I would do the same Japan's first lady pretended not to speak English when she sat next to Trump at G20 dinner Mark Frauenfelder

History The ancient practice of mummifying a man in honey to sell as medicine Ellsworth Toohey

politics Fed Chair Alan Greenspan intentionally babbled meaningless slop and got away with it Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden Rob Beschizza

Funny Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people Grant St. Clair

video games Valve's Steam Machine arrives this summer Séamus Bellamy

time keeps on ticking Apple's watchOS 27 cutoff is weirdly brutal Jason Weisberger

solar power Utah City spends $400,000 on stainless-steel slides in the desert Jason Weisberger

Games New God of War game does not feature the god of war Grant St. Clair

movies Backrooms is a blockbuster Rob Beschizza

taxation California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts Jason Weisberger

music Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar will be 'tasteful' Rob Beschizza

Games This horse-racing board game gives players zero control over anything Ellsworth Toohey

Science Cows can recognize human faces Gail Sherman

movies Critics like being in the Backrooms Rob Beschizza

mistakes Another graduation speaker hypes AI to boos, tells students their education is already obsolete Rob Beschizza

Future is now Waymo's autonomous taxis remain strangely drawn to floodwater Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets This $40 food-tracking app may tell you more about your groceries than the box does Boing Boing's Shop

copyright Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M judgment and global domain order Ellsworth Toohey

Technology What actually makes hybrid cars fuel-efficient? Ellsworth Toohey