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Boing Boing, February 11, 2026

Party balloons, ice cream battleships, and goose confusion

Mark Frauenfelder
Feb 11, 2026
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Happy Wednesday! Today’s stories: A “cartel drone threat” that shut down El Paso’s airport turned out to be a party balloon, prompting the FAA to reverse a 10-day airspace closure within hours. WWII’s weirdest naval vessels were floating ice cream factories. Four students cracked a geometry puzzle by treating squares like electri…

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