, an online influencer who graduated from standard right wingery to holocaust denial with some Hitler praise along the way, was denied entry to New Zealand. Officials cited her… Read the rest of the article: Nazi defender Candace Owens banned from New Zealand

The U.S. healthcare system is ruthless and profit-seeking by design. That it's also infested with frauds and crooks is an example of why the freedom in free markets rarely extends… Read the rest of the article: Former hospital CEO detained amid corruption scandal

Jet Set Willy is a sprawling 8-bit classic requiring the player to tidy up his own vast mansion, infested with monsters after a party gone wrong. Pixel for pixel, every… Read the rest of the article: The whole of Jet Set Willy's mansion in one 4k screen

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Proposed not long ago, Australia's ban on under 16s on social media is already law. The law will make… Read the rest of the article: Australia's social media ban for under 16s becomes law

An Australian police officer who tased a 95-year-old woman in May 2023 was convicted by a jury Monday of her manslaughter. Kristian White, 34, shot Clare Nowland in her care… Read the rest of the article: Manslaughter conviction for cop who tased and killed 95-year-old woman with dementia

Ten years ago, essayist and programmer Paul Ford wrote The American Room about the distinctive environment of video-first social media. These off-white backdrops represented a lack of imagination or care—or,… Read the rest of the article: Affiliate influencer sues competitor who also reviews junk in off-white minimalist bunker

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! With their distinctive duck-billed profile and boxy posterior, they're not the sleekest beasts on the road. But the new… Read the rest of the article: USPS mail carriers love their new electric duck trucks

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.… Read the rest of the article: Boris Johnson blames Church of England for obesity crisis

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… Read the rest of the article: Korean man jailed after gaining weight to avoid military service

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… Read the rest of the article: Footage exposes kindergarten shoe thief as weasel

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… Read the rest of the article: Trademark office petitioned to cancel Oracle's trademark on "JavaScript"

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".… Read the rest of the article: World's oldest man dead at 112

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… Read the rest of the article: "Young" exoplanet may end up a super-Earth