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Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal
The simplest explanation is usually correct, unless you are Trump, in which case the simplest explanation is that Joe Biden personally radicalized a…
 • Jason Weisberger
8BitDo’s button-only arcade controller gets a tiny screen
8BitDo’s Arcade Controller Pro is a Hit Box-style device that trades the arcade stick for a button-only layout.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, June 24, 2026
Mitnick’s Porsche, alien AI chips, a cat fungus
 • Boing Boing
Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult
Carlos Castaneda’s 1968 book The Teachings of Don Juan recounted his apprenticeship to a peyote-dosing Yaqui shaman named don Juan.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford
In 1916, a bearded Long Island showman named Louis Enricht gathered reporters on his lawn and offered them a gasoline substitute that would “sell for a…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Mushrooms got him off antidepressants, so he built TripSitter
Writer John Biggs wanted no part of psychedelics, he writes in his newsletter — he pictured being “trapped in a room with a bunch of weirdos while they…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches
A certain General George Washington ordered the Continental Army to be mass-inoculated against smallpox in 1777.
 • Jason Weisberger
Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it
Once again, AI is a money incinerator.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains visits a truck factory, makes haunted chew toy noises
A lesser nation would panic.
 • Jason Weisberger
Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911
Kevin Mitnick, the legendary hacker, once tried to social-engineer his way into Novell’s network by phoning a network admin named Shawn Nunley late at…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Teen exits Disneyland ride, learns why you keep your arms, legs, and body inside the boat
Please Remain Seated, Permanezca Sentados Por Favor!
 • Jason Weisberger
AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones
Radio-frequency chips — the parts in every phone, car radar, and satellite link that send and receive signals — have stayed a hand-crafted “dark art…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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