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Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine
Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine Lux Sparks-Pescovitz 3:38 pm Mon Aug 10, 2026 Undertale EarthBound demake — Undertale Undertale, an indie RPG released in 2015 after a successful…
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Watch thousands of swifts swarm into a chimney at dusk
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In 1963, two kids found the most interesting thing in an art museum
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Watching humanity fail the sea lions of La Jolla Cove in real time
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Yet another Oreo flavor no one could have been asking for
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JD Vance answers accusations of racism with more racism
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Researchers found evidence of drug use 25,000 years ago
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Droopy Don shows his respect for 9/11 victims by apparently dozing through their names
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A single bacterium can learn — and it works like an AI neural network
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Elle Cordova adds two great new comedy videos
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9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist
9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist Ellsworth Toohey 2:16 pm Mon Aug 10, 2026 Lost…
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Trade loud, addictive screen time for Montessori-inspired Pok Pok, just $59.99 for lifetime access
Trade loud, addictive screen time for Montessori-inspired Pok Pok, just $59.99 for lifetime access Boing Boing's Shop…
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The best Mario Kart build is an economics problem from 1900
Antoine Mayerowitz's interactive guide to the Pareto frontier sorts the resulting thousands of builds with a method an…
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Trump's mass deportation machine is a $1.4 billion private-prison bonanza
Trump's mass deportation machine is a $1.4 billion private-prison bonanza Jason Weisberger 12:11 pm Mon Aug 10, 2026…
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Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all
Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all Ruben Bolling 11:01 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Viking…
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Elon Musk has all the rhythm of an Austin Powers villain
Elon Musk has all the rhythm of an Austin Powers villain Jason Weisberger 10:39 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Elon Musk…
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Texas' Ken Paxton somehow gets even sleazier
The New York Times reports that Paxton co-founded a cell-tower company, Premier Vertical Properties, in 2005. Less…
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Dogs on Ice are beyond adorable
Dogs on Ice are beyond adorable Jason Weisberger 11:26 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Annette Shaff/shutterstock.com This video…
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The Tainted Cup gets the fantasy detective novel exactly right
The Tainted Cup gets the fantasy detective novel exactly right Jason Weisberger 10:25 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Image:…
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1991 Mars Bar highlights shrinkflation and inflation alike
1991 Mars Bar highlights shrinkflation and inflation alike Rob Beschizza 7:36 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Photo: Victoria…
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SwifDoo PDF Pro handles your PDF headaches for $30 for life
SwifDoo PDF Pro handles your PDF headaches for $30 for life Boing Boing's Shop 8:00 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Disclosure:…
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How Blackwing pencils (and Hagamoro Fulltouch chalk) are made
Blackwings once again became abundant and the hamsterkaufing for scarce high-quality stationary moved on to Hagoromo…
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UK government spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural
UK government spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural Rob Beschizza 7:13 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Image: Banksy Britain's…
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A Japanese lord spent 20 years drawing snowflakes under a microscope
His 1832 book of woodblock prints, Sekka Zusetsu, has eighty-six drawings of what he called "snow flowers" (sekka),…
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A complaint about bad wine left 93 dead and Oxford paying for 470 years
The vintner, John de Croydon, dismissed the complaint. One of the students threw his drink in de Croydon's face, and…
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San Francisco exempted two stray dogs from its own laws
San Francisco exempted two stray dogs from its own laws Ellsworth Toohey 5:45 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Bummer and Lazarus —…
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UK pub density map
UK pub density map Rob Beschizza 6:11 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Screenshots from Nearest Pint Nearest Pint is an interactive…
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One hobbyist named cirrus, cumulus, and stratus back in 1803
One hobbyist named cirrus, cumulus, and stratus back in 1803 Popkin 5:00 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 Luke Howard — Luke…
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This 1967 short film got video chat and online banking right
This 1967 short film got video chat and online banking right Popkin 5:15 am Mon Aug 10, 2026 1999 A.D. — Still from…
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Turn complicated ideas into clear diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2024 for $45
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This AI PDF editor can answer questions about your documents for $50
This AI PDF editor can answer questions about your documents for $50 Boing Boing's Shop 8:00 am Sun Aug 9, 2026…
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From Word to Excel, score seven Microsoft Office apps for just $20 (MSRP $229)
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Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico Ellsworth Toohey 9:30 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 GPS jamming…
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A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay Ellsworth Toohey 9:45 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Hiroshima blast…
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The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling Ellsworth Toohey 9:15 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Kelvin-Helmholtz…
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Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
The panel included toxicologists, volcanologists, geologists, and habitat designers, and NASA asked them to set a…
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Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel Rob Beschizza 8:05 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Now you can immerse yourself completely in…
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Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities
Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities Ellsworth Toohey 5:00 am Sat Aug 8, 2026 Japan's most…
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This $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud
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Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center Jason Weisberger 12:27 pm Fri Aug 7,…
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Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
Jason Weisberger 12:06 pm Fri Aug 7, 2026 Enriscapes / Shutterstock.com Los Angeles' stiffest self-proclaimed…
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Never lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker
The KeySmart SmartCard is a credit-card-thin, IPX8 waterproof, rechargeable smartcard that works with Apple Find My or…
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Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
Clayton, a hot-tempered army officer, is accused of killing Szczepanik, the inventor of a machine called the…
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Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages Ellsworth Toohey 6:00 am Fri Aug 7, 2026 Facebook…
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A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
Ten Rhijne was living at Dejima, the artificial island off Nagasaki that was the only piece of Japan open to Europeans…
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A Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
When it went up in 1974 it read FLORENCE MALL. The developers had given the city the land for the tower on the…
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