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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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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.
 • Jason Weisberger
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.
 • Jason Weisberger
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.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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.
 • Popkin
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.
 • Popkin
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.
 • Popkin
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.
 • Rob Beschizza
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.
 • Popkin
Boing Boing, August 6, 2026
All our posts from the past 24 hours
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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.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields
Camp Bonifas has a par-3 golf hole ringed by minefields on 3 sides. At least one shot reportedly set off a land mine.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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