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This clock sorts the 43,200 times of day alphabetically
Ryan Bateman, a Berlin-based technologist who tinkers with oddball web projects at boat.horse, built a working clock that tells time by spelling every…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
“Justin Bieber’s guy” rents Coachella buggies, drives them straight to Mexico
Turns out “I work for a famous person” is still one of the most effective business strategies around... especially when you don’t.
 • Jason Weisberger
SantaCon organizer allegedly ran actual con
Turns out the real SantaCon was the fraud we made along the way.
 • Jason Weisberger
Stop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network
The Stop Flock campaign takes aim at the domestic surveillance startup, whose cameras are everywhere now—even inside buildings.
 • Rob Beschizza
MAGA Mike fact-checks the Pope on Jesus
When your argument relies on convincing the Pope that Jesus was good with the warring on one another, you are probably losing that argument.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, April 15, 2026
Spawning worms, stubborn “no” bots, and a 1903 pitch for a 10,000-year clock
 • Boing Boing
What if your calendar ran on a worm that splits itself in half?
Once or twice a year, on reefs across Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Timor-Leste, and other islands of the southwestern Pacific,…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Your odds of finding a 100-year-old message in a bottle: 1 in 8 million
With 8 billion people on Earth, mathematician Kevin Burke calculates that any one person’s chances of stumbling across a century-old message in a bottle…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Orwell predicted the AI slop novel in 1949
Historian Laura Beers, who is part of the Bartz v.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Iran’s most effective weapon might be AI karaoke
The most expensive military in human history, humbled by engagement metrics.
 • Jason Weisberger
Someone already pitched Bezos’ 10,000-year clock — in 1903
In the November 1903 issue of The Strand, a physician named David Watsu laid out a 150-foot pyramid for Hyde Park, faced in granite or terra-cotta, with…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A piece of the Eiffel Tower’s original staircase is going to auction
An unidentified French businessman has been storing a 9-foot section of the Eiffel Tower’s original spiral staircase for more than four decades.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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