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Administrators at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, announced that "we immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain in circulation" after it turned out that a baby photo in the 2026 volume was of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. - Read the rest The post Hitler baby photo in school yearbook appeared first on Boing Boing.

When troops from Ohio's National Guard were deployed to Washington D.C. to menace locals as part of President Trump's crime "emergency" there, Sam O'Hara followed them around playing The Imperial March from John Williams' score to The Empire Strikes Back. He was detained by local police, and now he has won what the American Civil Liberties Union describe as a "substantial" financial settlement. - Read the rest The post Man detained after playing Imperial March to troops in D.C. wins "substantial" settlement appeared first on Boing Boing.

When the White House appointed conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips (previously) to a top job in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, that was not his most interesting sudden movement. Phillips claimed to have experienced teleportation on multiple occasions, including into the Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. - Read the rest The post FEMA official who teleported to Waffle House teleports out of agency appeared first on Boing Boing.

Nicholas Rossi fled the United States after faking his own death, hoping to avoid prosecution on rape charges. Recognized by staff at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, and extradited, he was eventually convicted in two separate trials in 2024 and sentenced to 10 years to life imprisonment. - Read the rest The post Rapist who faked own death reportedly dead again appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: TheAll-in-One CompTIA Certification Prep Courses Bundleincludes training for certifications covering IT support, networking, cybersecurity, cloud computing, Linux, and more - all for $19.97 (reg. $299) during Deal Days.Not every tech career starts with a computer science degree. - Read the rest The post A crash course in modern IT is on sale for $19.97 during Deal Days appeared first on Boing Boing.

A judge has ordered Huntington Beach to adopt ranked-choice voting after finding that the city's at-large elections diluted Latino voting power, which means Surf City's latest culture-war adventure may end with voters being allowed to rank candidates instead of just picking one. - Read the rest The post Judge orders Huntington Beach to add more democracy to its democracy appeared first on Boing Boing.

Daniel Sanchez-Estrada didn't attend the Fourth of July protest at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas. His wife called him from a prison phone afterward and asked him to move some boxes. The boxes contained leftwing zines. A federal judge sentenced him to 30 years, and federal prosecutor Frank Gatto explained why: "People with that kind of extremist beliefs need extra time in prison. - Read the rest The post A man got 30 years for moving boxes of left-wing zines appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Gary Fadden incident is one of those American folk tales that sounds like it was generated by a gun-store campfire: road rage, a 17-mile chase, a 6'8" weapons salesman named Gary, the Ruger AC-556 made famous by The A-Team, and a jury that ultimately decided the machine-gun shooting was self-defense. - Read the rest The post That time road rage met a 6'8" guy named Gary with a machine gun appeared first on Boing Boing.

House Oversight's Epstein probe took a turn Friday when Chairman James Comer issued two subpoenas to billionaire Leon Black during questioning, after lawmakers said Black refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements.This is the Epstein universe doing what it always does: important men, enormous sums of money, sealed agreements, lawyers saying everything is misunderstood, and Congress trying to pry open the drawer marked "please do not open." - Read the rest The post Leon Black's Epstein testimony ends with Congress demanding receipts appeared first on Boing Boing.

A woman lying on the sand at Half Moon Bay's Francis Beach was struck and run over by a lifeguard vehicle, because apparently even relaxing on the beach now requires checking for traffic.

The Great American State Fair, Trump's 16-day National Mall celebration of America's 250th birthday, reportedly began with empty stalls, electrical chaos, and a cow named Melania, which may be the most honest exhibit the administration has produced all year.

Landing somewhere between a smartphone and a dumbphone, the upcoming Commodore Callback 8020 breaks the social media addiction.Commodore went from selling the best-selling computer of all time, the Commodore 64, to bankruptcy, killed off by PC compatibles and the Apple Macintosh. - Read the rest The post The Commodore Callback 8020 is a retro cool audio-centric flip phone that blocks social media apps appeared first on Boing Boing.

OS9Map is a new OpenStreetMap browser for Mac OS 9, which was last updated 24 years ago: three years before the volunteer-maintained mapping service was even founded. The app requires a PowerPC processor, an internet connection, and 16 megabytes of RAM. - Read the rest The post A new map app for Mac OS 9 appeared first on Boing Boing.

A few years back, Jason told me that my body has the marks of an interesting life. It's a nice way of saying that I've had the crap beaten out of me and survived to talk about it and complain whenever a thunderstorm is incoming. - Read the rest The post Man lives with a knife blade in his chest for 8 years appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: TheMagTag Ultra Slim Tracker Cardworks with Apple's Find My app, fits inside wallets and luggage, and is on sale for $19.99 (reg. $59.99).One of the most useful pieces of modern technology might not be a smartphone or smartwatch. - Read the rest The post This tiny tracker card can help you find your stuff for $20 appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1997, Robert J. Bradbury proposed the matrioshka brain - a hypothetical megastructure of "immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere." The name comes from matryoshka nesting dolls. The idea: wrap a star in multiple concentric Dyson spheres, each one computing with the waste heat of the sphere inside it. - Read the rest The post A computer the size of a star would nest Dyson spheres like Russian dolls appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1971, Ron Morehead and Al Berry set up camp in the Sierra Nevada mountains to record evidence of Bigfoot. Morehead was a believer. Berry was a skeptic looking to debunk a hoax. On the tape, the two can be heard whispering to each other before distant howls begin. - Read the rest The post In 1971 two campers recorded what a Navy linguist calls a nonhuman language in the Sierra Nevadas appeared first on Boing Boing.

At 2:25 a.m. on February 25, 1942 - less than three months after Pearl Harbor - air raid sirens sounded across Los Angeles County. A total blackout was ordered. At 3:16 a.m., the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade opened fire with .50-caliber machine guns and anti-aircraft shells. - Read the rest The post In 1942 Los Angeles fired 1,440 anti-aircraft rounds at nothing appeared first on Boing Boing.

Russia currently has 44 publicly acknowledged closed cities with a combined population of approximately 1.5 million people. The government calls them "closed administrative-territorial formations," or ZATO. Seventy-five percent are run by the Ministry of Defense; the rest are administered by Rosatom, the state nuclear agency. - Read the rest The post Russia has 44 secret cities with 1.5 million people that don't appear on public maps appeared first on Boing Boing.

JPMorgan Chase has terminated a senior executive seen on video taking a city trash can during the New York Knicks' championship parade, TMZ reported.The bank told the New York Post it fired Angie Baez after reviewing footage from the June parade. - Read the rest The post JPMorgan Chase cans executive who stole trash can appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Cigar Galaxy is a cosmic mess: warped, dusty, furiously making stars, and apparently photogenic enough that Webb stared at it for nearly three days and produced a 223-megapixel glamour shot.The new image combines Webb's ability to peer through dust with Hubble's view of glowing gas and dusty structure. - Read the rest The post Webb spent three days photographing one beautiful galactic mess appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Katanning All Ages Playground in Western Australia looks like so much fun. It features a large, free outdoor play space designed for visitors of every age, not just children. Some of the equipment looks more like a human-powered ride than a typical play structure, and I wish I could go visit right now. - Read the rest The post Free all-ages playground in Western Australia has a 35-meter walkway and flying fox appeared first on Boing Boing.

This kitty roller coaster is completely virtual, and hilarious. The coaster involves a POV video on a TV of a ride down a part indoor, part outdoor track. The coaster is slow moving, and passes by other cats while Led Zeppelin plays. - Read the rest The post Cat goes full rider mode watching POV roller coaster on TV appeared first on Boing Boing.

This video of a hot pot restaurant in Taiwan shows a video of a fan playing on a TV while people eat. The digital fan rotates back and forth in a way that is somehow convincing, even knowing it's just a video. - Read the rest The post Taiwan hot pot restaurant plays a fan video instead of running AC appeared first on Boing Boing.

And they were doing so well, too! This must be part of that brand revitalization Xbox - oh, sorry, XBOX - has been bragging about since getting a new CEO. Stop me if you've heard this one before: the rising cost of components, propelled by the completely pointless AI boom, is forcing consumer hardware manufacturers to up their prices. - Read the rest The post Xbox raises console prices by up to $150 starting August appeared first on Boing Boing.

I can't pretend I'm immune to Nintendo DS nostalgia, okay? Nintendo's little clamshell that could was the last true handheld console we ever got (well, to be technical, its eventual upgrade the 3DS was), and just looking at mine in its eternal closet prison is enough to transport me back to a simpler time when one device was for one thing. - Read the rest The post Make your phone look and feel like a Nintendo DS appeared first on Boing Boing.

Truly, the turning of the seasons can be best measured by the rotating Steam sales. More than anything else, it feels like these are the factor most responsible for Valve becoming so powerful they feel like they can charge a thousand dollars for their underpowered cube: whoever you are, and wherever you are on the planet, you can get games for cheap on Steam. - Read the rest The post Steam Summer Sale is back with Witcher 3 at $4, Cyberpunk under $20 appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1897, The Strand Magazine - the London monthly best known as the home of Sherlock Holmes - published a photograph of a polished green jade specimen under the heading "The Price of a Man." The caption described it as "of very considerable interest, not only on account of its beauty as a fine specimen of the green jade, now so rare, but also from the fact of its representing the price paid by cannibals of the Mare Islands, Polynesia, for a fat man for eating purposes." - Read the rest The post The Strand once published a jade specimen worth exactly one fat man appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: For just $21.97 (reg. $49.99), you can get a portable charging tool that fits right on your keyring. Get theGoCable: 8-in-1 Keyring Cablebefore the sale ends tomorrow!Traveling with baggage is already a hassle before you add in the multiple security checks you have to go through at airports. - Read the rest The post Cut cable clutter with this 8-in-1 keyring charging tool for $22 during Deal Days appeared first on Boing Boing.

Retroid announced details of its Retroid Pocket Nova, a horizontal handheld built around a 4.5-inch 1280*960 120Hz AMOLED display in the 4:3 aspect ratio that God intended.Inside is Qualcomm's QCS8550 chip with Adreno 740 graphics, functionally close to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 but without the phone stuff. - Read the rest The post Retroid's Pocket Nova takes a second shot at getting 4:3 right appeared first on Boing Boing.

ICE agents reportedly tracked down a Syracuse poll worker on Election Day to demand she remove an Instagram post, because apparently, federal immigration enforcement now includes showing up in person to do content moderation for hurt feelings.According to Syracuse.com, Paigelynne Gonyea was working as a poll worker at the Central Library on Salina Street when two ICE agents contacted her, came inside, and handed her a warning letter over an Instagram account they claimed might violate federal law. - Read the rest The post ICE does in-person Instagram moderation now appeared first on Boing Boing.

Generative AI was supposed to make computers smarter, but its most immediate consumer benefit appears to be making every other computer more expensive.The Verge reports that Apple is raising prices across much of its lineup: the MacBook Neo jumps from $599 to $699, the iPad Air from $599 to $749, and the M3 Ultra Mac Studio from $3,999 to $5,299. - Read the rest The post Apple raises prices because AI ate the RAM appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool mystery has everything: alleged vandals, a $16 million rush job, algae, peeling blue coating, and one enormous clue shaped like the presidential motorcade that drove across the freshly coated empty pool before it was refilled.AP reports that the Park Service reported the damage to the U.S. - Read the rest The post Ignoring tire tracks, NPS hunts mystery Reflecting Pool vandal appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Bob Ross painting titled Mountain Summit is headed to auction June 30, and the proceeds will benefit Ball State PBS, the Muncie station that helped turn Ross's soft-spoken landscape magic into public television immortality.Ross created Mountain Summit for season 13 of The Joy of Painting. - Read the rest The post A rare Bob Ross painting could sell for a happy little fortune appeared first on Boing Boing.

Shades of Death Road is a real two-lane road in Warren County, New Jersey, running 6.7 miles through forest and swamp. According to Weird NJ, residents have gone "so far as to smear the pole holding the street sign" with grease to stop people from stealing it. - Read the rest The post New Jersey has a road called Shades of Death and residents grease the sign to stop theft appeared first on Boing Boing.

By the summer of 1858, three million Londoners were flushing their sewage into the Thames through an aging system that emptied directly into the river. Temperatures hit 48 C (118 F) in the sun. The water level dropped. Raw effluent sat on the banks. - Read the rest The post In 1858 the Thames smelled so bad that Parliament fled and Disraeli called it a 'Stygian pool' appeared first on Boing Boing.

From July to September 2001, heavy downpours of red-colored rain fell across the southern Indian state of Kerala, staining clothes pink. Yellow, green, and black rain also appeared. Each milliliter of rain water contained about 9 million red particles. Scientists estimated that 50,000 kilograms of them fell in total. - Read the rest The post Blood-red rain fell on India for two months and some physicists blamed a comet appeared first on Boing Boing.

In August 2008, German developer Armin Heinrich released I Am Rich on the App Store for $999.99 - the maximum price Apple allowed. The app displayed a glowing red gem. Press the gem and it showed a mantra: "I am rich / I deserv [sic] it / I am good, healthy & successful." - Read the rest The post The $999.99 iPhone app that did absolutely nothing sold 8 copies before Apple killed it appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1847, a young Crow hunting party killed the wife of John Garrison Johnston, a former Navy deserter turned mountain man in Montana Territory. According to historian Andrew Mehane Southerland, "He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers" to avenge her death, and "as his reputation and collection of scalps grew, Johnson became an object of fear." - Read the rest The post A mountain man spent 25 years eating the livers of the people who killed his wife appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Leica SL3-P is its new full-frame mirrorless camera, landing in the middle of the L-mount SL line with a 44-megapixel sensor, plain black controls and no red dot. As discreet as a $7k-ish camera might be, then, it's aimed at working photogs in need of multishot frame-stacking, 14 stops of dynamic range, 8K open-gate video, and 5-axis stabilisation. - Read the rest The post Leica's SL3-P loses the dot, gets 8K open-gate video appeared first on Boing Boing.

A while ago, we talked about the fact that Meta's employees were upset that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to watch them use their computers while they were on the clock. It's irony so delicious you wanna eat it with a ladle. 1,600 of Meta's minions signed a petition against being treated the same way that Meta has been treating Facebook users for years. - Read the rest The post Facebook employee data exposed in Meta's own surveillance program appeared first on Boing Boing.

During Grandpa Puddin' Brain's first term, he declared that COVID-19 wasn't a big deal. He asserted that he wouldn't close the country down for a flu, so COVID wasn't gonna lock the doors either. He scoffed at how dangerous the coronavirus was at the time, downplaying the danger that the pandemic represented and said that it would simply "go away." - Read the rest The post CDC buried this COVID vaccine study, so scientists published it anyway appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: The certified refurbishedHP EliteBook 840 G8packs a Core i5 processor, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and Windows 11 Pro for $274.97 (reg. $899.98) during Deal Days.The laptop industry would prefer that you replace your computer every few years. - Read the rest The post Deal Days knocks this HP EliteBook workhorse down to $275 appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace's newly renovated Reflecting Pool turned green, peeled apart, and became a national monument to contractor-grade grift, so naturally, Trump has identified the real villain: an alleged Hillary-Biden-ActBlue pool saboteur.This is the thing Donholio does when reality is too small for him. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal appeared first on Boing Boing.

8BitDo's Arcade Controller Pro is a Hit Box-style device that trades the arcade stick for a button-only layout. The new model tightens the cluster and adds a fifth programmable button while keeping the slim profile of last year's original. A wee LCD display is the fanciest upgrade, showing live inputs, battery level, and settings normally buried in the app. - Read the rest The post 8BitDo's button-only arcade controller gets a tiny screen appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Babbel's lifetime plan gives you access to14 languages, 10,000+ hours of lessons, AI conversation practice, and courses created by 100+ linguists-all for a one-time $134.99 payment during Deal Days.Learning a new language is one of those goals that tends to sit on a to-do list for years. - Read the rest The post Learn 14 languages from 100+ linguists while this Deal Days Babbel offer is still valid appeared first on Boing Boing.

Carlos Castaneda's 1968 book The Teachings of Don Juan recounted his apprenticeship to a peyote-dosing Yaqui shaman named don Juan. The University of California Press published it as anthropology; it became an international bestseller and drew fans from John Lennon and Joni Mitchell to George Lucas and Octavio Paz. - Read the rest The post Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1916, a bearded Long Island showman named Louis Enricht gathered reporters on his lawn and offered them a gasoline substitute that would "sell for a penny a gallon" - wartime alchemy, with gas running short on Europe's battlefields. He had them inspect a small car's empty tank, fill a bucket with garden-hose water, then tip in two ounces of a greenish, almond-smelling fluid. - Read the rest The post In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford appeared first on Boing Boing.

Writer John Biggs wanted no part of psychedelics, he writes in his newsletter - he pictured being "trapped in a room with a bunch of weirdos while they sang songs and listened to techno." But he was in a bad way after his father's death: drinking, gaining weight, and stuck on the antidepressant Pristiq, which he calls "a numbing pill" that gave "painful zaps" whenever he tried to quit. - Read the rest The post Mushrooms got him off antidepressants, so he built TripSitter appeared first on Boing Boing.

Pete Hegseth gave the flu virus a stirring lecture about freedom, and the flu virus responded by infecting hundreds of recruits at Lackland Air Force Base.This was not an unknowable mystery. Basic training is basically a respiratory virus theme park: recruits sleep close together, train close together, shower close together, and spend weeks exhausted in a giant human cough terrarium. - Read the rest The post Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches appeared first on Boing Boing.