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To this day, I can't think of the Republican National Convention without also thinking about Nick Lutsko's generational RNC song, which does more to capture the spirit of the median GOP voter than a million paid-off TikToks. It's an indictment of increasingly factional American politics, then, that Lutsko's intentional parody was wholly outdone by the RNC itself this year. - Read the rest The post The Good Liars find an RNC "Constitutionalist" who can't quote it appeared first on Boing Boing.

Apple's Dimensional Drawings site is a fascinating collection of images of some of its products. Not schematics but orthographic drawings of iPhones, iPads, the MacBook Neo, Apple Watches, AirPods and various accessories. Below, see some corners to check out on the watch; the roundrect has evolved into the squircle. - Read the rest The post Dimensional drawings of Apple gadgets appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Microsoft Visual Studio 2026is available until Sept. 20 at 11:59 p.m. PT. for just a one-time purchase of $29.97 (MSRP $499.99).Coding doesn't have to be the hold up anymore - fix bugs, use suggestions, and collaborate easily to code more quickly than ever withMicrosoft Visual Studio Professional. - Read the rest The post Code faster with Microsoft Visual Studio for $30 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

I recently got a Portable Car Refrigeratorfrom Euhomy. This compact portable refrigerator can fit 19 liters of food and drinks. It's easy to move and carry, and it plugs into a regular wall outlet or your car's power outlet. My favorite thing about this refrigerator is that you don't need to add ice cubes, and you can even use it as a freezer by adjusting the temperature. - Read the rest The post This portable car fridge gets cold fast and stays quiet appeared first on Boing Boing.

Watch someone turn a tin of mints, some tape, black paint, and rolls of film into a DIY film camera on the go. They make it look so simple, but that's because it actually is. This is just their own take on a classic pinhole camera. - Read the rest The post Watch someone build a working film camera out of a mint tin appeared first on Boing Boing.

If leeches make you feel squeamish, then you will absolutely despise this video. The video starts out like a daredevil who knows what they're doing. They put their rubber boot into a pond filled with a disgustingly enormous amount of leeches. - Read the rest The post A boot dipped in a pond comes out covered in starving leeches appeared first on Boing Boing.

Watch someone turn a tin of mints, some tape, black paint, and rolls of film into a DIY film camera on the go. They make it look so simple, but that's because it actually is. This is just their own take on a classic pinhole camera. - Read the rest The post Watch someone build a working film camera out of a mint tin appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've been looking to try something outside the Amazon ecosystem for my color e-reader, and I wanted to add note-taking. The Boox Note Air6C looks really cool and is supposedly fast enough to use.Unlike Kindle and Kobo, Boox is an Android-based tablet that happens to use e-ink as its screen. - Read the rest The post Boox gives its color e-ink notepad a 40% speed boost appeared first on Boing Boing.

Suno is the "best" music-generating AI platform, at least as benchmarks have it, but the newest model launched last week to mixed reviews. On one hand, Suno v6 cranks out songs fast and they more closely meet the specifications in prompts. - Read the rest The post Mixed reviews for AI music generator Suno's industry-approved new model appeared first on Boing Boing.

This e-ink display is mounted in a picture frame and sits near a window overlooking a bird feeder in Arne Giacomo's yard in Bergen, Norway.A microphone next to the birdcage picks up visiting birds' tweets and sends them to the Raspberry Pi mounted in the picture frame. - Read the rest The post A picture frame that draws birds it hears out the window appeared first on Boing Boing.

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When the Trump Administration proudly introduced its new Space Force uniforms, everyone thought they were very reminiscent of the Nazi SS, or just former immigration dunce Greg Bovino. Now we know why...Dozing Donald saw a clip from Starship Troopers and came away impressed by the uniforms. - Read the rest The post Trump wants Space Force to look like Starship Troopers. Paul Verhoeven would like him to know more appeared first on Boing Boing.

The trailer for a film about Sam Altman's dishonesty landed him a wild few days of being fired and rehired at ChatGPT.Altman is notably odd and off in most of his interviews. This movie trailer, however, fits a slasher far better than it does a story about Silicon Valley bloviating. - Read the rest The post Creepy Sam Altman biopic trailer feels more like a horror film appeared first on Boing Boing.

GAO estimates federal agencies spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave in 2025, including about $6.7 billion tied to DOGE's deferred resignation program. Good work, Elon.DOGE's celebrated plan to shrink the US government involved telling federal employees to stop working immediately, and they could keep collecting their salaries for months before resigning. - Read the rest The post DOGE spent $6.7 billion paying federal workers not to work appeared first on Boing Boing.

A gentleman allegedly reached for a gun to settle an argument and promptly shot himself in the leg. Paramedics patched him up, and then the police booked him.The thing about guns is they have only gotten more dangerous. Striker-fired pistols don't even have a hammer to warn you they are ready to go off, and trigger pulls are frequently down in the 3-4 lb range. - Read the rest The post Man allegedly reaches for a gun, immediately demonstrating one of the risks appeared first on Boing Boing.

Dolly Parton is being immortalized in corn mazes across the U.S. and Canada, a trend honoring the famed singer-songwriter and entrepreneur who died last month aged 80. At least twenty farms have created a maze of their own, each depicting the country legend and her flowing locks. - Read the rest The post Dolly Parton corn mazes popping up everywhere appeared first on Boing Boing.

Chester Zoo in England, delighting youngsters with its world-class menagerie since 1931, admits that tickets for a 'child predator tour' could have been worded better. The 90-minute bus ride features creatures such as tigers, lions and Komodo dragons, not Sidney Cooke or the embalmed corpse of Richard Huckle. - Read the rest The post Zoo offering 'child predator tour' apologizes for wording appeared first on Boing Boing.

Elias 2-24b is less than a million years old, writes Nasa's Ashley Balzer, making it the youngest planet yet observed by astronomers. Still "whirling in its natal disk of dust and gas," it orbits a similarly young orange dwarf 453 years from earth. - Read the rest The post Baby planet observed orbiting young star 453 light years from Earth appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TL;DR:Ashampoo WinOptimizer Pro 29packs 30 tools for cleaning, tuning, troubleshooting, and managing Windows PCs, with a lifetime license for up to three devices on sale for $19.99 (reg. $50).Before you blame your aging laptop for everything, it might just need a good digital cleaning. - Read the rest The post Your sluggish Windows PC might just need a $20 cleanup appeared first on Boing Boing.

This close-up video of a snail munching on its dinner made my morning a lot better. It looks as if the snail's eyes are closed and it's falling asleep while eating its bedtime snack. I assume this is how I look when I get up in the middle of the night during a bout of insomnia to snack on something. - Read the rest The post A snail eating its dinner looks exactly like a grandpa without his dentures appeared first on Boing Boing.

Have you ever seen a wind turbine sway before? When I was little and I saw them moving back and forth in the wind, I would worry that the turbine was about to snap. Wind turbines actually sway to prevent this very thing from happening. - Read the rest The post Wind turbines sway on purpose so they don't snap in half appeared first on Boing Boing.

This video shows a pudu, the world's smallest species of deer, munching on some leaves. These adorable little creatures can be found in the rainforests of South America. They are solitary, elusive animals and mainly come out at dawn and dusk. - Read the rest The post The world's smallest deer has a big head and wobbly little legs appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Windows 11 Prois on sale for $9.97 (reg. $199) through Sept. 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT, with a lifetime license for one PC.Windows 10 isn't disappearing overnight. Microsoft has given users some additional time with Extended Security Updates, but those are primarily there to provide security patches, not new features, non-security fixes, or the broader support that comes with a current operating system. - Read the rest The post Still hanging onto Windows 10? Windows 11 Pro is $9.97 appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows bundlesWord, Excel, PowerPoint, and five more must-have apps into a single one-time purchase, on sale for $32.97 (reg. $219.99) through September 27.Nobody opens Word for fun, and no one has ever called a spreadsheet inspiring and meant it. - Read the rest The post Nobody loves Microsoft Office, but everyone still needs - $33 till Sept. 27 appeared first on Boing Boing.

The person measles killed was 18 years old. Pennsylvania health officials say the unvaccinated teenager died from complications of the disease, specifically a rare and severe neurological condition that causes inflammation in the brain. It is the fourth death associated with the state's growing measles outbreak in the last month. - Read the rest The post This time, measles cut an 18-year-old's life short appeared first on Boing Boing.

The bureau removed bestiality as an automatic employment disqualifier, which Patel says was necessary because trafficking victims forced into sexual acts involving animals had been rejected along with perpetrators. Because this happens frequently enough, the FBI needed a policy. While the MAGAs rage on about imagine child trafficking and library book reading crimes against humanity, it appears Kash Patel has quietly identified another: unwilling victims of forced bestiality were being unfairly rejected by the FBI. - Read the rest The post Senators would like Kash Patel to explain the FBI's new bestiality policy appeared first on Boing Boing.

After claiming he'd drawn a much larger audience than the NFL, Dozing-off Donald was betrayed by the actual ratings. I wonder if he calls them fake ratings."The overall numbers beat the NFL," Grandpa Pudding Brains declared after his Dallas convention, declining to identify what those numbers were or explain what "beat" meant. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains claims victory, loses to football by roughly 10-to-1 appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you are familiar with Auralnauts ' reimagining of the Star Wars prequel series, you'll love Larry, the tale of a burnt-out Jedi stepping back up to the plate.Larry is a vastly improved Obi-Wan, with a drug problem and a love of dance fighting. - Read the rest The post Auralnauts shares "Star Wars: Larry" the abridged cut appeared first on Boing Boing.

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, raped in a culvert then beaten to death by a mob at the culmination of Libya's 2011 civil war, is now immortalized in bas relief on 100,000 ecstacy pills. Ravers will not get to enjoy the pills, though, as they were seized by customs officers in Tripoli. - Read the rest The post Cops seize 100,000 ecstasy pills molded in the shape of Muammar Gaddafi appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A massive sinkhole opened under Nicolas Cage's house in Malibu, consuming the driveway and threatening to eat his garage next. Nearby residents were evacuated from 31 homes, according to news reports.The house, built on and overhanging the waterfront, was undermined by Tropical Storm Marie, which hit California earlier this month. - Read the rest The post Sinkhole devours Nicolas Cage's driveway appeared first on Boing Boing.

This scary video shows a mom saving her young daughter from a seemingly rabid raccoon. The whole thing was caught on a security camera in their yard. This mom is a true hero, risking her own life to get the raccoon away from her kid. - Read the rest The post Security camera catches a mom fighting off a raccoon to save her daughter appeared first on Boing Boing.

This peaceful video shows the view out of an airplane window as someone flies over the Sahara Desert. The small ridges in the video are sand dunes. Watching these endless rows of sand dunes passing by makes my brain feel great. - Read the rest The post Flying over the Sahara gives you endless rows of sand dunes appeared first on Boing Boing.

Sometimes nature is just as strange as surreal art. I can't get over how cool this bird's eyes are. A photographer named Juan Alonso Gutierrez took these amazing photos of a white-tufted grebe.The white-tufted grebe is a small diving bird that is native to South America and the Falkland Islands. - Read the rest The post This little bird has blood-red eyes, and they are not Photoshopped appeared first on Boing Boing.

With LLMs taking over the world, whether anyone wants them to or not, machine-made text has lost its charm even as it has become vastly more expressive. Clear your generative palate with the Random Insult Generator, made in 1999-27 years ago!-and - Read the rest The post Insult generators of the old web appeared first on Boing Boing.

I had reason to search for the nearest penny press and found to my delight that there exist several websites dedicated to mapping the locations of these fabulous machines. The Pressed Penny Machine Map works exactly as you'd expect it to, and sells a handy printed map so that you are never in any doubt as to the whereabouts of a device that can turn a penny into a charming souvenir. - Read the rest The post Maps of penny press machines appeared first on Boing Boing.

Relativity Park is a 3D environment to wander around, with a Ferris wheel, a roundabout, and various sculptures to be enjoyed amid lowpoly pillars and primitive shapes. The catch is that the speed of light is only 5 kilometers per hour, meaning that the world appears to stretch and warp as you move around. - Read the rest The post Explore a world where the speed of light is only 5 km/h appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Vermin infestation" is awfully rough for an act nobody got to see. The mythical Hollywood bikini bar reopened Aug. 31. Despite social posts confidently promoting the culprits as "rats," SFGate reports that health officials did not specify whether the offending vermin had fur or considerably more legs to show off. - Read the rest The post LA's legendary Jumbo's Clown Room briefly closed over a "vermin infestation" appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1943, the OSS, the predecessor to the CIA, hired Ernest Crocker, a chemical engineer with an expertise in smell.They hired him to build a stink bomb. The code name was "Who, Me?" They wanted to create a spray that the French resistance could use against German officers that made them smell so much like feces that they became humiliated and the target of contempt by fellow officers. - Read the rest The post In 1943 the OSS hired a smell expert to build a stink bomb called "Who, Me?" to humiliate Nazi officers appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, a Scottish writer and translator, published a book called Logopandecteision, an introduction to an artificial language that he had created.The end of the book had two lines with 32 numbers on each line. People assumed it was some kind of a cipher and have been trying to crack it ever since. - Read the rest The post An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher by noticing the key was hiding in the book itself appeared first on Boing Boing.

This is my last Charlie Kirk post for a while, I promise. It's not my fault that it's been, in the words of a friend, a Kirked-up weekend!Upon hearing the news that the newly unveiled eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Charlie Kirk was vandalized last night at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters, I once again decided I needed to see for myself. - Read the rest The post Charlie Kirk statue scrubbed clean of red paint, back on display appeared first on Boing Boing.

It only took a couple of days for vandals to target a newly unveiled eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Charlie Kirk. The statue was on display over the weekend at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters, after its debut on September 10, 2026, the one-year anniversary of Kirk's assassination. - Read the rest The post New Charlie Kirk memorial statue vandalized days after unveiling appeared first on Boing Boing.

Ikea is coming to the rescue of overencumbered Skyrim players, with a sentient Kallax shelving unit.All video games with an inventory eventually become inventory management games. With the rare exception of Backpack Hero, which manages to turn it into a solid game, inventory management is generally tedious and can kill the fun in an otherwise enjoyable game. - Read the rest The post Ikea comes to Skyrim appeared first on Boing Boing.

A year ago, conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking to students at Utah Valley University, during a Q&A session that was part of "The American Comeback Tour," hosted by Utah Valley's TPUSA chapter. Just last week, Tyler Robinson, the man accused of Kirk's murder, appeared at a Provo, Utah court and pled not guilty to aggravated murder. - Read the rest The post TPUSA unveils bronze Charlie Kirk statue on death's anniversary appeared first on Boing Boing.

There are now so many quirky daily challenges out there it might take you your entire day to do them. Daily word-guessing game Wordle was one thing, but the wave of imitators and inspired projects it's left behind is another entirely. - Read the rest The post Wordle clones have finally reached their apex with RNGdle appeared first on Boing Boing.

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