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Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
Twain's 1898 telelectroscope story made the daily doings of the whole globe visible from a prison cell.
 • Popkin
A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
Ten Rhijne's 1683 De Acupunctura passed through 4 languages and turned qi into a trapped wind.
 • Popkin
A Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
The Florence Y'all Water Tower got its name from a $472 paint job that beat a full repaint in 1974.
 • Popkin
Take a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
There's been some speculation about exactly what Primetime , A24's movie about the hit show To Catch A Predator, is going to say.
 • Rob Beschizza
Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
Two scholars reconstructed singing the Homeric epics, recording 100 lines of Odyssey book 8.
 • Popkin
Boing Boing, August 6, 2026
All our posts from the past 24 hours
 • Boing Boing
When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
The Murder Trust fed Michael Malloy poison, tacks, and a taxi at 45 mph for $3,500 in insurance. He kept surviving.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields
Camp Bonifas has a par-3 golf hole ringed by minefields on 3 sides. At least one shot reportedly set off a land mine.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The thin blue line encounters an unfamiliar last name
The thin blue line has a remarkably narrow pronunciation window.
 • Jason Weisberger
AI self-checkout bills a snack run at $8.5 billion
A Circle K AI self-checkout added an $8.5 billion Red Cross donation to a shopper's Gatorade order.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A whaling museum printed its worst review on a hoodie. It sold out
The New Bedford Whaling Museum turned a 2020 one-star review into $60 hoodies. They sold out.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1982, a 27-year-old man lost a gunfight with a cactus
The Second Amendment only guarantees the right to have the gun; it does not guarantee you'll win the fight.
 • Jason Weisberger
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