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The latest HTML trickery for web designers
Chris Burnell's HTML Can Do That, built for HTML Day 2026, shows popover modals, squircle corners, and self-resizing textareas without JavaScript.
 • Rob Beschizza
A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below
A pomato graft gives you tomatoes in about 12 weeks and potatoes in early fall.
 • Popkin
Emperor Palpatine loves Flock
A Darth Vader impersonator addressed a San Diego city council meeting to praise Flock's surveillance cameras.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Dutch police get lucky identifying mystery man
Two retired cops working the cold case traced the man found unconscious in Amsterdam in 2023 to a Buddhist community and a soup restaurant.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Fans smelled AI in James Pond Legacy's trailer. The studio says they're wrong.
System 3 posted four supposed process images of the Bovine Bomber redraw, but they look AI-made too.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Darth Vader tells San Diego that the Emperor is a fan of Flock
A costumed Vader urged city leadership to install more Flock cameras and use Jedi mind tricks to win over residents.
 • Jason Weisberger
Navy considers replacing a Black Pearl Harbor hero with a fat, fraudulent loser
It would be the first aircraft carrier named for a sitting president. Some traditions survive for a reason.
 • Jason Weisberger
Year in jail for tourist who wouldn't shut up on Bali's Day of Silence
Luzian Andrin Zgraggen filmed himself walking to a beach during Nyepi, called the tradition "crazy," and now faces a sentence from the Denpasar District…
 • Rob Beschizza
More reflecting pool nonsense
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro wants to retry canoeist David Hearn, 67, claiming her failed vandalism case was sabotaged by evidence.
 • Jason Weisberger
Vaccination rates show what leadership is for
California's tight exemption rules keep MMR coverage at 95.7%, while Florida's rollback has dropped it to 88.9%.
 • Jason Weisberger
Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots
Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. sanctioned the litigant for white, tiny-type text buried in a filing against a New York bariatric center.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, August 20, 2026
Hidden AI prompts, a basement Magic Kingdom, and four stolen Renaissance paintings
 • Boing Boing
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