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Boing Boing, March 19, 2026
Pearl Harbor jokes, cursed Pikachu, and half-asleep brains
 • Mark Frauenfelder
All five DNA/RNA building blocks found in asteroid Ryugu samples
Every nucleobase needed to build DNA and RNA — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil — has been found in rock samples from the asteroid Ryugu…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Hidden for 4,500 years: a sealed corridor in the Great Pyramid
The ScanPyramids team found a sealed corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu — about 9 meters long, 2.1 meters wide, sitting 7 meters above the main…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The first recording of computer music was playing at the wrong pitch for decades
In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Wander: a decentralized console for the small web
A new project called Wander lets you drop two files onto your personal website — an index.html and a wander.js — and turn it into a node in a…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tech hobbyist builds working guided missile prototype for $96
A tech hobbyist named Alisher Khojayev built a working, shoulder-mounted guided-missile prototype for $96.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Inside Pennsylvania’s hidden time capsule of Americana: a 100,000-square-foot wonderland of vintage oddities
After watching this video of The American Treasure Tour Museum in Oaks, Pennsylvania, I’m officially obsessed — this might be one of the most…
 • Popkin
Trump’s Truth Social burns $712 million to make $3.7 million
Trump Media & Technology Group burned through a staggering $712 million last year while bringing in a mere $3.7 million in revenue, a ratio as…
 • Jason Weisberger
Mozilla’s VPN is free, limited, and not really a VPN
Mozilla Firefox is rolling out a “free VPN” that promises to hide your IP and add a layer of privacy with zero effort.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains invokes Pearl Harbor like it’s a punchline
Yes, the president of the United States just compared his own surprise attack to the one that killed 2,403 Americans and treated it like a clever aside.
 • Jason Weisberger
These off-brand Pikachu rides are terrifying
Unlicensed Pikachu coin-operated rides have been showing up outside shops and malls across Asia and occasionally the U.S.
 • Popkin
Nazi salutes now just “free speech,” say very upset College Republicans
A University of Florida College Republicans chapter was shut down after members were photographed giving Nazi salutes.
 • Jason Weisberger
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