Play buttonNigel Farage Delicious milkshake wasted on #Brexit jerk Nigel Farageboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin British political shitheel Nigel Farage was doused with a cold milkshake while out on his BS campaign today. What a waste of a perfectly good …
Electromagnetism The weight of a kilogram changed overnight; the length of a second may be nextboingboing.net - David Pescovitz A new definition of kilogram went into effect today. No longer is the kilogram defined by Le Grand K, a 140-year-old weight under glass in a secret …
Eating Guy puts a camera onto a sushi conveyor belt and the result is a sweet little movieboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder As this camera moves along a Japanese conveyor belt sushi restaurant, it captures diners in the booths. Some people notice and wave, others are …
Border Patrol Guatemalan boy, 16, dies in US Border Patrol custody — 5th child dead at border under Trumpboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Guatemalan minor is fourth to have died in custody under Trump campaign In the Texas Rio Grande Valley today, a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala died in …
Hijacking Research shows that 2FA and other basic measures are incredibly effective at preventing account hijackingboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Google has published the results of a study of the efficacy of standard anti-account-hijacking techniques like two-factor authentication (2FA), …
Harvard Law School How New York taxi drivers were conned and bankrupted by medallion loan sharksboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder “I don’t think I could concoct a more predatory scheme if I tried. This was modern-day indentured servitude.” That's what Roger Bertling, the senior …
Google A deep dive into the internal politics, personalities and social significance of the Googler Uprisingboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Writing in Fortune, Beth Kowitt gives us a look inside the Googler Uprising, wherein Google staff launched a string of internal reform movements, …
Play buttonHTML How to cheat a coin flipboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Brian Brushwood of Scam Nation invited Rick Smith Jr. to come on his show and teach people how to toss a coin and control which side it lands on.
Play buttonYelp Man intentionally gets a spray tan at one of Yelp's worst-rated tanning salonsboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder A Vice correspondent went to a New Jersey tanning salon called Sizzle Tans, which "has received a heap of one-star reviews from people claiming to …
Play buttonAircraft Carriers Mishaps during landing on early aircraft carriersboingboing.net - Jason Weisberger I just laugh and laugh. The calm announcer could only be improved with the addition of Yakety Sax.
Play buttonHouse Music Watch this 1986 report about house music on Chicago's local TV newsboingboing.net - David Pescovitz In 1986, Chicago's local TV news discovered the city's pioneering house music scene, featuring the likes of Farley "Jackmaster" Funk and Steve "Silk" …
Nintendo Switch A portable dock for my Nintendo Switchboingboing.net - Jason Weisberger The Nintendo Switch is a fantastic portable gaming console that is made better with a portable dock. I like to plug an Xbox controller into my …
Stop Motion Revealing the innards of fruits and vegetables with stop-motion animationboingboing.net - David Pescovitz Using my stop-motion animation know-how to explore the patterns inside of various fruits and vegetables! This looks super tedious, but I actually had …
Play buttonHTML Non-newtonian fluid vs hydraulic pressboingboing.net - Jason Weisberger While I have a deep respect for non-newtonian fluid's ability to improve protective gear and wear motorcycle armor made of it, the hydraulic press is …
Play buttonAztec Empire Magnet fishing is what one makes of itboingboing.net - Jason Weisberger Magnet fishing, or the art of dropping a magnet into deep water with a rope attached to it, is almost as compelling to watch as drain clearing! These …
Woodworking Get a ryoba saw right nowboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza I've tried a few times to make useful yet portable things out of wood and never really succeeded. To cut a long story short, what I never realized …
Play buttonNES Watch a year of brute force beat Arkanoid in 11 minutesboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Thanks to a "the use of new strategies discovered by a brute-forcing bot," this computerized speedrun of Arkanoid (on the NES) comes in at 11 minutes …
Game of Thrones Water bottles left on-set in final episode of Game of Thronesboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Two weeeks ago, it was a coffee cup. For the finale, a final insult: water bottles visible on-stage throughout the last episode's ███████ scene.
Earth 100 proofs the Earth is a globeboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Here's the first 14 of 100 proofs that the Earth is a globe, with the rest still to come author David Morgan-Mar. [via] The most straightforward way …
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones endsboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Last night, Game of Thones' last episode played out. Without spoiling details, the fan consensus is that while the writing was as bad as the rest of …
AirPods Enter for your last chance to win an iPhone XS Max and AirPodsboingboing.net - Boing Boing's Shop Heads up: The clock is winding down on a free-entry contest to win not only one of the best smartphones on the market but a handy pair of earbuds. A …
IBM Ancient IBM mainframe rescued from abandoned buildingboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn noticed an unusual, mislabeled eBay listing for a rare beauty: an IBM System/360 in Nuremberg for peanuts. So they …
Play buttonBatman Batman Dark Knight Returns Issue 3, Kayfabe Commentaryboingboing.net - Ed Piskor No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom …
Los Angeles! Come see me at Exposition Park library this Thursday, talking about Big Tech, monopolies, mind control and rightboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow From 6PM-730PM this Thursday, May 23, I'm presenting at the Exposition Park Library (Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library, 3900 S Western Ave, …
William GibsonMary Robinette Kowal wins Best Novel Nebula; prizes for Aliette de Bodard, Brooke Bolander, Phenderson Djèlí Clark, Charlieboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow The 2019 Nebula Awards were announced and presented last night in Los Angeles: the prize for best novel went to Mary Robinette Kowal (previously for …
EducationBernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, endboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Bernie Sanders has released A Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education, a detailed and bold suite of public education reforms reminiscent of the …
Morality Judge recuses himself from health insurance cancer-denial case because he considers the company "immoral" and "barbaric"boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow US District Judge Robert N Scola recused himself from a class action suit against Unitedhealthcare that alleges that Unitedhealthcare denied them …
Stranger Things Wil Wheaton's "Dead Trees Give No Comfort": terrifying tale, beautifully toldboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Wil Wheaton's 2017 standalone novelette Dead Trees Give No Shelter is a beautiful, spooky horror story in the vein of Stranger Things, following Jay …
Shopping These fold-out tote bags make eco-friendly shopping a breezeboingboing.net - Boing Boing's Shop Kudos to those of us who have chosen a less wasteful third option to "paper or plastic" at the supermarket or club stores. Tote bags are reusable, …
