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Whenever I go to Japan, I like to shop at Daiso. It's kind of like a dollar store in the U.S., except the stuff is good.It was started by Hirotake Yano, who was born in Beijing in 1943. He had an interesting background. - Read the rest The post Japan's Daiso is like a dollar store, except a thousand times better appeared first on Boing Boing.

It's been a little while since I've sat down and written about a hyperspecific corner of the Internet that brings me joy. Whether that's because I haven't been looking too hard or because the Internet is slowly being drained of joy is anyone's guess. - Read the rest The post Good Trailcams collects the animal kingdom's most candid moments appeared first on Boing Boing.

No longer will Americans have to go without delicious and inexpensive industrial dyes in their foodstuffs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly to allow additives to be added to food without safety review so long as they aren't proven to be carcinogenic and introduced at levels below 0.5 parts per billion. - Read the rest The post New FDA loophole would allow toxic chemicals into food appeared first on Boing Boing.

A crazy spectacle erupted when a 20-inch Harvest Midstream natural-gas pipeline exploded Tuesday afternoon near La Boca, New Mexico, shooting flames an estimated 50 to 100 feet into the air and setting the surrounding brush and trees on fire.Residents near La Boca described the pipeline explosion as sounding like an F-16 taking off in their neighbor's yard. - Read the rest The post New Mexico pipeline explodes, launches 100-foot flames and starts a wildfire appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom Gammill stars in an absolutely hilarious new limited-run play in New York City, A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller.Photo: Ruben BollingErnie Bushmiller was the author of the comic strip Nancy, about a little girl living with her glamorous Aunt Fritzi, and her tough boyfriend Sluggo, which he produced for hundreds of newspapers from 1938-1982. - Read the rest The post A theatrical morning with Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller appeared first on Boing Boing.

Only a few days ago, I noted that we're entering another golden age of video game adaptations after the 90s put us off the whole idea for a while. I love when I'm proven right almost immediately.Unlike The Finals or ARC Raiders, Cyberpunk 2077's biggest strength is arguably its world and story: the game is an adaptation of a tabletop roleplaying universe that's been running since the 80s, and its revised version of that world has spawned spinoffs of its own. - Read the rest The post Cyberpunk 2077 to get a live-action adaptation appeared first on Boing Boing.

The gorgeous, adorable puzzler Machinarium is getting a sequel seventeen years after its release. Machinarium 2 looks to be a worthy successor to the original, with everything that made it great. According to the publisher Amanita:

Somehow, intending to leave people thinking he meant he is protecting Southern California, home to a good percentage of the United States military might, R&D, and educational institutions, Grandpa Pudding Brains once again invites Iran to shoot missiles it does not have at the United States. - Read the rest The post "A missile into San Diego or Los Angeles," Trump again describes the danger he brought home appeared first on Boing Boing.

"I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports." - JD Vance's personal definition of socialism.Sycophant and Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, was asked for his personal definition of socialism and answered with talking points intended to inflame tempers and anger bigots. - Read the rest The post JD Vance defines socialism with bigotry, not economics or socialism appeared first on Boing Boing.

Neal Agarwal's site, Neal.fun, is filled with, well, fun stuff from the vaguely tortuous Password Game to the wholesome Internet Roadtrip. His latest creation, in collaboration with Wired, feels like an indictment of late-stage capitalism. Spend Elon Musk's Money is a follow-up to Spend Bill Gates' Money, in which you make virtual purchases to deplete all the filthy lucre. - Read the rest The post Wired and Neal.fun team up to spend Elon's trillion dollars appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: The refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2 packs a six-core Ryzen 5 PRO processor, 16GB of RAM, and Windows 11 Pro into a tiny desktop for $329.99 (reg. $749.99).Desktop computers are supposed to occupy an inconvenient amount of desk. - Read the rest The post Your monitors may take up more space than this tiny Lenovo PC appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Los Angeles. L.A. Desert city. Winner of water wars, destroyer of the Owens Valley.The Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula will soon offer Dune fans the opportunity to stick their hands into a box full of unbearable pain, and I don't mean watching Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya act. - Read the rest The post Will you survive the Gom Jabbar? Los Angeles gets a real-life Arrakis, waiver included appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having repeatedly tried to call his Florida dinner club "The Winter White House," Dementia Don has found a new grift: turning part of his private golf club into a new Presidential retreat a la Camp David without the gravitas or tradition. - Read the rest The post Trump wants to turn his private golf club into a presidential retreat appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tempe police released a video showing Eryn Bonner failing to obey the cops. Sadly, for Tempe's finest, the video also shows what they did about it. One of their officers shoves the 21-year-old ASU student to the ground, tackles her against a police bicycle and then punches her in face. - Read the rest The post Tempe cop punches 21-year-old woman in the face; police union calls it the "minimum required" appeared first on Boing Boing.

It's taken 37 years for Nintendo's humble Game Boy to hit puberty, but the hour has finally come. What's even cooler than a video game console you can carry around in your pocket? One the size of an actual person that runs on game cartridges a family of four could eat dinner on, of course. - Read the rest The post Game Boy becomes Game Man with giant-sized version appeared first on Boing Boing.

Defending a war only he wanted, Donald Trump offered Los Angeles and San Diego up as sacrificial lambs to Iran. Scoffing, Iran has no interest in civilian targets. The war has cost the United States over 80 aircraft, and at least 8 US bases have been hit. - Read the rest The post After hitting U.S. bases, Iran's LEGO propagandists tell Trump: "bases, not bedrooms" appeared first on Boing Boing.

An engagement accompanied by the Southern California standard, a mariachi band, was interrupted by an angry woman declaring, "This isn't Mexico!"Technically, the bitter bigot is correct. Mexico ceded California in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Culturally, she's pretty far off tho. - Read the rest The post "This isn't Mexico!" yells woman standing on land the U.S. took from Mexico in a war appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Texas Senate race is already off the rails. The Republicans are desperately trying to discourage folks from voting for James Talarico, without reminding them that the candidate they would be voting for is Ken Paxton.It is great to see Talarico has a sense of humor and understands what it takes to win in the US these days. - Read the rest The post Talarico ad hilariously highlights just how many scandals Ken Paxton has had appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Autonomous is an AI-forward company that sells everything from a coaster that tracks how much water you drink, a creepy-cute Pixar-esque companion lamp, to $20,000 backyard office pods. Another offering is the Autonomous Key, which promises to help kick the doomscrolling habit. - Read the rest The post Perhaps humiliation is the productivity hack we've been waiting for appeared first on Boing Boing.

Embark's promised big next step in Arc Raiders is set to release on October 8th. Will it bring back the fading player base?Arc Raiders had one of the most exciting launches and ramp-ups in years. It held on for a few months, but then rapidly lost players, at a rate that seemed intentional but was not. - Read the rest The post Will Frozen Trail turn it around for Arc Raiders? appeared first on Boing Boing.

The new Star Wars racing game is available for free on a service you likely forgot exists. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out today on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, but also on Amazon Luna, free to play for Prime members. - Read the rest The post Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to play for Prime members appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Doom, the classic first-person shooter, brought PCs to their knees in 1993. But now it runs on toothbrushes and earbuds and has even been implemented on the Commodore 64. Now it has been ported to SQL, the structured query language used by many relational databases. - Read the rest The post Doom ported to SQL appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Natural healing" coach Barbara O'Neill is permanently banned from providing health services in Australia, but will soon be touring Britain and Ireland to deliver lectures such as 'The Science of Breath' and 'What Really Does Cause Disease.'O'Neill has claimed that cancer can be treated with baking soda; the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission found in 2019 that she had discouraged mainstream cancer treatment, antibiotics and vaccination, and that her claims had 'real potential to have a detrimental effect on the health of individuals'

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Donald Trump sent U.S. service members to war in Iran. When an Iranian drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait killed six and left dozens wounded, nine report they were not classified as wounded and were left to figure out their own medical care. - Read the rest The post Wounded U.S. troops say the Pentagon left them to fight for their own medical care appeared first on Boing Boing.

Still failing to read the room, Sam Altman thinks the world should accept "some bad things happening" for the benefits of artificial intelligence.This is an incredible bargain to offer humanity while Forbes says you're worth about $3.3 billion, and the bad things under discussion include other people getting hacked, scammed, and otherwise abused by the technology that made you that $3.3 billion. - Read the rest The post AI billionaire Sam Altman says the world should accept "some bad things happening" for AI appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having abandoned Donald Trump for a longer-lasting future that doesn't involve being left to die with the press corps, Karoline Leavitt surprises us only by jumping to Fox News so quickly.Leavitt was one of Trump's most vile press secretaries. Not the pitiful joke of Scaramucci, or the weakness embodied by Spicey, Karoline "The Mouth of Moron" Leavitt was a hopped-up, supercharged version of Huckabee-Sanders with nothing but spite for the American people. - Read the rest The post Having spent enough time with her family, Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News appeared first on Boing Boing.

The President of the United States stood in a high school gym in Vandalia, Ohio, and described his vision of a Republican victory this November, insisting they'd "shove it up their ass." The audience cheered.Trump was stumping for Ohio Republicans Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy when he resorted to the kind of argument MAGA can really get behind:Apparently the face-eating leopards have evolved. - Read the rest The post Trump tells Ohio Republicans: "We're gonna shove it up their ass" appeared first on Boing Boing.

This is the kind of Paul Reubens story that just makes you love him more. The Pee-wee Herman actor had an incredible Mr. T memorabilia collection.The comedian amassed two A-Team kites, fake gold chains, "Gold" chain bubble gum, air fresheners, party hats, coloring books, an action figure, and a Mr. - Read the rest The post Paul Reubens' magnificent Mr. T collection is up for sale appeared first on Boing Boing.

With the hype behind Grand Theft Auto 6 reaching cataclysmic levels, it was only a matter of time before our other American cultural institutions started taking notice. Let no one say that Saturday Night Live hasn't cast off its reputation for being slightly behind the times: they've finally done a GTA 6 sketch. - Read the rest The post SNL does GTA 6 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Potter & Potter Auctions just closed its "Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos" auction, and it is fun to browse through the catalog and see what was offered and how much money people paid. Items included books on pseudoscience, human skulls, wooden boxes full of glass eyes, quack medical devices, apothecary jars, pickled medical specimens, death masks, exotic weapons, the Lord's Prayer on a grain of wheat, binders of mugshot photos, and more. - Read the rest The post Glass eyes, death masks, and human skulls: browse a weird auction's results appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace has lost his multiple bids to slap his failure-associated name on a revered institution and has been ordered not to tear it down on a whim, so he is selling off the parts.Movers have been photographed hauling out the Steinways, which AlterNet reports are being sold because the Center is closed. - Read the rest The post Trump's Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways appeared first on Boing Boing.

Newcastle University in the United Kingdom has a new Professor of Sustainability: Anant Ambani, the heir to an Indian fossil fuels fortune and owner of an enormous zoo. Ambani earned the professorship for "his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare and environmental stewardship" (he owns an enormous zoo) and "significant contributions to advancing a more sustainable future" (biggest oil company in India), reported The Guardian, to howls of laughter and derision. - Read the rest The post Indian oil billionaire's son appointed "professor of sustainability" at Newcastle University appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and scheduled for release on October9, the "definitive and unvarnished examination" of the world's richest person was years in the making and was well-received at its premier at the Venice Film Festival. - Read the rest The post Official trailer for "Musk" documentary appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've maintained for a while now that GTA 6's marketing runup has exemplified everything wrong with the way games are sold today, from Rockstar skipping out on making a physical edition to the paywalled trailers to, inexplicably, a Vice City-scented candle. - Read the rest The post GTA 6 collector's edition will cost $400, will not include the game appeared first on Boing Boing.

For over a hundred years, Denali's huskies have patrolled 1,000s of miles of wilderness. Hauling supplies through desperate conditions, these dogs are government employees who receive no paycheck. The Trump Administration doesn't want to pay for their caretakers.

A new species of wild cat has been identified in a Bolivian forest: The Tilcayo cat is in the genus Leopardus, a group of small cats native to the Americas, and is smaller than a domestic cat.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is fifteen years old. While it's undoubtedly one of the best games ever made, anything will start to wear thin after a decade and a half, except perhaps true love and/or illegal narcotics. With the sequel still nowhere to be seen outside of vague promises from Bethesda that it is a real game that's still being worked on, we swear, Skyrim's fans have had to get... creative to squeeze more enjoyment out of their favorite game. - Read the rest The post A Skyrim player has taken 397 days to reach quest nine of 19 appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 2019, Durham, North Carolina's Can Opener Bridge, formerly with 11 feet, 8 inches of clearance, was raised to 12 feet, 4 inches, reducing but not eliminating the entertaining and completely preventable shearing off of roofs and air conditioning units. - Read the rest The post Durham's can opener bridge has a new rival in Ohio appeared first on Boing Boing.

M-Vave's FM-1, a tiny ~$70 clone of the legendary Yamaha DX7, is the "synth of the summer". It even has a built-in speaker, so you can play it on the go with its tiny rubbery keys. While it doesn't come with the original patch banks, they're easy to copy over, and it has superpowers that weren't around in the 1980s such as MIDI over USB-C and Bluetooth. - Read the rest The post M-Vave FM-1 clones the Yamaha DX7 and puts it in your pocket appeared first on Boing Boing.

Valve is said to be selling 12,000 Steam Machines a week (previously at Boing Boing), despite an indefinite waitlist and a much higher price than originally anticipated (not their fault). If you've got one, then, you'll be pleased to see iFixit's comprehensive repair guide-also interesting if you just want to see inside one. - Read the rest The post iFixit's repair guide for the Steam Machine appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The Trump Administration has done an excellent job of hiding the damage Iranian drones and missiles have wrought on US bases across the Middle East.The Pentagon's inspector general now says Iranian attacks damaged or destroyed hundreds of structures across eight countries. - Read the rest The post Hundreds of buildings, nearly 60 aircraft: the Iran war damage Americans haven't seen appeared first on Boing Boing.

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In 1974, the North American Wildlife Research Team identified the obvious problem with Bigfoot research: nobody had caught one. So they built a trap.They caught some bears and then locked the trap open. Bigfoot is far too smart for this stuff. - Read the rest The post Oregon's Bigfoot trap remains conspicuously Bigfoot-free appeared first on Boing Boing.