Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesDRM Paper-towel dispenser with a EULA prohibiting rival brands of paperboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow John Overholt from Harvard's Houghton Library spotted a paper towel dispenser whose prominent EULA prohibits refilling it with non-Tork brands of …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesCalories Maruchan noodles are an almost free lunchboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder A 12-pack of chicken flavor Maruchan Instant Lunch ramen noodles is just $3.84 on Amazon. Not a bad price for nearly 3,000 calories of salty goodness.
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesFourth Amendment Multilingual "red cards" to help immigrants assert their rights during ICE shakedownsboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow The Immigrant Resource Legal Center offers multilingual, printable templates for "red cards": bust cards adapted for use by immigrants being targeted …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesPlay buttonJesus Little league parents don't like child umpire's call, so they beat each otherboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder On a nice afternoon in Lakewood, Colorado, parents attending their seven-year-old children's baseball game decided that the best way to deal with a …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesCandybar US health care plan perfectly described in a single tweetboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder “hey, I would like to buy a candy bar with my membership card.”
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesGarlic Is this the best way to peel garlic?boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Hold a bulb of garlic in one hand, a paring knife in the other. Jab the knife into a clove and lever it out of the husk. As someone who makes a lot of …
Boing Boingadded this to ComicsRussian Military Trump welcomes Russian military into U.S.A.boingboing.net - Ruben Bolling Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH President Trump welcomes the Russian military into the USA, in what some critics are calling an "invasion." RESIST! … …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesKPMG KPMG is in the middle of an unbelievably dirty cheating scandal that keeps on getting uglierboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow KPMG is one of the "Big Four" accounting firms: that means that whenever a plan for a business or a public project has a box that says, "Make sure no …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesCraigslist To help the news business, subject Big Tech to antitrust -- but don't forget Big News's antitrust problemboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow The University of Chicago Business School's Promarket blog has run a transcript of former antitrust enforcer Sally Hubbard's June 11 testimony before …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesMac Mini How turn your Mac Mini into a heat tomb that looks like an unappetizing Walmart cakeboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza How turn your Mac Mini into a heat tomb that looks like an unappetizing Walmart cake The Elago Mac Mini Silicone Case [Amazon] is a remarkable entry …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesJoy Harjo Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honorboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin “Words are powerful and can make change when understanding appears impossible.” The Library of Congress today appointed Joy Harjo as the 23rd U.S. …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesAjit PaiAjit Pai promised that killing Net Neutrality would spur investment and improve service: a year later, service and investmentboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow A year ago, Trump FCC Chairman (and former Verizon exec) Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality, leveraging illegal, fraudulent industry dirty tricks to ram …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesVaccines No, anti-vaccine hysteria didn't emerge from grassroots. This rich NYC couple funded it.boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin “A myth of the anti-vaccine movement is that it emerged organically through the rise of social media,” says Washington Post investigative reporter …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesNancy Pelosi Pelosi: 'If the goods are there, you must impeach'boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Asked on Wednesday about moves toward the impeachment of Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she does not support censure as a way of …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesCartoons Artist sculpts the mishaps of Tom of "Tom and Jerry"boingboing.net - Rusty Blazenhoff Tom and Jerry's cartoon cat, Tom, has seen his share of bad luck in his many attempts to capture Jerry the mouse. But, besides the original …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesJamal Khashoggi 'Credible evidence' Saudi crown prince MBS directed Jamal Khashoggi killing, UN expert saysboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin The assassins referred to Jamal Khashoggi as a “sacrificial animal" on the audio tape of the journalist's murder. An extrajudicial executions …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesPlay buttonFacebook Videos of organs being harvested from living children are big on Facebook nowboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin CONTENT WARNING: This blog post, and the story it links to, include descriptions of violent abuse of humans and animals. Last year, so many organ …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesPlay buttonWorcestershire Sauce How to pronounce Worcestershire Sauceboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza
Boing Boingadded this to VideoPlay buttonCulture The best boxer in historyboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Jimmy Smith (0-1-0) is listed on YouTube as the "worst" boxer of all time, but he is clearly the "best" by any standard worth applying.
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesWolves Meow Wolf's new Fridge Portal Backpack is fantasticboingboing.net - Rusty Blazenhoff If you've experienced Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, no doubt you opened its refrigerator and stepped through its "vortex" to …
Boing Boingadded this to All Stories4K resolution Cut the cord and get free local TV with these HD antennasboingboing.net - Boing Boing's Shop So you cut the cord and got rid of cable? Join the steadily growing club. But while you're out picking a streaming service, you might find one big …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesLaptops What it was like to actually use the TRS-80 Model 100 as a journalist on the goboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza 1983's TRS-80 Model 100 is often hailed as the first portable computer, or at least the first laptop, and retains a cultish following, especially …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesAsylum Seekers Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midstboingboing.net - Catherynne Valente [Author Catherynne Valente (previously) posted this outstanding rant to her Facebook page; I asked her permission to repost it here so it would have …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesSean Duffy Trump's impeachable offenses are okay because Wisconsin's economy is good: GOP Rep. Sean Duffyboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin These guys really aren't even trying to hide how feckless and corrupt they are anymore, are they. On 'All in With Chris Hayes' this evening, …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesWomen of ColorEx-GOP staffer who racially assaulted black woman and wrote for white supremacist sites now writes for WSJ, Forbes, Theboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Marcus Epstein is a former GOP operative, a former Richard Spencer associate, and once wrote for white nationalist site VDare. He also pled guilty to …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesUnited Kingdom During World War II, a 56-year-old British noblewoman stood up to Nazi occupiers on the tiny island of Sarkboingboing.net - Futility Closet In June 1940, German forces took the Channel Islands, a small British dependency off the coast of France. They expected the occupation to go easily, …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesDonald Trump 'Keep America Great' is apparently Trump's new campaign sloganboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Donald Trump held a rally in Orlando, Florida tonight, and brought out all the great 2016 campaign trail hits -- 'lock her up,' 'acid washed,' …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesPolitics Trump calls Mueller report “an illegal attempt to overturn the election”boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin “It was all an illegal attempt to overturn the election,” said President Donald Trump during a speech tonight about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesChennai India's 6th largest city just ran out of waterboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin In southern India, the four main water reservoirs for the city of Chennai (once known as Madras) have reportedly run completely dry. Chennai is the …
Boing Boingadded this to All StoriesWashington D.C. Trump's Fourth Of July 'Salute to America' now includes Air Force One flyover of Mallboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin It's not supposed to be a political campaign ad. But it will be. Donald Trump is planning to to have U.S. military planes, including a jetliner that …
