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Boing Boing, July 20, 2026
Your monitor is watching, your CO2 is rising
 • Boing Boing
Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
Ten years ago, an Australian company called Geeky Sex Toys launched a line of adult toys based on Pokémon.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
An orchestra with inept players sold out the Royal Albert Hall
In 1970, composer Gavin Bryars and a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art formed the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra open to anyone…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Knitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship
Knitters call it the sweater curse: knit a sweater for a significant other and they’ll break up with you — in one version, before the sweater is even…
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Some people initiate sex in their sleep and remember none of it
Sexsomnia is a parasomnia — in the same family as sleepwalking — in which a person engages in sexual acts during non-REM sleep.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
An international team including Yale researchers has described a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopy of the Democratic…
Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
Someone at TryAI handed two frontier AI models the same assignment: here’s Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” a budget, and a shell with ffmpeg…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
An AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion
On the morning of July 17, a redditor who normally pays Amazon Web Services about five cents a month opened their inbox to a wall of billing alerts and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The theory that UFOs come from Earth, not space
Most UFO theories reach for outer space.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1945, Five bombers vanished and launched the Bermuda Triangle legend
On December 5, 1945, five Navy torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise and never came back — the disappearance…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
What is the cause of mystery booms heard around the world?
In the 19th century, people living near the Barisal region of Bangladesh kept hearing what sounded like distant cannon fire booming out of a clear sky.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A whole language built from about 120 words
Most invented languages try to say everything.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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