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Karen Solomon, author of the book Hearts Beneath the Badge about how police officers serve their communities, is wanted by police after a police officer was found dead in her home. She is considered armed and dangerous and possibly wearing pajamas. - Read the rest The post Cop found dead in home of woman who wrote book praising cops appeared first on Boing Boing.

First the monster, then the photograph. With Polaroid's help, you can catch all the Pokemon twice!I always found Polaroids to be fun at a party and really nowhere else. Now you can pick one of three Pokemon edition Polaroids, starting at $99, and Pikachu out. - Read the rest The post Polaroid and Pokemon team up to catch all the moments appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trump's handpicked replacement for her dead brother's Senate seat, Darline Graham, demonstrated why she is unqualified to be a US Senator.At a debate, where Graham is trying to hold on to the job Donald Trump gifted her, the Senator was asked whether Taiwan and the South China Sea present national-security concerns. - Read the rest The post Darline Graham makes the case against Darline Graham in one answer appeared first on Boing Boing.

More and more children are being injured in "e-bike" accidents. Cops keep encountering 40-mph e-motorcycles.It's really just as simple as holding the parents responsible. E-bikes are a fantastic form of transportation and should be encouraged. Unlicensed teens and pre-teens hooning them through busy city streets isn't legal, and their parents should be reminded with a ticket. - Read the rest The post Your kid can't legally drive, so why did you buy them a 40 mph motorcycle? appeared first on Boing Boing.

Since he rode down his golden escalator, reviling Mexican immigrants, the Orange Menace has been lit up over every single poll he has heard of. Turns out he meant a different kind of pole.Diaper Don explained that "top-of-the-line" flag poles have a certain taper. - Read the rest The post Turns out Grandpa Pudding Brains' expertise is poles, not polls appeared first on Boing Boing.

In the crapshoot of streaming television, Slow Horses has been rolling nothing but sevens over the past five seasons. Its cast is solid, its writing is consistently tight and I've never had a problem with its pacing. And, as with all great TV shows of the modern age, none of the characters in the series, no matter how popular, seem safe from being liquidated: the show has killed off a lot of loveable losers over the years and is the better for it. - Read the rest The post Slow Horses season 6 is coming September 16th appeared first on Boing Boing.

NASA posted before-and-after images showing a crater dug by a Falcon 9 rocket hitting the Moon's surface on August 5, 2026. The Luna Reconnaissance Orbiter took the shots after the spectacular coda to the Firefly Blue Ghost mission.

Florida Republican Michael Caruso has strong opinions about pedophiles: they should receive the death penalty when convicted of sexually battering children under 12 years of age. He was arrested Tuesday and charged with five felony counts of child abuse.Caruso, 67, formerly Palm Beach's House Representative and its current county clerk, allegedly kidnapped and molested a young child. - Read the rest The post Florida Republican who wants child sex abusers put to death is one, say cops appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A drug dealer took his gun to a meeting with his probation officer and thereby ended up back in jail. This being England, there are few circumstances under which firearms are legal to own in the first place, and none at all if you are a convict on probation carrying a blank revolver converted to shoot live rounds. - Read the rest The post Drug dealer jailed after taking gun to probation meeting appeared first on Boing Boing.

I took a home blood test today, and it included a reusable heat pack. These things have been around since the 1970s, but this was the first time I've used one. It's a plastic pouch with liquid inside and a small metal disc stamped with many dents. - Read the rest The post How reusable heat packs work appeared first on Boing Boing.

You'll need the high-end reMarkable Paper Pro model (previously at Boing Boing), but now that Android's been ported to it, the color e-ink device can run third-party apps and connect to external peripherals.Chalid Raqami posted the feat to his YouTube channel, where he posts in-depth E-ink tablet reviews

Reputedly foul-smelling and held liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll by a federal jury in New York, Donald Trump has maintained a string of oddly dedicated aides during both his terms as United States President. Natalie Harp has been described as someone who "will jump highest" when Trump commands it. - Read the rest The post White House furious after Jon Ossoff mentions Trump's fawning aide Natalie Harp appeared first on Boing Boing.

The undeclared war with Iran is dragging on as the United States is running out of munitions, and the Orange Menace may have found his scapegoat. Rumors are that Diaper Don is gonna toss Whiskey Pete under the bus.Multiple unnamed sources have told the South China Morning Post that Hegseth's job is in danger. - Read the rest The post Trump may be ready to claim he doesn't know Pete Hegseth appeared first on Boing Boing.

Instagram has rebranded with a new logo, and it's gone in the direction so widely-disliked it had supposedly went out of fashion years ago: geometric sans-serifs. Instragram boss Adam Mosseri explains.

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My incurable optimist friend, Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired and my partner at Cool Tools and the Recomendo newsletter, has been posting essays on Substack mainly about the future, artificial intelligence, and what it means for humanity. I am loving these essays. - Read the rest The post Kevin Kelly: AI will be a microscope we point at our own minds appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having finished The Tainted Cup, I immediately dove into the next Ana and Din novel by Robert Jackson Bennett. I also finished the third in the series. Now I must wait.This series fantasy worldbuilding inside of a detective novel is really a lot of fun. - Read the rest The post Unfortunately, there are only three Ana and Din mysteries appeared first on Boing Boing.

Brian Peek scanned and shared his collection of gaming promotional VHS cassettes, including five that Atari Games sent to arcade operators in the 1990s.Peek inherited the tapes from his dad, who ran a gaming center and received them from Atari Games' then-parent company Midway. - Read the rest The post Lost VHS promos from the twilight of the arcade era appeared first on Boing Boing.

Rock harder, rock out for longer. The biohacking community has found a new trend that's easy to jump on: erectile dysfunction medication for longevity.Tho studies show nothing conclusive, the biohackers are taking Viagra and Cialis to open their blood vessels, improve cardiovascular health, and live longer than the rest of the limp populace. - Read the rest The post Harder boners for a longer life appeared first on Boing Boing.

A fountain pen or gel pen is a superior way to write, says science fiction writer Neal Stephenson. He says handwriting is good for your brain. Fountain and gel pens are better than pencils or ballpoint pens because there is less friction when you write, so your hand doesn't get tired. - Read the rest The post The Pilot Kakuno Fountain costs under $20 and writes beautifully appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1958, London's Daily Express newspaper started running a comic strip adapting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. This was well before the first James Bond movie (Dr. No, 1962), so cartoonist John McLusky created the first non-literary published images of the fictional spy. - Read the rest The post The comic strip that may have cast Sean Connery as the first James Bond appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Digi-Comp I was a plastic and rubber band toy that sold for $5 in 1963. According to Chris Staecker, a Fairfield University math professor who posted a video about its operation, "This was the first digital computer."It didn't use electricity; instead, it required the user to push and pull a "clock" lever. - Read the rest The post The Digi-Comp I was a $5 plastic computer powered by rubber bands appeared first on Boing Boing.

Just today, I became a time traveler. Unfortunately, you'll need to put aside the images of a humble writer running from dinosaurs or flirting with Cleopatra running through your head right now, but the reality is still pretty cool. What I mean is that I checked out Merriam-Webster's "time traveler" tool, which lets one take a far less literal look into the past. - Read the rest The post Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler tool sorts English words by birth year appeared first on Boing Boing.

I knew I was going to like Lynx the moment I encountered the cybernetically-enhanced, be-goggled, crime-fighting talking cat. Sometimes you just know.Lynx, the new tech-noir manga from writer Samuel Sattin (Unico, Buzzing) and Tokyo-based artist tokitokoro (Jeff the Land Shark), is out now on VIZ Originals. - Read the rest The post In Lynx, a cybernetic cat solves murders next to killer angels appeared first on Boing Boing.

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I love and still play Don Bluth's amazing video games. I never would have been able to finish them were it not for re-releases years later on several personal platforms.The animations, matched with a fantastic sense of humor, made Dragon's Lair an instant favorite. - Read the rest The post In 1983 I couldn't afford to beat Dragon's Lair appeared first on Boing Boing.

Grandpa Pudding Brains collected $166 billion in tariffs under a law the Supreme Court says does not authorize tariffs. The government has now returned $100 billion of it, but the refund doesn't reach the folks who paid higher prices.The Orange Menace claimed tariffs are a machine for restoring factories, winning trade wars and shrinking the federal deficit. - Read the rest The post Trump's $100 billion tariff refund skips the people who paid higher prices appeared first on Boing Boing.

A State Department slide that mislabeled every country on a map of Africa - Nigeria landlocked in the Sahara, Mozambique moved to the Horn - has drawn an apology, the Guardian reports. The department said it takes "full responsibility for the confusion and misrepresentation it caused for attendees, including our African partners." - Read the rest The post Every country was wrong on the State Department's map of Africa appeared first on Boing Boing.

While Los Angeles burned, betting site Polymarket offered nearly 20 ways to bet on what the flames would do next, including whether the Palisades fire would reach Santa Monica. The potential for a bettor to help their wager along is horrifying. - Read the rest The post Polymarket let gamblers bet on whether wildfire would reach Santa Monica appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you were moving diamonds across the Deccan Plateau in the 1830s, there were rules about when to set out. Leave on a Tuesday or a Thursday, on the 5th, 13th, or 28th day of the lunar month. Eat coriander seeds before a Tuesday departure and jaggery before a Thursday one. - Read the rest The post An 1832 book explains how to pick a lucky day to travel appeared first on Boing Boing.

The ad campaign for Lee Cronin's The Mummy, a gritty new take on the public domain monster, has been partially unraveled by advertising regulators in the U.K. In upholding a complaint about the movie's posters, the Advertising Standards Authority determined that those showing a "realistic impression of a dead child" were too horrid for public display. - Read the rest The post The Mummy poster banned from London Underground appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace claims his administration restored the Endangered Species Act to the meaning Antonin Scalia "explained." Scalia explained it in a dissent. The Supreme Court's 6-3 majority upheld the definition Trump's administration just erased.For 50 years, the definition of "harm" included any significant habitat modification that killed or injured wildlife by disrupting their breeding, feeding, or sheltering grounds. - Read the rest The post Trump cites a Supreme Court dissent that lost 6-3 to gut endangered-species protections appeared first on Boing Boing.

Dietitian Josie Porter, author of How Not to Take Supplements, sized up ten popular supplements for the Guardian. One of the largest multivitamin trials found a memory improvement in older adults, but it came to "roughly a quarter of a word in a 20-word recall test." - Read the rest The post A dietitian's verdict: multivitamins are useless appeared first on Boing Boing.

Polyphonic music has two or more melodic lines running at the same time, and the earliest known written example is a short piece in praise of Saint Boniface, composed around the year 900. Giovanni Varelli found it in 2014, when he was a PhD student at St John's College, Cambridge. - Read the rest The post The oldest known two-part music was written around the year 900 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A cop in suburban New Jersey stood in a ghillie suit against foliage to catch unwary drivers fooling around on their phones. They found a perfectly leafy tree on the main street in Dunellen and caught 74 in just 6 hours. - Read the rest The post Cop dressed as shrub catches 74 texting drivers in 6 hours appeared first on Boing Boing.

Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate running in Michigan's Democratic Primary, has defeated centrist Congresswoman Haley Stevens and will face Republican Mike Rogers this fall. Stevens, supported by the party's establishment, was beaten despite outspending El-Sayed by 11 to 1.

British writer Henry Oliver had his first slice of pecan pie in a Bethesda, Maryland diner, and came away amazed that Americans eat this well every day. In The Common Reader, he calls the pie part of "the ordinary sublime of American life," and says it "knocks English apple crumble into a cocked hat." - Read the rest The post An Englishman ate his first pecan pie and fell for American diners appeared first on Boing Boing.

Three Idaho National Guard troops entered Purple Heart veteran Anna King's Washington, D.C., front yard, wrestled her to the ground, and zip-tied her hands. She was later charged with assaulting them.King's lawyers believe the troops targeted her because she had spent months criticizing their deployment with signs reading "Occupation: Troops Out" and "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing." - Read the rest The post National Guard troops entered a Purple Heart veteran's yard, zip-tied her, then charged her with assaulting them appeared first on Boing Boing.

You'd think someone involved in The Rocky Horror Show couldn't get enough drama. But the musical director of a production in Vermont got so fed up with cast theatrics that he sent a series of threats to himself in a successful effort to shut the show down. - Read the rest The post Rocky Horror Show musical director sent threats to self to end production and avoid cast drama appeared first on Boing Boing.

The DOJ dropped its case against former Olympian David Hearn, citing the terrible work of Trump's handpicked contractor.Pirro's office said a Park Service engineer had documented peeling eight days before the accused vandal visited the pool, and a government witness could not connect him to the damage. - Read the rest The post "It was vandalism!" cried Grandpa Pudding Brains after his DOJ blamed his contractor's shoddy installation appeared first on Boing Boing.

A congressional candidate in Tennessee shot at four Flock cameras there, say authorities, and got four charges of felony vandalism in return.Adam Lee Heimerman, 37, of Lenoir City, shot out the cameras between in July and June while campaigning as an Independent in Tennessee's 2nd Congressional District. - Read the rest The post Congressional candidate arrested after Flock surveillance cameras shot at appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Lokesh Dhakar's ASCII Today renders your text as big block letters made out of slashes, pipes, and underscores - the kind that head old README files and source-code comments. When you type a word at ascii.today, all 50 fonts appear at once in a grid, redrawing character by character. - Read the rest The post Type a word, get it back in 50 ASCII art fonts appeared first on Boing Boing.

Conspiracy theorist and roadkill enthusiast RFK Jr. told CNN's Dana Bash she probably could not understand his argument because she was not a scientist. "Well, you're not either," she replied.Kennedy had already accused Bash of talking nonsense, being fooled and repeating information "like a parrot." - Read the rest The post America's health secretary borrows scientific credentials he does not have appeared first on Boing Boing.