Boing Boing welcomes Real Tested CBD as a sponsor. Real Tested CBD shares the following essay by their co-founder, Richard Cowan. It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job… Read the rest of the article: It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War
"Around the world, it is beginning to sink in how profoundly rotten the United States is," writes Ryan Cooper in The Week. "Unless America manages to turn things around, it will slide from the… Read the rest of the article: The world is putting America in quarantine
The World Economic Forum interviewed 347 risk analysts about the challenges the world could face in a post-COVID world. The experts weighed in on economic, societal, geopolitical, tech, and environmental… Read the rest of the article: 347 risk analysts were asked: "What are the most likely risks for the world over the next year and a half?"
Right-wing sourpuss Ben Shapiro's website The Daily Wire is the seventh-ranked publisher on Facebook, according to Popular Information. "On a per article basis," it reports, "The Daily Wire receives more… Read the rest of the article: How Ben Shapiro exploits Facebook's networks of "racial bias, religious bigotry, and violence" to reach a huge audience
What better way to escape from today's madness than to watch a film about an entirely different kind of disaster: a humanity-destroying comet? If we were living in the pre-pandemic… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Nothing like a good ol' disaster movie to distract us from our chaos
My dad used to enjoy combing the beach (and his backyard) with a metal detector, but unfortunately he never dug up anything like this 2,000-year-old Roman ingot that metal detector… Read the rest of the article: Man with metal detector turns up rare 2,000-year-old Roman artifact
Synesthesia is the fascinating neurological phenomenon whereby stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another sensory pathway. A synesthete might taste sounds or hear colors. Now, computer scientist Jas Brooks and… Read the rest of the article: Digital synesthesia: Tricking your brain into experiencing smell as temperature in virtual reality
A gentleman in West Yorkshire, England, shelled out around $200,000 for a 20-minute drive in a Lamborghini. The new sports car owner then totaled it on a highway. In all… Read the rest of the article: Gentleman crashes his Lamborghini 20 minutes after buying it
The Kent District Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan is imploring its patrons to please not attempt to disinfect borrowed books by putting them in the microwave. The books contain metal… Read the rest of the article: Please don't microwave your library books
Microsoft is to shut shop on the high streets and malls of America, permanently closing its 116 retail stores. Only 10 were overseas; flagship stores in New York City, London,… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
Margaret Keane was born in Westmeath, in the Republic of Ireland, and later moved to Coventry in the United Kingdom, where her and her husband raised six children. Throughout her… Read the rest of the article: Church of England refuses to allow foreign language on a gravestone, calling it a "political statement"
In 1985, Swiss synthpop duo Yello's quirky dance track "Oh Yeah" became ubiquitous on US radio after being used in the classic high school film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Above,… Read the rest of the article: The story behind Yello's "Oh Yeah," famously used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Armin Küpper offers up some Pipelinefunk: "Saxophone jam using a pipeline as natural delay and reverb" When I was preparing for my recording session on the tube, I got a… Read the rest of the article: Saxophone played into an empty pipeline
The Houston Association of Realtors is eliminating the phrases "master bedroom” and “master bathroom” from its real estate listings because of the slavery connotations of the word "master." Agents are… Read the rest of the article: "Master bedroom" and "Master bath" won't be used in Houston's real estate listings anymore
The Nigerian Prince Scam — also known as a "419 Fraud" — has a long, weird, and fascinating history. But the basics of it are pretty easy to understand: a… Read the rest of the article: The "Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Assistant Scheme" is a 2020 twist on the classic Nigerian Prince Scam
This video compares the scenery and airframes in Microsoft Flight Simulator X to the forthcoming Microsoft Flight Sim 2020. Everyone has their own reasons for liking new things, but I'm… Read the rest of the article: Eager to see Air Disasters YouTube get its hands on MS Flight Sim 2020
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Law ⚡ (@lawjsharma) Who can tell real life from sitcom fiction anymore? This mashup video combines actual footage of angry citizens… Read the rest of the article: 'Parks and Rec' mashed up with real-life anti-maskers footage
There’s always been something romantic about train travel. Whether it’s the connection to a bygone age or just the slower pace of life on the rails, the reassuring click of… Read the rest of the article: The Trainz Railroad Simulator will make you feel like a master of the rails
I've owned every title in the XCOM franchise. I've played XCOM: Enemy Unknown on Windows rigs, my Mac, PS Vita, and, on my iPad. I won't relate the shameful number… Read the rest of the article: XCOM 2 for the Nintendo Switch is a glitchy heart breaker
40,000 new Covid cases were reported yesterday in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins data tracker, the worst yet in a pandemic that refused to go away and… Read the rest of the article: 39,327 new Covid cases on America's worst day yet for new infections
