Boing Boing, July 29, 2026

Butter physics, vanished keepers, and a cesspit disaster

Happy Wednesday! Physics finally settled the great toast debate: dropped bread lands butter-side down only about half the time, exactly what chance predicts. Three lighthouse keepers once vanished off Scotland without a trace, a 12th-century court meeting dropped 60 nobles into a cesspit, and eBay just paid $55.7 million over a campaign of terror agains…