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Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities
The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2026 index ranked Osaka seventh and Tokyo tenth, the only Asian country with two cities in the top 10.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Boing Boing, August 7, 2026
Neo-Nazi ad payouts, a 1898 internet prophecy, and a legally mandated "Y'all"
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Boing Boing
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Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
Indiana regulators approved a Phase III water-quality permit in June for the Fort Wayne project despite resident and environmental objections.
18 hrs ago
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Jason Weisberger
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Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
This self-proclaimed Los Angeles superhero's name is causing peace-loving citizens to mistake him for something else.
18 hrs ago
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Jason Weisberger
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Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
Facebook monetization sent nearly $3 billion to 16.2 million accounts in 2025, some breaking its rules.
24 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
Twain's 1898 telelectroscope story made the daily doings of the whole globe visible from a prison cell.
Aug 7
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Popkin
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A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
Ten Rhijne's 1683 De Acupunctura passed through 4 languages and turned qi into a trapped wind.
Aug 7
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Popkin
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A Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
The Florence Y'all Water Tower got its name from a $472 paint job that beat a full repaint in 1974.
Aug 7
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Popkin
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Take a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
There's been some speculation about exactly what Primetime , A24's movie about the hit show To Catch A Predator, is going to say.
Aug 7
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Rob Beschizza
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Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
Two scholars reconstructed singing the Homeric epics, recording 100 lines of Odyssey book 8.
Aug 7
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Popkin
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Boing Boing, August 6, 2026
All our posts from the past 24 hours
Aug 7
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Boing Boing
When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
The Murder Trust fed Michael Malloy poison, tacks, and a taxi at 45 mph for $3,500 in insurance. He kept surviving.
Aug 7
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Ellsworth Toohey
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