Boing Boing, July 22, 2026
Rogue aliens, ruined dolls, and deliberately worse products
Happy Wednesday! In 1977, a distorted voice calling itself an alien hijacked four minutes of British TV before disappearing. A once-beloved talking doll drew a destroy-it order from the German government for eavesdropping on children. And a physics detector in Utah once clocked a single particle carrying the energy of a pitched baseball.
