Boing Boing Gadgets Are the latest stick computers good enough to be your "main PC"? Rob Beschizza

Science In 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight Ellsworth Toohey

animals Honeybee curls up inside closing flower in timelapse video Popkin

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

crime The 'Phantom of Heilbronn' serial killer turned out to be a cotton swab factory worker Ellsworth Toohey

Comics MAD hits 600 issues; still, thankfully, hilariously juvenile Ruben Bolling

tech culture Meta lays off thousands, monitors workers, increases the snack budget Jason Weisberger

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

Boing Boing Gadgets The math is wild: ChatGPT Plus is $240/year—5 years of ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini is just $99.99 Boing Boing's Shop

Cat crashes Romeo and Juliet ballet in Turkey, bites Romeo mid-death scene, steals entire show Popkin

Technology Android 17 brings a customizable virtual gamepad to foldables Séamus Bellamy

Food The toast sandwich is a piece of toast between two slices of untoasted bread Ellsworth Toohey

Tom The Dancing Bug Tom the Dancing Bug: The Dementia Donnie Center for TV Watching Ruben Bolling

Technology The obscure iPhone setting that eliminates car sickness Ellsworth Toohey

reddit It took Reddit four years to identify the sixth face on a set of curtains Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1810, a prankster sent 4,000 letters to flood one London address with chimney sweeps, coffins, and the Lord Mayor Ellsworth Toohey

art San Francisco's wind phone lets visitors talk to lost loved ones Popkin

Weird Video shows a rain curtain splitting a street into two worlds Popkin

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

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