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Drew Friedman’s new Mel Brooks portrait marks the comedian’s 100th birthday
Drew Friedman has released a limited edition fine art print of Mel Brooks, hand-numbered and signed in a run of just 20, to mark Brooks’s 100th birthday…
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Two-thirds of US doctors now ask an AI chatbot for treatment advice
About 650,000 American physicians — roughly two-thirds of the country’s doctors — now use a chatbot called OpenEvidence to help decide how to treat…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tiny conspiracy notes keep turning up inside sealed groceries in Pennsylvania
Someone has been folding 2-by-3-inch slips of paper into sealed packages of Lucky Charms, Lindt chocolate, Milk Duds, Tylenol, and Velveeta Skillets…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
On one night in 1888, tens of thousands of English sheep fled their fields at once
It was around 8 p.m.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews
The BBC’s Human Planet showed a Korowai family in Papua climbing a bamboo ladder into a hut roughly 100 feet up in an ironwood tree, while the narrator…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, May 18, 2026
Meta surveils, Grammarly hallucinates, a seal-thrower gets punched
 • Boing Boing
You might be able to buy GTA 6 sooner than you think
Grand Theft Auto 6 is, unfortunately, still six months away thanks to a seemingly endless chain of delays.
 • Grant St. Clair
The annual SNL joke swap returns
I’m not exactly a strict viewer of long-running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, but there is one tradition that I’m always seated for: the…
 • Grant St. Clair
The Steam Controller doesn’t just scream. It sings, too
Valve’s brand-new PC gaming controller, the aptly-named Steam Controller, is full of secrets.
 • Grant St. Clair
Xbox becomes XBOX, and the crowd goes mild
There’s a new CEO in charge!
 • Grant St. Clair
This website shows you exactly what sites know about you
There are a lot of things you can do to make it harder to trace who you are online.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Atari is doing furry bait now and I’m scared
At a certain point you just have to give it to ancient, flagging games company Atari just for continuing to throw shit at the wall.
 • Grant St. Clair
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