Organizers unprepared as woman wins ultra marathon outrightboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Ellie Pell is the first woman to win the 50k Ultra outright, blasting past runner-up Richard Ellsworth in the four-hour endurance race. Pell took …
Cat Selfie phone attachment rings a bell to get its attentionboingboing.net - Rusty Blazenhoff Cats don't care if you want to share their adorable face on Instagram. They look this way and that way, but never directly at your phone. Enter the …
Electronic Music Ishkur's legendary guide to electronic music updatedboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Iskhur's guide to electronic music is a true classic of the web, now freshly updated for a new generation of fabulously obscure and ephemeral …
Patreon In 1840 London was scandalized when Lord William Russell was found dead in bed with his throat cutboingboing.net - Futility Closet In May 1840 London was scandalized by the murder of Lord William Russell, who'd been found in his bed with his throat cut. The evidence seemed to …
Climate Canada's election watchdog: ads saying climate change is real may break lawboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza The BBC reports that Canada's election watchdog claims that advertisements saying climate change is real may break the law, because it is a political …
Google Analytics Boost your marketing skills with training on Google Analytics and AdWordsboingboing.net - Boing Boing's Shop If you're marketing on the web, your Google-fu needs to be strong - and up to date. Without a firm grasp on what drives traffic, you'll never be able …
Copyright Podcast: A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competitionboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay "A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition", …
Policing Nothing wrong with duct-taped contraption stopped by cops on motorwayboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza The DIY, duct-taped motorcycle was described as the "most unusual vehicle" Sgt. Stephen Andrews had ever seen in 26 tears of pulling over motorists. …
New Hampshire Supreme Court New Hampshire court to patent troll: it's not libel when someone calls you a "patent troll"boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow New Hampshire's Supreme Court has ruled that calling someone a "patent troll" is not defamatory because "patent troll" is a statement of opinion and …
Samuel R. Delany An appreciation for Samuel Delanyboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Samuel R "Chip" Delany is a science fiction pioneer: a brilliant literary stylist with dazzling ideas who was one of the field's first openly queer …
Ransomware More than 20 Texas cities and towns have been taken hostage by ransomwareboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow The American ransomware epidemic shows no signs of slowing, as the confluence of underinvestment in IT and information security and the NSA's …
The Daily Beast Calilfornia high school water polo team filmed singing Nazi songsboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza The Daily Beast reports that a water polo team from a California high school sang Nazi songs during an awards ceremony. The video was uploaded to …
Phoenix, AZOwner of Phoenix apartment building serves eviction notices to every tenant so he can turn their homes into unlicensed hotelboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Like many large US cities, Phoenix has a housing shortage and like many US cities, that crisis is worsened by the conversion of much of its housing …
White Supremacism Ecofascism isn't new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in the environmental movementboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow It's easy to think of climate denial as a right-wing phenomenon, but a growing and ultra-violent strain of white-nationalism also embraces climate …
Lego I must have the LEGO Tantive IVboingboing.net - Jason Weisberger The LEGO Tantive IV is a must have for my family LEGO display. This set comes with a 1769 piece Tantive IV and 5 minifigs including Bail Organa. LEGO …
Barack Obama Barack Obama's summer reading listboingboing.net - David Pescovitz President Barack Obama opened his summer reading list post with encouragement to read or re-read Toni Morrison and then suggested ten other titles …
Eric Garner NYPD Commissioner will fire Daniel Pantaleo, officer who strangled Eric Garner to deathboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Five years after Eric Garner’s death, his killer, police officer Daniel Pantaleo, has been fired. The Daily Beast was first to report the news, …
Elvis Presley New cartoon about Elvis as a government spyboingboing.net - David Pescovitz Agent King is an adult animated series about Elvis Presley as a government spy. Priscilla Presley and rock singer John Eddie created the show for …
INF Treaty Pentagon tests cruise missile with over 500km reach, so INF treaty is now definitely toastboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin The Pentagon today announced it tested a conventional ground-based cruise missile that went more than 500 kilometers, which would have been banned …
Jewish Culture Ohio: White supremacist terrorist with weapons stockpile, 20, arrested before he could massacre Jewish peopleboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin In Ohio, a racist 20-year-old man was arrested over the weekend for threatening to attack a Jewish community center, in a post on Instagram. The image …
Santa Monica Gentleman running homeless assistance program sympathetic to folks with well fed childrenboingboing.net - Jason Weisberger The City of Santa Monica is looking to displace a year old homeless feeding program because it is too successful. Steve Petramale has been feeding at …
Play buttonGrand Strand, SC Watch lightning bolt just miss striking manboingboing.net - David Pescovitz "I saw light,” said Horry County, South Carolina resident Romulus McNeill said a few days ago after a lightning bolt just missed him. “I tried to get …
Hillary Clinton Trump tweets lie that Google rigged 2016 election for Hillary Clinton (which he... won?)boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Illegitimate, popular-vote-losing, manifestly unfit United States President Donald Trump tweeted some more crazy shit on Twitter today. “Wow, Report …
Tariffs Trump and Tim Cook had dinner, Trump says Apple CEO made 'very compelling argument' to help Apple get richerboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Illegitimate, popular vote losing, and manifestly unfit United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that at a recent dinner with Tim Cook -- …
Anthony Scaramucci Is Scaramucci assembling the Avengers, or the Bad News Bears?boingboing.net - Jason Weisberger The Mooch is gonna organize a team of disgruntled former cabinet officials to take down our unhinged and unqualified President. That'd be Donald …
Eating Eating nuts helps 'busting a nut' be more funboingboing.net - Jason Weisberger Adding nuts to a regular diet significantly improves orgasmic function and sexual desire in healthy young men, according to the FERTINUTS study. The …
Play buttonPrince Andrew Video of Prince Andrew lurking in Epstein's mansion after financier's 2008 convictionboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza UK media moderated its coverage of the country's post-Savile sex abuse scandal, perhaps to maintain cosy establishment relationships and certainly …
DMCA A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competitionboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow As long we've had electronic mass media, audiences and creators have benefited from periods of technological upheaval that force old gatekeepers to …
Play buttonMister Rogers' Neighborhood The first and last time Mister Rogers sang "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"boingboing.net - David Pescovitz Mister Rogers sings "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" on the February 19, 1968 debut of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and then on the final episode August …
