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Rekindle adds apps and games to your Kindle browser
Rekindle is just a web page optimised for the somewhat terrible built-in Kindle browser, but it packs a ton of useful and fun content.
 • Gail P Sherman
Boing Boing, March 24, 2026
Chip smuggling, Bitcoin heists, and a pedicab driver’s epiphany
 • Boing Boing
Undergrad makes nail polish that works on touchscreens
I’ve often marvelled at how anyone can get anything done with long fingernails, be they glued on at a salon or homegrown.
 • Gail P Sherman
Fan edit makes Dexter say his inner monologue out loud
You know, I once said that every single Breaking Bad fan must have a PhD in video editing, given how polished the memes coming out of that fandom are.
 • Grant St. Clair
The live-action Moana trailer looks gray, lifeless, and nipple-free
Disney’s 2016 animated feature Moana was, if nothing else, a stunningly gorgeous movie showing off one of the most beautiful parts of the world, all…
 • Grant St. Clair
These pencils were loved down to the very last nub
An Instagram collection of pencils sharpened and used until almost nothing remains — just fingertip-sized stubs, some barely long enough to hold.
Slackliner over a foggy lake looks like someone bouncing on the moon
A slackliner set up a line above a lake blanketed in low fog, and a photographer positioned the camera so the moon sat right at the horizon behind them.
 • Popkin
Macro photos of tiny mushrooms make them look like alien architecture
Photographers @cho_fungi and @cyanesense shoot miniature mushrooms with macro lenses, and the results look like renderings from another planet.
 • Popkin
Living out your Hollywood fantasy by hiring stuntmen to lose a bar fight
Every single one of us has had that fantasy, right?
 • Grant St. Clair
Super Micro co-founder charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China
Federal prosecutors arrested the co-founder of Super Micro, one of the world’s largest makers of server and data-center hardware, for allegedly…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A single injection fixed schizophrenia-related brain problems in mice with no side effects
Current schizophrenia drugs can quiet hallucinations and delusions, but the cognitive symptoms (disorganized thinking, memory problems, executive…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
NYT profiles architect of brutal crackdown, lets him say he “didn’t go far enough”
When someone leaves behind investigations, lawsuits, civilian deaths, and a trail of abuses, “no regrets” isn’t color; it’s the story.
 • Jason Weisberger
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