octopus This Octopus Useless Box is the most adorable pointless gadget ever made Popkin

Games Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster Grant St. Clair

Boing Boing Gadgets Deal Days has a 15-device VPN for less than $30 Boing Boing's Shop

Science A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form Ruben Bolling

History Grandpa Pudding Brains announces another Treaty of Versailles Jason Weisberger

Great Vote Caper Grandpa Pudding Brains brags about how rigged U.S. elections are Jason Weisberger

white supremacist JD Vance turns dog whistles into a brass section Jason Weisberger

Games One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free Grant St. Clair

Accountability Nahh "Mistakes are made": Grandpa Pudding Brains shrugs at school strike that killed over 100 Jason Weisberger

Get Windows 11 Pro for life for just $10 during Deal Days Boing Boing's Shop

transformation Grandpa Pudding Brains pours peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm Jason Weisberger

robots Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest? Gail Sherman

gadgets CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse Rob Beschizza

lapd Woman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog Jason Weisberger

music Watch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing "Norwegian Wood" Ruben Bolling

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem begs Yakko Warner to explain South America Jason Weisberger

Science The thought experiment that says you can't die (from your own perspective) Ellsworth Toohey

mergers and acquisitions Fox buys the henhouse Jason Weisberger

Business Microsoft may spin off struggling XBox division Rob Beschizza

Games Sealed 1985 Super Mario Bros game fetches record $3m at auction Rob Beschizza