tips Here are a couple of ways of starting a fire in the wilderness using found materials Mark Frauenfelder

books Her wedding necklace cost $75,000. She died guarding a worthless mine Ellsworth Toohey

History Captain Billy's Whiz Bang gave a pastor's Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922 Ellsworth Toohey

airlines United will permaban passengers who don't use headphones Gail Sherman

crime Florida man arrested after "sexual performance" with vacuum cleaner Rob Beschizza

AI California orders Musk's xAI to stop generating sexual deepfakes immediately Ellsworth Toohey

grok Musk's AI sued after generating explicit images of his co-parent Jason Weisberger

This 1903 patent proposed preserving bodies in transparent glass blocks Ellsworth Toohey

Weird What are these weird Pringle-shaped plastic things that washed up on the beach? Rob Beschizza

florida Lyft driver hears "strange noise" — finds naked Florida man in the back seat Carla Sinclair

automatons Paul Spooner's latest automaton takes on Manifest Destiny Bob Knetzger

kansas Kansas classifies homosexuality as adult content in extreme age verification law Natalie Dressed

tabloids Scientology doomed, Royal family doomed, and Island of the Damned in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Boing Boing Shop Shine some light into the darkness with this 1,300 Lumens Pocket Torch Boing Boing's Shop

tinder IDF soldiers using selfies from Gaza on Tinder Natalie Dressed

deaths Couple dies in their South Carolina home with a broken heater at 1,000 degrees Carla Sinclair

travel Woman given maximum fine for walking into Australian airport with a rose Mark Frauenfelder

compromised drivers Florida man who fled cops at high speed won't get out of car: "I'm butt naked" Carla Sinclair

arrests Kidnapped woman rescued from rental truck after traffic stop Rob Beschizza

fires Fire breaks out at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend (video) Carla Sinclair