Archive - Boing Boing

Justice Kavanaugh, who humiliated himself on the record, now concerned his racism will dominate his “legacy”

There is a version of Brett Kavanaugh permanently preserved in the congressional record, tearfully explaining slang like “boofing,” angrily insisting he…

2 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

December 2025

Short-form video makes it hard to remember what you’re doing and worse at doing it

Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video.

4 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

Judge: “plugging in a microwave” doesn’t turn room into a flat

A judge in England ruled this week that the presence of a microwave does not turn a single room into an apartment. The St. George Hotel in Great…

5 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

Mashable reviews Elon Musk’s unfulfilled 2025 promises

Elon Musk spent 2025 promising Mars, robotaxis, artificial godhood, flying cars, and trillions in government savings.

6 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Utah police trust AI that identified a human as a frog

The future of policing apparently includes enchanted forests.

6 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Grandpa Pudding Brains’ windmill fixation once again embarrasses

Perpetually unaware and refusing to be held back by facts, Donald Trump mourned a long-dead Israeli falcon as a bald eagle, to disparage the wind.

7 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Get ready for the $5090 5090: GPU prices expected to soar next year

Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 graphics cards have a suggested retail price of $2,000.

8 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

DOJ tracked journalist who exposed Epstein

8 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Sobered-up thief returns stolen mandolins

Lark Street Music in Teaneck, New Jersey, specializes in vintage guitars.

9 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

AI builds message-in-a-bottle app from vague prompt

A Reddit user going by enigma_x asked Claude AI to “build me an app that would delight me.” It generated a digital message-in-a-bottle service where…

9 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

What travelers need to know about phone searches at the U.S. border

Crossing into the United States?

9 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Trump family’s $499 gold phone misses 4th promised shipping deadline

The Trump family’s foray into smartphones keeps slipping further into the future.

9 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

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