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There are now seven Call of Duty: Black Ops games, which is honestly fewer than I thought. Even so, ask any CoD fan on the street and they'll tell you that the best Black Ops games, if not the best CoD games as a whole, are the first two. - Read the rest The post Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tommy Wiseau's 2004 masterpiece The Room is, perhaps, the most infamous bad movie ever made. So much so that the movie about it being made went up for an Oscar, to say nothing of the video game adaptation.In today's age of remakes and reboots, it was only a matter of time before someone proposed just that, which is how we ended up with The Room Returns. - Read the rest The post Bob Odenkirk stars in straight-faced remake of The Room appeared first on Boing Boing.

If at any point you've ever doubted that Grand Theft Auto 6 will be the biggest entertainment product since the Epic of Gilgamesh, look no further than this: a thirty-second video showing off the game's cover art and absolutely nothing else has amassed about seven and a half million views in less than 24 hours. - Read the rest The post Grand Theft Auto 6 opens pre-orders, reveals cover art appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A cyberdeck is a homemade portable computer in the cyberpunk mold (utilitarian, DIY) and NickZero's Ultra Minimal Cyberdeck [instructables.com] is exemplary: just a single-board computer, a tiny keyboard (cf. my "Cormac" board, useful only for writing novels by Cormac McCarthy), a small screen, and a battery laced together inside a 3D-printed shell. - Read the rest The post Cyberdeck with punishingly minimal 30% keyboard appeared first on Boing Boing.

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields [airfields-freeman.com] collects America's half-forgotten strips and reconstructs each one's history from old aeronautical charts, topographic maps, aerial photographs, and tips from readers who flew or lived nearby. Every airfield gets its own dated, illustrated entry showing how it appeared, changed, and slipped into history. - Read the rest The post The obscure airfields of America appeared first on Boing Boing.

When astronomers first observed iPTF14hls in September 2014, they identified it as a supernova and expected it to dim within 100 days. Instead, it kept erupting. Over approximately 1,000 days, its brightness peaked at least five times, varying by as much as 50 percent. - Read the rest The post A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Honj Masamune, forged in the 13th or 14th century and passed from shgun to shgun as a symbol of the Tokugawa dynasty, is considered one of the finest Japanese swords ever made. It was designated a National Treasure in 1939. - Read the rest The post Japan's greatest sword was surrendered to a US sergeant in 1946. Nobody knows where it is. appeared first on Boing Boing.

In February 1985, a 29-year-old woman from Tokyo's Suginami neighborhood sent a letter to the Japanese magazine Book Magazine. "I'm not sure why," she wrote, "but since about two or three years ago, whenever I go to a bookstore I am struck by an urge to move my bowels." - Read the rest The post In 1985, a Japanese woman wrote a letter about bookstores making her need to use the bathroom. It became a phenomenon. appeared first on Boing Boing.

From 1970 to 1974, the Varosha district of Famagusta, Cyprus, was "one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world," a favorite of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, and Brigitte Bardot. When Turkish forces invaded Cyprus in August 1974, every Greek Cypriot resident fled. - Read the rest The post In 1974, Turkish forces fenced off a Cyprus beach resort. It's still empty. appeared first on Boing Boing.

John Lahr, writing in the London Review of Books, offers the sharpest piece I've read on Sid Caesar - ostensibly a review of David Margolick's new biography When Caesar Was King, but really a psychological autopsy of American comedy's first TV star and the culture he shaped. - Read the rest The post Sid Caesar built the writers' room that taught Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen how to be funny appeared first on Boing Boing.

I'm a huge fan ofstreet art, and this recent piece in Naples, Italy by World Press Photo Award winner and acclaimed photojournalist Eduardo Castaldo is one of the best I've ever seen. The piece, titled "Donald Dump," is a black and white stencil painting of Donald Trump. - Read the rest The post "Donald Dump" depicts Trump with sludge oozing out of his mouth appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've previously written about the glorious ASMR videos starringKing Bumi, a long-snouted, toothless, bushy-tailed, coarse-haired giant anteater who lives at the North Florida Wildlife Center in Lamont, Florida, a nonprofit rehabilitation and education center whose focus is on caring for rare and endangered species. - Read the rest The post This giant anteater uses his dancing tongue to keep cool in the summer's sweltering heat appeared first on Boing Boing.

Science fiction aficionados and fans of practical effects will want to pour one out today: Brian Johnson, a man responsible for building some of the most iconic sci-fi craft in movies and television history, has died at the age of 87. - Read the rest The post The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died appeared first on Boing Boing.

With so much going sideways since... forever, it can be hard to recall that some great stuff has happened. This week marked 43 years since Sally Ride strapped her ass to a rocket for NASA's seventh space shuttle mission, STS-7. As mission specialist and flight engineer on Space Shuttle Challenger, she became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983. - Read the rest The post Sally Ride flew to space 43 years ago today. She still has the best astronaut name. appeared first on Boing Boing.

A dude who goes by Marketplace Builds on Instagram uploaded this hilarious video of a pink toy car that has been hacked to go much faster than normal. This is the kind of toy car that a kid can drive themselves, usually at snail pace for safety reasons. - Read the rest The post Man supercharges a child's pink ride-on car, sends it flying appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Indri is the largest living lemur and one of the most distinctive primates in Madagascar. It lives only in the eastern rainforests of the island and is known for its striking black-and-white fur pattern and its nearly tailless body. It makes an alarming sound when communicating with others. - Read the rest The post Lemur makes an alarming sound when communicating appeared first on Boing Boing.

This powerful storm rolled through near Lorenzo, Nebraska, on June 7th, 2026. It ended up being one of those rare setups that looks almost unreal on camera. It started building late in the afternoon and quickly took on a structure that caught attention. - Read the rest The post Nebraska supercell near Lorenzo looked almost too perfect to be real appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Old English Wordhord unlocks one medieval word a day, pairing each term with its definition, pronunciation and, often, a manuscript illustration. The site's creator (or should it be wordwyrm?) Dr. Hana Videen frames the project around the fabulous name: "word-hoard describes the collection of words and phrases that a poet may draw upon while crafting tales." - Read the rest The post Old English word of the day appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The lining of the Reflecting Pool at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial was painted blue to please Trump: a no-bid $14.7m contract that went to a company that had worked on one of his swimming pools. Within days of the pool being refilled, it was full of algae. - Read the rest The post New blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling appeared first on Boing Boing.

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On the night of 21 August 1986, Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon released between 100,000 and 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide in a single outgassing event. The cloud rose at nearly 100 km/h, then sank - carbon dioxide is 50 percent more dense than air - and moved downvalley at 20 to 50 kilometers per hour. - Read the rest The post In 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight appeared first on Boing Boing.

According to the Bencao Gangmu, a 16th-century Chinese medical compendium, elderly men in Arabia would voluntarily mummify themselves in honey. The donor would stop eating all food except honey, bathing in it as well, "till after a month his excreta are nothing but honey; then death ensues." - Read the rest The post The ancient practice of mummifying a man in honey to sell as medicine appeared first on Boing Boing.

Watching a cow eat grass probably sounds boring, but this video proves that it can be made into something fabulous. Thanks to the right angle and sounds, this cow video is addictive to watch. My only complaint is that it's not longer. - Read the rest The post Cow chewing grass through a fish-eye lens becomes strangely addictive appeared first on Boing Boing.

Severe storms in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood sent several pool chairs flying off a high-rise balcony and into the traffic below. The video of the incident shows the lightweight lounge chairs being pushed across a rooftop pool deck by powerful winds. - Read the rest The post Chicago storm hurls rooftop pool chairs into Lincoln Park traffic appeared first on Boing Boing.

In colorful, funny, and appealing comics, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland's new book Poking the Squid describes the incredible, diverse array of sexual behaviors and anatomies in the animal kingdom.Excerpted fromPoking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex.- Read the rest The post A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Vatican Observatory has operated continuously since 1774, when the Papacy established the Observatory of the Roman College in Rome. The Church's interest in astronomy predates that: the Gregorian Calendar, issued in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, required precise astronomical data to calculate the date of Easter. - Read the rest The post The Vatican has run an astronomical observatory since 1774 appeared first on Boing Boing.

The HP 16c Collector's Edition [HP via Adafruit] revives a mundane but well-loved tool. In 1982, the original 16c was designed specifically for programmers and engineers; after three decades, only modest refinements were called for in an otherwise fully-retro recreation. - Read the rest The post HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form appeared first on Boing Boing.

Sycophant JD Vance took the stage in New York and managed to cram "anti-Semitic," "anti-Christian," and "anti-white" into one sentence, like a man speed-running the Republican grievance menu."They've become anti-Semitic in the Democratic Party," Vance said. "They've become anti-Christian in the Democratic Party. - Read the rest The post JD Vance turns dog whistles into a brass section appeared first on Boing Boing.

Grandpa Pudding Brains' Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm may be ugly, expensive, and very funny, but Swimming Pool Steve says it is not especially mysterious.After two CNN appearances about the green water situation, Swimming Pool Steve posted a longer explanation of what he thinks happens next. - Read the rest The post Pool expert explains Grandpa Pudding Brains' Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet in Izmir, Turkey, was nearing its tragic conclusion when an uninvited cast member wandered onstage and quietly took over the production. This mischievous cat appeared during the final scene and began acting like it had been rehearsing with the company for weeks. - Read the rest The post Cat crashes Romeo and Juliet ballet in Turkey, bites Romeo mid-death scene, steals entire show appeared first on Boing Boing.

The massive consulting firm KPMG had to pull a lengthy report on the use of Agentic AI after it was found to be riddled with AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations. AI detection company GPTZero analyzed the report, Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI, which was released in October, 2025. - Read the rest The post Report on AI use in business rife with AI hallucinations appeared first on Boing Boing.

I really, really loved Dragon's Dogma 2. Yes, even after its meme-filled moment in the sun was over. Yes, even in spite of the wholly unnecessary microtransactions that marred its reputation at release. (Incidentally, literally every Capcom game has those. - Read the rest The post One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free appeared first on Boing Boing.

Back when Shrek 5 was officially confirmed as a project that was, indeed, happening, I thought it was overdue. Now that an actual trailer has dropped, though, I think I'm officially upgrading that to "too late." Maybe my expectations were too high after spinoff Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which was a genuine masterpiece of a family movie. - Read the rest The post Shrek 5 sure looks like another Shrek movie appeared first on Boing Boing.

In the department of Yoro, Honduras, fish turn up on the ground after large storms. The lluvia de peces - literally "rain of fish" - has been reported for over a hundred years and is said by residents to happen every year during the mid-year rainy season. - Read the rest The post In a Honduran town, fish appear on the ground after every major rainstorm appeared first on Boing Boing.

A toast sandwich is exactly what it sounds like: a thin slice of toasted bread, placed between two slices of untoasted bread. Season with salt and pepper. The recipe appears in Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management, in the section for invalid cookery. - Read the rest The post The toast sandwich is a piece of toast between two slices of untoasted bread appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Apple added a feature called Vehicle Motion Cues in 2024 that places small dots around the edge of your screen. The dots move in sync with your car - sweeping left when you turn right, sliding forward when you brake. Your inner ear detects motion while your eyes see a static screen, and the mismatch causes nausea. - Read the rest The post The obscure iPhone setting that eliminates car sickness appeared first on Boing Boing.

When a former prosecutor got a new case, the first thing he asked was whether the suspect talked. "Nothing lights up a prosecutor's face when he is faced with a difficult case and finds out the suspect talked," writes the Campola Law Firm. - Read the rest The post Former prosecutor says talking to police always hurts you appeared first on Boing Boing.

The UNSW team that used ultrasound to speed up cold brew to three minutes has pushed the technique further - producing espresso-strength shots with room-temperature water. A transducer pressed against a coffee filter basket generates sound waves that create acoustic cavitation, collapsing microscopic bubbles that fracture the grounds and pull out flavor compounds far faster than cold water alone. - Read the rest The post Cold-water espresso cuts energy use 75% and tastes identical appeared first on Boing Boing.

Grandpa Pudding Brains wanted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted "American flag blue," and nature responded with algae bloom green.The newly refurbished Reflecting Pool was supposed to transform Washington's look. Success: the giant painted blue basin turned green, and crews are now reportedly fighting the bloom with hydrogen peroxide, vacuums, skimmers, and ozone nanobubbles. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains pours peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Connect to an open WiFi network, and a captive portal opens a shelf of banned ebooks. The access point is a smart light bulb. Rick Osgood reflashed the ESP32 chip inside with custom firmware, rewrote the partition table to carve out 2MB of the 4MB flash for storage, and built a web server that runs entirely off the bulb's power. - Read the rest The post Screw this light bulb in and it serves banned books appeared first on Boing Boing.