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Charmera too modern for you? Kodak's $35 film camera puts 1990 in your pocket
The EC35 shoots film with a 25mm f10 acrylic lens, runs on one AA battery, and comes in seven colors including Seafoam.
 • Rob Beschizza
A printable one-page Guide to Recording Law Enforcement
The EFF handout explains why officers can't order you to stop filming but can make you move, months after the ACLU shut down its Mobile Justice app.
 • Rob Beschizza
Gallery of anime user interfaces
A collection of animated screens, dashboards and gadgets that also includes the NORAD big boards from Wargames.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, August 2, 2026
A 120-year-old lightbulb, a snake-sighting omen, and Red Bull-funded studies
 • Boing Boing
A 15th-century Persian book says what a snake sighting means
The Marnameh assigns an omen to each of the 30 days of the Zoroastrian calendar, from justice to reuniting with a lost friend.
 • Popkin
Clacton-by-Sea voters get the longest ballot in UK election history
Nigel Farage's resignation stunt drew 34 candidates, including Count Binface, onto a ballot nearly a meter long.
 • Rob Beschizza
Red Bull paid for the studies saying vodka Red Bulls are fine
The meta description works here.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A chip report out of China erased $1 trillion in market value
The FCC banned Chinese humanoid robots as officials clash over open-weight models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 rivaling OpenAI.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The lightbulb that's burned for 120 years draws four watts
The Phoebus cartel capped bulbs at 1,000 hours in 1925. The 120-year-old Livermore bulb draws just 4 watts.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Arizona Supreme Court: clergy don't have to report child abuse confessions
Bishops kept Paul Adams's abuse of his six children secret for years, and lawyer Lynne Cadigan plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
 • Rob Beschizza
Little Debbie delivery driver made $17k selling them from his truck at flea markets, say cops
James Powell of West Virginia faces 15 counts and $17,167.97 in restitution after billing stores for fake deliveries near Pittsburgh.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, August 1, 2026
Reverse-less microcars, a hidden Pink Floyd prize, and 140 tons of hoarded stuff
 • Boing Boing
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