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Why seafoam green was used in control rooms
Faber Birren, who once painted his bedroom vermilion to test his sanity, developed the color code that made light green a wall standard by 1948.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Boing Boing, August 21, 2026
Seafoam green control rooms, sold body parts, and a 3,000-person crossing
 • Boing Boing
Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market
Morgue manager Cedric Lodge got eight years in prison and 47 grieving families will split the settlement over the stolen remains.
 • Rob Beschizza
This Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube
Traffic stops every two minutes at the Shibuya Scramble, and one feed offers a 360 view.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward
An essay argues we've turned effort into a stand-in for morality, and that the EU's AI-writing watermark rule is the same old instinct in new form.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE
His family says Oswaldo Pirela sought asylum and held a valid work permit through 2029 after entering legally from Venezuela in 2014.
 • Ruben Bolling
ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with… Subway
Meal purchases through October 26th earn US players a code for the Subterranean skin and green-and-yellow color variants.
 • Gail P Sherman
Anti-AI fonts considered harmful
Andrew Yaros argues these misshapen typefaces are inaccessible to screen readers and OCR while real AI defeats them anyway.
 • Rob Beschizza
Big Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meat
Trump plans to drop tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of imported beef, drawing backlash from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump meets boy rescued from drowning, tells him he probably wouldn't have helped
10-year-old Nathaniel Rai and the lifeguard who saved him were invited to the White House for the remark.
 • Jason Weisberger
The latest HTML trickery for web designers
Chris Burnell's HTML Can Do That, built for HTML Day 2026, shows popover modals, squircle corners, and self-resizing textareas without JavaScript.
 • Rob Beschizza
A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below
A pomato graft gives you tomatoes in about 12 weeks and potatoes in early fall.
 • Popkin
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