LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A deputy with Coweta County Sheriff's Office in Georgia rammed a driver off the road after he refused to… Read the rest of the article: Atlanta man dies in shootout with deputies after "possible registration violation" and high-speed chase
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Nazis and white supremacists are having a field day on game platform Steam, reports Bloomberg News. Far-right material galore… Read the rest of the article: Bloomberg: Nazi content spreading on Steam game service
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Two years ago, Iranian activists using Starlink phones to evade Iran's brutal theocratic regime thanked the company's CEO directly:… Read the rest of the article: Elon meets with Iranian diplomats to "smooth things over"
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Jan Miksovsky set up an e-ink display board in his mum's bathroom to help her keep track of recent… Read the rest of the article: MomBoard: an e-ink display to help forgetful parents
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict the early signs of… Read the rest of the article: 19th-century paintings show first hints of post-industrial climate change
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that "captive audience" meetings are illegal. Employers may not require workers… Read the rest of the article: Employers can't require workers to attend 'captive audience' anti-union meetings
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Watch Torso flex its rubbery, water-filled musculature. The first bimanual Torso created at Clone includes an actuated elbow,… Read the rest of the article: Watch a faceless humanoid robot flex its weird, hydraulic muscles
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Olive will never be out, but the season is bringing some nice muted teals and spruces. Casio weds… Read the rest of the article: Casio's 1972 calculator is now a 2024 wristwatch
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Nenad Lukic's Puzzlip generates free online puzzles. It divides an uploaded image into a grid and randomly rotates the squares. Click the squares to rotate them. It's funny because the… Read the rest of the article: Puzzlip: free online puzzle generator
One of the grimmest things about this election was watching news journalists performing their jocular cynicism and earnest triangulation on Elon Musk's website. That sort of thing has become suddenly… Read the rest of the article: The Guardian quits Twitter
Tinfoil—Glenn Sage—collects the earliest sounds recorded by humankind (and has an online store). There are digitizations of wax cylinders, antique phonographs, and other experimental technologies. This is, ironically, an old… Read the rest of the article: Online archive of wax cylinders and other early recorded sounds
Like strapping a rocket to a milk float, cooling a Raspberry Pi 5 with liquid nitrogen had interesting results. "I tried everything but couldn't turn this Raspberry Pi 5 into… Read the rest of the article: Liquid nitrogen-cooled Raspberry Pi 5
Kazuo Umezu, master of horror comics and a manga pioneer whose careers spanned nearly seventy years, is dead at 88. Asahi Shimbun reports that the author of The Drifting Classroom… Read the rest of the article: Horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu dead at 88
Spend no more than 10 minutes sitting on a toilet, say doctors Farah Monzur, director of Long Island's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Stony Brook Medicine and Lai Xue, a… Read the rest of the article: Sitting on toilets longer than 10m risks hemorrhoids
Anna Abalkina and Retraction Watch have begun tracking scientific journals which show signs of having been hijacked by frauds, mountebanks and whatnot: The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. Sometimes this… Read the rest of the article: Which scientific journals have been hijacked?
Welcome to the cybernormal dystopia, nothing punk about it. "Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It's perfectly legal," writes Kristen V. Brown in The Atlantic:.… Read the rest of the article: Insurance companies already refusing coverage on basis of genetic risk
Gamers, claimed by mainstream media to have broken hard to the right in last week's presidential elections, are now alarmed that the import tariffs proposed by their favored candidate will… Read the rest of the article: Gamers' faces among first to be eaten by leopard
Tony Todd, the towering actor famed for his performances in Candyman, Star Trek, Final Destination and Platoon among many other productions, died last week at 69. NPR: He shot to… Read the rest of the article: Tony Todd dead at 69
