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When Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
Peter Bebergal and JF Martel wrote "Of Clockwork & Clay" for Chaosium's Clockwork & Claws, appearing this weekend at NecronomiCon in Providence.
 • Gareth Branwyn
Seems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die
The press secretary announced her resignation on July 16th, days after Trump escaped a missile threat in a catering truck.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, August 13, 2026
Watermarked files, spare-parts ATMs, and 226 unused park photos
 • Boing Boing
North Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch
The $15 Red Star OS embeds your drive's serial number in media files and lets the secret service delete flagged content remotely.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station
British Transport Police start live facial recognition at Victoria Underground station on August 11.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In Japan, press the button on your table and a server appears
The yobidashi botan summons waitstaff within 30 seconds because servers there don't check on you constantly like in Western countries.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The only ATM in Antarctica has a second ATM for spare parts
The Antarctica ATM at McMurdo Station sits at 77 degrees south, and a second machine supplies its spare parts.
 • Popkin
Stewart Brand put his 1997 BBC architecture series online for free
How Buildings Learn is a 6-part 1997 BBC series by Stewart Brand, scored by Brian Eno and free on YouTube.
 • Popkin
Ansel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made
World War II stopped the 1941 Department of the Interior project, but the National Archives holds the prints and offers them free.
 • Popkin
A mechanical keyboard, plain yoghurt, and a 7am start
The sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris types on a Wobkey Rainy 75 with Gateron Oil Kings, and Mounjaro gave him 7am starts.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
How San Francisco became a tech capital, then nearly lost itself
Jonathan Weber's City on the Edge draws on 200 interviews to trace the internet boom, Burning Man, and the "City Family" that ran San Francisco.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, August 12, 2026
A commuter's T. rex novel, salmonella jalapeños, and a hand-drawn Enterprise cutaway
 • Boing Boing
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