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California’s vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished
California’s sunflower sea stars were nearly erased by wasting disease and warming water.
2 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains is hunting for vandals in his $14.7 million algae farm
Grandpa Pudding Brains ordered the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted “American flag blue,” watched it turn fresh engine-coolant green, and is now…
2 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, June 22, 2026
Phantom maps, moon men, and a rogue Tesla
2 hrs ago • Boing Boing
Tesla’s driver-assist nightmare bursts through living room wall
Martha Avila was standing inside her home in Katy, Texas, when a Tesla Model 3 came through the brick wall and killed her.
2 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
ICE pepper-sprays Father’s Day protest after woman is run over
Families came to Delaney Hall on Father’s Day asking ICE to free detained dads.
2 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon
The “Great Moon Hoax” began on August 25, 1835, when The Sun, a New York newspaper, ran the first of six articles “about the supposed discovery of life…
4 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey
Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster
There are now seven Call of Duty: Black Ops games, which is honestly fewer than I thought.
Jun 20 • Grant St. Clair
Bob Odenkirk stars in straight-faced remake of The Room
Tommy Wiseau’s 2004 masterpiece The Room is, perhaps, the most infamous bad movie ever made.
Jun 20 • Grant St. Clair
Grand Theft Auto 6 opens pre-orders, reveals cover art
If at any point you’ve ever doubted that Grand Theft Auto 6 will be the biggest entertainment product since the Epic of Gilgamesh, look no further than…
Jun 20 • Grant St. Clair
Cyberdeck with punishingly minimal 30% keyboard
A cyberdeck is a homemade portable computer in the cyberpunk mold (exposed, utilitarian, built to suit its maker rather than to sell) and NickZero’s…
Jun 20 • Rob Beschizza
The obscure airfields of America
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields [airfields-freeman.com] collects America’s half-forgotten strips and reconstructs each one’s history from old…
Jun 20 • Rob Beschizza
In 1974, Turkish forces fenced off a Cyprus beach resort. It’s still empty.
From 1970 to 1974, the Varosha district of Famagusta, Cyprus, was “one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world,” a favorite of Elizabeth…
Jun 19 • Ellsworth Toohey
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