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After two severe hemorrhages in six days, Six Flags Magic Mountain finally shuttered one of its most famous rollercoasters. Though the park has not said what prompted the closure, these aren't the first injuries reported by people who rode the X2, and now CNN reports two decades of permanent disabilities, comas and even deaths. - Read the rest The post Six Flags' head-banging X2 rollercoaster closed after two brain hemorrhages in six days appeared first on Boing Boing.

In June, Canadians bought more weed than Californians. Bong down, eh?Canada's weed market is growing, while California's has fallen off its peak. While there are perhaps 2-3 million more Canadians than Californians, many of the Canadians are Quebecois and probably not into it. - Read the rest The post Canada out-weeds California appeared first on Boing Boing.

Stories of gambling in baseball, when I grew up, were akin to original sin. Eight Men Out was a classic. Pete Rose got a very perma permaban. Man, when we were young, if you could hit a ball, you could also hit your wife, cheat on her, or be a poster child for substance abuse, but gambling threatened the integrity of the game itself. - Read the rest The post Baseball's unforgivable sin is now a sponsorship opportunity appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Nobody would try to dismantle a pyramid by cutting a thin slice into one side." - History for GraniteIn this fantastic video, History for Granite debunks another tentpole of Egyptology by examining the evidence. Consensus seemed to be, based on one account from the 1100s, that the great breach in Menkaure's pyramid resulted from an eight-month treasure hunt. - Read the rest The post Who defaced that pyramid? appeared first on Boing Boing.

Every year since 1993, hackers, researchers, computer security specialists, and government intelligence employees have gathered in Las Vegas for the annual DEF CON. This year Clifford Stoll gave an energetic talk on the 40th anniversary of the hacker hunt behind his famous non-fiction thriller, The Cuckoo's Egg. - Read the rest The post Cliff Stoll revisits the 75-cent glitch that caught KGB hackers, 40 years later appeared first on Boing Boing.

Seems Beverly Hills is still trying to usurp Huntington Beach's place as Southern California's MAGA safe zone.As if getting into trouble with the California DOJ for illegally interfering with the opening of a women's health clinic, Weezer's favorite city now faces a lawsuit from a longtime substitute teacher claiming she was fired for posting her opinion of an on-campus MAGA rally. - Read the rest The post Beverly Hills, fresh from blocking an abortion clinic, allegedly fires teacher for criticizing Trump appeared first on Boing Boing.

The 1960s are an endless source of fascination for me. No matter how many books I read about the decade, or the movies I watch or music I listen to, my curiosity doesn't wane. I just get more curious and want to dig deeper. - Read the rest The post A countercultural film playlist for 1960s obsessives appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Trump administration has fast-track approved two new data center chemicals that can result in cancer, neurological damage, reproductive harm, and even sudden death, according to a lawsuit just filed by the Earthjustic nonprofit.Tom Perkins writes in The Guardian:

If I'd told you five years ago that The Witcher 3 would be getting a new expansion in 2027... well, you'd probably say "sounds about right." CD Projekt Red's masterpiece monster-hunting RPG received a veritable firehose of DLC in the wake of its 2015 release, including two full-sized expansions - one of which was good enough to go up for Game of the Year all on its own. - Read the rest The post Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion gets its first gameplay reveal appeared first on Boing Boing.

Google regularly murders fine products and leaves them for others to bury. Microsoft, though, just renames theirs constantly. The Rebrand Registry now exists to help us keep track of Redmond's insatiable taste for fresh paint.

TL;DR: Thisrefurbished, second-generation Apple iPhone SE (2020)is now just $104.99 (reg. $359).If you're looking to go back to basics with a phone that offers simplicity and smooth performance, this second-generation Apple iPhone SE (2020) may be just what you're looking for. - Read the rest The post Downsize without sacrifice for $105 with this refurbished iPhone SE (2020) appeared first on Boing Boing.

Texas banned drag shows. A judge again struck down that ban this week, telling people who are offended by drag performances that they can simply choose to not watch them."The solution is relatively simple..." wrote U.S. District Judge David Hittner, "just don't go." - Read the rest The post Texas judge rules again that ban on drag shows is unconstitutional appeared first on Boing Boing.

Criterion recently invited director Terry Zwigoff into its famous closet filled with its DVDs and invited him to talk about his favorite movies. Zwigoff directed Crumb, the 1995 documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, and Ghost World (2001), based on a comic by Daniel Clowes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zwigoff. - Read the rest The post Ghost World director Terry Zwigoff names his five all-time favorite films appeared first on Boing Boing.

Rack-01 is an web-based techno synth and sequencer where all the controls are right there on a single page. Despite being an extremely polished app, it's all right there in the View Source: you can download the HTML file and it'll run from wherever you put it. - Read the rest The post Techno synth and sequencer in a single HTML file appeared first on Boing Boing.

When Swedish artist Johan Karlgren had children, he started playing around with Perler beads, tiny plastic tubes that come in lots of different colors. They are kind of like physical pixels: you place the beads on a plastic grid of pegs and then heat them with an iron, making the beads fuse together. - Read the rest The post This artist turns melted plastic beads into pocket-sized video game pixel art appeared first on Boing Boing.

A virtual urban menace plaguing the United Kingdom has now struck Glasgow. While folks across the Irish Sea are clear on what's going on, the Scots are having a time of it.Initially, the Gardai in Wexford, Ireland, debunked the extra creepy incarnation of Dr. - Read the rest The post Cosplaying AI Cat-in-the-Hat virtually strikes Glasgow, residents in panic, sort of appeared first on Boing Boing.

Gary Leff, who runs the View From the Wing website, posted an Instagram reel from a woman who said American Airlines kicked her family out of business class seats on a flight from Miami to Milan so that deadheading pilots could occupy those seats. - Read the rest The post Airline bumped a family from business class to make room for pilots - because they paid with miles appeared first on Boing Boing.

Democratic leadership hasn't been what we'd hoped and has, quite frankly, been weaker and lamer than anticipated. Hakeem Jeffries, however, has found a new way to capitulate.After Chuck Schumer's blood pressure-raising tirade about guac and chips, I think most people just put the Dems' leadership on mute. - Read the rest The post Hakeem Jeffries takes time out from boldly leading the resistance to suck up to Jared Kushner appeared first on Boing Boing.

Weirdo JD Vance has a funny story about disregarding his wife's wishes over extremely important life choices.Shady JD is proud he got his way. After yelling at his kid to shut up and let him kiss some ass to get the VP gig, it's unsurprising that Usha Vance had given him a choice: "You can be VP, or you can have a fourth child." - Read the rest The post JD Vance brags about getting his wife to have the baby she didn't want appeared first on Boing Boing.

The cash-strapped university system spent $17 million to give everyone ChatGPT, watched sign-ups trickle in, and responded by dumping another $39 million to it.As its campuses struggle with layoffs, cuts, and a $2.3 billion budget deficit, the CSU system is pouring money into OpenAI. - Read the rest The post California State University system uses AI as a money incinerator appeared first on Boing Boing.

Most stars drift gracefully along their galactic orbits, the constellations reforming only on unimaginable timescales. But some stars are in a rush, and astronomers have spotted their fastest yet: an otherwise unremarkable star, S301, orbiting a black hole at up to 8% the speed of light. - Read the rest The post Fastest star yet seen orbits black hole at 8% speed of light appeared first on Boing Boing.

At this point, new videos from Epic Rap Battles of History feel a bit like Halley's Comet. If you're lucky, you get two a year, which doesn't quite square with their average runtime of three minutes until you start thinking about all the work involved. - Read the rest The post Epic Rap Battles of History pits Tom Cruise against Evel Knievel appeared first on Boing Boing.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has upgraded its recall of frozen blueberries to the highest level of risk. The berries, sold at Publix stores, tested positive for E. coli contamination and have caused at least 12 illnesses and 4 hospital visits across 8 states. - Read the rest The post FDA upgrades Diarrhea Blueberries recall appeared first on Boing Boing.

Golden Axe, the 1989 Sega arcade game vaguely inspired by Conan and other sword-and-sandals classics, is to be a kids' animated television show from Paramount. Here's the trailer; it debuts next month!

Death Valley is not being coy about any of this.After getting their car stuck, a 68-year-old tourist and his travel partner attempted to walk out of Death Valley. The scorching 113F heat quickly left him unable to continue. By the time rescue personnel were able to reach him, he was dead. - Read the rest The post It is called Death Valley as a warning appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The Hamberdgular has been overeating. Diaper Don managed to pack on 14 pounds while under doctor's orders to lose weight.Famed for bringing in McDonald's for athletes, mistaking his own love of NY taco salads as respect for Mexican people, and sharing awesome cake with a dictator, it's no wonder Grandpa Pudding Brains is inflating. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains has had too much pudding appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TL;DR:Getlifetime access to ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Planfor $59.97 through Aug. 25 (reg. $619).One AI answer can be useful. Several AI answers sitting side by side are much better at revealing which robot understood the assignment-and which one wandered into the woods. - Read the rest The post Let ChatGPT, Gemini & more fight for your approval-ChatPlayground is just $60 for lifetime access appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Headway Premiumturns bestselling books into 15-minute summariesand costs just $49.97 (reg. $299.95) for lifetime access.Your unread book pile means well, but it's starting to feel less like an enjoyable hobby and more like a judgmental stack.Headway Premium makes those big ideas easier to reachby condensing bestselling fiction and nonfiction into summaries you can read or hear in roughly 15 minutes. - Read the rest The post A one-time $49.97 gives you 2,000+ bestselling book summaries for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Update toMicrosoft Windows 11 Profor just $10.49 (Reg. $199) - that's over $190 in savings for a limited time only, with code SAVE30.Is it time to upgrade to a newer version of Windows? Whether your computer was running outdated office apps or you're looking for new capabilities, you can't go wrong with a switch toMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro. - Read the rest The post Update to Windows 11 Pro for less than $11 with this limited deal appeared first on Boing Boing.

Seafoam green has always been one of my favorite colors. One of the reasons is that it has a mid-20th-century feel to it (at least for me), an era I associate with good industrial design.Recently, designer Beth Mathews visited the Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. - Read the rest The post Why seafoam green was used in control rooms appeared first on Boing Boing.

Many people willed their remains to Harvard Medical School on the understanding they would be used in research and education. But the school's morgue manager sold these body parts on the black market, was caught, and now Harvard has agreed to pay $53m to settle class action lawsuits filed by 47 grieving families. - Read the rest The post Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market appeared first on Boing Boing.

A scramble is a type of corner pedestrian crossing where vehicles from all directions stop while pedestrians cross freely from one street to the other, often crossing diagonally. The most famous one is the Shibuya Scramble in Tokyo. Up to 3,000 people walk across it when traffic stops every two minutes. - Read the rest The post This Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube appeared first on Boing Boing.

I'm fascinated by the range of human reactions to the increasing use of AI, especially when it comes to writing. A lot of people have made up their minds about it: It's garbage. It's evil. It's evil garbage. It's going to usher in a post-scarcity world and eliminate poverty. - Read the rest The post Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward appeared first on Boing Boing.

Oswaldo Pirela, the San Diego Padres' (Major League Baseball) minor-league catching coordinator, was arrested at an El Paso, Texas airport as he prepared to return to his home in Peoria, Arizona, where he lives with his wife and two children, aged 9 and 4. - Read the rest The post Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE appeared first on Boing Boing.

Game studio Embark has teamed up with Subway to promote its extraction shooter ARC Raiders. Purchasing a meal will earn players a code for a new skin, complete with a removable (unbranded) Subway sandwich, or possibly a wrap, tethered to the front and curiously categorized as "tech." - Read the rest The post ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with... Subway appeared first on Boing Boing.

Bizarre or misshapen typefaces designed to confuse or stymie AI (previously and previously at Boing Boing) regularly go viral. But they're works of art making a point rather than something to actually use in production."Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful," writes Andrew Yaros, not least because they are inaccessible. - Read the rest The post Anti-AI fonts considered harmful appeared first on Boing Boing.

HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that wonderful. - Read the rest The post The latest HTML trickery for web designers appeared first on Boing Boing.

The pomato is a plant that grows cherry tomatoes on its vine and potatoes in the soil. Tomatoes and potatoes both belong to the genus Solanum, so you can graft them together. You can make one by cutting the stem of each plant, strapping the two together, and waiting for the cuts to heal. - Read the rest The post A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below appeared first on Boing Boing.

This past week, Lord Vader took time out of his busy schedule to drop by a city council meeting in San Diego, California to say how much his Master is enjoying Flock. According to Vader, it's proven great for following children to playgrounds and stalking his ex-girlfriend. - Read the rest The post Emperor Palpatine loves Flock appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trumpian United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has a very weird idea about "sabotage."In a desperate attempt to keep her boss- not the Attorney General, but Donald Trump- happy, Pirro is somehow trying to keep open a door to subject former Olympian David Hearne to more legal abuse. - Read the rest The post More reflecting pool nonsense appeared first on Boing Boing.

Mr. T's The Man with the Gold is one of my treasured books, so Netflix finally spending some Untold money on Laurence Tureaud feels like someone finally got something right over there.In a time when Netflix is pissing money away on Melania and rehabilitating the DOA Raygun, it is a pleasant surprise to see Mr. - Read the rest The post Mr. T's extraordinary life gets the Netflix Untold treatment appeared first on Boing Boing.

Four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina, including three of five surviving panels of his San Gregorio Polyptych, were heisted from the Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina in Sicily. The thieves came and went without triggering alarms, police say, and they don't know who is responsible. - Read the rest The post Museum heist bags four Renaissance paintings, with two more dumped in the street appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alexey Marushchenko, founder of a small Russian private military company named Yastreb ("Hawk"), is off to the gulag for 18 years after pleading guitly to charges of extortion, fraud, kidnapping and murder. With official support from a Russian general, Alexander Dembitsky, Yastreb recruited men to fight in the Ukraine war, but extorted money from those who signed up and brutalized those who refused to pay. - Read the rest The post Gulag for Russian mercenary who beat soldier to death with dildo appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TL;DR:A1min.AI Advanced Business Plan lifetime subscriptionis $99.99 (reg. $540), with flagship models from six AI companies plus image, audio, and video tools.Every six weeks, some lab publishes a benchmark chart, declares itself the new champion, and a few million people cancel one $20 subscription to start a different $20 subscription. - Read the rest The post $100 gets you GPT-5.5, Claude Opus, and Gemini 3.1, with no monthly fee appeared first on Boing Boing.

Engadet explains the benefits of a Mirrorless camera and why you don't really need one if you are hanging on to an SLR or another camera that works just fine.I used to think I got all the benefits of a mirrorless camera from the reduced camera shake in my Twin Reflex Cameras, but it turns out there is more to it than not having a mirror slapping around inside your camera. - Read the rest The post Mirrorless cameras remove the reflex, digital removed the fun appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the intrepid MAGAs magically travel back to the time when America was Great!-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! - Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs go back to when America was Great appeared first on Boing Boing.