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New Jersey congressman simps for Trump's approval in cringe-worthy Fox interview

Boing Boing, December 31, 2024

Don Jr wishes he could skip daddy's NYE party

Crypto bro Do Kwon dragged to US after $40 billion collapse and global manhunt

20-year-old U.S. Army soldier arrested for threatening to leak Trump and Harris call records

Three AI models battle daily in $5 stock picks

Swearing improves grip strength, Halloween sees a spike in child ADHD diagnoses, and more 2024 learnings

Map of public toilets in Ireland

"The Ballad of Toshi" – On women gazing at men in biopics

Jackdaw asks strangers, "are you alright?" in a Yorkshire accent

Russian propaganda video shows Santa Claus blown out of the sky by Russian missiles

Poor little dictator's wife can't get her cancer treatment in London's posh hospitals

Trump fans outraged after he posts respectful tribute to Jimmy Carter

Boing Boing, December 30, 2024

It's happening: "100 percent Trump is annoyed" with Elon Musk, says insider

Psychonauts, please take a pass on peyote

Science YouTuber makes fake butter for popcorn

Man accidentally drops phone in donation box and temple won't give it back: "part of God's account"

Police seize seven tons of cocaine buried underneath a farm

How the Earth's most isolated tree met its tragic end

Surgically changing your eye color may be a bad idea

Invisibility cloak caught on Ring camera

Freeway crash causes concern over Amazon packages and property damage, not people (video)

These bizarre animals can fuse together into a single life form

Two men have died searching for Big Foot

NYC tries to kill traffic cam selfie site, has never heard of Streisand effect

Chess champ Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament after they let him wear jeans

Rudy Giuliani's contempt hearing "might not go well for him"

Norovirus surging in U.S.

Good luck getting your hands on the hottest calendar of 2025

Jimmy Carter dead at 100

How far can a train get you in Europe in 8 hours?

Chess champ Magnus Carlsen ejected from tournament for wearing jeans

The weirdest gaming PC of the year

South Korea impeaches acting president, days after the last one

Homelessness up by 32% in two years

Costco claps back at "reprehensible radical right" organization's anti-DEI demand

Avian-flu contaminated raw pet food recalled after indoor cat dies

Things you must witness: Eight wiener dogs sleeping in eight banana beds

This TV commercial overtly attempts to hypnotize you into buying Spud cigarettes

Boing Boing, December 27, 2024

IRS goes after gig workers instead of billionaire tax dodgers

How to make school cafeteria pizza from the 1980s

Teenager bites into a candy jawbreaker — and breaks her jaw

Confused Trump "texts" Elon Musk on Truth Social, feeling lost without his bestie: "Where are you?"

An AI-generated Beatles album I will actually listen to: "Rubber Soul, but it's Motown"

Mainstream media normalizes Trump's revenge campaign against Liz Cheney

House Hippo definitely isn't real

Elon Musk punishes Laura Loomer and other MAGA loyalists who criticize him: "MAGA wars have begun"

Controlling lucid dreams, for real

Missiles now biggest killer of airplane passengers

Cat bolts out the front door — and then regrets it (video)

Boing Boing, December 26, 2024

The world's largest tube TV—a 440 pound, 43" Internet legend—has finally been found and saved from certain annihilation

In 1979, President Carter's bizarre battle with an aggressive swimming rabbit became a political nightmare

00001: Who was the first U.S. prisoner to receive an inmate number?

Your brain is much, much, MUCH slower than your Internet connection, new study shows

Ridiculous body cam footage of Alabama police officer chasing wayward rooster in church parking lot

Geneticist claims humans evolved from pig-chimp mating

Dream hackers explore the frontiers of consciousness

International students told to arrive in U.S. before Trump inauguration to avoid travel ban

Tom the Dancing Bug: God-Man, in "Paradoxer Solved!"

A deep, deep dive into the history of Disney's animatronics

Boing Boing, December 24. 2024

Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli brings the darkness to "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"

Meet Yana, the well-preserved 50,000-year-old baby mammoth, just unveiled in Russia

Walmart illegally opened high-fee bank accounts for 1m workers

The long, perilous road to the first performance of Hamlet… in Grand Theft Auto Online

My favorite holiday tradition is the Weekend Update Christmas Joke Swap

Discofoot "shakes, shimmies and twirls us further away from our society's cumbersome classifications"

DC cop convicted for tipping off Proud Boys about police operations

Boing Boing, December 23, 2024

Social media troll arrested for spraying bug killer on fruits and vegetables at Walmart

"Failed second album" is a myth. Blame music critics.

Doggo so excited, she accidentally wags tail around tree — and gets stuck (video)

FBI veteran charged with stalking after allegedly terrorizing law student for over a year

Czech composer's military tribute accidentally became history's most recognizable clown song

Santa Claus was actually a psychedelic mushroom

Temple says man's iPhone accidentally dropped into donation box is now God's property

Drones drop from sky during Florida holiday show, sending 7-year-old boy to hospital

Craig Wright "hides in Asia" as judge hands down suspended jail sentence

Math, not artificial intelligence, powers new infinite world generator

Container Store files against bankruptcy

Tea found in delicious microplastic infusion bags

Trump insists he isn't ceding presidency to Elon Musk

Biden commutes most federal death sentences to life imprisonment

Matt Gaetz ethics report concludes he "had sex" with minor, abused drugs, accepted luxury gifts

GOP congresswoman, missing for months, found living in dementia care home

Data Sonification: NASA audializes space for those with low vision

Walruses sound just like the Fart Piano

Scandinavia's top Christmas Eve show is a 1958 Disney cartoon special

Boing Boing, December 22, 2024

Behold the biscuit-making skills of Wilbur the binturong

Conan O'Brien's parents pass away within three days of each other

Shelter dogs pick out their favorite holiday stuffed animal

Boing Boing, December 21, 2024

Cyborg cockroach production nears one per minute

iFixit's Furby teardown is not for the faint of heart

Texas woman bitten by snake while sitting on toilet in the dark

Father of 2 young boys loses $5 million after falling for terrifying new Google scam

Boing Boing, December 20, 2024

Party over for Party City: all stores to close

A man sacrificed sleep for 25 years to create history's most obsessive diary

In 2024 MacKenzie Scott made another $2 billion in donations

Spotify uses ghost artists to "shape listening behavior" and avoid paying real ones

Luigi Mangione now at prison known as "Hell on Earth"

Here's why Superman is bleeding in the first trailer for the new film

In 1964, a dad's photo of his daughter captured a figure in a spacesuit — a mystery that still baffles

Police and animal control officers discover that dangerous snake loose inside home was something else

Fossilized "alien plant" from 47 million years ago unlike anything alive today

Tech bros on Ayahuasca looking for answers

The Beatles reunited last night on stage in London

Iowa's weirdest uprising: The great Cow War of 1931

French President Macron swears at ungrateful subjects on cyclone-hit island

Unlike the GOP, Zelensky stands up to Putin with one word

Starbucks baristas to strike in three cities

LG's transparent TV on sale for $60k

The heroic mollusks that guard the water supply of an entire city

Your Elf on a Shelf probably isn't making your kids act nicer

Boing Boing, December 19, 2024

Bad writing becomes an art form in annual contest for world's worst prose

Yeehaw! Marjorie Taylor Greene jumps on the Musk for Speaker bandwagon

How WWII sailors turned torpedo fuel into bootleg alcohol

Enjoy The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda yule log (video)

Can California's carnivorous squirrels be stopped? It is too soon to know.

Texas train hits tractor trailer and derails, killing one and injuring 4

I've been making my pour-over coffee with a stainless steel filter

Senators suggest swapping Speaker Mike Johnson for Elon Musk

Video card maker Zotac leaks Nvidia's new GPUs

Hidden fees in hotel and event ticket prices banned

Indiana bakery still used Commodore 64 in 21st century

Watch what happens when you pour molten metal into a vat of Orbeez

When a meme gets too powerful: Skibidi Toilet is now in Fortnite

Rare Nazi horror bondage comic from 1944 already fetching $110,000 at auction

December 18, 2024

New York resident finds 11,000-year-old mastodon jaw in backyard

Cyborg-Insect Factory is a real machine that turns cockroaches into robots

Monkeys roaming in Central Florida, including backyards and school drop-off area: "Do NOT approach!"

Chaos abounds during a rare tornado strike in California

New Sandisk logo pretty good

Now people on the West Coast can freak out about drones too

How one man's disastrous 1969 Swiss ski holiday created modern tourism consumer protection laws

Hunter illegally shoots bear in tree. Bear falls and kills hunter's friend

Conservative activist's defamation case against ADL proceeds in Texas court

Werewolf aspirant Herschel Walker nominated US ambassador to The Bahamas

Putin-esque: Trump again taunts Canada, further pushing idea of "51st state" in morning post

Congress decides to release the Gaetz ethics report afterall

Philomena Cunk ponders the meaning of Life

Interpol's bizarre attempt to rebrand major online fraud scheme

2020 paper pushing bogus Covid treatment finally retracted

The potoroo is another long-snouted animal you should know

Britain's online safety rules come into force, and sites are already shutting down.

Taking a food truck through the drive-thru to serve the workers

Jeff Probst and Exploding Kittens collaborating on a game

Tom the Dancing Bug: "It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Potter"

Marjorie Taylor Greene repeats the vaccines cause autism lie

Hidden fees crackdown leaves billionaires devastated as FTC demands price transparency

Ohio funeral home to open with full liquor license

Boing Boing, December 17, 2024

Man dies after swallowing live chick in occult ritual, bird survives

Wild photo of Bigfoot in canyon on Navajo Nation

Off by an order of magnitude, scientists shrug

Sheriffs are not signing up to Trump's deportation plan

Walmart employees now wearing bodycams

Billionaire founder of fashion chain falls and dies while hiking in Spain

18 million weird old books are waiting for you in this free online archive

Stripper goes berserk, stabs DJ at Portland club in brutal attack (video)

Racist Tintin to enter public domain in 2025; you'll have to wait a while longer for woke Tintin

Library doesn't even want overdue copy of 1971's "Baseball's Zaniest Stars" back

Visit Madrid's lucky frog statue: a giant good luck charm

3D-printed Dune chess set

Latest ThinkPad X1 has twice the battery life

Study finds legalese language a "magic spell" of authority

From Blade Runner to baking: Syd Mead's amazing gingerbread creations

Billie Eilish played NPR's Tiny Desk and it's magnificent (video)

Steve Bannon suggests Trump run for 3rd term in 2028 to explosive cheers (video)

The first-ever patient in a Phase 3 medical study of LSD has successfully tripped balls

How African killifish almost became Wham-O's coolest toy of the 1960s

Incredibly strange holiday card photos from Christmases past

Human dressed as an ostrich caused chaos at an Australia zoo

Boing Boing, December 16, 2024

From keyboard to prison cell: The dangerous side of Wikipedia editing

Man threatens bull elk. Bull elk pops man's tire (video)

Why humans crave expensive things just because they're expensive: The science of Veblen goods

Software bug accidentally makes programmer a millionaire overnight, security investigates

Scammer poses as MSNBC's Ari Melber, cons former Boeing employee out of $20,000 (so far)

27-year-old Trump advisor collapses on stage at Republican event (video)

ARM gaming CPU rumored in the works

Las Vegas must pay $34m to woman jailed 16 years on evidence fabricated by police

The original Charlie Brown Christmas special promo from 1965, with an additional scene

How to make extra-long, strange, and trippy tape loops inside a standard cassette

Two more cats die from bird flu after drinking tainted raw milk

It's official: Astro Bot is your 2024 Game of the Year

Kraven the Hunter proves to be bad, surprising no one

Watch: When kitty says he hates his bath, listen up! Or face the sheer (but amusing) chaos that ensues

"Chainsaw Jerry" reveals untold stories from Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie 50 years later

Lyft driver hears "strange noise" — finds naked Florida man in the back seat

Boing Boing, December 13, 2024

Tripping on psilocybin helped traumatized and depressed COVID-19 frontline healthcare workers

U.S. Department of Defense conducts test

Hire the wrong people, misfile important documents, remove batteries from remotes, and other suggestions for corporate sabotage

Blue Cross denies $8K life-saving drug — Kansas City student risks fatal bleeding

Woman's "delay, deny, depose" threat lands her in jail, but MAGA nuts can threaten with guns

Best book covers of 2024

Dropped phone leads cops to axe-wielding thief in $2.7M Beverly Hills heist

California DMV sorry for issuing vanity plate mocking October 7 attack on Israel

Two mathematicians just solved a centuries-old prime number puzzle that experts thought impossible

How to make Elvis's famous Fool's Gold sandwich: The King's 8,000-calorie obsession

Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "polarization"

CNN's MAGA snowflake Scott Jennings melts down when Democratic panelist gets too close: "Don't touch me!" (video)

Let them eat centrism: Macron picks another prime minister from his own camp

History's most catastrophic costume party, hosted by a mad king who thought he was made of glass

RFK Jr.s lawyer petitions to ban Polio vaccine

Intel's $250 GPU heralds return of the budget gaming PC

The studio behind The Last of Us is finally making a new game (and not another remaster)

See this horse bend its head upside down to scratch an itch, making a funny and unexpected face in the process

Become anyone with this LED face mask

MacBook Air M4 "leak" perhaps the most predictable leak in computer history

Take a trip to the Mountain Dew headstone in Johnson City, Tennessee

This holiday season, do yourself a favor and (re)watch Reverend Billy's "What Would Jesus Buy?"

Here's a great new thing to worry about: "Mirror life" could destroy life on Earth

Man spends year creating aluminum iPhone housing from solid metal block

Strange 1996 "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" Usenet posts remain a mystery

San Francisco's famed magic mushroom church closing doors, cites city government "harassment"

Boing Boing, December 12, 2024

FCC threatens to disconnect 2,400 phone companies enabling illegal robocalls

Elderly man who shot Walmart delivery drone cops a plea

Car customer with buyer's remorse crashes his new vehicle into dealership (video)

Police bust party of 120 people in their underwear

The 1904 Olympics Marathon gold medalist won while hallucinating on rat poison and brandy

Common cooking oils linked to rising cancer rates in young adults

The magic of chemistry and the mystery of Mexican Coke

LG ends Blu-ray production

"Pretty crazy" video of UFOs over Oregon is probably Starlink

The best butter in the United States

A nifty folk ditty about United Health Care

Nothing delivers holiday cheer like Cybertrucks failing in the cold

Video shows 22 people stuck on thrill ride at Knott's Berry Farm

Cat claims throne with a perfect view

Kingmakers, a game about going back in time with modern weapons

FBI Director Christopher Wray quits early to avoid being fired

After 17-year-old boy dies during routine procedure at dentist office, parents sue

Busted: Jewelry thieves crash getaway car, then sink getaway boat (video)

Tom the Dancing Bug: News of the Times – Manhunt for Killer CEO Underway

Boing Boing, December 11, 2024

Bird flu suspected in California child who drank raw milk

"Here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics"

How "moron in a hurry" became a favorite way to settle trademark disputes

Casino shocked, SHOCKED that gambling addict lost $30M after they bombarded him with texts

Baby possum stumbles into house, decides to make orange fluffy cat its "mom" (video)

To protect children Texas lawmaker proposes banning… sex toys

In 1911, one man launched an ambitious project to photograph humanity before modernization changed it forever

Kimberly Guilfoyle has her lucky day

In 2004, an author wrote a 233-page novel without using any verbs

Luigi Mangione planned to kill CEO with bomb, then realized it "could kill innocents"

Delicate flower Nancy Mace cries assault after a handshake

Amazing video of aerial firefighters refilling their planes

Luigi Mangione's manifesto

Judge blocks The Onion's purchase of InfoWars

Lady feeds bovine and gets a surprise tongue attack

See a delightful collection of Tushy Trees

AI tries to decipher rules of ancient board game

Ish sucks venom from a snakebite in Earth Abides. But experts agree: Don't do this!

Trump declares Canada a state

Coffee prices at an all time high

Boing Boing, December 10, 2024

Middle school responds perfectly to university that sent cease and desist over its logo

With great power comes a heavy hat, laments King Charles

Make fantasy maps the easy way with Lord of Maps stamps

Wikipedia's 7-year yogurt spelling war was longer than three Shakespeare plays

Oh rats! Google snuffs out McDonald's "review bomb" after Luigi Mangione's arrest

How Seattle became the teriyaki capitol of the United States

Move over Pisa: this German church tower is the world's most tilted building

Internet flooded with merch glorifying murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO

News investigates mystery of abandoned cars "appearing" in a drained lake

McDonald's turns dystopian death game into Happy Meal

Do you like waffle history? Yea, we like waffle history.

NBC reports UHC killer once played a party game

End of the road for Microsoft Surface Studio

Adorable messy puppy game Doronoko Wanko coming to Switch and getting DLC

Folk horror vibes in 28 Years Later trailer

Sengis are adorable, impossibly-snouted mini anteaters on stilts!

Raspberry Pi 500 is a computer in a keyboard

Large "drones" intrigue locals in New Jersey

Who got social security's lowest number 001-01-0001?

NASA brings the heat with this wonderful rocket engine fireplace video

"It's a major theft!" Replica of "A Christmas Story" leg lamp stolen

Doggo wants toy that isn't his — so he carefully steals it while other pup snoozes away (video)

The town that built a monument to the insect pest that nearly destroyed It

Scientist voluntarily endured world's most painful stings to rate them for you

Boing Boing, December 9, 2024

List of surprising things that happened for the first time in 2024

McDonald's employee solves crime for very proud NYPD

Pentagon finally admits it's stumped by many UFO sightings

Remote desert town's bizarre welcome sign leaves mathematicians scratching their heads

Weird ghost wolf caught on trail-cam (video)

Man caught sneaking on couple's property says he's trespassed over 1,000 times: "It's a hobby of mine"

Trump's Doge of self dealing ready to line his pockets

Thieves return rug to CA's famed Madonna Inn

Your handy guide to how much stuff it takes to kill you, maybe!

Look at the Assad family's boring-ass bunker

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Diddy and Jay Z should face death penalty if found guilty (but not Matt Gaetz)

Rebels post video of Assad's collection of luxury cars

Thinking of renting a gaming PC? Think again.

Assad deposed in Syria

Advance images of Universal's upcoming Epic Universe theme park are flowing in

Boing Boing, December 7, 2024

Decorate your Mac for the holidays with Festivitas

AI-powered robot rats fit right in with real rats

Creative snowman ideas to inspire your snow sculptures this December

Industrial soap that sounds like Spongebob screaming and looks just like him

If you like animation, check out One Perfect Frame for classic American cartoon clips

Man wins Spanish Scrabble World Championship — and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish

Tom Whitwell's annual collection of 52 fascinating facts returns, featuring expensive calculators and trademarked scents

Doggos chase a mouse — but when the critter stands her ground, comical confusion ensues (video)

Vulture crashes into cockpit of plane and hangs in front of pilot's face as he continues to fly (video)

Bend spends $1500 silencing an art critic

Boing Boing, December 6, 2024

Here's why an elderly woman's old Star Trek vanity plates are still generating parking tickets years after she stopped driving

Explainer: Hawk Tuah Girl's crypto token crashes, wiping out $500 million in 24 hours

Budget oven gloves from QVC leave customers with burned hands

Human overdoses on the rise from rhinoceros anesthetic that's 100 times more potent than fentanyl

Famous movie prop "accident": 1870s Martin Guitar destroyed during filming of "The Hateful Eight"

Roman-era Barbarians snorted drugs from tiny spoons on their belts to get fired up for fighting

Highway construction reveals ancient buried pyramid that they quickly reburied

Pete Hegseth's lawyer threatens to sue sex assault accuser if Trump-pick is not confirmed (video)

99-year-old Dick Van Dyke dances barefoot in new Coldplay video

Sci-fi armor now just completely implausible

YouTube videos poke fun at video game logic

Visualize the popularity of your name over the years

Disneyland Paris celebrating the reopening of Notre Dame with fireworks/drone nighttime sky show

This Huttese cover of an 80s new wave hit is perfection

The New York City Sign Museum, now open for tours

Watch this tiny vampire adorably devour a tomato!

Conservative judge upset at "diversity policy" rejects Boeing's deal in 737 MAX crashes

Lead may have driven Gen X bonkers after all

Antec Core Micro is a tiny pocket retrogame handheld

18-inch foldable display in Apple's plans

Cabbage Patch riots: the chaotic holiday toy craze of 1983

Project 2025 offers senators $1 million to confirm scandal-plagued boozer as defense secretary

Starman at 40: John Carpenter's forgotten sci-fi masterpiece, interview with special effects artist John Rosengrant

Here's the poop on Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year

Boing Boing, December 5, 2024

UPDATED: If your surgery runs long, Anthem will stop paying for the anesthesia

Union Steelworkers surprised the leopard is eating their face

FBI seeks public's help identifying large mystery aircraft over New Jersey (video)

Watch Illinois deputy save frantic driver in runaway car from plunging into a lake (video)

Prepare for the worst: journalists who survived dictators sound alarm over Trump's press threats

One man's rant on how to make America great again: get rid of the spork

Bluesky's bot invasion: AI accounts argue with everything you post

Turns out the "thin blue line" has a thick black market

Villagers feared haunting cries was a ghost but it was something much more disturbing

Doctor Who Christmas special trailer

Deny, Defend, Depose: words found on shell cases by UnitedHealthcare CEO's body

Tourists try to befriend elephant — but end up running for their lives (video)

Retrospective of the world-changing Yamaha DX7 synthesizer

Walmart buys Vizio for $3.2bn

After controversy, delays, and reshoots, Disney's Snow White releases first trailer

Pennsylvania woman swallowed by sinkhole still missing after 2 day search

Boing Boing, December 4, 2024

An anti-boring book guide: six great gift picks

Watch cat's amusing crab-walk routine to avoid touching snow (video)

Tom the Dancing Bug: 2025 Political Round-Up of hard hittin' Trump-toons

Fetterman rips on DeSantis

MAGA Mike Johnson ready to "axe" PBS and Planned Parenthood

Watch as a Democrat screams into the wind

Death most popular thing on Wikipedia, again

Definitely legitimate scientist promises to enhance your molecules with a "zappy" bulb, only needs $4,750

Tennessee lawmaker arrested after hit and run — and his sobriety test "leaked" (in more ways than one!)

Unknown disease kills up to 143 in Congo

Stable genius Donald Trump strikes again — can now see the Matterhorn from Canada

UK police forces leaving Twitter

UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in Manhattan — looks like targeted attack, say police

FBI warns iPhone and Android users about text messaging security

Raspberry Pi 5 as a game streaming box

South Korea's president faces impeachment after martial law misadventure

Tiny ducks delight NYC neighborhood

This backyard minature jungle cruise is a work of art

Steely Dan's Donald Fagen curses out the makers of a new documentary on Yacht Rock

Photo of skiers looks like musical notes so someone played the song

New kind of wood glows in the dark thanks to the magic of honey mushrooms

Boing Boing, December 3, 2024

Satanism offers Ohio school children a choice

Man picked the absolute stupidest time to shoplift from Walmart

Fortnite OG's Chapter 1 Season 1 island is a sight to behold

Painting of Maori elder fetches record price

Nick Fuentes weird and violent disparagement of non-rapists

Fluffy baby cow hilariously copies human by rolling over a large yoga ball (video)

Scientists create electric lollipop that lets you taste virtual reality flavors

'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' brings adventure back

AI-enabled price collusion ensures the rent is too damn high

China bans exports of crucial tech minerals gallium, germanium, and antimony to U.S.

U.S. and Canadian climbers vanish while climbing New Zealand's highest peak

Small asteroid creates spectacular light show over Russia just hours after discovery

Martial law declared in South Korea

IHOP server fired after 13 years service for buying pancakes for hungry person

Gigachads not so hot in attractiveness study

Florida weather modification ban would stop Democrats controlling the hurricanes

Article about celebrity statues with poor resemblances

What's the deal with vintage digicams?

Elon Musk loses bid to award self $56bn pay package from Tesla

This detailed map of Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" will blow your mind

Amazing 3D billboard in Shinjuku

Watch a tiny white horse knock someone off their scooter

Congressman returns from spiritual trip with message: "Make gay marriage illegal again"

Lizard dramatically opens mouth and climbs up man as if its going to attack — but nope, it's just an act (video)

Boing Boing, December 2, 2024

Racist hurls ugly insults at United passenger — then faces the consequences (video)

The mystery of Stonehenge's disappearing house is solved

Eastern Europeans who survived dictatorships share tips for Americans

Here's the spectacular scene over at the Sombrero galaxy

Ignoring warnings, an actress drowned filming her beachside yoga routine

Texas governor threatens doctors for refusing to help deport people

New species of giant-headed humans discovered

Running scared: Morning Joe bizarrely protects Trump while sounding alarm on FBI-pick Kash Patel (video)

Flexbar is a USB gadget for anyone missing the Touchbar

Fodor's No List 2025: dream destinations that have become nightmares

ProPublica reports Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman

Films, books and artwork entering the public domain in 2025

Disney World's Haunted Mansion shut down after human remains spotted

Notoriously stinky Donald Trump's "signature scent" is sold out

Bizarre blob discovered covering underwater listening device

Tabletop gamer's gift guide for 2024

Magsafe ethernet cable available, finally

Courts in UK may stop treating computer data as legally infallible

Egyptian cartoonist jailed over critical cartoons

Giant anteater ASMR might be the very best animal ASMR

Brain Rot is Oxford's word of the year

Boing Boing, December 1, 2024

Follow this post-apocalyptic chickadee story

Questionable YouTube "life hacks" fact-checked

10,000 Lego bricks vs one 300-ton hydraulic press

California teacher dies from rabies after a wild bat bites her in the classroom

"Touron" knocked over and attacked by two irritated bucks — but was it really his fault? (video)

Time capsule of 5 million random iPhone videos reveals life before Instagram

Xungeons & Xragons?

Drew Friedman's latest book: Shtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy

Boing Boing, November 29, 2024

Allee Willis — genius behind "Friends" theme song, finally gets her incredible story told

Elon Musk steals the show at his, er, Trump's Mar-a-Lago Thanksgiving party (video)

Qantas jet flies for months with massive tool stuck in engine, and nobody noticed

Man jumps out of moving roller coaster to save his life — and then gets yelled at by negligent ride operator

Mindless drawing is good for your mind

Awesome minimalist websites

Splat! 70000 fps Video of a "golf ball" hitting a steel plate at 150 mph

Clock ring: tiny Casio retro watch coming to U.S. for Christmas

Denmark to plant a billion trees

"Continue and Persist" letter encourages recipient to carry on

UFC fighter still in pain weeks after being elbowed in anus

Fossilized dinosaur poop reveals their dietary secrets

Notre-Dame prepares to reopen five years after fire that nearly destroyed it

Nazi defender Candace Owens banned from New Zealand

The whole of Jet Set Willy's mansion in one 4k screen

Happiest Thanksgiving

I tried, and failed, to solve the mystery of the Tyrolean tongue choir

Exploring the nostalgia of mid-century rocket ship playgrounds

Raven demonstrate remarkable problem-solving skills with water displacement

Wonderfully strange assortment of doll parts found at antique store

Beachcomber finds century-old casket and skeleton

Boing Boing, November 27, 2024

Spatchcocking is the best way to prepare a turkey

Developer creates tool that transforms boring security keys into pretty ASCII art

Let Leslie Jones fix your family Thanksgiving

More "More Cowbell"

Manslaughter conviction for cop who tased and killed 95-year-old woman with dementia

Affiliate influencer sues competitor who also reviews junk in off-white minimalist bunker

How to host an entire website on Bluesky

Cyberpunk 2077 hits 30 million copies sold, proving that comeback stories are real

Congressional candidate completely misunderstands "The Hebrew Hammer"

USPS mail carriers love their new electric duck trucks

Poor Rudy Giuliani melts down over new penniless status: "I have no credit card! I have no cash!" (video)

This "sketch book" helps you understand complex ideas

Trump world even runs a "rescue" puppy grift

Hertz's pattern of customer abuse: 230 false arrests, Tesla gas charges, and now a $10k threat over unlimited miles contract

Boing Boing, November 26, 2024

A husky's great vanishing act finally caught on camera — he is a shapeshifter (video)

There's a room-sized time capsule in Georgia that will be opened 6,098 years from now

Sadly, Boebert shuts down her Cameo site

Boris Johnson blames Church of England for obesity crisis

Neo-Nazis cry victim after hostile reception during Columbus march

Korean man jailed after gaining weight to avoid military service

RFK Jr. is against vaccines — but praises the benefits of heroin (video)

What are those blue dots on coin cell batteries?

Footage exposes kindergarten shoe thief as weasel

Machine Girl meets Game Boy: an 8-bit photo gallery

Elon Musk's Federal cost cutting analysis is a smokescreen

Planes collide — not once but twice — at Boston's Logan Airport during busy Thanksgiving week

Trademark office petitioned to cancel Oracle's trademark on "JavaScript"

World's oldest man dead at 112

"Young" exoplanet may end up a super-Earth

The ugliest Cybertruck in the world has been found

MEOW motherboard is full of cats

Drop your jaw at recently-auctioned vintage comic book prices

See a tiny Peruvian Dragon mantis swaying on a hand

Bird flu in raw milk

Seth's pocket-sized ghost stories are bringing Victorian chills back for Christmas

Boing Boing, November 25, 2024

McDonald's customer threatens Lyft riders with a gun — but accidentally shoots her daughter instead

Why Richard Scarry chose animals over humans in his revolutionary children's books

Lost sci-fi masterpieces return with stunning cover designs by cartoonist Seth

Scientists detect most powerful cosmic particles ever found bombarding Earth right now

After 3 Michigan hunters drop dead in a week, a doctor gives some advice

Bluesky filter lists from SkySentry

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is a tiny $7 computer

This budget hot swappable mechanical keyboard works great with my Mac

Drones still revealing Nazca geoglyphs—hundreds of them

Buy a personal message from Colorado's Congressperson Boebert

Latest rumors have Nintendo Switch 2 landing in March

From Congressman to Cameo star: scandal-ridden Matt Gaetz finds his calling

YOU could be the next drummer for Primus!

Rats with backpacks are fighting wildlife crime

Legal Eagle on The Onion/InfoWars auction

Massive embezzlement delays Macy's earnings

Pickleball championship ends with kick to the head

First protester arrested under New York "mask ban" was wearing kaffiyeh

Philippine vice president publicly threatens to assassinate president

Gnome made of MDMA seized in drug bust

Sony and Microsoft finally working on new handheld game consoles

Artist Saul Steinberg's 1945 book "All in Line" gets a lavish new re-publication

Fallout season 2 filming location stokes fans' worst fears

Choir! Choir! Choir! hosts sing-along tour of Taylor Swift covers

Impressive ice balance skills: watch this dude slip, run in place, and fall into snow—plus tips for walking safely on ice

Boing Boing, November 24, 2024

Steamed Hams and the beautiful degradation of copying VHS tapes (video)

Weird walkman-style cassette players that played Tetris and Blackjack

International Space Station evades space junk

Art-pop band "The Dream Eaters" creates dark and funny earworms that are perfect for these difficult times

Have you ever seen an airplane refuel in the sky?

Would you live on a cruise ship for four years to escape the Trump presidency?

Did you know a tree stump can regrow bark by acquiring nutrients from nearby trees?

Boing Boing, November 23, 2024

International Space Station evades space junk

Unusual Gashapons from Tokyo: Hilarious and Weird Capsule Toys You Won't Believe

Disney taking the ax to MuppetVision 3D and Aerosmith

Watch these mesmerizing stop-motion Lego 'cooking' videos

How gophers and fungi revived Mount St. Helens

When two tides meet, striking geometric patterns appear on the water's surface

Shibuya Crossing: A glimpse of the world's busiest pedestrian intersection in Tokyo

Phew! Creepy alien on a recent flight turns out to be an optical illusion

RIP to Alice Brock of "Alice’s Restaurant"

Clingy doggo determined to follow her human's every step — even if it means climbing up steep ladder (video)

COVID and Flu vaccination rates abysmally low before Thanksgiving travel rush

DEA paid "tens of thousands" to airline employees for targeting innocent passengers to steal their cash — DOJ halts practice

Trump promises revenge, but Lara Trump says it's "unfair" to be afraid (video)

190 years in jail for Texas doctor who poisoned IV bags with anesthetics, killing one and hurting 11

Bluesky CEO taunts Musk with "billionaire proof" design claim

Decorative magnets corrode Cybertruck panels

Cheap replacement keycaps brighten my desktop

Chin-hiding pimp's "university" hacked, exposing 800k suckers

Panic mode: Gaetz flees AG nom seconds after CNN threatens to expose teen scandal

How did the Wisconsin kayaker fake his own death and escape to Europe? He explains

ADHD symptoms improve when life gets busier, according to study

Hair dryer explodes in woman's hand. Police investigate foul play

Alt National Park Service has a message for DOGE leaders

Golden Retrievers flummoxed by a few inches of water

The myth of Ernest Shackleton

Seductive animated video for Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"

World's tallest and shortest women enjoy tea time together

Boing Boing, November 21, 2024

"Amateurish" and "clumsy" tomb raiders forced to return ancient artifacts

AI art haters unknowingly prefer AI-generated works, according to test

Freedom-hating Texas Attorney General sues Dallas for voter-approved measure to end pot arrests

MTG attempts to one up Nancy Mace in attention seeking

Bizarre hairy sea creature caught on video creeping across UK beach

Windows latest update is scaring the sh*t out of gamers

Meet K-pop's forgotten pioneers: The Kim Sisters who conquered 1960s America

Matt Gaetz pulls out

Marvel's greatest hits curated by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum

10,946 Post-its make up this fun video

PSA: always read the labels on your THC gummies

This 1968 Toyota commercial features Star Trek's James Doohan

Pete Hegseth brags about "replacing" his Harvard degree after Trump's humiliating announcement (video)

Worker unlawfully fired for eating snack otherwise headed to trash

Watch as severe turbulence turns a Miami-bound plane around

Kennedy's former nanny speaks out about alleged groping in family home

The rectangular livestock paintings of Great Britain

Factory robot convinces 12 other robots to go on strike

Collection of Demon Core memes

Bear raids a candy store, while gawkers unintentionally block the exit door (video)

How the "Death of Superman" comics explain the modern Democratic Party

Forgiveness may be divine, but now it's also in the cloud

The extreme lengths gone to to bring back a lost variety of rye for whiskey

Inside the parallel world of the ultra rich: private courts, secret storage, and diplomatic immunity

How to cook Michelin perfect steaks at home

Most detailed images of the Sun returned by Solar Orbiter

Boing Boing, November 20, 2024

Athletic rooster struts his stuff when he joins a man with a jump rope (video)

Trump's little Johnson announces new Congressional potty policy

The Bluesky firehose of posts visualized as a 1990s screen saver

MAGA Indiana commissioner sexually assaulted daughter in Vegas, wins from jail anyway

Head of elite $42K preschool arrested for encouraging "dad" to send sex video of boy (video)

Teaser for the live-action "How to Train Your Dragon"

Junior Trump's mysterious pocket-to-mouth moment steals SpaceX spotlight

How a dictator keeps things fresh: From polonium tea to severed cables

Lincoln Project congratulates President Musk — along with his sidekick, Vice President Trump (video)

For popular liqueur Malört, a New York Times profile

Bizarre movie merchandise: AMC sells weaponized popcorn holder

27 musicians try to interpret "Hit 'Em," a baffling song from a stranger's dream

How artificial intelligence is helping cops craft better stories about their actions

The slender-billed curlew is extinct

Los Angeles woman hears noises and calls police — only to find a naked man living in her crawlspace (video)

Boing Boing, November 19, 2024

Popular YouTube chef smoked weed grown in her father's ashes, as he requested

Man puts more than 600 pet mice up for adoption at SPCA

Canada defense department reveals details of UFO shot down by fighter jet over Lake Huron

MSNBC's Joe and Mika double down on their newfound lovefest with Trump (video)

Watch MAGA vendor's excitement fade as he learns how Trump's tariffs affect his business

Onslaught of pet hamsters ground airliner

Elon Musk admires that "big brain" Matt Gaetz has an "axe to grind"

"They hold sentimental value": Giuliani's lawyer whines as luxury watches seized for debt

Southwest evacuates plane after passenger's phone — and seat — goes up in flames (video)

CNN wonders which party Ohio's marching Nazis align with

Sir David Attenborough displeased by AI clones of his voice

Fulfil your dream of a beige computer with this new PC case

Chunky business-class all-in-one PC has built-in dot matrix printer

How is this puppy sneaking out of his crate? Camera catches the hilarious stunt — and his sly accomplice (video)

D.C. lawyer gives advice to Liz Cheney and others on Trump revenge list: Leave the U.S.

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Trump not backing down on Gaetz for AG

Monkey mob attacks police station

These lab rats find great joy learning how to drive little cars

Egyptian mug contained 2,000-year-old hallucinogenic brew

Boing Boing, November 18, 2024

Bhutan's "Gross National Happiness" backfires as 9% of its population flees

Gentleman who sold FBI-controlled phones to drug traffickers sentenced to 63 months in prison

Russian ballet star who critizied Ukraine invasion dies in "fall" from building

Here's a guide to picking the best potato variety for mashing, baking, or frying

Marjorie Tayor Greene would dissolve The Union

In stunning turnaround, MSNBC's Mika and Joe meet with Donald Trump to kiss the ring (video)

Legal expert: Hate streamer Johnny Somali's harassment campaign in South Korea could lead to massive financial penalties

This sly doggo is gettin' away with it

This late 1980s infomercial scammer was the most entertaining

Shake-a-face toy: a vintage way to create random facial expressions

The Ingo bike: A fun 1930s vintage ride with a bouncing twist

Is lip balm to blame for our chapped lips?

Ruined 1993 Thinkpad tablet lovingly restored

Interactive Koppen climate map

Meet Eliot Noyes, a midcentury design master

Ben Katchor's comics were too weird for NPR's listeners

Spirit Airlines is bankrupt

35,000-year-old body of saber-toothed kitten preserved in permafrost

Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

Nintendo sues alleged pirate selling downloads

Boing Boing, November 17, 2024

Happy birthday, Half-Life 2!

Boing Boing, November 16, 2024

10 free radical ebooks to help you plan for the next 4 years

Graphic novel "Revolution By Fire" explores New York's Afro-Irish uprising of 1741

Half-Life 2 remaster drops; no word on Half-Life 3

The second annual Jewish Comics Experience (JewCE) in NYC

Secret Level is like Love, Death and Robots for gaming nerds

Doggo excited to see vacuum cleaner for one hilarious reason — and her human can't stop laughing about it (video)

Teenage Engineering OP-XY is a powerful synth, sequencer and object of interest

Kentucky woman sues for right to make her own decisions

Mark "Z-Pain" Zuckerberg covers Lil Jon's "Get Low"

Freak fire: Man's clothes "spontaneously combusted" while he was asleep — he woke up to flames

Boing Boing, November 15, 2024

RFK Jr. chummy with sexual predators, other criminals

Credit card fees will spike under Trump's financial deregulation

The Muppets perform "Jesus Christ Superstar"

TMNT beat 'em up island in Fortnite

Expert shares the best and worst countries for Americans who want to escape

Republicans are cheerleading for Matt Gaetz

Australians asked to log three days of farting

Missouri teacher arrested for having sex with students in her home and car

Runaway monkeys lured back with Froot Loops and PBJs

Kari Lake: "It was a movement of love…"

Elon Musk is asking Twitter to make governmental decisions now

Scare this streamer or die (kinda)

Why didn't the Atari ST succeed?

Trump-pick RFK Jr. promises to end disease research on Week One (video)

Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, dead at 96

New Red Lobster CEO has done the math: no more endless shrimp

Portable bed rails recalled after 18 deaths in 3 years

Scientific American editor-in-chief out after posting anti-MAGA rant

Atlanta man and police dog killed in shootout with deputies after high-speed chase

Bloomberg: Nazi content spreading on Steam game service

"On-site generative artificial intelligence" for nuclear power plants

Elon meets with Iranian diplomats

Elon and Vivek's recruiting tweet raises a lot of red flags

MomBoard: an e-ink display to help forgetful parents

Donald Trump "jokes" about a third term

Jon Batiste hears Green Day for the first time and jams along on piano (video)

Woman who ignored warnings signs is dead

Meet Gnatalie, Los Angeles' new fossilized green dinosaur

Boing Boing, November 14, 2024

Free Galaxy magazine archive: 356 classic sci-fi issues now online

Mystery creature caught on video near Yellowstone may be exceedingly-rare animal

Humanoids is bringing back the future, one "Metal Hurlant" at a time

Listen to Moo Deng's catchy new theme song

Bear that trashed Rolls Royce was actually insurance fraudsters in a costume

Seth Meyers's new special, "Dad Man Walking"

For some Trump supporters, regret is already setting in

19th-century paintings show first hints of post-industrial climate change

Former MAGA congressman fraudster who fought Obamacare now seeks medical bill help on GoFundMe

Solutions M4 Mac Mini users have for the power button

A comprehensive statistical analysis of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Tetris Forever is both a game and a documentary

American tourist arrested for scratching family names into sacred Japanese shrine as a "prank"

The Onion nabs Infowars in bankruptcy auction

Employers can't require workers to attend 'captive audience' anti-union meetings

Watch a faceless humanoid robot flex its weird, hydraulic muscles

Casio's 1972 calculator is now a 2024 wristwatch

Jungle music in 1990s video games

In newly-uncovered phone call Charles Manson admitted to murders in Mexico years before the L.A. killing spree

Trump: Accused sex trafficker Matt Gaetz picked for US Attorney General

Boing Boing, November 13, 2024

GOP now controls all three branches of the US Federal government

Robot with green thumb can identify plants and check health just by touching their leaves

Bulldog acts like a tough guy — until he hears the words "Dunkin' Donuts" (video)

MAGAs are mad GOP Senators didn't do what they expected

Here is the latest list of passwords you should never use

The world's largest and oldest organism may have been growing for 80,000 years

These mind-blowing 60s singles predated punk rock's sound by a decade

Trump whisperers have a "weird homoerotic fascination" of Putin, says Boris Johnson (video)

Internet troll who terrorized Japan now trapped in Korea facing criminal charges

This new drum machine only makes sick medieval beats

YouTubers attacked by Paris scammers after exposing rigged cups and ball game (video)

Puzzlip: free online puzzle generator

The Guardian quits Twitter

"Times New Dumbass" is a font inspired by the owner of Xitter

Human head discovered by beach worker raking sand in Florida

Trump gives Elon and Vivek jobs in a made-up organization

Online archive of early recorded sounds

Liquid nitrogen-cooled Raspberry Pi 5

Horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu dead at 88

Which scientific journals have been hijacked?

Sitting on toilets longer than 10m risks hemorrhoids

Wild boar crashes into ATM booth — and a terrified customer runs for his life (video)

Magic Circle seeks to apologize to woman who infiltrated men-only club in disguise

Shigeru Miyamoto reflects on Donkey Kong's 40+ year history with a tour through Donkey Kong Country at Super Nintendo World

Lindt admits its lead-filled chocolate bars don't really use "finest ingredients" — that was just boastful "puffery"

Kum & Go will soon be gone for good

Boing Boing, November 12, 2024

Unusual vintage snapshots featuring questionable question marks

Startlingly strange video of bicyclist vanishing while pedaling down the road

Children terrified by parent prowling around schoolyard in Pennywise clown costume (not on Halloween)

Trump picks liar and puppy killer Kristi Noem to lead Homeland Security

"Demonic" 666 found in massive palindromic prime number

Georgia mom arrested after 11-year-old son walks to town — less than a mile — by himself

Florence celebrates the 54th Exploding Whale day

Insurance companies already refusing coverage on basis of genetic risk

This YouTube Egyptology channel is keeping me distracted

Gamers' faces among first to be eaten by leopard

Louisiana's governor found a tiger to abuse

Dog invents clever new way to climb stairs

Tony Todd dead at 69

Tiniest stars not much larger than Jupiter

Mac Mini Pro: an adorable 3D-printed enclosure by Jerrod Hofferth

Why the M4 Mac Mini power button is on the bottom

Pizzawarmr is a 3D-printable pizza warmer that uses the heat from a game console

Gangs shoot at Spirit Airlines Florida flight trying to land in Haiti — flight attendant grazed

This new flexible display using contact lens materials can be pulled, stretched up to half its length, twisted, and folded up

Boing Boing, November 11, 2024

Elon Musk is the new Kari Lake as he gloms on to Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Sister relationship destroyed after Trump supporter defends husband's threatening "dark humor"

Shooter at Ohio nursing home was 70-year-old resident — he needed room repairs so he grabbed his gun

Young elephant gets revenge on bully by kinking her shower hose

"Wicked" toys from Mattel featuring link to porn site pulled from shelves, now available on eBay

Kamala Harris lost because she wasn't a lifelong bully, says Lara Trump (video)

"Don't be certain of anything" Bertrand Russell's 1951 guide to fighting fanaticism is more relevant than ever

8BitDo Retro Keyboard now comes with mechanical keypad

Scalpers selling PS5 Pro at a loss after slow opening weekend

Expert: Trump's second term will create "hellscape"

The New York Times Tech Guild built a page of games to play during the strike

Boing Boing, November 9, 2024

Eight times the A-Team tricked B.A.

Happy Birthday to the grandson of America's 10th president

Meet Short Run Comix Festival's women creators

YouTuber uses worthless currency to trick notorious Paris street scammers

Watch these cannibalistic corn figures roast their own kind in bizarre cooking video

World's deadliest spot: the horror of Lake Karachay

Plumber's car explodes in NY, damaging 5 houses and 5 cars (video)

Boing Boing, November 8, 2024

Man's account of ordering a live monkey from comic book ad

The secret of consciousness may be found in the strange electric fields inside our skulls

Umberto Eco's chilling warning: 14 signs of fascism

Tourist tries to befriend coyote — [chomp] — and learns painful lesson: "Ow! You motherf*cker!" (video)

Evidence of ancient speed freaks found in Pleistocene burial cave

Doorknobs for sale in thrift shop were something else entirely

Furious judge threatens Giuliani with contempt over $148M judgment stalling

Dangling upside-down fox rescued from wooden fence

Watch as Pee-Wee Herman feeds Roosevelt the dog

Widespread racist texts investigated by FBI

What you actually got from those comic book ads

Ted Cruz's teen daughter sneers on stage when her dad mentions Donald Trump (video)

Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL's "You've got mail", dead at 74

Intel to bring back office coffee to "boost morale"

Hilarious doggo "standing like a human man" pees into hole with perfect aim (video)

How to set your iPhone to auto-reply STOP to spam robotexts

Tripping on magic mushrooms to treat anorexia nervosa

Boing Boing, November 7, 2024

Video of mystery animal seen in West Virginia park

Junior and Trump just set impossible Cabinet requirement: Looking for people "who don't think they know better" (video)

Dozens of monkeys escaped South Carolina research facility, residents told to lock doors and windows

Star Wars Outlaws gets new creative director

Bernie Sanders excoriates the Dems

Harris campaign advisor David Plouffe blames Biden for her loss — then zaps X account after swift backlash

This Victorian ghost book exposed spiritualist frauds with cool optical illusions

Voters claim they voted day after election in Kimmel street interview

A two-and-a-half-hour video trip to Disneyland

Man tries to exit plane mid-flight — but passengers pile on, leaving him nearly unconscious (video)

Hitler Death Head stamp: how spies infiltrated Nazi mail system

I irrationally want a Mac M4 Mini

Remember the GoBots?

$14 Mac clone made with a Raspberry Pi Pico

Old compact cameras the hot item for Gen Zers

Judge: Google can profit from gift card scams without refunding victims

New Jersey man illegally shipped tech to Russia

Canada bans Tik Tok from operating in country, but allows the app to stay

Australia plans total ban on social media for under-16s

NVidia to make CPUs for personal computers

Rushing rapids and staircase waterfall inside massively flooded Guitar Center (video)

First "artisanal" satellite made from wood launched into space

Kamala Harris concedes the election, but "not the fight that fueled this campaign" (video)

Watch this clever Japanese rice ball hack

Tech billionaires rush to congratulate Trump on social media

Boing Boing, November 6, 2024

Cat catches mouse — but instead of killing it, he invites the little guy over for dinner (video)

Fortnite OG rumored to be coming back full-time

Swiss "burka ban" goes into effect with $1,000 fines for face coverings in 2025

After yesterday's sh*tstorm, wipe away the stench with Donald Trump toilet paper

New sonar images of Amelia Earhart's lost plane reveal an unfortunate truth

Hilarity and hysteria ensue when raccoon lands inside NYC airport (video)

Trump revenge list: politicians, prosecutors and journalists targeted for retaliation

California's leadership prepared to resist

Strategy games place you in command of ant armies

Want to make a website look like Windows 98? You'll be needing 98.css

Site collects "Title Drops"—when someone says the name of the film, in the film

Junocam captures amazing new images of Jupiter

Nintendo Wii gutted and filled with modern PC parts instead

Your air fryer may be spying on you

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of staff, winds up advocacy division

Nintendo confirms Switch 2 will be backwards compatible

Ambulance crashes into cyclist, then charges him $1,800 for the unwanted ride

Boing Boing, November 5, 2024

Elon Musk's post becomes self-own as MAGA simps struggle to defend him

We strongly recommend you vote for Kamala Harris today

Giuliani defies court order, claims radio show more important than his defamation victims

Watch Little Marco squirm as Anderson Cooper calls out his Trump defense hypocrisy in cringe interview

A literally shocking history of famous people killed by poop

Resarch platform FLIP Ship to be refitted instead of scrapped

Election results already in for one New Hampshire town — and the winner is…

BBC republishes strange werewolf news segment lost since the 70s

Report on why the Aricebo Observatory's 305-meter telescope collapsed

Blindfolded bats can navigate solely with echolocation

New York Times tech workers on strike

Doom for Nintendo Alarmo

Florida killer clown who murdered husband's then-wife completes her 18-month prison term

Tucker Carlson claims abortions cause hurricanes in bizarre Steve Bannon interview (video)

New homeowners unfortunately discover what happened to previous owner who vanished 15 years ago

Election day pledge gets you free magic mushrooms from this psychedelic church

Sassy French bulldog loudly argues for a walk until his human finally gives in (video)

Watch this Tickle Me Elmo scream during bizarre voltage experiment

Trump's "biggest rally" lie is instantly exposed by hilarious camera operator (video)

This is the real face of a 400-year-old vampire woman

Boing Boing: November 4, 2024

Good Liars confront MAGA couple wearing "PROUD TO BE TRUMP'S GARBAGE" trash bags

"Secret" voting isn't just a woman's game — MAGA men can also vote for Harris, says newer ad (video)

Trump wants to "shoot fake news" reporters for their own good, says his campaign

"What the f*ck is this place?" The mystery of the bridal store that hasn't opened its doors for two decades

Amazon pauses shipping on color Kindles after display problems

Quincy Jones dead at 91

M4 Max posts spectacular benchmarks

Fans save iPod clickwheel games for posterity

This gadget deshells sunflower seeds

NYPD using drones to combat subway surfing

Maryland Governor Wes Moore won Halloween 2024!

Obvious Plant's satirical Halloween costumes

Delusional conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf believes she was hacked because she endorsed Donald Trump

Watch Will Ferrell and John Oliver's patriotic song and video for new U.S. citizens (video)

Codeless, AI-generated video game is a terrible Minecraft clone

Squid Game Season 2 looks fun, if unnecessary

Boing Boing, November 2, 2024

TGI Friday's files for bankruptcy

Classic Elfquest pen-and-paper RPG gets deluxe box-set edition

Sly kitty escapes for wild adventure — only to return home with desperate meows (video)

Kamala Harris is 'ahead in enough swing states to win,' says latest Times poll

California county pays $300k for illegally seizing and killing a 9-year-old girl's pet goat

Boing Boing, November 1, 2024

Wild animals get drunk more often than scientists thought

Parade featured grotesque simulated lynching of the VP

"Appalling!" Huge naked Trump statue sends GOP leader into rage — the same MAGA man accused of sexual harassment

Norwegian architect builds mind-blowing greenhouse home that grows food year-round (video)

Dobbs decision working as designed

Retro food horror: 1963 cookbook photo of bananas wrapped in pickled herring

Watch this fantastic "googly eye" solar eclipse from Mars

Adorable bear caught on camera in epic back-scratching session

Dad creates an amazing father/daughter Halloween costume

Bizarre 1941 footage shows women swimming in giant pool of peanuts at first festival

FTC finally investigates John Deere's creepy repair restriction scheme

Apple buys top image-editing app maker Pixelmator Team

CNN finds a useful idiot

Send the conspiracy theorists in your life to the Debunk Bot

Grate news! Police catch man who stole $400k worth of cheddar cheese

What is this antique mystery machine? Historical society needs help figuring it out.

Dictator Trump threatens Liz Cheney: 'Let's see how she feels'…with 'guns trained on her face' (video)

This "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" trailer looks exciting

Nintendo games run better on other hardware. It doesn't want you to see

"Jaywalking" legalized in New York City

Highest-order Rubik's Cubes

Winlator: run Windows apps on Android

Online collection of plaid patterns

Mount Fuji snowless in November for first time in recorded history

Kamala Harris just 'turned Black' in July. But today, Trump warns us she's suddenly 'a cracker' (video)

Where are the &*$%!! comments?

21,000 laborers so far dead building NEOM, Saudi Arabia's futuristic city in the desert

Boing Boing, October 31, 2024

Shockingly awful even for JD Vance

Monkey unable to type all of Hamlet before the universe ends but could type "bananas" before it dies

Giuliani's courtroom meltdown: Judge mutes MAGA stooge during sexual harassment case

The original Beatles recording console is on sale for $3 million

Don't mistake green goo and sulfur smells for ghosts, warns electrical safety agency

Trump loses $1.3 billion in one day as his social media stock crashes: "Get the hell out"

Fox celebrates Donald Trump almost falling down

Halloween means its David S Pumpkins time!

FOX's Watters threatens wife on air, proving point of political ad

"You f**king bitch!"Man flies into rage when told to remove Brandon hat at South Carolina voting center (video)

Nine hours of Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" plus a bonus jungle remix

Team Trump is anti-vax and it'll kill people

A musical reminder that everyday is Halloween

As Trump brags that 'nobody leaves early' from his rallies, MAGA man right behind him leaves (video)

Nintendo Alarmo hacked already

Musk ordered to appear in court to explain why he's giving money to Trump rallygoers

Cooking with black plastic might not be good for you

Trump's own former business school says Harris tax plan leaves lower- and middle-income Americans with more in their pocket

Boeing charged U.S. military 7943% markup on soap dispensers

How to paint in the renaissance style, with actual paint

Tom the Dancing Bug: One D-Day in Normandy

Elon's GOTV effort sounds abusive, not effective

People are collecting illegal tarantulas "like they're Pokemon"

A magician-psychologist designed a study to trick sober participants into thinking they were tripping on psychedelics

Boing Boing, October 30, 2024

Watch: Cat tips over his water, so he gets a bigger bowl — as if that will stop him (it doesn't)

Fun trivia about "Big Trouble in Little China"

Woman, 107, has a big horn growing from her forehead

Compare these two statements by the US Presidential candidates

From Xanadu to Magadu: Randy Rainbow sings what could become illegal after next week (video)

Bizarre orange"alien egg pod" found in river

Fired Disney World manager accused of dangerous menu hacking revenge plot

Dodgers outfielder reaches into stands to make catch and is bizarrely assaulted by Yankee fans

I interviewed the AI ghost of a famous dead porn star

Trump's face was extra orange last night

Florida man beats up sleeping passenger on United flight — blood splatters everywhere

M4 MacBook Pro: spec bumps, Space Black on 14" model and nano-texture displays

Schwarzenegger endorses Harris: "I will always be an American before I am a Republican"

Man uses massive 8K television as computer monitor

Internet Archive back in action

MAGA teen goes bonkers at Florida voting center — threatens Democrats with machete

Great news! Rudy Giuliani must turn over all his property to the election workers he defamed — by the end of the day

Fujifilm X-M5: a vlogging tool that might be an $800 cine camera

Lovecraft's unwritten Necronomicon was the Happy Birthday of weird fiction

A retrospective of shadows in 3D games

Google fined $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 by Russian court

Reddit profitable for first time ever

Tiny toad found in Brazil only 6.95mm long

The Faint: 25 years of Blank Wave Arcade (Todd Fink Interview)

Trump's startling decline: Compare his 2015 vigor to today's enfeebled appearance

Don't buy a haunted domain name

Steve Bannon's tough guy act falls apart as bodyguards rescue him from savage mockery

Trump confederate announces opposition to women's right to vote

Boing Boing, October 29, 2024

Study confirms what all cat owners know

Musk rooting for Trump to tank the economy

Steve Bannon released from prison — and immediately hits War Room with a vengeance: "We're going to roll hard" (video)

CNN cuts away from Trump's fake press conference

Texas bigots cowardly sneaking threats onto yard signs

Behind the scenes: CNN panelist explains how MAGA guest got kicked off show — and banned from network (video)

Trump's campaign approved the racist comedian's routine

PDP-10 replica runs on a Raspberry Pi

Finally, a proper green iMac

Enjoy this high-resolution scan of postmortem human brain

Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift to host livestream fundraiser for indie rocker Matthew Sweet

These interactive maps show how hard it is find abortion access in different states

Fixing McDonald's ice cream machines is no longer a felony

Vatican announces anime girl mascot

Unhinged Trump shows he is very threatened by Michelle Obama

Married to a MAGA bully? Then just vote for Harris in 'Secret' says new Lincoln Project ad (video)

Philadelphia DA sues Musk over million-dollar voter incentive scheme

Trump invites racists to rally, then plays stupid when called out for racist "island of garbage" comment

Candace Owens not welcome in Australia — visa denied

Tesla owner saddened by depreciation

Online comic exposes creepy details of Project 2025's MAGA agenda

Pizzeria apologizes for unintentionally serving "pot pies" contaminated with THC

Boing Boing, October 28, 2024

Man finds secret inhabitant playing video games in inaccessible Airbnb room

Happy mutants rejoice: Boing Boing launches clean, ad-free experience

Three sisters inherit a dime — and they sell it for over $500,000

Cute kitten at animal shelter was something else entirely

Mysterious creature with wings and horns caught on zoo trailcam

Marjorie Taylor Greene declares racism a public service

You can learn to echolocate like a bat by rewiring your visual cortex

Trump thinks he is slyly hinting at his overt election steal plan

Machine Girl refines and redefines digital hardcore yet again

Clown who blew $44B destroying Twitter can't wait to cut the US budget

Apple smart display to resemble Luxo lamp iMac

Enjoy two different looks at the Impossibly instant Polaroid camera

The latest Carl Barks Donald Duck volume: The Mystery of the Swamp

The improbable story of NASA's famed Earthrise photo

Indonesia bans iPhone 16

Boing Boing, October 27, 2024

Harris campaign speaking to football fans

Excited pup tries running thru mirror to greet person — keeps bumping into obnoxious "dog" in the way (video)

King Trump plans to jail lawyers, donors, and other opponents at "levels never seen before"

Jake Tapper shows MAGA Mike and slimey Mitch McConnell's duplicity

Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, RIP

Boing Boing, October 25, 2024

San Francisco metro says goodbye to 5.25" floppies

"How does it feel?": Trans man silences Ben Shapiro in explosive exchange

"Lovely aurora" seen over town was something else entirely

2 passengers take over Colorado bus when driver collapses and loses control (video)

This free puzzle game fixes everything wrong with the classic Battleship

McDonald's deadly E. coli outbreak still growing — now 75 people sickened across 13 states

Woman sues Jet Blue over "dangerously cold" ice cream sandwich

Archaeological evidence of cat "making biscuits" 1,200 years ago

I can't stop watching this mechanical keyboard attempt to divide by zero

Mifepristone, drug Republicans want to ban because it ends pregnancies, has anti-aging effects

Pandering news hosts called out

Apple Intelligence "not driving sales"

Hillary Clinton minces no words

Law enforcement reports successful Tor deanonymizations in Germany

Elon Musk resumes cash payments to voters despite Justice Department warning him it's illegal

11-year-old expected to have smartphone in school

Mail ballots destroyed by arsonist in Democratic-leaning Arizona county

Farmer busted after delivering hogtied teen and twentysomthing trespassers to the police station on his quad bike

Watch MAGA candidate squirm when asked to autograph her violent Obama tweets

Boing Boing, October 24, 2024

Listen to this freaked-out EDM album made from Queen samples

A pig's brain was revived an hour after the animal died

Incredible video of water tank falling on woman and miraculously covering her without injury

Blue tide quietly rising as Trump tries his most desperate ploy yet

"Bad girl!" Tucker Carlson impersonates Daddy Trump spanking daughter at the sickest MAGA rally yet (video)

Watch this loud contraption shake coins to create unhackable crypto wallets

"Bloody jerk!" Putin lashes out after Zelensky mocks him with a new T-shirt

Kentucky state senator dies after plunging into empty swimming pool on lawnmower

Norway to impose minimum age of 15 for social media

DRM company Denuvo admits it can hurt game performance

Russian linux kernel maintainers removed due to sanctions

Apple may stop making Vision Pro already

Watch the 1968 Bell Labs documentary that inspired HAL 9000's famous death scene

MAGA influencers launch preemptive deepfake defense as rumors of damaging Trump video surface

Beware! Someone is booby-trapping Oregon forest trails with wire and hidden spike boards

Passenger films "super rat" scuttling across plane mid-flight from Dallas to LA (video)

New sliver of a skyscraper is the width of just one apartment

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver predicts who will be president but says not to trust his prediction

Boing Boing, October 23, 2024

Rash of butter burglaries plaguing Guelph groceries

Gov. Sununu supports Trump's praise of Hitler: "It's all about the results" (video)

CEO who sells fake faces gets his own stolen for crypto scam

Ronald McDonald Trump blasted with 1-star reviews, forcing Yelp to shut down McDonald's comments

Conservative pundit discovers white crayons exist, demands answers from Crayola

Gov. Walz shreds Donald Trump's fake McDonald's job

Trump: "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had," say witnesses

Baldur's Gate saved the Western computer RPG nearly 30 years ago

T-Mobile receives thousands of complaints after reneging on "lifetime price lock" deal

TikTok full of snake oil salespeople

Electric wallpaper warming Scottish homes in winter

"Exhausted" Donald Trump breaks down — cancels yet another event today

Man loses $230M crypto fortune after falling for scammers' plot

McDonald's Quarter Pounder kills one, sends ten more to the hospital

"A rapidly deteriorating 78-year-old felon" — actor Bradley Whitford destroys Trump in Wisconsin speech (video)

Incredible photo of woman stuck upside down in tight rock crevice after reaching for dropped phone

Rudy Giuliani ordered to surrender luxury NYC apartment to his defamation victims

Secret menu at pizza parlor included "topping" of cocaine

Strange "pillar to heaven" photographed in sky over Thailand

Boing Boing, October 22, 2024

Study shows speed cameras unbiased, Chicago cops racist

MAGA thief stealing Harris-Walz signs is tracked down and busted thanks to Apple AirTag (video)

Watch Claude AI take control of a computer and build its own website from scratch

Playacting at McDonald's, Trump bestowed award others work to earn

Lost and confused Trump can't find the woman sitting next to him

Lara Trump mistakes Charlamagne tha God as a cult member — until he laughs in her face (video)

CPAC performer faces 25 years for alleged child sex crimes

Snoop Dogg presents the weather

Carpet Gallery is a free "endless walker" exploration game

Bomb hoaxes bring India's aviation industry to a halt

Vermont man charged with drunk driving in Canada thought he was in U.S.

Fake and fradulent online reviews now banned

Alien: Romulus is coming out on VHS

Intuit CEO had more important things to do than utter remarks they then demanded The Verge not publish

Teen clings to capsized kayak for 12 hours in Hawaii ocean before off-duty lifeguard spots him

Elon's pet judge slapped down: Xitter's witch hunt for Media Matters donors put on hold

Sinkhole swallows entire car — along with passengers — on highway in Italy (video)

Elderly brain hack: How a Cold War spy test boosts fitness and sharpness

Republican AGs abhorrent predilection for pregnant teens

Tim Cook tells how Steve Jobs recruited him to a rotting Apple

Autopsy revealed that this man had three penises

Delta passenger deplaned because her t-shirt somehow offended flight atttendant

This addictive Morse code game is the new Wordle you never knew you needed

Acid westerns and other psychedelic films for the real heads

JD Vance points to Trump's dark and evil heart

Boing Boing, October 21, 2024

Trump's new election cheat: simply ask God to "anoint" him (video)

Lifeskins concept blows minds: Turn your home into a Minecraft world or Mad Men office (videos)

Donald Trump forgets his age, then pretends he's a duck at Pennsylvania rally (video)

23andMe's meltdown: How to protect your DNA from falling into wrong hands

Watch all the versions of the world's greatest PSA

NASA offering $3 million for lunar recycling ideas

Moldovans vote to join European Union

Russian oil exec found dead after 'fall' from high window

Lost Bram Stoker short story "Gibbet Hill" found after 134 years

Busy New Zealand airport bans excessively-long goodbye hugs

Navajo Code Talker John Kinsel Sr dead at 107

Funeral home apologizes after corpse tumbles out of hearse into traffic

Academics study programmers in hunt to understand their sense of humor

Boing Boing, October 19, 2024

Vegas politician who murdered reporter gets 28+ years in prison

Russian law would ban "ideology of childlessness"

Man wakes up as surgeons prepare to harvest his organs

Technical Chernobyl animation shows how an RBMK reactor explodes

ESPN faces another fine for using Emergency Alert System tone in ads

Trump tariffs could increase laptop prices by $350+, electronics by 40%

Mystery of bizarre black spheres washed up on beach has been solved

"Whiny little bitch" — Trump's tough guy act KO'd by Dave Bautista in savage parody

MAGA man stumped when asked to name 1 thing Donald Trump did right (video)

Bill Clinton, 78, mocks Trump's age — and his bizarre "swaying" episode — at North Carolina rally (video)

Marjorie Taylor Greene claims to have a "very good friend"

Boing Boing, October 18. 2024

New firehouse burned to the ground lacked fire alarms

Another squirrel gives its life, causing another power outage

Python nor sovereign citizen theories help this man evade the police

Snoop Dogg sees Trump and his supporters for what they are

Psychedelics are "anti-distressants"with benefits beyond treating depression

Kamala Harris hits Trump in his tender spot again — this time on his own Truth Social

Thieves stole 100 right shoes from this sneaker store

Elon Musk spreads debunked stories about voter fraud

L.A.'s fiscal nightmare: Police misconduct lawsuit payouts push city to the brink

Turkey dental tourism disaster: Woman left toothless after surgery

Teaser for The Electric State

Too much pepper? Just vacuum your food.

Relive the spooky sounds of 1990s Halloween

Dog is a surprising sight at the Great Pyramid of Giza

French museum refused to allow public access to secret 3D scans

50-series NVidia cards coming in the new year

American influencers deep in Russian pockets

Oklahoma parents sue to block State Superintendent's $3m plan to have kids study Trump Bible in class

Kamala Harris heckles the hecklers at Wisconsin rally — explosive laughter ensues (video)

Texas Judge refuses recusal in Musk/Media Matters lawsuit despite Tesla investments

Cops use drug-sniffing dogs to detect abortion pills

Violent anti-abortion crusader who crushed clinic worker's hand blames Biden for her prison sentence

How Hot Wheels left Matchbox in the dust: A toy car tragedy

Boing Boing, October 17, 2024

Man blames severe stomach pain on street food — but nope, it's just a live cockroach living inside his belly

World's oldest lightbulb: 123 years and still glowing

Timelapse of rare Queen of the Night blooming

ICP's Violent J will be voting for Harris

That time when Snorlax caused an epic traffic jam in Taipei

Mechanical toys draw unique Spirograph-style art

Federal judge who ruled for Musk has Tesla investment

Trump bombs at Univision town hall — and his audience can't hide their disgust (video)

Tiny device quickly detects dicky tickers

Former Klan leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein for president

Kamala makes her case on Fox News

This is the world's smallest washing machine

Stan Lee's house is for sale, including the Spider-Men inside

Luxury perfume that smells like potatoes is apparently quite a-peeling

Bizarre mystery blobs appearing on Canada beach

"You were hiding in a supply closet" on Jan 6 — Allred humiliates Cruz on debate stage

Boing Boing, October 16, 2024

AI chatbots spawn shock meme cult, birth $258 million crypto empire

Parents sue school that gave low grade to student's AI-generated work

Microsoft cuts office space, bucking "back to the office" trend

Color Kindle in Amazon's new lineup

Ouch! Man in Speedos finds out the hard way why a park warns NOT to pet the wild horses (video)

Watch body-cam footage of police officer attacked by giant pumpkin

The Las Vegas Sphere is rolling to a new location

Rousing rendition of Steve Miller's "Fly Like An Eagle" from a 1979 high school choir's self-released vinyl record

Boing Boing, October 15, 2024

Conspiracy-minded cartophiles spot massive hidden doorway in Antarctica

Award-winning photojournalist murdered by his 19-year-old son on Los Angeles hiking trail, say police

"The Substance"— an incredible, indelible, and viscerally inedible film I loved and will never watch again

Haunted folk music just in time for Halloween

Jailbird MAGA sheriff sobs as he's caged for 15 years — luxury car collection seized

Anti-trans speech goes haywire when 6,000 crickets take over the venue (video)

7 tips to outsmart cops when you get pulled over

Supreme Court revives lawsuit of Texas journalist jailed for asking police a question

Wild-eyed Ted Cruz begs MAGA to give him money: "I'm getting pounded!" (video)

Patent troll crushed by Cloudflare

New iPad Mini, at last

Dancing Donald Trump uses rally to share 39-minute playlist

Google begins "purge" of effective ad-blockers from Chrome

Wayback Machine back online in read-only mode

What will Robot Finger find in your cavities?

Mysterious box of dynamite triggers evacuation in Knoxville

New NRA chief convicted in 1980 torture and killing of house cat

Sexy Asian lady robots haunt science fiction

Awesome 1940s Halloween costumes made from feed sacks

"Cannot be trusted" — Trump's pal Geraldo Rivera endorses Harris

Glitchy Trump is happy about the many, um, "Azerasians"at his Arizona rally (video)

Neo-Nazis take part in MAGA boat parade alongside Eric and Lara Trump: "White Power!" (video)

Clever short-legged pup can't "walk" down steps — but he sure can hop! (video)

Taliban bans all images of living things in Afghanistan

Boing Boing, October 14, 2024

How Asheville, NC volunteers are flushing the town's toilets without running water

'Protector' Trump jokes about a woman getting 'the hell knocked out of her' when she gets home (video)

Man sues council for £495m over a lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill

NASA releases freaky photo of what appears to be an ET's decapitated head on Mars

MacBook Pro M4 benchmark "results are outrageous"

$21 million raised in Game of Thrones prop auction

Amish family of 11, including baby, sickened by toxic mushrooms — but have no phone to call 911

The nightmare of getting your car towed in LA

Disabled US veteran faces Dubai jail over pain meds

Porch pirates know what's coming via FedEx: AT&T iPhones

Boing Boing, October 12, 2024

Kayaking smuggler caught attempting to row 29 protected turtles into Canada

Watch this flipped-out Delta passenger dodge police in crazy foot chase at ticket counter

These are the 8-bit punk roots of Green Day's new "Dookie Demastered"

Candle label resembling KKK hoods doesn't go over too well — Bath & Body Works apologizes

Woman uncovers husband's $135k OnlyFans addiction, bankrupting the family

Striking video: Lightning bolt zaps eagle nest to smithereens (the birds survive)

China's safety video makes "Dumb Ways to Die" look like child's play

Boing Boing, October 11, 2024

Obama mocks Trump claim of making economy great again: "It was MY economy!" (video)

San Diego fines massage parlor after "loud sexual moaning" disrupts Bible study sessions

Musk promised a taxi, delivered laughs

Philly lawyers blasted woman's screams at 5am, terrifying a neighborhood

18 people hit with "severe nausea" after watching racy new feminist opera in Germany

Lauren Boebert's son Tyler pleads guilty, dodges jail time

Robot vacuums yell obscenities at owners after hackers take control

Asteroid belt dwarf planet Ceres may be an "ocean world"

You can now play AAA games on Linux on Apple Silicon

List of supernatural inhabitants of England

New Casio desk clock is a giant version of an old wristwatch

Threats against hurricane emergency workers out of control on social media

Cops bust couple for bag labeled Definitely not a bag full of drugs." Guess what was inside!

Why people who are wrong think they're right

MAGA woman explains how U.S. government controls hurricanes — and Alexa is in on it (video)

"Can I talk about water?" Kari Lake ducks election fraud question with bizarre pivot (video)

Curly-Cue: modeling Afro-textured hair in 3D

Boing Boing, October 10, 2024

Two planks and a prayer: Amazon truck's doomed attempt to board river boat (video)

Cookie Monster caught speeding on traffic camera

Clever Dalmatian bends the house rules when told not to "jump" on the couch (video)

MAGA man sloshes through deadly Florida storm to plant Trump flag on pier (video)

Cards Against Humanity to pay "blue leaning" nonvoters $100 to vote

California restricts sell-by dates on food, as they are misleading

Dookie Demastered: classic Green Day album in "obscure, obsolete, and inconvenient formats"

Fan wikis wanting to escape the Fandom/Wikia sinkhole have a new ally

Nintendo Alarmo is a $99 alarm clock coming in early 2025

Reforj is a lowpoly take on the Minecraft open-world formula

Remastered "Dune: Spice Opera," soundtrack to 1992 computer game

Tiny vampires revealed: 5 blood-sucking bugs that will make your skin crawl

Texas Teachers suspended after knocking out kids with medicated "sleeping stickers" (video)

Antique seller banned on eBay for "illicit" 1880s cast iron item

Boing Boing, October 9, 2024

Irvine PD's $150k public relations blunder

Inflatable extras: How fake crowds are fooling you in blockbuster films

"Trump makes people I care about afraid — I find him reprehensible" — JD Vance's tweet resurfaces after 8 years

Busted: Trump denies secretly sending Putin Covid tests that U.S. needed — but Kremlin confirms he did

HBO Bitcoin documentary claims to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto

Do VPNs unlock secret airfare deals?

Legendary soundtrack composer John Williams gets a documentary from his biggest filmmaker fans—here's the trailer

Watch 22-year-old Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's blistering performance of War Pigs (1970)

Silly doggos gang up on animated Halloween prop that invaded their living room (video)

Eric Trump sworn in as a very "special deputy sheriff"

Astonishing photos of humanoid flying over Washington

Boing Boing, October 8, 2024

Why humming is good for your mental health

Fox host Maria Bartiromo humiliated when GOP Congressman shuts down her lies (video)

Microsoft still keeping the Halo video game franchise alive

Headliners bail on heavy metal festival because Kyle Rittenhouse

"Dark MAGA" Elon Musk pleases himself by uttering an insipid witticism

Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy

Woodward's book exposes Trump as a Russian asset

Oops! Museum worker tosses two beer cans in the trash — not realizing it was art

Florida woman clogs stormwater pipe with concrete, flooding neighborhood

Alcoholism charity executive busted for drunk driving for the third time

Your earwax tells a lot about you, including why you may stink

Shockingly huge cat stands on 2 legs to eat from kitchen counter: "Sir, that's a bobcat" (video)

Boing Boing, October 7, 2024

Trump's buddy Lewandowski is once again shown the door

Impressive 1.5-meter "sea snake" found by beach clean-up crew was something else entirely

From Million Dollar Baby to Requiem for a Dream: the most depressing mainstream films

Extreme heat mutates cute baby on Japanese shop sign into horrifying demon-child — and tourists love it

Trump's crypto business partners are shady

DeSantis threatens TV stations over abortion rights ad

New York Times finally realizes Trump is old and confused

GEICO terminating insurance for Cybertrucks

The best low-cost All-in-One tool kit

To heck with the CDC — Marjorie Taylor Greene promotes swigging raw milk

Judge receives death threats for jailing criminal MAGA fanatic

Bored with Wordle? Try Alphaguess

Frank Miller is releasing a sequel to RONIN

American tourist giveaways: Habits that scream "I'm from the US"

New Jersey GOP candidate freezes during debate: "medical episode" (video)

Cybertruck owner reports GEICO will no longer insure them

Run audio to speakers through your home's power lines

Australian judge orders X to pay Twitter's CSAM fine

More than 200 women charged with pregnancy crimes since Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade

This remarkable sonar image may depict the Loch Ness Monster

10-year-old steals car and drives it through playground

Public library ends Harry Potter-themed child literacy program after legal threat from Warner Brothers

"So what?" Trump's chilling response to VP Pence's Jan 6 danger

Boing Boing, October 4, 2024

The Boss endorses Kamala Harris, repudiates Donald Trump

Elon Musk's latest rant targets chess, claiming it's too simple and needs space lasers

Marjorie Taylor Greene says "They" control the weather and caused Hurricane Helene

Michigan cops post photo of roadside Bigfoot encounter

Gadget tells you what that mystery USB-C cable can do

New Raspberry Pi 500 all-in-one hinted at in data

23andme's prospects for survival dim

Trump's crowd size is just a flaccid version of its former self, as exposed in new video (video)

Adorable beaver to remain at rescue center by order of Massachussets governor

Moose enjoys dip in swimming pool but can't get out

Federal judge OK's Biden's student loan forgiveness plan

Idaho senator from Illinois screams at Native American from Idaho: "go back where you came from"

MAGA school board installs windows in middle-school bathrooms so adults can take a peek (video)

MAGA judge Michele Fiore convicted of stealing $70k from fallen cop's memorial fund for plastic surgery and daughter's wedding

LA hacks: free parking, secret shortcuts & more

Elon throws tantrum, blocks conservative reporter for exposing his wild immigration lies

Tina Peters, ex-Colorado clerk, tells judge prison won't work out because she needs a magnetic mattress (video)

Election-denying JD Vance claims Trump did win in 2020

Tina Peters, former Mesa County Clerk, gets 9-years in prison

Uber also trying the Terms of Service defense

Hilarious doggo goes from walk to high-speed run with just one word (video)

Voyager 2 science experiment shut down to preserve power

Melania's representatives backpedal after attempt to fleece CNN

Court finds Tesla's "Full Self Driving" to be "corporate puffery"

Super creepy guys harass a woman in a Waymo

Earth's moon is getting its own time zone

Liz Cheney joins Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in Wisconsin

TikTok's popular Mr. Prada arrested after driving car of murdered therapist

Flight canceled? New law forces airlines to cough up cash immediately

Your vacation could be doomed before takeoff: Flight booking mistakes to avoid

Guards vs cats: The ongoing battle at Japanese museum entrance

Minnesota teachers explode in laughter watching JD Vance in debate (video)

Boing Boing, October 2, 2024

This TV commercial for beef stew delivers the psychological tension of a Kubrick or Tarkovsky film

Painting found in basement by junk dealer is a Picasso

Creepy clown with penchant for plants caught on video burglarizing gardening store

Forget goat yoga, now you can ssssstretch with pythons

Every day should be raccoon appreciation day

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is now a video game

Toilet paper buying panic recommences as dockworkers strike

Surveillance footage of Kentucky Sheriff killing judge shown in court

Poopcopter is a DIY autonomous drone that finds and collects dog-doo

Music really does sound better when you're high, scientists report

Boing Boing, October 1, 2024

Deep sea video of weird sea creature walking around on its 13-foot "legs"

NASA plans to grow mushroom houses on the moon

Kentucky Sheriff who killed judge plans to retire

Woah! Woman waves at a stranger's cat — and much to her surprise, it waves back (video)

"Laptop" with full 4090 GPU weighs 15 pounds

"I don't have LinkedIn" website tells it like it is

Infrared map of the Milky Way charts 1.5 billion objects

Los Angeles man goes haywire, sucker-punching magician at child's party, assaulting 2 others (video)

Rudy Giuliani's daughter says Trump destroyed her dad beyond repair: "Don't let him take our country too"

Jimmy Carter is first U.S. president to turn 100 — and he still has one wish

Adorable miniature metal Sega consoles

How a tiny visa mistake almost ruined a Vietnam trip

Smoke weed, not cigarettes: CA's new restaurant policy

From Trump's darling to GOP pariah: Kari Lake's senate dreams crumble

Man comes face to face with a bull moose — and then he makes a mistake (video)

Scientists discover oldest cheese in the world buried with mummies as afterlife snack

Boing Boing, September 30, 2024

Couple gets too easy on EasyJet flight — and their sex act gets them busted

Live crabs escape on NYC subway, chaos ensues

Americans use weed more regularly than alcohol: new report on cannabis policy

Man arrested for stealing vehicle to get to court hearing about stealing a vehicle

Science paper about importance of scientific rigor retracted due to lack of it

Cryptid hunters! Ford has a car for you…

100 dead and thousands uprooted after Hurricane Helene tears through southeast

N.C. governor candidate and "Black Nazi" Mark Robinson treated for burns after touching truck exhaust pipe

Legendary singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson dead at 88

Trump's bizarre rant leaves MAGA crowd silent

Twitter's value in freefall: Fidelity cuts estimate by whopping 79%

Drunk racist faces prison for assaulting mail carrier with a knife for putting Harris flyer in his mailbox

JD Vance's fragile supporters throw tantrum over sandwich shop snub

The Purge or Kristallnacht? Donald Trump has solution for ending crime: allow for "one really violent day" (video)

Question: Are Kamala Harris and Sam Harris related?

Boing Boing, September 28, 2024

Academic fraud endemic in published research, from photoshopped blots to AI slop

Boing Boing, September 27, 2024

Wow! Compare starkly different vibes when Zelensky meets up with Trump vs Harris (video)

Activision's "River Raid" is still a great play

DataToaster 3000 holds data, doesn't make toast

Watch powerful waves break into windows and flood home, reportedly in Florida

Maggie Smith, famed star of Downton Abbey, dead at 89

Sheriff who killed judge pleads not guilty and has not resigned

Lincoln Project brutally trolls Donald Trump as a Broken Man: "limp, old, tired, impotent…" (video)

Surgeon loses license after fatally removing wrong organ

MAGA Sheriff who targeted Harris supporters now accused of using prison labor for his campaign

Far-right "accellerationist" jailed for 18 years over Baltimore terror plan

Judge demoted to traffic court after handcuffing sleeping teen in court

California "Click to Cancel" law could end subscription nightmares

Gentleman with gun charges shows up at court — and hurls a bomb that explodes

"Gate lice": The insulting nickname airline staff and premier flyers use for eager boarders

Boing Boing, September 26, 2024

LAPD officer demonstrates validity of MRI warnings

Watch pet toucan squeak with pleasure in this adorable "happy honk" compilation

NYC Mayor Adams slaps on huge fake grin as protestor brutally heckles him at press conference

Out of the spotlight, Marjorie Taylor Greene demands attention

Wayback Machine integrated into Google search

Spider species 'Hotwheels Sisyphus' named for unusual genitalia

HBO's official trailer for "Last of Us Season 2" (video)

Fox News anchor reveals former president ducking debate there—not Kamala Harris

Kaspersky customers surprised by unwanted software

Tor and Tails privacy projects merge

Stephen Colbert triggers Trump

Meta shows off Orion augmented reality glasses

New PlayStation better than old one

Women pretends to faint to see how her geese would react

Donald Trump becomes reggae sensation with new song: "Eating the Cats" (video)

Elon Musk is mad he didn't get invited to UK summit

New York mayor Eric Adams indicted in corruption probe

California bans all hemp THC products

What happens when you eat moldy food?

Disneyland arrests mom who allegedly lied about kids' ages to get them in for free (video)

New nasal spray blocks 99.99% of flu and Covid viruses

Creepy sheriff who asked people to collect addresses of Harris supporters whines to Fox News about being misunderstood

Boing Boing, September 25, 2024

First new music from Mozart in 250 years

This weird woolly rhino is incredibly well-preserved after 32,000 years

Magnificent cinematic footage of Chinese rocket exploding into fireball just 1.6-feet away from a perfect landing

You've definitely heard Kevin McLeod's music

Website lets you click counters

Retrospective about Compuserve and the pre-web Internet

Furnace is a multi-platform chiptune tracker

Texas mom wondered why her son was "very sweaty" — then she saw a dead body behind their RV

Pocket-sized adventure turns notebook and pencil into a space shooter

Twitter limits blocking

Harvard med student eats 720 eggs in 30 days, cholesterol drops

Montana grizzly bear "explodes" out of trap and nearly destroys a man's camera (video)

Walmart self-checkout mistake destroys Olympic athlete's career

Canadian authorities hope that releasing low-quality photocopy of Yukon UFO photo will make people less interested in seeing the real thing

Former fixer Michael Cohen is fixing to flee the U.S. if Donald Trump wins: "I'd have no choice" (video)

Romney fears Trump's revenge: "How am I going to protect 25 grandkids?"

Alex Jones' InfoWars auctioned to pay Sandy Hook damages

Watch: 3rd house collapses into ocean in North Carolina due to "strong winds, large waves" (video)

Retired judge accused of corruption dead in shootout after FBI comes for him

Missouri kills potentially innocent man over prosecutors' objection

Man learns he's been paying his neighbor's utility bill for nearly 20 years

Daring rescue of deer trapped upside-down between buildings (video)

COVID almost certainly originated in a wet market, groundbreaking genetic study

Boing Boing, September 24, 2024

Video of freaky "ghost water" on the floor of a mausoleum

3 Tufts University athletes still hospitalized after 45-minute workout with Navy Seal graduate went awry

Tech YouTuber upsets savvy audience with $50-a-year wallpaper app

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer demands return of sausages from Gaza

Colleages claim Project 2025's Kevin Roberts boasted of killing dog with shovel

Watch an octopus punch noncompliant fishes

MAGA Mike does not commit to certifying the election

Colbert Report plays with JD Vance and vas deferens

Penguin gets a surfing lesson when it jumps on instructor's bodyboard (video)

Tara Dower Breaks Appalachian Trail Record

Beef-obsessed bros causing crucial climate catastrophes

Punk legends Green Day sell out hometown stadium

Mesmerizing video of high voltage glass insulators being lifted into the air

Boy named after Star Wars character denied passport

Trump confuses Georgia state with eastern European country in latest screw-up

Couple's $2K ordeal: Airline rejects passport over small coffee stain

Trump's incoherent rambling on inflation solutions raises concerns

Badly confused Donald Trump calls for Johnny Carson to replace Jimmy Kimmel

Donald Trump channels Hitler to whip up his angry, chanting Pennsylvania mob (video)

Listen to Willie Nelson's lovely take on the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" and the Lips' response

Bring home the bagels, not the bacon: animal rights activists urge us to change idioms

Corgi is a toy-tossing machine, hitting everyone and everything he can (video)

Robinson rejected offers to investigate those porn forum posts

Boing Boing, September 23, 2024

Man buried with stones on his chest for a very creepy reason

Amateur astronomer captures photos of secret spacecraft in orbit

Still no flying cars, but now there's a flying cart shopping

Trump Media plummets yet again — at this rate, on course to become penny stock

Studies continue to show the Idaho stop is safer

I hope my neighborhood has reached peak coffee micro roasting

Scientific American endorses Kamala Harris for president

TSA agent beaten over juice: Passenger gets prison and flight ban

Former president says he's running for the last time

Feds raid new NYPD commissioner replacing last one they raided

Elon Musk backs down in Brazil

MyPillow's $14.88 deal surely just a coincidence

Brain damage linked to religious fundamentalism, Harvard study finds

Trump's beloved Mark "Black Nazi" Robinson just lost his top campaign staffers

JD Vance caught lying about egg prices in viral video gaffe

JD Vance mocked for cringeworthy "Big Buck World" publicity stunt

Two planes crash mid-air near L.A., killing pilot. One lands just yards from woman and granddaughter

Passenger kicked off world cruise for WhatsApp complaints

Boing Boing, September 22, 2024

First polar bear spotted in Iceland since 2016. Police shot and killed it.

Caffeinated ramen in a squeeze tube for one-handed slurping while videogaming

September 21, 2024

Further horrors from MAGA Republican governor candidate's secret online past revealed

New book looks back on things we lost since LOST premiered 20 years ago

Amazingly big cruise ships "stretched" to become absurdly massive

Ted Cruz, falling behind in the polls, agrees to debate Dem challenger Colin Allred

Boing Boing, September 20, 2024

SAS flight makes emergency landing when a live mouse pops out of a passenger's meal

Hidden USB hub turns ordinary keyboard into Doom console

It takes a village, but not a village idiot, warns the Lincoln Project (video)

Brain-bending experiment reveals why kids struggle with writing

Kentucky sheriff settles heated argument with judge by shooting him dead

Trump attacks Jews again: if he loses, the cursed 'Jewish people' will be to blame (video)

Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897

CIA rapist tried to claim diplomatic immunity, sentenced to 30 years in prison

Forbes' dirty little secret: Exploiting Google for massive profits

Failing to secure "Lady," Trump announces endorsement by Daddy Gaga

Yellowstone tourists block grizzly bear's path

Boing Boing, September 19, 2024

Medical Examiner's mistake leads woman to carry father's ashes for 3 Years—he's still alive

The beautiful "Four Bugs Problem"

People in Philly take fantasy football far too seriously

Donald Trump's deep-rooted mommy issues exposed in new Lincoln Project "Bad Blood" ad (video)

X mistakenly finds itself temporarily online in Brazil

Read the 1975 owner's manual for the Pet Rock

Curious mouse gets stuck in teapot spout

Trump warns he will go to Springfield, Ohio in 2 weeks — but might not make it out alive (video)

Trump supporters on Tucson rally stage sought medical attention for mysterious eye injuries

Astonished Trump tells Fox that Kamala Harris turned again: "She's somehow a woman" (video)

Boing Boing, September 19, 2024

1 day after deadly pagers, walkie-talkies simultaneously explode in Lebanon, killing 9 and injuring 300 (video)

Elon Musk spreads fake bomb threat rumor at Trump rally

Michigan woman stunned to find Jane Fonda at her front door canvassing for Harris and Walz (video)

Tour Guide Clyde's selective outrage over Democratic "rhetoric" ignores Trump's violent words

Behold: the first recorded image of a tardigrade

Clever kid hacks human claw machine for maximum prizes

Passengers end up with bloody noses, broken ear drums on faulty Delta flight

If Trump wins, say goodbye to IVF: GOP blocks bill to protect in vitro fertilization

Man with zero coding skills builds AI that haggles with hotels

Watch MAGA senator Joni Ernst's prop fail spectacularly in cringeworthy political stunt

Tom the Dancing Bug: The Haitians, of Springfield, USA

Boing Boing, September 17, 2024

LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is fun

Pagers explode all at once, killing 8 and injuring over 2,700 in Lebanon and Syria (video)

JD Vance describes preposterous Elon Musk led commission

Woman in Nevada prison for 10-year sentence makes grand escape — by simply walking away

Netflix sued: Squid Game accused of copying Bollywood film, Luck

Band People: the artistry and economics of supporting musicians

Hillary Clinton on the press failing to actually cover Trump

Adorable tiny hippo in danger because humans are the worst

JD Vance lies about lying

Packages of suspicious white powder sent to election officials in 6 states

As Trump blames assassination attempts on Kamala Harris, video shows Alex Jones saying, "Please, kill him!" (video)

MAGA supporter denies child gun death stats in cringe-worthy interview

Kremlin's favorite candidate Jill Stein refuses to call Putin a war criminal during interview

Boing Boing, September 16, 2024

An 8-year-old girl wanted a Frappuccino — so she drove a car 13 miles to get one

JD Vance is on a crusade to make divorce impossible

Boing Boing September 14, 2024

The Campbell Soup Company drops 'soup' from its name and adds the apostrophe

David Fambrough's spider bugs turn old VW beetles into looming horrors

Surreal stratacut animation by Ellard Devane

Obvious Plant's prawn gods, inaction figures and weird art

Boing Boing, September 13, 2024

Conspiracy theorists ordered to pay $15,000 for claiming Brigitte Macron is a man

Fourteen pro-Trump fake electors back for 2024

World's brightest flashlight costs $750, turns night to day (video)

Dreamcast aficionado Tim Walz added as playable character to Sega classic Crazy Taxi

Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala sent 400k people to vote.gov

Annapurna Interactive's entire staff quits after talks with owners break down

Fixhub is IFixit's USB-C smart soldering kit

The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bathyphysa conifera, is for real

In 1985 the BBC inteviewed pseudo-CGI entity Max Headroom in real-time

CEO of Norfolk Southern fired over "consensual" relationship with subordinate

Down-in-the-dump Trump calls for ABC to lose its license for fact-checking him (video)

Trump's desperate slut-shaming attempt backfires in last night's debate

Boing Boing, September 11, 2024

Trump's Minister of Efficiency, Leon Musk sends a gross message to Taylor Swift

Watch the world's highest bungee jump by a car

Hairy frogfish has a built-in fishing pole

Homemade carnival ride spins up some backyard fun

Supermassive black holes only 300 light years apart

Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president

Boing Boing, September 10, 2024

JD Vance says Trump's fake electors should choose the President

Hilarious chicken has ulterior motive when she "protects" kitties' food from the house dog (video)

Neotoddlerism: Political activism through temper tantrums

Multispectral imaging of the Voynich Manuscript

Google's homepage, every month, since its launch

Europa probe to search for habitable environments.

Nigerians warned not to buy nostrums from televangelist

New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu helps save man choking on lobster roll at seafood-eating contest

Teen arrested after 3D-printing guns

A nerve-wracking climb down the world's worst ladder design

Watch an octopus disguise itself as a rock

Joseph's Machines turns bathtime into a human car wash

Nike marketing gets it 100% wrong

Boing Boing, September 9, 2024

Police: "no reports" of JD Vance's imaginary pet bar-be-ques

Googly eyes can help sell "ugly" produce

Donald Trump's "best people" will not vote for him again

Gun owners urged to stop storing firearms in ovens after overheated pistol fired five rounds

Boeing caves to avoid strike. Still no word on who will fix the planes

Young golden eagle attacks fourth human

Support for banning Tik Tok evaporated in the summer heat

Big Lots is bankrupt and selling itself to private equity

Wind currently Britain's largest electricity source

Mud Bowl celebrates 50th year

Generic e-bike chargers deemed dangerous

A playlist of every "Now That's What I Call Music" compilation

Patton Oswalt's on how US Presidents shape pop culture

The longest tunnel in the world is about to shut down

Trump thanks the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade

Again with the ominous threats of violence from Trump

Alan Moore's new whimsical, wonderful, and wordy novel

Rock wizard create an impossible-looking stone cairn

Did you survive "avocado hand" summer?

Boeing spokesperson gets snarky

Boing Boing, September 7, 2024

The bizarre 90s ad that feels like a fever dream

Starliner returns safely to Earth

Exploring the liminal atmosphere of "Your Past Reality"

Michigan judge suspended after racist, homophobic remarks

Boing Boing, September 6, 2024

Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris

An Arkansas Republican Party county meeting burst into fisticuffs

Trump's incoherent word salad elicits applause

A salad recipe is causing a cucumber shortage in Iceland

Cat heads out on a POV adventure

Is The Pornitor the worst-named computer peripheral in history?

Boing Boing, September 5, 2024

Small Dutch town invaded by gingers

Albanian developers think Jared and Ivanka are peddling Trump's influence

Trump campaign memo threatening leakers is leaked

Another chef's take on the perfect steak

Russia-praising Tim Pool denies knowledge of Russian money to podcast platfor

Margaret Thatcher-themed DOOM mod removed

JD Vance: Forget lowering daycare costs — "Grandpa and Grandma" can pitch in (video)

Massive AI streaming fraud farm busted by the FBI

Karine Jean-Pierre eviscerates Doocy

Ignoring a ranger, watch Yellowstone tourists get too close to a bear

Justice department reveals right-wing influencers on the Russian payroll

This cat plays the keyboard really well

Liz Cheney makes stunning announcement: "I will be voting for Kamala Harris" (video)

Drivers baffled by "cryptic" national speed limit sign

Watch "The Strongest Man in the World" beat up the ocean

Man dies after anatomy-challenged surgeon in Florida allegedly removes wrong organ (again!)

K2 climber catches awesome footage of an avalanche headed straight for his tent (video)

MAGAs declare war on Amazon Alexa

Boing Boing, September 4, 2024

There I Ruined It: John Denver meets Black Sabbath

Simone Giertz makes an electric skateboard for Scraps the dog

Whining Giuliani schooled by official: "I know you're no longer a licensed attorney because you made false statements about the election, so allow me to clarify Michigan law for you."

Humans help baby puffins fly out to sea!

In 1983 daredevils in banana hammocks set an unbreakable world record

Suspect in custody, casualties reports in another school shooting

Scientists create a robot controlled by living mushroom. See the fungus that learned to crawl

Asteroid alert: small space rock to crash into Earth's atmosphere in 30 minutes — September 4, 2024 at 16:46 UTC (9:46 AM PDT)

'Insane': George Conway gaslights Donald Trump with new Psycho PAC ad (video)

Outlaws has the best sidekick in Star Wars

Do not mistake Elon Musk's capitulation for compliance

YouTuber believes squirrels are his friends

Trump stumbles through conspiracy-laden Fridman interview

The aerodynamics of Star Wars starfighters

Pence says he won't vote for Trump, not because he's wanted him hanged, but because he's not conservative enough

First she turned Black. Now Fox's Peter Doocy says Kamala Harris turned Southern (video)

Boing Boing, September 3, 2024

A "long lost" 70s superhero comic is finally being published

He hasn't read it, but Trump says Project 2025 has "policies everyone would like"

Paranoid Trump staffers find a plastic toy — call police thinking they are "bugged"

This Corgi named Archie does the best rendition of the "demure" trend!

Stevie Wonder's new song, "Can We Fix Our Nation's Broken Heart"

Song Pong: Syncing Pong to Music with Math

Trump suing over scathing "Apprentice" movie as 1st clip drops today (video)

NaNoWriMo endorses AI, faces backlash, and struggles to clarify

Cop-killing drug kingpin freed by Trump jailed for choking wife

Democrats question Trump about that illegal donation from Egypt

Get ready for LEGO board games!

Arizona State Senator cheers on rightwing Germans with the Nazi theme song

U.S. seizes Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro's plane

Wizardry co-creator Andrew Greenberg dead at 67

Is this color blue?

NIH cancels 'Havana syndrome' research because the CIA forced people to participate in it

Man with perfect pitch tackles household appliances

Alzheimer's breakthrough: Cancer drug wakes up sleepy brain cells in mice and human brain cells

Boing Boing, September 2, 2024

Doggo's hilarious struggle to escape his blanket (video)

Musk boosts 4chan claim that women are incapable of critical thinking

AI Sir David Attenborough: Cybertruck's lamprey-like dependency on flatbed trailers

Nutty lawsuit: Man stung by scorpion sues Venetian Resort in Las Vegas for ruining his sex life

Trump forgets he tried to have Mike Pence killed

Trump gains "Earth-shattering" trucking wisdom in 5 minutes (video)

Newly immune Trump tells Fox he had "every right" to interfere in election (video)

Boing Boing, September 1, 2024

Boing Boing, August 31, 2024

Another truck dramatically stuck under the 11-foot8+8 bridge

JD Vance: All childless women are "miserable" and "valueless"

Politico grossly misrepresents Kamala Harris

Mouse jumps on man's back. Man panics. Amused family laughs too hard to help (video)

Donald says "stupid people" announce they are out of ammunition, then announces the U.S. is out of ammunition

Boing Boing, August 30, 2024

U.S. philosophy student imprisoned after pushing railway worker onto Glasgow tracks

Laser-cut by giants? How did this massive rock in the Saudi Arabian desert get split so cleanly?

Delusional Trump so puffed up, he imagines that he "made Abraham Lincoln look like nothing" (video)

Injured eagle actually just fat

After elderly couple from nudist park disappears, police arrest man hiding under his house

Retired couple loses £45k in neighbor fence feud

NYT seems to think "The Final Solution" was a bold housing policy

Passengers lock screaming toddler in airplane toilet to "educate" her

Iconic ska record label archives destroyed in climate disaster

Kamala Harris's excellent answer to a very stupid question

JD Vance lets his a–hole flag fly

Failed "perfect crime": Husband plants drugs on wife, goes to prison instead

Barack Obama on the 10th anniversary of Tan SuitGate

Evangelicals silent as Trump embraces reproductive rights

Purslane is a weed that's ubiquitous, delicious, and nutritious!

Black mold, flies and roaches, rancid smells: No wonder Boar's Head caused a listeria outbreak!

Unsavory JD Vance is "booed" even by the friendly firefighters in Boston (video)

Boing Boing, August 29, 2024

Scammers are putting fake QR codes on parking meters in California

Wells Fargo worker dies at desk, goes unnoticed for 4 Days

Marvel's new "Aliens vs Avengers" comic is fun

Scientists determine which paper makes the worst paper cuts

US Army objects as Republicans use fallen US soldiers as props

Shohei Ohtani's dog Decoy steals the show with the first pitch

Stephen King spurs Elon Musk to play the fool

America's history of slavery ruins U.Va campus tour for a Republican

7-Eleven is lying to you about the Japanese Egg Salad sandwich coming to America

Source of famed Wow! signal likely found

Sigourney Weaver cast in The Mandalorian and Grogu

Boing Boing, August 28, 2024

NBC Philly: Couple's passion wrecks vehicle

Panicking Trump melts down on social media: spreads QAnon, 2020 election lies, sexist attacks against Harris, fascist agenda

NYT both sides Trump's desecration of hallowed ground

Brain Worm Jr.'s plan to help Donald backfires as states refuse ballot removal

Coffee expert debunks Huberman's coffee regimen

Tropical virus causes "sloth fever" panic in United States

Horny dolphin blamed for incident that left 18 people injured

CNN feels Trump's legal woes somehow burden Kamala Harris

Welcome to the world of the otamatone

Harris ad blasts Trump's Project 2025

At Arlington, Trump's team continues to disrespect veterans

Japan's smallest hotel room: A cramped stay for two

More of JD Vance denigrating childless women (audio)

Kennedy Jr's new mission: Saving America from imaginary sky poison

Boing Boing, August 27, 2024

Trump appoints conspiracy theorists to co-chair his transition team

Newfoundland's "Mrs. Roper Pub Crawl" a very good time

That closed door is giving your cat FOMO

Weird Al's "Phantom Menace" parody is now in HD (video)

Lucid Air: now with electroshock handles and pepper spray cannon

Trump's grip on independent voters plunges 8 points

Nick Offerman's "Proud to Be a Kamala Man"

Over 200 ex-GOP officials warn of "irreparable damage" to democracy if Trump wins in 2024

Serial plagiarist's memoir looks strikingly familiar

"NPS Front Desk" showcases talented Rangers

2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine approved. Now go get it!

Special counsel Jack Smith appeals Judge Cannon dismissing Trump's classified documents case

NARA recovers famed 1982 Grace Hopper lecture recorded on obsolete media format

"Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" trailer hits hard

Woman sues American Airlines for outrageous sexual assault on flight to New Jersey

Teflon: Miracle invention or slow-acting poison? Why not both!

Deadly mosquito virus kills a man near Boston, causing parks and events to shut down

Fun facts about the BIC ballpoint pen (video)

Boing Boing, August 26, 2024

New minor league bat dog gets zoomies, poops on field

Trump glitches again — this time slurring and stopping mid-sentence in Truth Social post

Scientists teach goo to play Pong

Organic food myths busted: Why you might be wasting money on "healthier" options

Mr. Brain Worms and Orangey McOrangeface desperately cling to one another

Telegram CEO arrested in France

Conviction for cop who threw smoke bomb at other cops on Jan 6

Martin Shkreli ordered to surrender copies of Wu-Tang album

Right to disconnect law passes in Australia: workers may ignore after-hours messages

$100m gift to the National Park Service is "transformative"

Meet Blueberry, the interior decorating Golden Retriever

Mayor to sovereign citizen demanding private information about staff: "Go fuck yourself"

Amazing timelapse of the northern lights as seen from the ISS

WhistlinDiesel: "Cybertruck frames are snapping in half"

Trump's handlers are afraid he can't STFU

Celebrate the 18th anniversary of downgrading Pluto to a "dwarf planet"

"A dream in the making" Ikea to sell used furniture online

Boing Boing, August 25, 2024

Join Boing Boing’s subscriber chat!

Boing Boing, August 24, 2024

MAGA turns on Amy Coney Barrett for siding with liberals on voting rights

Queen's Brian May clears badgers of TB rap

Where to get free games

How Chase froze $180k and left a tech consultant scrambling

A handsome and rare deep sea creature washed up onto the shores of La Jolla this August

Trump gets curious about cocaine and comedian Theo Von hilariously enlightens him (video)

Boing Boing, August 23, 2024

Comedian Gary Gulman's memoir "Misfit" is a masterpiece

Desperate Donald claims he'll be "great for women's reproductive rights"

Families go broke for Disneyland: Are magical memories worth the financial misery?

Freaked-out Eric Bolling rants — and rants — over Kamala Harris surge: "We're losing the race!" (video)

The 11'8"+8" bridge wins again

Family refuses late French actor's request to kill dog

From "Iraqi head seeks arms" to "Kids make nutritious snacks": Epic headline fails

TikTok's bizarre priorities: Blurring cigarettes but allowing Nazi propaganda

Pack of wild pigs unleash destruction at Northern California school

MSNBC hosts mock and laugh at Trump

Texas mom builds a squirrel city and spa

Kenan Thompson shares how Project 2025 screws over everyone

Senator Warren gets in on the couch jokes

Retro-futuristic blimp provides connectivity from the stratosphere

Hands off: Victorian books laden with toxic dyes

Arizona paperwork reveals Robert F Kennedy Jr has ended presidential bid

Taliban bans the sound of womens' voices singing or reading

Highlights from Kamala Harris's speech to the DNC

This is chatroulette for your eyes only

Young DNC attendee trolls JD Vance — and pranks MSNBC — with couch joke

Burglar busted after getting distracted by bedside book

JD Vance fumbles through painful small talk with donut shop employees in viral campaign stop fail

Boing Boing, August 25, 2024

Ex-crack addict turned Trump loyalist harasses boy at DNC event

MAGA experts: Polls showing Harris lead are "almost like election meddling"

Violent road-raging Tesla driver up for parole after serving less than one-year of a five-year sentence

Detroit judge faces lawsuit after detaining and humiliating a sleeping 15-year-old during a courtroom field trip

Boing Boing, August 22, 2024

Tormented Trump turns obsession with Kamala Harris into therapy session: "I'm very angry at her" (video)

Harbinger of doom emerged from the sea off the California coast days before earthquakes

This eerie underwater recording could be the Loch Ness Monster's heartbeat

New CDC policy: If your kid has lice, they can stay at school

Nancy Mace demands respect for her racial harassment

Boing Boing, August 16, 2024

JD Vance's immigration policy based on his viewing of 2002's "Gangs of New York"

JD Vance said Amazon paid Black Lives Matter so rioters would burn rival stores

Elderly voters favor Democrats for first time since 2000

FTC cracks down on fake reviews

"Why would you do that?" Masked vandal defaces Banksy's rhino mural in broad daylight (video)

Passenger misses her flight, blows a fuse, and hurls Frontier Airlines computer at worker (video)

Watch Sarah Cooper "turn Trump" as she lip-syncs his bizarre "Harris turned black" comment (video)

Smug neighbor's property line grudge costs him big time in fence feud

Trump badly confused by Tic Tac packaging, blames Biden

Passenger misses her flight, blows a fuse, and hurls Frontier Airlines computer at worker (video)

Trump badly confused by Tic Tac packaging, blames Biden

British occultism reportedly making a comeback

Professional blockage busters battle monster fatberg in England

Smug neighbor's property line grudge costs him big time in fence feud

Boing Boing, August 15, 2024

Here's why bug sprays are no threat to the cockroaches invading your kitchen

Harris campaign laughs at Trump with mock press release: "Donald Trump to Ramble Incoherently"

See Bigfoot's "buttocks imprint" in Blue Ridge, Georgia

Trump's bizarre video pits singing Democrats against Rep Luna in a swimsuit

Almost half of Americans think even moderate drinking is bad news (and science says they're right)

Trump's bizarre video pits singing Democrats against Rep Luna in a swimsuit

Aggressively click for the Moon or the Sun

Harris gains "massive advantage" among "double-haters" in new presidential poll

Laugh at these #OtherHiddenDisneyTerms

RFK Jr. becomes official pariah after both Trump and Harris say nope

Netflix "Castlevania" alumni to release a brand new sci-fi audio drama

More weird ideas from JD Vance about women

Catch peeping toms with this all-purpose hidden camera detector!

This pillow speaker makes listening to your nightly podcast way more comfortable

People pretending to be generated by AI

Watch the speedy and satisfying arrest of a "sovereign citizen"

Googly eyes improve Tesla's Cybertruck

MTV's 1985 premiere party for "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (video)

New Zealand approves extradition of Kim Dotcom to U.S.

Naloxone implant detects and counters opioid overdoses

GPD Pocket 4: little laptop with a big Strix Point brain

Big trouble for Big Lots: more than 300 stores to close

Google killing uBlock Origin, Chrome's most popular ad blocker

Outbreak: WHO declares much deadlier strain of mpox a global "public health emergency"

JD Vance agrees that "postmenopausal females" exist just to raise kids

Xitter XEO demands advertisers unfuck themselves and belly up to her Nazi bar

Boing Boing, August 14, 2024

Woman dies from allergic reaction at Disneyland, but Disney says husband can't sue because he used Disney+ three years earlier

"They're such NPCs" — Why Elon Musk thinks you're not real

Parrot's "alien" growth freaks out owner

Mexico trip gone wrong: podcast reveals traveler's cryptid encounter

This fellow invented thrash metal drumming back in 1948 (video)

Boing Boing, August 13, 2024

Cornell student's brutal threats against Jewish peers land him in prison for 21 months

Vortex's M0110 is a modern take on the original Macintosh keyboard

Fed-up baby slaps snoring dad

Death Valley heat causes tourist to become confused — he drives off cliff and dies

Truth Social stock slides after Trump goes back to Twitter

Daredevil carnival worker defies gravity

JD Vance's creepshow logic: Trump hugs my wife, so he's not racist (video)

Ukraine claims to have occupied hundreds of square miles of Russian territory

A secret tunnel leads to a magical world hidden inside a tree

Pro-Trump Mesa County clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines

Fudge, freaks, and formaldehyde: Unexpected thrills off Missouri highway

Would you pay 11 times the face value for King Charles banknotes?

No wonder Trump is unfocused and losing in the polls — he thinks Kamala Harris is hot (audio)

"Straight from hell": Creepy fish shocks hikers in remote Australian region (video)

Boing Boing, August 12, 2024

Boing Boing, August 10, 2024

Fish falls from sky, smashes Tesla windshield (video)

Boing Boing, August 9, 2024

Once-popular Hercules actor making everyone cringe by demanding VP Harris prove her Blackness with racist slur

Man's Abusive Proposal Method Leaves Girlfriend Hysterical

Friday Freak-Out: The Moody Blues' "Ride My See Saw" (1968)

Poland’s bizarre Crooked Forest: what makes these trees bend?

"How to Get Gonorrhea": A trip through 1974's most surreal sex ed filmstrip

Texas school bans black clothing

Once you see the Spielberg Face, you can never unsee it

Trump bizarrely blames Harris for turned-Black remark: "She said it. I didn't say it" (video)

Boing Boing, August 8, 2024

Creepy JD Vance blames card game for teen dating woes

Fox News host Laura Ingraham claims Milwaukee is in Minnesota in cringe video

Italian paper struggles with difference between American "Indians" and Indians

Prepare to be underwhelmed by Trump's press conference

Graham's 3-Wheeler: a 1929 science-fiction movie car that defied convention

Raccoon's brilliant solution to rope obstacle

Communist shatterproof drinking glasses make a comeback

Boing Boing, August 7, 2024

Trump and Musk having a "Major" interview

Compare Harris and Trump phone calls asking Walz and Vance to join them: the difference is striking (video)

Boing Boing, August 6, 2024

Xitter XEO exposes vast conspiracy of legal behavior

Stepping on graves isn't rude here: London's musical tombstone experience

Boing Boing, August 5, 2024

QAnon declares Rittenhouse to be part of a "secretive transgender psy-op aimed at harming the MAGA movement"

Trump campaign fails to spin JD Vance yelling at his son into a heartwarming story

See the freaky and cool way that a black-eyed tree frog's eyes wake up from a nap

More Republicans endorse Kamala Harris

Boing Boing, August 4, 2024

Hackberry Pi: a tiny Linux handheld made from a live Pi Zero and a dead Blackberry

Warriors, come out to play-ee-ay! Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eisa Davis, and Nas reimagining classic film as album

Game Informer magazine closes, with all staff losing their jobs and the website wiped

JD Vance's attempt to insult Josh Shapiro backfires spectacularly (video)

Purrents complaining that new feline tax could be a cat-astrophe

Conspiracy theorist Elon Musk about to open elementary school near Austin, Texas

Man inserts eel into his bum — then needs rescuing when eel slithers into stomach and starts chewing away

JD Vance brags that he told his 7-year-old to "shut the hell up"about Pokemon when Trump called him (video)

OK State Superintendent using Libs of TikTok to "hunt down school employees who joked about Trump's ear"

Intel cuts 15,000 jobs

Please do not blow into the Nintendo cartridge

Elite shoplifter stole 798 Cadbury's Creme Eggs

Trump whined about delays he caused at the NBJA conference

JD Vance joins JK Rowling in Olympic anti-trans bigotry

Australian waterway mysteriously turned electric blue

Artist Adam Murphy's fantastic Tintin – Indiana Jones mashups

Kamala Harris far out raises Donald Trump in July

Kyle Rittenhouse snubs Donald Trump, says he's voting for Ron Paul: "We need champions" (video)

"Intellectually very high level": Watch Trump's hilarious attempt to understand Bitcoin

Elon Musk triggered by Black comic book characters

Watch an eggscellent supercut of great egg scenes in movies

HR software adds "AI workers" as human employees

Golden retriever goes from "ick!" to best buddies with sick kitten in day-to-day clip (video)

Hilarious Pomeranian "goes through every emotion" impatiently waiting for a drive-thru In-N-Out burger

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