It's rare for Amazon to sell Apple's wireless AirPods let alone have them on sale. I bought a pair in March and I really like how c...
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Leonardo Da Vinci to-do list reveals his insatiable curiosity about the world
Leonardo Da Vinci kept a to-do list. The thing that struck me was his interest in seeking out experts to teach him and show him how to do t...
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Every cover of MAD, from 1952 to the present
It's fascinating to see how MAD's covers have evolved over the years. It started as a comic book in 1952 with covers drawn by creat...
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John Oliver's response to Facebook's apology videos: "Fuck you."
John Oliver handily obliterates Facebook's desperate propaganda campaign to rehabilitate itself. This is just the latest low point of...
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This is why you should wear a hard hat on a construction site
A one-pound bolt dropped from 20 feet will easily impale a watermelon. From 30 feet it obliterates the watermelon. Lesson learned: protect ...
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The inventor of cruise control was blind
Ralph Teetor, a mechanical engineer who was blind since childhood, invented cruise control because his lawyer's driving nauseated him. ...
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Snake game, complete with bootage CD image, in a tweet
In 2015, Alok Menghrajani wrote a simple game, including a floppy disk bootloader to run it, that fit in a tweet. Now that the tweet lengt...
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Fortnite: 99 Problems
I had to have this Fortnite tee-shirt . They keep finding ways to get me paying for this free game. Fortnite 99 Problems T-Shirt via Amaz...
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Toxic gaming culture explained by the people who study it
Polygon has an amazing piece on why gaming culture and young white male gamers are so toxic . They interviewed a number of folks doing actu...
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Death rates due to accidents charted by age and gender
Charted by /u/draypresct at Reddit, this shows the death rates due to unintentional injuries by age for men and women. Data from the CDC...
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Register with Donate Life. Please.
A quick registration at Donate Life can turn hunks of your soulless cadaver into the greatest gift you'll ever give. In 2006 a heart ...
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Carefully-planned surrealism: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's latest pop video
Harajuku Pop Princess Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is back, and there's no danger whatsoever of a " left tree " situation in this lavish...
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Time For America To Freak Out About 3-D Guns Again
None of the mass shootings in America have been committed by shooters using 3-D Guns, but that's not stopping Donald Trump and a bunch ...
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Chicago's "Aloha Poke Co" wants Hawaiians to stop using the words "aloha" and "poke"
"Aloha Poke [Co.] would prefer to settle this matter amicably and without court intervention," reads a letter from Olson and Cepu...
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Preservationists race to save Antarctica's original outposts
Antarctica's brutal climate is taking its toll on the historic bases built by the original explorers and scientists. Now preservationis...
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Jilted husband wins $8.8 million from guy who seduced his spouse
Francisco Huizar III had an affair with the woman Keith King was married to. King's marriage subsequently fell apart, so he sued for al...
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Guide for buying a cheap game-ready laptop
$1000 is a lot of money; too much for a new laptop if all you want to do is play games on the go. At Laptop Mag, Rami Tabari wrote a guide ...
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Watch this cute dog help scientists study truffles
Lucy the truffle-sniffing dog is helping Professor Ulf Büntgen and other researchers learn more about the ecology of truffles, which despi...
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New Jersey contemplates an official state microbe
Five years after Oregon designated Saccharomyces cerevisia (AKA brewer's yeast) as its official state microbe, the New Jersey senate h...
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Facebook to disclose ongoing political influence campaigns
Facebook is said to be revealing today that it has identified “ coordinated political influence campaigns using fake accounts to influence ...
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FDA warns companies: stop selling quack "vaginal rejuvenation," adds, "People, please don't do this to yourselves"
The FDA has sent warning letters to seven companies selling quack "energy based" vaginal rejuvenation "therapies," in ...
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World's largest train set
Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's largest model train set. It's so large—i...
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Move over, latte art. Here comes smoothie art
Auckland-based artist Hazel Zakariya eschews the sepia palate of latte art and embraces the vibrant possibilities of smoothie art. (more…)...
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I'm an Android loving iPhone user
Hardware reviews are a big part of how I put bread on the table. In order to do my job properly, I’ve got to be something of a platform agn...
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The guy who slated classic Star Trek takes was unfazed by the whole thing
Bill McGovern worked as a second assistant camera on a lot of shows, which is why he seems pretty unfazed to have handled the clapper and s...
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The worse your town was hit by austerity, the more likely you were to vote for Brexit
After the Brexit vote, a lot of people pointed out that the areas that voted most heavily in favour of separating from the EU were also the...
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Trump wants to hand a $100,000,000,000 tax cut to the super-rich, without Congressional approval
Trump finance secretary/supervillain Steve Mnuchin says he wants to unilaterally allow Americans to factor in inflation when calculating c...
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Koch thinktank inadvertently proves that America would save trillions by switching to socialized medicine
Mercatus ( previously ) is part of the Koch Brothers' network of thinktanks which allow the billionaires and their cadre of oligarchs t...
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The paradox of good government: the best stuff works well and is thus unnoticeable (and therefore easy to sell off)
Susan Crawford ( previously ) identifies one of the great and deadly paradoxes of late-stage capitalism, where predatory oligarchs prowl fo...
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Watch this robotic ukulele player pluck out some lovely tunes
UkuRobot is a programmable ukulele player. Here, it plays the haunting theme from Requiem for a Dream , since used in a kajillion movie tra...
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Meet the world's smallest camera drone
Don't let its appearance fool you. The SKEYE Mini Camera Drone is one of the most nimble drones out there. Engineered with adjustable...
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The super-rich are hedging their bets by getting multiple passports
When things start getting crazy globally, rich people start looking for backup plans. Bloomberg looks at the uptick in people with enough w...
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Watch The Try Guys try masculine vulnerability
'The Try Guys' started as a jokey part of a clickbaity but harmless YouTube genre, but they've been slowly edging into much dee...
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Roboticist Simone Giertz describes her recovery from brain surgery
Boing Boing fave Simone Giertz (of "Shitty Robots" fame) had brain surgery earlier this year, so it's great to see her back ...
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Web typography resource collection
Web Typography Resources is a list of apps, tools, plugins and other stuff that will help you make words look nice on the world-wide web. ...
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You can hear the smile in someone's voice even when you can't
We often unconsciously mirror the behavior of people we interact with. This can include mirroring posture, gestures, and voice patterns. A...
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Amazon has Reasons not to let that negative review go up
Amazon reviews are bought and paid for , and the company has a significant, algorithm-led effort to weed out sellers and scammers who abuse...
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Great explainer on how bike-friendly road diets make everyone safer
Road diets ( previously ) have been proven to reduce fatalities and unsafe speed incidents. Here's how it works . (more…) from Boing...
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Kids interview Macklemore
Children should conduct all interviews from this point forward because they get into it . They aren't afraid to ask the real questions...
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Making your own pasta is stupid easy
Given that I started a keto diet last weekend, I couldn;t have stumbled across this video at a worse time (farewell, carbs. I knew thee wel...
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Bask in the glory of this GoPro stealing pup's getaway
All dogs should come with their own GoPro camera. Every. Single. One. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2KamBox via IFTTT
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Alex Trebek may leave 'Jeopardy!' in 2020
Q: What is up in the air ? A: Alex Trebek retiring from his sweet Jeopardy! host gig in 2020. On the latest episode of Fox News' OBJEC...
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Pussy Riot gets a surprise rearrest as soon as they're released from jail for World Cup stunt
A little over two weeks ago, Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot was arrested for crashing the field at the World Cup final wearing ...
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Thieves bring net to aquarium, scoop up shark, and steal it by putting it in baby carriage
https://youtu.be/TukuNt6EBDE Three people brought a net to the San Antonio Aquarium, and when no one was looking, they scooped up a 16-inch...
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Dan Brown's Origin on sale for $3 in Kindle edition
I've enjoyed all of Dan Brown's thrillers. Great literature they ain't but they always keep me reading past my bedtime. I happe...
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Review of a $100 counterfeit iPhone X
Motherboard reviewed a " device that looks just like an iPhone but is actually an Android that has been reskinned from top-to-bottom t...
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Cool self-resetting mousetrap catches multiple mice
p> It's always a pleasure to watch Chris Notap make a new tool. One thing he likes to make is mousetraps. This time, he made an in...
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