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This video shows a tame crow perched on a person's lap in a workshop, getting its feathers brushed. When the person puts the brush down, the crow calmly demands more by hopping onto the table, taking the small wire brush in its beak, and handing it back to the person. - Read the rest The post Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Playdate's hand crank was built for games, but it keeps luring developers to go weird. Ancient Loops, a free download from the two-person French team EVB Studio, isn't a game - it has "no levels, no chapters, no fail state, and no unlockable progression." - Read the rest The post Ancient Loops turns the Playdate's crank into a sound instrument appeared first on Boing Boing.

Stanley Kubrick is one of those directors: One with enough vision to change the course of any film genre he touches but, enough brains to know that art has to be popular-enjoyable to the average movie going schmoe-in order to make bank. - Read the rest The post The Criterion Collection's Stanley Kubrick set is coming for your wallet appeared first on Boing Boing.

The campaign against the creative class has rustled up a surprising new foot soldier: A24 Films. It seems that the production house, known for artsy-fartsy (God, how I love them) horror and suspense flicks, has accepted a $75 million dollar investment from Google to partner up on the creation of new film making tools. - Read the rest The post A24 Films succumbs to the AI darkside appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tucker Carlson says he is done supporting the Republican Party, which is awkward because few living Americans have spent more time helping make it what it is.

A very connected 79-year-old chonker reportedly got access to Eli Lilly's experimental obesity drug retatrutide, and the White House will not directly say whether that man is McDonald's slurping Grandpa Pudding Brains.Raw Story summarizes STAT's report that Lilly and the FDA allowed one unidentified 79-year-old patient to receive retatrutide through compassionate use, also known as expanded access. - Read the rest The post Is Grandpa Pudding Brains the mystery patient getting the super-Ozempic? appeared first on Boing Boing.

People waited in line outside Arizona's first Buc-ee's on Sunday, because America has reached the part of the simulation where a truck stop gets a rope line.The new Buc-ee's opened June 22 in Goodyear, just west of Phoenix, and it is not some humble roadside snack closet. - Read the rest The post People line up to shop at Arizona's new gas-station cathedral appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Anti-PowerPoint Party is a real Swiss political party "dedicated to decreasing professional use of Microsoft PowerPoint and other forms of presentation software." According to Wikipedia, the party claims presentation software "causes national-economic damage amounting to 2.1 billion CHF" a year and lowers the quality of a presentation in "95% of the cases." - Read the rest The post There is a real Swiss political party devoted to abolishing PowerPoint appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DRGrabalifetime subscription to Transfr Pro file transferfor a one-time payment of $99.99 (reg. $499).You know the routine. You're trying to send a 4GB video, a folder of RAW photos, or a Photoshop file that somehow ballooned past 2GB. - Read the rest The post Send giant files and see who opened them with a lifetime subscription to this $100 tool appeared first on Boing Boing.

California's sunflower sea stars were nearly erased by wasting disease and warming water. Recently, scientists found 18 of them off the Sonoma County coast.SFGATE reports that divers near Sea Ranch found the largest known group of wild sunflower sea stars seen in California waters since a mass die-off began in 2013. - Read the rest The post California's vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished appeared first on Boing Boing.

Grandpa Pudding Brains ordered the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted "American flag blue," watched it turn fresh engine-coolant green, and is now hunting for vandals in his $14.7 million algae farm.Since the Orange Menace declared the problems at the memorial were due to vandals, and not grift, arrests have been made, and a dead duckling has been found. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains is hunting for vandals in his $14.7 million algae farm appeared first on Boing Boing.

Families came to Delaney Hall on Father's Day asking ICE to free detained dads. Instead, a woman was hit by a car, from behind, while protesting at the Newark detention center entrance. Protesters say ICE agents responded not by assisting the woman, but by deploying pepper spray and mace. - Read the rest The post ICE pepper-sprays Father's Day protest after woman is run over appeared first on Boing Boing.

Jerry Gretzinger is 84, and for most of the past six decades he has spent nearly every day adding to a single map - now more than 4,000 hand-painted panels of a place that doesn't exist. In a People Make Games documentary, Gretzinger explains that what he draws isn't up to him. - Read the rest The post For 60 years, an 84-year-old has let a deck of cards build his map appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Kbanya cellar system under the 10th district of Budapest is, according to Wikipedia, "the largest cellar complex in the country" - a network of tunnels estimated at 32 to 35 km long beneath 44 to 54 acres. It began in the Middle Ages as an underground limestone quarry that supplied stone for the Hungarian Parliament, the Szechenyi Chain Bridge, and the State Opera House. - Read the rest The post A 20-mile maze under Budapest hid a secret WWII aircraft engine plant appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1913 a party set out to map Crocker Land, "a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906." Peary had named it after San Francisco banker George Crocker, one of his backers. - Read the rest The post An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist appeared first on Boing Boing.

A study published in Neuroscience by researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found structural differences in those who hold authoritarian beliefs - on both the left and the right. Right-wing authoritarians had lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in understanding other people's thoughts and perspectives. - Read the rest The post Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning appeared first on Boing Boing.

This sweet video shows a honeybee curled up inside of a flower bed. The timelapse shows the bee wrapped around the inner part of the flower, as the petals slowly close inward. I can't imagine a more enchanting place to lay down than inside the cozy bed of this orange flower. - Read the rest The post Honeybee curls up inside closing flower in timelapse video appeared first on Boing Boing.

As I've stated, I did not watch Donald Trump's masturbatory UFC Freedom 250 fight. I spent the day kicking my heels and giggling over Bob Odenkirk returning to his most iconic character for his American anniversary celebration instead. If I have to watch a narcissist, I'd like him to at least be a well-written one! - Read the rest The post The Good Liars went to Freedom 250 so the rest of us didn't have to appeared first on Boing Boing.

Between 1993 and 2009, investigators across Austria, France, and Germany found DNA from the same unknown woman at 40 crime scenes - murders, burglaries, a police officer shot in Heilbronn. A special task force codenamed Parkplatz worked the case for years; by January 2009, the reward had reached 300,000. - Read the rest The post The 'Phantom of Heilbronn' serial killer turned out to be a cotton swab factory worker appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1888, a French government official named Charles-Marie David de Mayrena was sent into the highlands of what is now Vietnam to negotiate treaties with local tribes. Instead, he convinced the tribes to crown him king. He took the name Marie the First, established a capital at the village of Kon Gung, and declared the Kingdom of Sedang on 3 June 1888. - Read the rest The post In 1888, a French adventurer convinced Vietnamese tribes to crown him king appeared first on Boing Boing.

"The greatest diplomatic troll of all time"Grandpa Pudding Brains signed a peace deal at Versailles, because apparently nobody in the room had a history teacher, a calendar, or access to the phrase "ominous symbolism."Versailles remains a bold venue for anyone announcing a peace deal with reparations. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains announces another Treaty of Versailles appeared first on Boing Boing.

MAD Magazine published its 600th issue this week, and celebrated with a gorgeous cover (and back cover) by the reigning champ of MAD cartooning, Sergio Aragones. Aragones's first appearance in the magazine was in issue #76, published in 1963.Posted with the permission of DC ComicsIt's quite a milestone for a publication that started in 1952 as a comic book, and as a way for Harvey Kurtzman to write humor for EC Comics, instead of the research-heavy, time-consuming war comics he'd been writing. - Read the rest The post MAD hits 600 issues; still, thankfully, hilariously juvenile appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Max Fosh is the only YouTube prankster out there worth a damn. He's not obnoxious, he isn't self-centered, and most rare of all, he doesn't hurt anyone. His workflow begins with isolating a ridiculously silly idea, like hiring stuntmen to throw a fight so he can look cool in front of his friends, and doing everything possible to realize it. - Read the rest The post Becoming a British royal with nothing more than confidence and an accent appeared first on Boing Boing.

How many times do you think I can get away with saying Spider-Man in this post? You know, for maximum SEO points? Let's give it a shot:The upcoming Avengers: Doomsday is rumored to be a sort of soft reset for the MCU. - Read the rest The post Spider-Man continues to do the things only a spider can in the new trailer for the latest "Spider-Man" movie appeared first on Boing Boing.

Meta laid off thousands of workers, started monitoring employees' computers, assigned people to train the AI that may replace them, and then discovered the real missing ingredient: snacks.Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth told employees morale is "probably one of the worst it's ever been" and that the "vibes are off." - Read the rest The post Meta lays off thousands, monitors workers, increases the snack budget appeared first on Boing Boing.

Grandpa Pudding Brains tried to sound tough about America and somehow wandered into saying that strength is based on stolen elections."Nobody plays rougher than the United States," Trump said. "Look, our elections are totally rigged. We have rigged elections." It is the usual election-denial poison, but with an extra little Freudian garnish: he says "we" right after bragging about how rough the United States plays. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains brags about how rigged U.S. elections are appeared first on Boing Boing.

Forget the pet-shop fluffball on a squeaky wheel. Europe's wild hamsters are out in Vienna's graveyards stuffing their faces, throwing hands, and living like tiny cemetery goblins.Not a Biologist shares wildlife filmmaker Yaz Ellis' look at the surprisingly dramatic lives of wild hamsters in Vienna's cemeteries. - Read the rest The post Vienna's graveyards are full of hardcore hamsters appeared first on Boing Boing.

Asked whether anyone would be held accountable for a strike on an elementary school that killed more than 100 children, Grandpa Pudding Brains said no, called it "a strange question," and shrugged: "Mistakes are made."The children were killed in the active voice. - Read the rest The post "Mistakes are made": Grandpa Pudding Brains shrugs at school strike that killed over 100 appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Get alifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Profor just $9.97 (reg. $199).Deal Days, Stack Social's Prime Day equivalent, is an excellent time to get the software you've always wanted at a great bargain; and this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license is a great example of why. - Read the rest The post Get Windows 11 Pro for life for just $10 during Deal Days appeared first on Boing Boing.

It should come as no surprise by now that I enjoy a good scambait. Scambaiting, or the art of deliberately wasting scammers' time, has become a bit of a flourishing practice of late. All the better for people who love both being entertained and watching criminal activity get foiled. - Read the rest The post Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime appeared first on Boing Boing.

Well, this is a sweet bonus: if you own an Android foldable like a Samsung Z Series foldable, OnePlus Open or Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, you may soon have access to a customizable, virtual gamepad baked into Android 17, which is set to start rolling out to Android hardware today. - Read the rest The post Android 17 brings a customizable virtual gamepad to foldables appeared first on Boing Boing.

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead at 87, reports the court. Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court's liberal wing consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of the day, including abortion rights, same-sex marriage,…Read More

Inspired by that shitshow that is 2020, Oakland-based singer/songwriter Rachel Lark (whose bio reads "confrontational comedy punk for weird people and weird times") has just dropped an existential crisis of a music video on us for her single, "The World's Really F*cked But This Show Will Be Pretty Good." Prepare to both smile and weep.…Read More

Polish author Stanislaw Lem's 1964 sci-fi thriller, The Invincible, is being made into a videogame by Polish game company, Starward Industries. Sayeth PC Gamer: The Invincible is a 1964 hard sci-fi novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem about the crew of a powerful deep-space vessel that lands on the planet Regis 3 and learns some…Read More

Another great backyard "Live at Home" moment from BBC Radio 2. It's disco funk-rockers Chic, joined by UK singer-songwriter, Rebecca Ferguson, doing Chic's iconic 1979 disco hit, "Good Times." Kind of heartbreaking to hear such a joyous booty-shaker at this particular point in time, but it's at least fun to dance to and dream of…Read More

"Pron" was always a lie. The common misspelling of the term at hand is "porm," says PornHub, a site that would know. The infographic is a couple of years old, but I doubt literacy has improved in the meantime. "On a side note… the newly minted term "covfefe" has already been searched over 9,000 times…Read More

College engineering student Sam Zeloof, known for converting his parents' garage into a semiconductor fab while in high school, transformed a vintage Polaroid camera into a digital camera with a thermal printer scavenged from a receipt machine. Press the button and the camera spits out a photo print from what was formerly the film cartridge…Read More

NASA released this astonishingly beautiful image of Jupiter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on August 25. From NASA: Hubble's near-infrared imaging, combined with ultraviolet views, provides a unique panchromatic look that offers insights into the altitude and distribution of the planet's haze and particles. This complements Hubble's visible-light pictures that show the ever-changing cloud…Read More

If you're catching the feeling of good cheer and holiday merriment in the air, that's probably because we're smack in the middle of The Boing Boing Store's Three-Day VIP Annual Sale. One of the biggest discount shopping sprints of the year, you can save serious cash on huge collections of the best items we bring…Read More

The town of Asbestos in Quebec, Canada has long been dreaming of a new identity. Its current name was appropriate as the town was home to what was once the world's largest asbestos mine. But ever since asbestos was deemed a deadly carcinogen, the name has bummed out many of its citizens. Four new town…Read More

Musician Alexey Rom arranged this wonderful version of ABBA's classic "Dancing Queen" for a 1914 mechanical fairground organ built by Belgian makers Hooghuys. You may recall Rom as the arranger behind the below rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" performed on this same instrument:Read More

Paleontologists found this bundle of "giant sperm" in the reproductive tract of an ostracod that's been preserved for 100 million years in amber from Myanmar. From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: In fact, this is the oldest fossil in which sperm cells have been conclusively identified. Moreover, the specimen represents a previously unknown species of crustacean, which…Read More

The itty-bitty Dodocool Bluetooth speaker is surprisingly loud and distortion-free. I pair it to my phone and use it to listen to music and podcasts when I'm outside or working on projects. It's cheap, too!Read More

The Canadian government granted Uline billionaire COVID-critic Liz Uihlein an exemption to its mandatory 14-day quarantine for people entering the country. She and two companions flew into Canada on a private jet and held large meetings without masks, according to CBC News. From The Guardian: Uihlein and her husband have been called the "powerful conservative…Read More

Emma Pope nails it.Read More

Max Ravitz (aka Patricia) uses a Moog Subharmonicon, a Mother-32, and a DFAM to make beautiful music in his garden. From Moog: In this new semi-modular exploration, Asheville-based electronic music producer and Moog Product Specialist Max Ravitz (aka Patricia) brings Subharmonicon together with Mother-32 and DFAM for an intricate performance among the flora of his…Read More

Trump's "herd mentality" (sic) plan is to "infect 7 out of 10 Americans with Covid. The Trump plan will kill at least 3 million people/"Read More

"What should be a cosy, pleasant corner of the internet has become a monster," writes Sarah Manavis in New Statesmen. "Goodreads sucks, and is just shy of unbearable." Goodreads today looks and works much as it did when it was launched. The design is like a teenager's 2005 Myspace page: cluttered, random and unintuitive. Books fail…Read More

Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman takes a look at five espresso machines costing under £500 (US$650). His top overall choice is the most expensive one, the Rancilio Silvia. I've had one for about 15 years and really like it, though I added a PID temperature control unit, which cost a couple of hundred dollars, making the…Read More

Diogenes is the pithos-inhabiting star of Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, the most sadistic game to never spill a pixel of blood. He (Diogenes, not Bennett) is hereby immortalized as a $25 plushie by Makeship: "If we get 400 preorders they'll do a production run!" [via @bfod]Read More