Mark Hamill Mark Hamill mocks Trump and his "OFFICAL" merch Kevin Reome

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

Science A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it Ellsworth Toohey

animal ASMR This giant anteater uses his dancing tongue to keep cool in the summer's sweltering heat Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

DIY Man supercharges a child's pink ride-on car, sends it flying Popkin

photography Nebraska supercell near Lorenzo looked almost too perfect to be real Popkin

gadgets HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form Rob Beschizza

mystery A ship found drifting in the Pacific was still afloat but all 25 passengers had vanished Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Jason Momoa won't touch the Escape from New York remake Séamus Bellamy

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

History Estonian supermarket built around a 10,000-year-old Ice Age boulder Popkin

science fiction Mark Russell's new graphic novel explores the strange comfort of cults Gareth Branwyn

Science These 1996 Hawaii lava photos look like a horror movie set Popkin

music Ginsberg's 1959 Howl album returns for his 100th birthday Ellsworth Toohey

Technology A landline, a CD boom box, and a Pi-Hole: one dad's tech setup for kids Ellsworth Toohey

kars ONE EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN KARS FOUR KIDS rises from the dead Jason Weisberger

AI Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word Ellsworth Toohey

movies Fall, the movie about not falling, gets a sequel about an even bigger fall this fall Grant St. Clair

tesla Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won't ride in it Jason Weisberger