Peter Cullen, whose booming voice defined "hero truck" Optimus Prime, Knight Rider's KARR and intimidating characters in many other shows and movies, is dead at 85. TMZ was first the…

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…

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…

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…

"Nobody would try to dismantle a pyramid by cutting a thin slice into one side." — History for Granite In this fantastic video, History for Granite debunks another tentpole of…

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…

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 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,…

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…

007: First Light has been out for months, IOI! You can stop making Hitman DLC! It's okay! Hitman: World of Assassination is already one of the best stealth games ever…

Oswaldo Pirela, the San Diego Padres' (Major League Baseball) minor league catching coordinator who was arrested last Sunday and held by ICE, was released on bond Monday. He entered the…

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…

Actor Tim Curry, star of classics such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, is dead at 80. TMZ was first to report the…

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…

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.…

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has agreed to pay no more than $16.68bn to settle claims that it harmed children in its relentless drive for growth and…

The first 10 pence piece bearing King Charles III's portrait is entering circulation in the U.K. Announced Tuesday, the silver coin (worth about 14 U.S. cents) features His Majesty's profile…

A YouTuber who goes by soiboi soft built an 8×8 pixel display that uses pneumatics and stretchy silicone instead of LEDs. The effect is mesmerizing and appealing. The orange rubber…

Famed country music singer, philanthropist and businesswoman Dolly Parton is dead at 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on social media. "Dolly has lived in the light…

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…

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…

For all of you who own a replica Flock camera, here's a nifty cover to protect it from the elements. It hooks onto a pole, making it easy to cover…

A kids' Halloween costume featuring a tiny bowler hat and giant red-lipped smile led to a backlash for retailer Target, which has now withdrawn the "Circus Clown" outfit from sale.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"It's going to completely rebrand everything that was noble about the National Guard into being mundane at best and threatening at worst." — Anonymous National Guardsperson After a year of…

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…

Distracted from tyranny and destroying every global economic market he can find, Diaper Donnie has a grand ol' time. Dipsy Donald looks positively chuffed, waving an oversized flag to start…

The cash-strapped university system spent $17 million to give everyone ChatGPT, watched sign-ups come in far more slowly than expected, and responded by committing another $39 million to it. As…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Looking for slack from voters pissed off about grocery prices, the Orange Menace is taking another swing at lowering prices. This time by "flooding the market with government-subsidized, below-market beef."…

Grandpa Pudding Brains invited a 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai and the lifeguard who saved him to the White House. He then told Nathaniel he would not have saved him, "probably." The…

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…

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…

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…

For the past three years, a man known only has Lucky has been in the care of the Dutch government. When the police found his unconscious body on the streets…