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Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesChildren's Hospital Amazing dad builds submarine crib for kidboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin “I was asked to build this by Fatherly.com after they saw the tree I built in my daughter's bedroom.” “I used my own garage workshop and had help from …
Boing Boingflipped into All Stories Mom rescues baby squirrelboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin This is my mom and her squirrel that she found. Aren't they cute.
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Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesExtinction Rebellion London Metropolitan Police Service bans Extinction Rebellion from entering the cityboingboing.net - Seamus Bellamy Folks have been protesting about our species' slow turning of the knife deeper into the belly of Mother Earth for a long time now. However, once it …
Boing Boingflipped into VideoJudaism Orthodox Jewish owned businesses sell a lot of stuff on Amazonboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin “There’s an estimate passed around third-party Amazon consultants that claims 7% of all Amazon third-party sales originate from a single zip code in …
Boing Boingflipped into VideoPublishing Watch: how magazines were produced before desktop publishingboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Bryony Dalefield pasted up the London Review of Books in the early 1980s. In this video she shows how she did it back in the the good old days of …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesRecep Tayyip Erdoğan 'Don't be a fool!' A Donald Trump Motivational Poster for Erdoganboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin One can always use some good life advice, no matter the source!
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesPolitics Read Trump's insane threat letter to the Turkish presidentboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Donald Trump, nominally the President of the United States of America, recently withdrew U.S. troops from Kurdish-held lands and greenlit a Turkish …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesRecep Tayyip Erdoğan Trump to Turkey's Erdogan: 'Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool.'boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Donald Trump to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, on the occasion of his slaughtering of Kurds and Syria power-grab with Russia: Here's a …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesLyft Want a ride in a Lyft? Just sign away your right to sue if they kill, maim, rape or cheat youboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Spotted today in my Lyft app: a new set of terms and conditions that require you to "agree" to binding arbitration (an onerous condition heretofore …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesThe Future Quirky futurist podcast The Life Cycle starts off with the apocalypseboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Beginning with the end of things, the premiere episode of The Life Cycle asks: is there going to be a future to speak of at all? Why is it that the …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesMultiverse The multiverse, universal wave function and quantum mechanics in this week’s tawdry tabloidsboingboing.net - Peter Sheridan Burning Man announced that its theme for 2020 is The Multiverse, which seems appropriate for this week’s crop of truth-defying tabloids, which in an …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesChicago Public Schools #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago's teachers are back on strikeboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow The #RedForEd movement swept America in 2018 and 2019 as teachers in both "red states" and "blue states" staged massive -- sometimes illegal -- …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesCulture Translating Homer's Odyssey into limericksboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Emily Wilson is the author of a new "lean, fleet-footed translation" of Homer's Odyssey that "recaptures Homer's 'nimble gallop.'" To celebrate the …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesMoney "The People's Money": A crisp, simple, thorough explanation of how government spending is paid forboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Modern Monetary Theory is an economic paradigm that treats money as a utility that governments issue and tax in order to mobilize resources needed to …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesMac Apps What it's like to have Apple rip off your successful Mac appboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Companies that make successful Mac apps live in constant fear of being sherlocked -- having Apple release a feature-for-feature clone to compete with …
Boing Boingflipped into VideoInstagram My new fave Instagram account: miniature models of old Tokyo storefrontsboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Christopher Robin is a Stockholm designer who makes realistic miniature models of aged Tokyo storefronts. He's got an Instagram account with photos …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesCanada Profiles in criminal Canadian bumblefuckery: Canadaland on the Ford Familyboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Dynasties is the latest special series from Canadaland Commons, a podcast that deeply investigates the sleazy, dysfunctional wealthy dynasties that …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesHong Kong Blizzard suspends college gamers from competitive play after they display "Free Hong Kong" posterboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Blizzard has suspended Casey Chambers, Corwin Dark, and TJammer -- American University Hearthstone team players -- for six months after the trio …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesKnives How to sharpen an $13 kitchen knife so it cuts like an expensive oneboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder This is the knife used in the video, and these are the two whetstones.
Boing Boingflipped into GamesGaming Terrified of bad press after its China capitulation, Blizzard cancels NYC Overwatch eventboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Blizzard's cowardly decision to appease Chinese authoritarians by ejecting a champion player who expressed support for the pro-democracy struggle in …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesFacebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomersboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Asher Burke died in March after a helicopter he'd chartered to visit the Kenyan ranch he'd invested in as an "entrepreneur playground" crashed in …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesSewage Human body trapped in sewage screen causes 14.5 million gallon sewage spillboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder How much untreated sewage spilled from Tijuana to California as the result of a human body clogging a screen? The International Boundary Water …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesLanguage Fun interactive way to see what words were first used in print in a particular yearboingboing.net - David Pescovitz Visit Merriam-Webster's "Time Traveler" and select a year from the drop-down menu. Instantly you'll see the English words that were first used in …
Boing Boingflipped into VideoDungeons and Dragons Watch John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats play a D&D campaign inspired by their newest recordboingboing.net - Thom Dunn (Or, as the ever-delightful Hard Times put it, "Mountain Goats Make Second Album In a Row About People Who Don’t Get Enough Sun.") To celebrate the …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesOrion Spacecraft NASA unveiled a new spacesuit that's flexible enough for dancingboingboing.net - John Struan NASA is "committed" to landing the first woman and the "next man" on the moon by 2024 as part of the Artemis program (next stop Mars!). And as part …
Boing Boingflipped into VideoMacBook Watch this guy restore a totally trashed MacBook Pro he bought for $100boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Hugh Jeffreys bought a wrecked MacBook Pro for $100. The hinge was broken, the case was bent, dented, and scratched, and two of the bottom feet had …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesPeter Navarro Trump's "China muse" advisor has been citing a made-up economist for yearsboingboing.net - Thom Dunn Another one of Trump's close cabinet has been revealed as a lying con artist, surprising absolutely no one. This time, it's Peter Navarro, a …
