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Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine
The demake fittingly repays a debt, since developer Toby Fox drew heavily on the 1995 SNES classic when making the 2015 original.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
The best Mario Kart build is an economics problem from 1900
The Mario Kart Pareto frontier trims thousands of builds down to the 4 parts that beat all rivals.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist
The mine was named for Jacob Waltz, who confessed its location on his deathbed in 1891 and left a crude map that vanished with searcher Adolph Ruth.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, August 10, 2026
Iced dogs, ancient snowflake drawings, and a fatal wine complaint
 • Boing Boing
Trump's mass deportation machine is a $1.4 billion private-prison bonanza
CoreCivic and GEO Group posted combined Q2 revenue of $1.4 billion as immigration detention neared 66,000 people.
 • Jason Weisberger
Dogs on Ice are beyond adorable
A viral video shows puppies wearing tiny figure skater outfits and skates while playing on ice.
 • Jason Weisberger
Texas' Ken Paxton somehow gets even sleazier
His cell-tower company won a prime spot at a Frisco hospital in 2006 while he sat on its board.
 • Jason Weisberger
Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all
Harvard astrobiologist Steven Benner reanalyzed the raw data in his new book and says the original positive result was correct.
 • Ruben Bolling
Elon Musk has all the rhythm of an Austin Powers villain
A viral clip shows the billionaire's stiff dancing and mid-routine striptease drawing comparisons to Elaine Benes and a Six Flags mascot.
 • Jason Weisberger
The Tainted Cup gets the fantasy detective novel exactly right
Robert Jackson Bennett pairs altered assistant Din Kol with investigator Ana Dolabra to solve murders in an empire menaced by sea-born Titans.
 • Jason Weisberger
1991 Mars Bar highlights shrinkflation and inflation alike
A cleaner found the 62.5g bar in a Scunthorpe hoarder's house, while today's version weighs 40g and costs three times as much per gram.
 • Rob Beschizza
UK government spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural
The Ministry of Justice disclosed the cost through Freedom of Information requests, with no clear breakdown of overtime and security charges.
 • Rob Beschizza
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