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Elon Musk tries out the some-of-my-best-friends defense
The “some of my best servants are non-white” defense remains undefeated.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, July 23, 2026
Hell’s gate dims, mercury glows, a scammer suffers
 • Boing Boing
Sony saves the Cinerama Dome from becoming condos or sadness
Perhaps this Hollywood comeback is worth rooting for.
 • Jason Weisberger
A YouTuber rebuilt a mercury light bulb discovered in 1675
In 1675, the French astronomer Jean Picard noticed something strange while carrying his mercury barometer through a dark room: the mercury glowed as it…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live
When you open a credit card, you probably expect your home address expecting it to stay with your bank.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground
RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the ground: two long stone walls converging into an enclosure…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Turkmenistan’s “Gates of Hell” crater is finally going out after 54 years
The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert — 60 to 70 meters across, 30 meters deep, and burning since 1971 — earned the nickname “Door to…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Why walking poles held behind you burn 20% more calories
Michael Ham, retired in British Columbia, listed his walking poles in the Cool Tools newsletter What’s in my NOW? and he wants you to know they are…
 • Mark Frauenfelder
The person who’d use your $1,000 suit as a floor rag
Some people would happily wreck your $1,000 suit to mop up a spill, because the small amount of utility it beats the hurt it causes you.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Kyle Gordon returns with pitch-perfect satire of “white guy goes to Africa” pop
I wish there was a better name for weirdly paternalistic “white guy goes to Africa” pop than, well, all that.
 • Grant St. Clair
The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Pro is a near-perfect speaker
You will have to work very hard to find a wireless speaker that sounds as good, no matter what sort of music you dig, as the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin…
 • Séamus Bellamy
Trapping a scammer in an endless maze of torment
Trapping a scammer in an endless maze of torment
 • Grant St. Clair
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