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Canberra’s town crier recognized as world’s loudest person with 122.4dB yell
Joseph McGrail-Bateup, a 58-year-old air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier from Canberra, Australia, has been recognized by Guinness World…
 • Rob Beschizza
We Have The Herpes: Arby’s worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food
A manager at the Arbys in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, spat in a customers food, say police, an act that allegedly resulted in the victim contracting oral…
 • Rob Beschizza
Kodak’s new Charmeras have Y2K vibes
Kodak’s Charmera, the keychain-sized digital camera that became a minor cultural phenomenon last year, is back with a new look.
 • Rob Beschizza
The cheating wasn’t in the rider. It was in the bike
In pro cycling, even the bikes fail drug tests.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, June 23, 2026
Banana cars, $1,000 Steam Machines, and urban coyotes
 • Boing Boing
Grandpa Pudding Brains gets lost in a cop’s muscles
Grandpa Pudding Brains tried to tell a story about a New York police officer “please, sir”ing him and somehow ended up admiring the man’s muscles as if…
 • Jason Weisberger
Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today’s TikToks
Irish artist Niall de Buitléar’s eight-minute found-footage piece Duplicate Content splices video art from the mid-1960s through mid-1970s together with…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Toyo Ito’s Expo Hall “Shining Hat” looks like a portal opening in the sky
This structure called Expo Hall, or “Shining Hat”, creates a stunning optical illusion in the sky.
 • Popkin
Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming
This video shows a tame crow perched on a person’s lap in a workshop, getting its feathers brushed.
 • Popkin
Ancient Loops turns the Playdate’s crank into a sound instrument
The Playdate’s hand crank was built for games, but it keeps luring developers to go weird.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Cops can’t stop looking at this banana car
The creator, owner, and driver of the 23-foot-long Big Banana Car, Steve Braithwaite, gets to meet a lot of curious cops.
 • Jason Weisberger
The Criterion Collection’s Stanley Kubrick set is coming for your wallet
Stanley Kubrick is one of those directors: One with enough vision to change the course of any film genre he touches but, enough brains to know that art…
 • Séamus Bellamy
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