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Boing Boing, July 8, 2026
Hired mourners, patriotic gasoline, and a wizard’s PDA
 • Boing Boing
This concrete playground slide looks like brutalist architecture
A concrete playground slide in Bucharest, Romania, looks more like a piece of brutalist architecture than a place for children to play.
 • Popkin
In 1996, Orbitz turned a soda bottle into a lava lamp
In 1996, beverage maker Clearly Canadian introduced Orbitz, a clear soft drink filled with brightly colored edible spheres suspended throughout the…
 • Popkin
Baby barn owls rescued from a dock loft before first flight
A dockside owl rescue turned into a successful wildlife handoff after several young barn owls were found nesting in a loft above the water.
 • Popkin
Psyllium husk is not nature’s Ozempic, but it is a pretty good source of fiber
Psyllium husk has been rebranded by the internet as “nature’s Ozempic,” which is unfair to nature, Ozempic, and this extremely beige powder that mostly…
 • Jason Weisberger
ICE killed a Houston father, then called him the aggressor
Thirty-five years of building a family in America ended with two words: “illegal alien.”
 • Jason Weisberger
Making Fallout 76 bearable by playing it inside Fallout 4
Tale of Two Wastelands might just be the best Fallout mod of all time, and it’s pretty inarguably the most influential.
 • Grant St. Clair
We might be getting that New Vegas followup, but not in the way anyone expected
As has been discussed to death both here and on the Internet at large, Fallout: New Vegas is one of the best RPGs ever made. Although it started life as…
 • Grant St. Clair
Werwulf is coming just in time for Christmas!
Nothing says happy holidays like a new Robert Eggers film cast with his growing merry band of weirdos.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Dune: Part 3 drops trailer full of fun in the sun
Denis Villenueve’s first two Dune (or DUNC depending on how badly you misread the poster) movies, with love to David Lynch, have been by far the best…
 • Grant St. Clair
Max Fosh entered a nine-year-old into a roast battle
Just when we thought we were safe, Max Fosh returned.
 • Grant St. Clair
In 1990, engineers wrote an internet standard for carrier pigeons
According to IP over Avian Carriers, the internet’s standards body once published a straight-faced proposal “to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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