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This fan edit corrects the continuty problems of a Star Wars favorite
Star Wars, as George Lucas is quick to point out is, you know, for kids.
27 mins ago
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Séamus Bellamy
Here are some terrific resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
I’ve been glued to the news about the Andes virus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius.
31 mins ago
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Jennifer Sandlin
Another day, another gaming price hike
Hey, do you remember when the Switch 2 first launched and all anyone could talk about was how expensive it was? Don’t worry, because Nintendo heard you…
33 mins ago
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Grant St. Clair
Boing Boing, May 8, 2026
Vanishing soda machines, Meta users, and bag handles
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Boing Boing
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Seattle’s mystery soda machine vanished in 2018 with a goodbye note
For roughly two decades, a battered 1970s Coca-Cola machine sat on the sidewalk outside Broadway Locksmith on East John Street in Seattle’s Capitol…
May 8
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Ellsworth Toohey
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No one knows why dark side of Venus has a faint glow
On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli pointed his telescope at Venus and noticed a faint glow on the planet’s unlit…
May 8
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Safeway blames a “wood pulp shortage” for its handleless paper bags
Karen Aitchison, a senior who has shopped the Diamond Heights Boulevard Safeway for 30 years, lives three flights up.
May 8
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Physicist says the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ isn’t real
When Carlo Rovelli’s bicycle chain comes off, he calls a bike-shop mechanic, never a particle physicist — even though particle physics technically…
May 8
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Meta’s daily user count just dropped for the first time ever
Daily active users across Meta’s properties slipped from 3.58 billion to 3.56 billion last quarter, the first decline the company has ever reported.
May 8
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Listen to almost 50 years of startup sounds
The Data Drop releases one interactive visual essay every week, and the latest is a collection of startup sounds from 1977 to the present, covering…
May 8
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Gail P Sherman
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US and Iran practicing an “Israeli ceasefire,” by shooting at one another
Diplomacy in 2026 increasingly resembles two raccoons fighting inside a dumpster while insisting they are “de-escalating,” and the latest US-Iran…
May 8
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Jason Weisberger
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Yellowstone grizzly introduces two hikers to the “find out” phase of wildlife tourism
Yellowstone’s wildlife brochure probably mentions the geysers first, but this week a mother grizzly reminded two hikers that the park’s unofficial…
May 8
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Jason Weisberger
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