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In 1992, BBC ran a fake live ghost hunt and freaked out viewers
On Halloween night in 1992, BBC1 broadcast what looked like a live investigation of a haunted house in a London suburb, with Michael Parkinson anchoring…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The cars he hated became the prosecution’s photo department
They can't drive themselves, but they'll testify against you in court.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trailer for Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgård
Wicker is a movie about a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who, tired of her community’s disdain, has the basketweaver (Peter Dinklage) craft her a husband…
 • Rob Beschizza
The new Washington bar exam could not demonstrate minimum technical competence
In what seems like a story from the late 1990s, and not 2026, Washington’s bar-licensure task force wanted to wait until 2027 to give their new…
 • Jason Weisberger
Wisconsin moves to shut down anti-Trump brewery over minor permit violations
Nothing says viewpoint-neutral enforcement like closing the brewery that mocks the president.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains befouls a funeral
The video provides no forensic confirmation of what happened, but it has inspired an unusually persuasive piece of Zapruder-style analysis.
 • Jason Weisberger
A pig named Daisy rates foods by how much she licks her lips
I’ve found a new favorite internet animal: a pig named Daisy, whose neon-pink-painted hooves and viral food reviews have made her an internet sensation.
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Happy Mutants! Please help rescue marine mammals!
The Marine Mammal Care Center (MMCC) needs your help.
 • Jason Weisberger
New York high school pauses plan for AI robot teacher that looks suspiciously like a RealDoll
A high school in New York was set on installing an AI-equipped humanoid robot there this fall, but the Salamanca City Central School District has paused…
 • Rob Beschizza
AI companies are scanning and destroying old books
AI companies are buying old books, scanning them and destroying the remains, writes Emanuel Maiberg at 404 Media.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, July 29, 2026
Butter physics, vanished keepers, and a cesspit disaster
 • Boing Boing
Boing Boing Digest, July 29, 2026
Voting rights, vanished keepers, and medieval cesspits
 • Boing Boing
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