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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
Mr. T's extraordinary life gets the Netflix Untold treatment
The documentary spotlights Laurence Tureaud, the actor behind the A-Team's B.A. Baracus and author of the memoir The Man with the Gold.
 • Jason Weisberger
An edible mushroom causes visions of tiny people. Nobody knows why
DNA sequencing linked tiny people hallucinations to 1 mushroom species that contains no known psychoactive compound.
 • Popkin
Someone ranked every Ikea product by assembly complexity
The PAX Corner wardrobe tops the list at 236 steps, 743 parts, and 16 PDFs. The simplest product has one step, inserting the batteries.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
An Illinois man built all six Magic Kingdom lands out of Lego in his basement
Doug Schieppe started building during COVID, and six years later the 31-by-16-foot replica fills his basement in O'Fallon.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Museum heist bags four Renaissance paintings, with two more dumped in the street
Antonello da Messina works, including three panels of his San Gregorio Polyptych, vanished from a Sicilian museum without setting off alarms.
 • Rob Beschizza
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