Boing Boing Digest, December 22, 2024
Today's posts
Behold the biscuit-making skills of Wilbur the binturong
By Jennifer Sandlin / December 22, 2024
We all know—and love—that cats make biscuits, and we even have archaeological evidence that such feline biscuit making occurred 1200 years ago! But I bet you didn't know that binturongs—those adorable creatures that WIRED describes as having "a face like a cat, a body like a small bear, and a tail like a monkey"—also make biscuits?
Conan O'Brien's parents pass away within three days of each other
By Ruben Bolling / December 22, 2024
Comedian Conan O'Brien lost both his parents with three days of each other; his father passed away on December 9, and his mother on December 12.
Shelter dogs pick out their favorite holiday stuffed animal
By Jennifer Sandlin / December 22, 2024
It's holiday time, and that means that the annual shelter-dogs-picking-out-their-holiday-toys videos are dropping!
Boing Boing, December 21, 2024
By Boing Boing / December 21, 2024
All our posts from the past 24 hours
Cyborg cockroach production nears one per minute
By Rob Beschizza / December 21, 2024
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University mass-produces cyborg cockroaches by implanting electronic backpacks into their carapaces.
iFixit's Furby teardown is not for the faint of heart
By Gail P Sherman / December 21, 2024
iFixit's teardown videos show the inside of your tech, breaking it down to determine how to repair it.
Texas woman bitten by snake while sitting on toilet in the dark
By Carla Sinclair / December 21, 2024
A Texas woman got a fright in the middle of the night when she sat on the toilet, felt something sharp, and realized she was bitten by a snake.
Father of 2 young boys loses $5 million after falling for terrifying new Google scam
By Ellsworth Toohey / December 21, 2024
A single "yes" click on a Google prompt cost two cryptocurrency investors millions after falling victim to sophisticated phone scammers impersonating Google support, reports Brian Krebs on KrebsOnSecurity.
Boing Boing, December 20, 2024
By Boing Boing / December 20, 2024
All our posts from the past 24 hours
Party over for Party City: all stores to close
By Rob Beschizza / December 20, 2024
Party City helped fill kids' lives with joy for forty years.
A man sacrificed sleep for 25 years to create history's most obsessive diary
By Ellsworth Toohey / December 20, 2024
For 25 years, Robert Shields documented every five minutes of his life with obsessive dedication.
In 2024 MacKenzie Scott made another $2 billion in donations
By Jason Weisberger / December 20, 2024
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott continued her mission of using great wealth to try and improve the world.
Spotify uses ghost artists to "shape listening behavior" and avoid paying real ones
By Rob Beschizza / December 20, 2024
Spotify pads playlists with music by unknown artists, and has been accused of generating this music itself or using cheap library music to reduce the amount paid to artists.
Luigi Mangione now at prison known as "Hell on Earth"
By Carla Sinclair / December 20, 2024
Luigi Mangione, arrested earlier this month for killing Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is now in federal custody at Brooklyn's "nightmarish" Metropolitan Detention Center, where Sean "Diddy" Combs currently resides.
Here's why Superman is bleeding in the first trailer for the new film
By Allan Rose Hill / December 20, 2024
The first teaser trailer, below, for the new Superman film out July 11 depicts the Man of Steel falling from the sky into the snow, battered, bruised, and bleeding.
In 1964, a dad's photo of his daughter captured a figure in a spacesuit — a mystery that still baffles
By Ellsworth Toohey / December 20, 2024
When firefighter Jim Templeton snapped three photos of his 5-year-old daughter on a marsh in Cumberland, England in 1964, he had no idea he was about to capture one of the strangest images in UFO history. It wasn't until the photos came back from Kodak that he noticed something extraordinary — a figure in what appeared to be a space suit lurking in the background of one shot.
Police and animal control officers discover that dangerous snake loose inside home was something else
By Allan Rose Hill / December 20, 2024
A resident of Needham, Massachusetts called police "very upset" about a seemingly dangerous snake loose inside the house.
Fossilized "alien plant" from 47 million years ago unlike anything alive today
By Allan Rose Hill / December 20, 2024
This fossilized plant excavated in Green River Formation, Utah is entirely unlike anything living on Earth today.
Tech bros on Ayahuasca looking for answers
By Jason Weisberger / December 20, 2024
"You don't need to trip balls in the jungle just to decide you need to quit your stupid tech job."
The Beatles reunited last night on stage in London
By Allan Rose Hill / December 20, 2024
Last night at London's O2 Arena, Paul McCartney closed out his "Got Back" tour by calling out an old friend to play the skins.