In this amusing and rather frightening footage, a runaway utility cart turns in circles on the asphalt at Chicago's O'Hare airport, ...
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Zantac pulled from drugstore shelves over cancer fears
Walgreens and CVS have pulled the very popular heartburn medicine Zantac , along with their generic versions, from store shelves after the F...
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BMW Motorrad to sell "M" class bikes?
BMW Motorrad, the fun BMW that makes the motorcycles, may release some 'M' class bikes. 'M' in the world of Bayerische Motor...
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Turn killer quotes by 50 Cent, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump and more into wall art
Who can forget the moment our president, the man in charge of a nuclear arsenal, coined the word "covfefe"? Sadly, it's easy t...
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PG Tips 'Extra Strong' is a perfectly drinkable strong black tea
Tea time, happy mutants! PG Tips 'Extra Strong' is not as pitifully weak as PG Tips 'Gold' offering. Belly up to the bar an...
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San Franciscans happily house Oregonian searching for his lost dog 'Yippy'
Well known for its inhospitality to folks without a home, San Franciscans will help you out if you've lost your dog. Dogs bring out the...
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Electronic billboard on Michigan highway hacked to play porn
On Saturday night in Auburn Hills, Michigan, someone hacked an electronic billboard on the I-75 highway to play a porn video. It ran for at ...
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Watch a black bear break into a middle school
A young black bear broke into Fretz Middle School in Bradford, Pennsylvania. As it was evening, the only humans inside were the custodians....
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Luigi says "Fuck you!" to Mario on "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" (1989)
My 13-year-old son showed me this and we couldn't stop laughing. How dare Luigi be so rude to his brother! The 1989 TV series "Th...
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Cormac McCarthy on how to write a scientific (or any kind of) paper
For twenty years, novelist Cormac McCarthy (The Road, No Country for Old Men) has been an unofficial "editor-at-large" for the San...
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Why Japanese are angry over French soccer fans who behaved like idiots on a train
Whenever I'm in Japan I marvel at the efficient, clean, quiet, and comfortable trains. The passengers are polite, and the train employee...
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New animated YouTube series for kids: Think Like a Coder
TED-Ed just released the first episode of a 10-part series called "Think Like a Coder." It's an animated adventure starring ...
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SF residents dump "anti-homeless" boulders, prankster puts them on Craigslist
In case you missed it, some frustrated residents in the Clinton Park neighborhood of San Francisco chipped in a few hundred bucks each to p...
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The American Library Association says Melvil Dewey is canceled
Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal system, established the first school for instruction of librarians, and was one of the founders of th...
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Kranch dressing is a real product you can buy
I stared at this a while in Target and a staff member eventually asked if I needed help and I slowly turned to them and whispered "krat...
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Pixel art castle generator
Castle-generator is, as you can probably already guess, a generator of castles—gorgeous, two-dimensional pixel art fortresses to die for ov...
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Octopus changes color while asleep, possibly dreaming
Here's a video of an octopus changing color while it's asleep. Are the patterns in response to a dream? Possibly, suspects the Al...
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Whales worth about $1 trillion in carbon sequestration, analysis finds
A new analysis of whales suggests that each one is worth about $2 million in carbon sequestration -- and the global population is thus worth...
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Tree root completely surrounded a brick
Silver maples are evil, obviously , but I was enchanted by one root's complete embrace of a brick in my back yard. Liberating the brick ...
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Behold the glowing Yooperlite rocks of Lake Superior
Described by their finder as " Yoopalite " rocks, a cache of fluorescent sodalite-laced stones was found on a Michigan beach . Th...
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Trump repeats claim that impeaching him will lead to civil war
Nothing worth saying about this man can safely be said—at least on Twitter. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2n2mEgN via IFTTT
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Scientists discover the WORST cup of tea
Good news everyone! All of those products made using microplastics that you invested in will hang around even after you get rid of them: tha...
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Target has a scratchable haunted house for cats
Cats are possessed so it makes sense that Target has made a scratcher that looks like a haunted house! You can get this two-story cardboard ...
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Gaze upon the disturbing Donald Trump and Meghan Markle puppets from the new incarnation of 80's series Spitting Image
Children of the 80's will remember the disturbing puppets from satirical puppet show Spitting Image and the video for Genesis' Land ...
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Carla Sinclair talks about some of her favorite tools on the Cool Tools podcast
In this week's Cool Tools Podcast episode, Kevin Kelly and I talked to Boing Boing co-founder Carla Sinclair. Carla is an author, freela...
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Just This Banjo: free/open banjo instruction for an angry moment, because you can't be sad while playing the banjo
For years, I've been covering the career of Patrick Costello ( previously ) a deaf, copyfighting, open access banjo player and teacher w...
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Death of a Cyborg
Shorra 's 2012 piece Death of a Cyborg remixed William-Adolphe Bouguereau's 1888 painting The First Mourning/Premier Deuil , giving...
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Stealing Ur Feelings: interactive documentary on the snakeoil "science" of facial emotion detection
Filmmaker Brett Gaylor ( previously ) writes, " Stealing Ur Feelings is an augmented reality experience that reveals how apps like Sna...
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Come see me tomorrow in Portland, Maine with James Patrick Kelly!
I'm coming to Maine to keynote the Maine Library Association conference in Newry tomorrow (Sept 30); later that day, I'm appearing ...
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Jonathan Lethem on Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record"
Science fiction writer, essayist, and Macarthur "genius" Jonathan Lethem ( previously ) has excellent bona fides to write about E...
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Tranceive a way out of RELAY's electronic dungeon
RELAY is a free browser game by Yahia Zakaria, Sameh Khater, and Yassin Zakaria. You control a robot trapped in a series of two-dimensiona...
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Take your creativity anywhere with this handheld 3D printer
Want to get really hands-on with STEM education? 3D printers may be out of reach for some, but the 3Doodler is a handheld version of the sa...
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