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For nearly 30 years, climbers on Everest's north side have passed a dead man and called him "Green Boots," turning a person into a landmark because the mountain is too high, too cold, and too cruel for ordinary grief.The climber long known as "Green Boots" has often been identified in popular accounts as Tsewang Paljor, one of three Indian climbers who died in a 1996 storm on Everest's north side. - Read the rest The post Everest's most famous body finally has a name appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace responded to the Supreme Court allowing states to ban transgender girls and women from girls' and women's school sports with the emotional maturity of a playground bully by shouting "BIG WIN," because cruelty remains the one sport he can still play without a cart. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains celebrates Supreme Court permission to be mean appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tasmania's favorite suburban elephant seal has returned, bigger, weirder, and apparently still committed to the bit where he turns roads, lawns, and traffic cones into supporting characters in the Neil Cinematic Universe.Neil is funny because he looks like a sofa that learned to breathe, but the fandom gets dangerous when people forget the sofa weighs a ton, has opinions, and teeth. - Read the rest The post Tasmania's favorite 1,000-kilo chaos seal is back on land appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Last Museum archives 5.8 million artworks housed in the world's museums, from old masters to obscure comic books. Its one of those websites where a couple of minutes turns into a couple of hours without you even realizing how deeply lost you are in it. - Read the rest The post Browse 5.8 million works of art at the Last Museum appeared first on Boing Boing.

Flagdoku is a flag-themed puzzle game (below is embedded my solution to today's challenge) and a search engine for flags. All your favorites are there, and some you might not have seen before, such as Graham Bartram's proposed flag for Antarctica, above. - Read the rest The post Flagdoku tests your knowledge of flags appeared first on Boing Boing.

Writer-director Robert Eggers (Nosferatu, The Witch) moves his moody bleak weirdness to medieval England for Werwulf, which comes to theaters this Christmas. It's not clear exactly what the story is about, but it's looks like it has a lot to do with werewolves. - Read the rest The post Howl you know if Werwulf is worth seeing if you don't watch this trailer? appeared first on Boing Boing.

At 0N 0E, where the prime meridian crosses the equator, there is an island. But there is no land there to be found, and the seabed lies nearly 5,000 meters down. Roughly 600 kilometers south of West Africa, Null Island is merely a conceptual landmass, a joke that got out of hand and became a famed cartographic peculiarity. - Read the rest The post Now space has been corrupted by capitalism, there's only one place left to escape to: Null Island appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Osmo Pocket 3, a tiny gimbaled camera with a big sensor, is a runaway success for DJI. Even movie pros use them, a fact that led it to develop a Pro edition for the series' fourth generation. It claims the new model will offer 17 stops of dynamic range, more than anything remotely similar to it and challenging high-end cinema cameras from Arri and Sony. - Read the rest The post DJI claims 17 stops of dynamic range for its Osmo Pocket Pro camera appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Georgia man killed a woman then died while trying to dispose of her remains in the Alabama woods. The bodies of Daniel Robbins, 44, and Jessica Folds, 47, were discovered on June 10 in Chambers County after a passerby reported an abandoned vehicle on County Road 86. - Read the rest The post Killer dies of heart attack while disposing of victim's body appeared first on Boing Boing.

After Valve announced the Steam Machine, popular tech toy maker Dbrand announced the perfect accessory for it: a 3D case wrap that turns it into a Companion Cube, the mindless but beloved item from Valve's Portal series. Unfortunately, it neglected to do something important: secure Valve's permission to use the design. - Read the rest The post The Steam Machine Companion Cube was a lie appeared first on Boing Boing.

This screen toy lets you chop wood with an ax in a realistic looking simulation. The site starts out with a section from a log of fire wood set up outdoors. Once you click on it, it will get sliced in the precise place you've clicked. - Read the rest The post This interactive screen toy turns wood chopping into a calm, satisfying digital experience appeared first on Boing Boing.

Wiki Spy is a wonderful website that shows cut-outs of 43,815 objects from Wikipedia. Each image is pasted like a sticker against the white background. When you first enter the site, you'll see a mix of all these random objects from Wiki; right now I'm looking at a birthday cake, a frog, a jack-o-lantern, a piece of artisanal cheese, and more. - Read the rest The post Wiki Spy lets you explore 43,815 cut-out Wikipedia objects appeared first on Boing Boing.

This fun website called Real Image Alphabet uses images from nature to spell out your name. Simply type your name (or someone else's) and click reload. You can see various designs for the same name by reloading until you're satisfied with the results. - Read the rest The post Real Image Alphabet spells names using photos of ice, bugs, and trees appeared first on Boing Boing.

NASA will soon embark on a first-of-its-kind rescue mission, sending a robot to save a space observatory falling to Earth.The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a space observatory that uses three telescopes to study gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows across the gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavebands. - Read the rest The post NASA's robot rescue of the Swift space telescope launches June 30 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Zack Proser wrote up everything he knows about public speaking after years of giving tech talks. The most useful section is on propranolol, the beta blocker concert musicians have been using for decades. He notes there's no high or euphoria on it, and you can still feel full mental dread beforehand - he regularly does. - Read the rest The post Propranolol doesn't kill public speaking dread - it just stops your body from becoming a shaky mess appeared first on Boing Boing.

At 3:17 a.m. on January 30, 1948, radio officer Robert Tuck aboard the Avro Tudor Star Tiger acknowledged receiving a bearing from Bermuda - and was never heard from again. The aircraft had been flying from the Azores to Bermuda through gale-force winds at just 2,000 feet, far lower than the route required. - Read the rest The post Star Tiger sent its last radio message at 3:17 a.m. in 1948. No wreckage was ever found. appeared first on Boing Boing.

You've seen the political compass, I'm sure: that admirable attempt to map every viewpoint onto two axes. It's been a while since it's gotten an update, hasn't it? Don't we need a political compass for the modern era, capable of reflecting our weird age of knee-jerk, tribalism-focused politics? - Read the rest The post This 64-question compass scores you on 'Chud vs. Woke' and more appeared first on Boing Boing.

Not content with being a writer, podcaster, comedian, science educator, and YouTuber, Hank Green released a gamified productivity app last year. Focus Friend encourages you to stop touching your phone, lest you disturb a little bean's knitting. It's adorable, by the way. - Read the rest The post Pick the hub word last in 4*3 and you lose 100 points appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trump's Great American State Fair has moved past empty booths, busted rides, and a cow named Melania into its next phase of patriotic pageantry: people gagging through a pancake-eating contest.Nothing could be more on brand for Trump. Promise the nation greatness, build a sad fair, fail at electricity, deploy livestock branding, then ask a few poor souls to shovel pancakes into their faces until the audience can see democracy's gag reflex. - Read the rest The post America 250 celebrates with contestants nearly puking pancakes appeared first on Boing Boing.

Earlier this week I wrote about a sweet doggo that went to the Miami Marlins' "Bark at the Park" night for the recent Marlins versus Texas Rangers game. Instead of enjoying the game, that poor pup was, instead, forced to watch a Shiba Inu having the time of its life. - Read the rest The post Jonah the hotdog-less Marlins dog gets his dream day on July 12 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, that 16-day celebration of all things America currently underway at the National Mall, kicked off this weekend not with a bang, but with something more akin to a whimper. The fair, which Jason Weisberger here at Boing Boing likened to "a Spirit Halloween installed inside a failing megachurch," is currently limping along, according to many of the hilarious eyewitness accounts from folks who have suffered through a visit so that we don't have to. - Read the rest The post Trump's Great American State Fair is "kind of rubbish" appeared first on Boing Boing.

This giant machine wraps large bales of hay for farm animals. In the video, the machine lifts, spins, and wraps each bale in layers of plastic film. This is done to preserve the hay, creating an airtight seal that helps protect it from rain, mold, and spoilage. - Read the rest The post Watch this massive machine wrap giant hay bales in seconds appeared first on Boing Boing.

I can't stop watching this black cat bite into a cardboard box. The cat doesn't just chew on the cardboard, though. He is extremely precise with his bite marks, lining them all up in a neat little row.The sound it makes each time the cat punctures the cardboard with his teeth is a wonderful form of ASMR. - Read the rest The post Black cat makes perfectly precise cardboard bite marks in a row appeared first on Boing Boing.

This video of a smart crow sledding is one of the coolest things I've ever seen online. The crow uses a lid to slide down a roof on a snowy day. Watching him play makes him seem like a little feathered human. - Read the rest The post Crow repeatedly sleds down a roof using a plastic lid appeared first on Boing Boing.

Whaddaya hear, whaddaya say?! Look, if you're in the typical age bracket of this site's readership, you don't need me to wax poetic about how good The Sopranos is. David Chase's mob masterpiece, which was about America as a whole in all its avaricious glory, has stood the test of time as one of the best-written TV shows ever made, only elevated even further by a full ensemble cast's worth of best-in-career performances. - Read the rest The post The Sopranos is finally getting a 4K box set appeared first on Boing Boing.

An eccentric dentist with the ear of the President had a plan to win the war against Japan. In a letter to FDR, Lytle "Doc" Adams suggested that bats, the "lowest form of animal life ..." could "return the call of Pearl Harbor," by being dropped by the millions on Japanese cities with tiny incendiary devices attached. - Read the rest The post The dentist who convinced FDR to bomb Japan with bats appeared first on Boing Boing.

Of all the trustworthy names a scammer could possibly hijack, Marco Rubio feels like an odd choice. You can choose to be literally anyone, and you pick the Secretary of State who thinks fonts are woke? I think Rubio contacting me would make me even less likely to hand over an Apple gift card, but here we are. - Read the rest The post Scammer impersonates Marco Rubio, demands $300 in Bitcoin appeared first on Boing Boing.

The cannon looks fantastic and works, but the entire process is the adventure.This is a very serious potato cannon, and the deep research undertaken to arrive at such a masterpiece is a joy to watch.Compressed air is fun. - Read the rest The post Man builds a belt-fed potato cannon, because he could appeared first on Boing Boing.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider has collided its last hadron. The 27-kilometer (17-mile) ring, buried dozens of meters underground on the French and Swiss border, begins decommissioning today. The collider will not be dismantled, but upgraded as the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider-a project that will take several years. - Read the rest The post Large Hadron Collider retired for upgrades appeared first on Boing Boing.

Near the south end of the Salton Sea, California has a bubbling mud hole that appears to have looked at roads, rail lines, and pipelines and decided: those belong to me now.The Niland Geyser is the kind of thing California does better than anyone: a geological oddity, a public works problem, a vaguely apocalyptic roadside attraction, and a metaphor with bubbles. - Read the rest The post California's slowest natural disaster is a wandering mud hole appeared first on Boing Boing.

Elon Musk demanded that critics name "a single" person who died because of DOGE-driven foreign aid cuts, and then experienced the rare online phenomenon of receiving exactly what he asked for.This is the hideous little trick at the center of austerity cruelty: demand one body, then pretend the machine is innocent because the bodies are scattered across countries, clinics, villages, supply chains, and months of slow collapse. - Read the rest The post Elon Musk demands one name of someone killed by aid cuts, gets a list appeared first on Boing Boing.

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear President Trump's appeal against a $5 million judgment after he was found liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll. None of the justices dissented from the decision. Trump denied assaulting Carroll in a department store changing room in the 1990s, but jurors found him not just liable for the abuse but also for defaming her. - Read the rest The post Supreme Court rejects Trump appeal of sexual assault verdict appeared first on Boing Boing.

An Irish software firm managing membership of cannabis social clubs left more than a million member records and roughly 985,000 identity-document photos sitting on a server that required no password, according to a security researcher who extracted the data himself after joining a club in Barcelona and decompiling its app. - Read the rest The post A million passports leaked online by marijuana club portal appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Don't judge a book by its cover," they say, but how can one not? The cover's right there. Uncovered is a website that forces the issue by presenting book excerpts without the cover-or the author, or the title!-to distract you. There's no account to set up, nothing to download, and it's free of charge. - Read the rest The post Uncovered: read book samples without knowing who wrote it, what the title is, or looking at the cover appeared first on Boing Boing.

The European Space Agency on Wednesday released the largest and most detailed visible-light image of the Milky Way's center. The picture shows more than 60 million stars in the galactic bulge, glistening along with nebulae and star clusters. It is a mosaic of nine separate pointings, each covering a patch of sky somewhat larger than a full Moon. - Read the rest The post 60 million stars shine in Euclid telescope's new image of the Milky Way appeared first on Boing Boing.

AllRGB is an old-fashioned image gallery on the web. The draw? Each image on it must include, without repetition, one pixel for every RGB value.

IP Crawl is a browseable library of camera systems exposed to the internet. Currently on the favorites list are a swimming pool in Austin, Texas, a boxing ring in New York City, and a marijuana farm in Droitwich, England. If the majority of feeds show private places and suggest operator ignorance or misfortune (you can check your own location for exposed cameras), there are some lovely exteriors such as this view of Lausanne in Switzerland. - Read the rest The post IP Crawl exposes that insecure web camera you never locked down appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Despite temperatures over 100 degrees, tens of thousands of people attended Budapest's first post-Orban Pride march. Orban's far-right government had prohibited such events, but LBGTQ Hungarians and their friends defied those bans and the new management is more encouraging.

Australia's ban on social media accounts for children has failed to produce an immediate drop in use among adolescents, according to an analysis published this week in The BMJ. The study casts doubt on the world's first national age-based restriction, even as governments in Europe and North America attempt similar measures. - Read the rest The post Australia's social media ban not working, study finds appeared first on Boing Boing.

Almost half of American adults now use AI chatbots, but only 16 percent think the technology will have a positive impact on society-and most expect AI to make society worse. That's according to a Pew Research Center survey which found chatbot use soaring, with roughly a quarter of U.S. - Read the rest The post Americans increasingly hate AI, but love chatting with it appeared first on Boing Boing.

Doctors in Spain suspected that a man suffering from chronic headaches had brain cancer. A scan showed a number of poorly-defined lesions, typical of cancer that has spread from elsewhere in the body. But when they conducted a higher-resolution MRI, they found not tumors but the larvae of pork tapeworm, a parasitic infection. - Read the rest The post Suspected brain cancer turns out to be pork tapeworm infestation appeared first on Boing Boing.

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SpaceX stock soared to $251 after its launch then came back to Earth. It traded today at $149, less than ther $150 it opened at following the $135 IPO. Virtually everyone who bought it after the bell on day one has lost money, and Elon is no longer a trillionaire. - Read the rest The post SpaceX stock took a predictable trajectory appeared first on Boing Boing.

Sony unceremoniously announced that it would be deleting 551 movies from PlayStation customers' accounts in the U.K.: no apologies, no refunds, just a cold reminder that the only thing bought was a revokable license to access "content." The wipe is the result of Sony's deal with movie distributor StudioCanal ending. - Read the rest The post Sony deleting 551 movies from own customers' accounts appeared first on Boing Boing.

As a child, I used to be fascinated by the indicators on old radios for faraway cities: magic places such as Warsaw, Nador, Ulaanbatar... and Droitwich. Longwave radio was surely something amazing we had found but already forgotten about, those markings and frequencies being absent from newer devices. - Read the rest The post The BBC ends longwave radio service today appeared first on Boing Boing.

Apple sharply raising the prices of laptops and other gear brought home that the datacenter-driven computer parts shortage is only getting worse. It will be years before prices fall, with RAM at the epicenter of the crisis. The long-awaited Steam Box is $1049 to start, with disappointing specifications. - Read the rest The post Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tim Langdell found success publishing computer games in the 8-bit era, but became more famous for his extractive policing of trademarks around the word "Edge." This enterprise seemed to come to an end 15 years ago after courts ordered the trademarks cancelled, with one judge furious at the shenanigans involved. - Read the rest The post Famed "trademark troll" Tim Langdell back on the Edge appeared first on Boing Boing.

Administrators at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, announced that "we immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain in circulation" after it turned out that a baby photo in the 2026 volume was of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. - Read the rest The post Hitler baby photo in school yearbook appeared first on Boing Boing.

When troops from Ohio's National Guard were deployed to Washington D.C. to menace locals as part of President Trump's crime "emergency" there, Sam O'Hara followed them around playing The Imperial March from John Williams' score to The Empire Strikes Back. He was detained by local police, and now he has won what the American Civil Liberties Union describe as a "substantial" financial settlement. - Read the rest The post Man detained after playing Imperial March to troops in D.C. wins "substantial" settlement appeared first on Boing Boing.