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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
A24 Films succumbs to the AI darkside
The campaign against the creative class has rustled up a surprising new foot soldier: A24 Films.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Jaws in Concert gets the shark-costumed bassist it deserves
The Oregon Symphony performed Jaws live with the movie, and one bassist understood the assignment so completely that he played the entire thing dressed…
 • Jason Weisberger
The Mouth of Moron returns to explain that pond scum is democracy
Karoline Leavitt returned to Fox News and immediately tried to convince America that the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm is a campaign promise kept.
 • Jason Weisberger
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