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MAGA Mike shares the Republican plan for midterm success: intercessory prayer
The prayer teams are on the ground. The voters remain at large.
 • Jason Weisberger
Actual neo-Nazis demonstrate Elon Musk’s heartfelt salute
For anyone still insisting Elon Musk was merely “sending his heart to the audience“, the neo-Nazis on the left of the clip have prepared a…
 • Jason Weisberger
Two men rode the elevator to the top of the Space Needle and jumped off
They wore parachutes. Seattle police would still like a word.
 • Jason Weisberger
Woman charged with smothering her twins claims the vaccines did it
The cause of death was unknown. The fundraising link was ready.
 • Jason Weisberger
ICE made its costume easy to counterfeit
Three people allegedly used a rifle, fake badges, tactical vests, and roof-mounted police lights to pull over a driver, force them into an SUV, and…
 • Jason Weisberger
ICE arrested a green-card holder while she was gardening and kept her for a year
Her paperwork was legal. Her freedom was apparently optional.
 • Jason Weisberger
"I am Error" was never a mistranslation — it was a programmer's joke
Early in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987), the player walks into a house in the town of Ruto, where a bearded man in a purple tunic announces: “I…
 • Boing Boing
France once had a king who reigned for four days — his entire life
John I of France, called the Posthumous, was born on November 15, 1316, and died on November 19, 1316.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The legend of India's "breast tax" and the woman who defied it
In the 19th-century Kingdom of Travancore, in what is now Kerala, India, every lower-caste person owed a poll tax starting around age 14.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Renaissance painters kept adding a realistic fly to their portraits
Look closely at a lot of 15th- and 16th-century European portraits and you’ll find a housefly sitting on the frame, the sitter’s sleeve, or a page of an…
 • Boing Boing
The math-solving horse who fooled scientists still haunts AI research
In early 1900s Germany, a math teacher named Wilhelm von Osten toured the country with Clever Hans, a horse who could apparently add, subtract…
 • Boing Boing
The time two guys bolted a Ford Pinto to a Cessna and called it a flying car
In 1971 two Northrop-trained engineers in Van Nuys set out to build a flying car called the AVE Mizar, and the design was about as literal as it sounds…
 • Boing Boing
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