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- Man kicked off flight for wearing gas mask
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 04:05 PMA man was kicked off an American Airlines flight Thursday after putting on a gas mask and refusing to remove it. Other passengers began to "panic", according to reports, and the flight was delayed an hour until he was kicked off.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How to make a second 'Top Gun' film
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 10:14 AM...and then the kids wanted Rambo.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Volunteers needed to cuddle pigs
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 11:53 AMCotton Branch Farm Animal Sanctuary in Leesville, South Carolina is seeking volunteers to cuddle pigs and, eventually, adopt the animals as pets. The organizations rescued more than 200 pigs from a Kentucky property about a year ago.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Personal tents for airplane passengers to avoid coronavirus
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 12:42 PMA few years back, my brother Rick Pescovitz came up with Under The Weather Pods, single-person pop-up shelters. You may have caught Rick on Shark Tank (video below). Rick was sick of getting soaked at his kids' soccer games and was inspired by a portable toilet he saw by the field.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Take your gaming to the next level with these Nintendo Switch accessories
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 03:00 PMThe latest Nintendo Switch console is undeniably awesome, but these nine best-selling and top-rated accessories will take your Switch gaming experience to the next level. From wireless controllers to projectors, you're sure to find something here that will change the way you play for the better.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Relive the golden age of writing with these leather notebooks and journals
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 10:00 PMIn the digital age, it can seem as though the life of the physical notebook or diary has come and gone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - PETA claims patriotic Super Bowl ad was banned by NFL
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A police dog is running against the goat incumbent mayor of a small Vermont town
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 05:50 PMIn 2019, a 3-year-old Nubian goat named Lincoln was officially inaugurated as the first mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont. And then she pooped. As Town Manager Joe Gunter explained at the time, "Originally we did it as a fundraiser to replace the playground behind the school, but it really turned into a small civic lesson for the children.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 1917... now starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, and Gary the Snail
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 11:08 AMCarnage-Boy asks: "What if Sam Mendes' latest badass movie was set in Bikini Bottom instead of Pas-de-Calais?"
Here's the original trailer:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UPDATED: Airlines canceling China flights over Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 11:46 AMAs we've been blogging here at Boing Boing, the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread, and airlines have begun suspending flights to and from China, where most confirmed cases are located.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- This accessory is perfect for conquering a wide range of odd jobs both indoors and outdoors
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 09:00 AMAnyone who works in the great outdoors or in a variety of fields that require the use of a good old-fashioned blade every now and then needs to have a good knife handy at all times.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The EFF says public WIFI isn't so bad any more
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 10:28 AMThe decade-old warning to stay off public WIFI systems is no longer valid.
EFF:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Root on that PETA ad, the NFL, and frustration with it all
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 12:30 PMMichael Harriot's take on why the NFL rejecting PETA's ridiculous ad is so notable is the best I have read.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New machine learning algorithm produces "near-perfect" fake human faces
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 12:50 PMFace-synthesizing algorithms often struggle with facial details like eyes and teeth. These features sometimes get pinned to a fixed spot as a head turns, resulting in an uncanny valley dweller.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 1980s VHS babes shooting machine guns
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 08:14 AMWhen the new civil war kicks off, will you have fourteen 1980s machine gun VHS babes on your side? They're sharper shooters than the F35 Joint Strike Fighter, that's for sure.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fine-tune your spelling and grammar with this Chrome extension
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 04:00 PMNothing is worse than firing off an important email only to realize later on that it was riddled with typos and plagued with poor sentences.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - JOHN WILCOCK: Writing 'The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol'
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Psychedelic Furs announce first studio album in 29 years, release first single, "Don’t Believe"
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 05:51 PMThe Psychedelic Furs have just announced a spring release for their eight studio album entitled "Made of Rain." It's been a 29 year wait. The first single off of the record, "Don't Believe," has been posted to YouTube.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watch: A pet goat enjoys morning pastries before riding away on a motorcycle
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 11:40 AMThis goat knows the routine as it excitedly jumps on the man for its morning pastries. It then jumps on the back of the man's motorcycle and embraces him as it reaches for more of the sweet stuff.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- You'll never want to use AirBnB again after reading Vice's investigation into all the scams run on travelers
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 12:05 PMVice asked its readers to tell them about scams they'd been subjected to trying to book and stay at AirBnB locations. It received thousands of stories: enough to generate a ranked list of the most widespread frauds pulled by AirBnB listers.
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- Andy Gill, iconic post-punk guitarist for Gang of Four, has died
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 05:39 PMAndy Gill, founding member, guitar player, and "Supreme Leader" of the hugely influencial post-punk band, Gang of Four, has died. He was 64.
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Members of the current Gang of Four line-up tweeted the following: - This Bodum pour-over coffee maker works great and looks pretty cool
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 10:38 AMThis Bodum pour-over coffee maker with a permanent stainless steel filter works great and is one of the cheapest I found.
This thing works to make pour-over coffee and costs less than $20.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Enjoy this Star Trek fan's delightful "Ode to Spock" recorded after the Vulcan's film death in 1982
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 12:10 PMIn 1982, Susan "Sulu" Dubow recorded "Ode to Spock," her terrific musical response to the Vulcan's death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Dubow will be familiar to fans of Dr.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here's how to plan for a trip to Japan
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Intentionally distressed sweater looks like a cat's ripping it up
Saturday - 02/01/2020 - 08:01 AMStraight from Latvia comes a sweater that, when worn, looks like a cat is hanging off your back and holding on for dear life with its claws. A red heart and the simple word "cat" are there to possibly remind us that our feline friends are to be loved even when they're ripping up our stuff.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Test footage emerges of "Star Wars: Underworld," a TV series that never came to light
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 04:15 PMFootage from George Lucas’ abandoned 2010 Star Wars TV series, "Star Wars: Underworld," has surfaced on YouTube.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump expands racist travel ban to 6 additional countries
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 04:34 PMThe Trump administration today announced it will effectively block all immigration from Nigeria, Burma/Myanmar, and four other countries as the undead white supremacist travel ban rages on.
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Trump's 'acting' Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said the United States will immediately suspend the issuance of visas that can lead to permanent residency for nationals of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar and Nigeria. - Mattress shopping with a bad back
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 10:39 AMThe world is now filled with an insane variety of things you can sleep on. I ended up with a Purple 3 mattress, but holy cow -- what a ride!
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Remembering those badgers
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 11:34 AMI have lost hours of my life to Badger, Badger, Badger and the meter is clearly still running.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - I love this cheap, mechanical gaming keyboard... and it lights up too!
Friday - 01/31/2020 - 12:15 PMThis Redragon 10-keyless mechanical gaming keyboard has increased my gaming enjoyment.
I moved from controller to KB+M gameplay and things are better! I mostly wanted the insane update that moving to a modern graphics chipset, ram and storage would bring but the increased control of playing games with a keyboard and mouse are a huge bonus.
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