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Former NPS ranger shares the history Trump removed
Melissa Dalley quit the Park Service in April and now hands out flyers at Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier with the deleted content.
 • Jason Weisberger
RFK Jr. praises nicotine as tech companies hand it to workers
Palantir stocks free Lucy-branded pouches in its offices while doctors warn the products are addictive with unknown long-term risks.
 • Jason Weisberger
Students once played a sport with a ball taller than they were
Pushball used a 70-pound ball six feet three inches across. One hay-stuffed knockoff swelled to 500 pounds.
 • Popkin
Life-size sand sculptures once lined the Atlantic City boardwalk
Sand sculpture buskers worked for tips by the dozens until a 1944 hurricane wiped them out.
 • Popkin
PC and console prices still going up
AI datacenters buying up DRAM pushed the Xbox Series X to $800 and the RTX 5090 to $4,000, with the shortage expected to last years.
 • Rob Beschizza
Charmera too modern for you? Kodak's $35 film camera puts 1990 in your pocket
The EC35 shoots film with a 25mm f10 acrylic lens, runs on one AA battery, and comes in seven colors including Seafoam.
 • Rob Beschizza
A printable one-page Guide to Recording Law Enforcement
The EFF handout explains why officers can't order you to stop filming but can make you move, months after the ACLU shut down its Mobile Justice app.
 • Rob Beschizza
Gallery of anime user interfaces
A collection of animated screens, dashboards and gadgets that also includes the NORAD big boards from Wargames.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, August 2, 2026
A 120-year-old lightbulb, a snake-sighting omen, and Red Bull-funded studies
 • Boing Boing
A 15th-century Persian book says what a snake sighting means
The Marnameh assigns an omen to each of the 30 days of the Zoroastrian calendar, from justice to reuniting with a lost friend.
 • Popkin
Clacton-by-Sea voters get the longest ballot in UK election history
Nigel Farage's resignation stunt drew 34 candidates, including Count Binface, onto a ballot nearly a meter long.
 • Rob Beschizza
Red Bull paid for the studies saying vodka Red Bulls are fine
The meta description works here.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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