- newHow a banned rice cooker cost a Welsh university £264,442
Peak Ong, a 72-year-old cleaner at Aberystwyth University in Wales, won £264,442.09 from the school after a dispute that started with a banned rice cooker ended in her firing and a vindictive job reference.Catherine Green, Ong's manager, accused her of giving a rice cooker to a student living in university dorms, where they're banned. — Read the rest The post How a banned rice cooker cost a Welsh university £264,442 appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newNewborn gosling leaps from an I-5 offramp into the Willamette River
Watch an adorable, fluffy newborn gosling take its first leap, and what a leap it is. This brave little chick jumped from an I-5 offramp high above Portland's Eastbank Esplanade and the Willamette River, falling toward its parents and siblings waiting below. — Read the rest The post Newborn gosling leaps from an I-5 offramp into the Willamette River appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 6 May 26, 9:58pm -
- newDevils Hole pupfish: rarest fish on Earth lives in one Nevada cavern
This video shows the weirdness of the Devils Hole pupfish. Deep inside a single limestone cavern in Nevada's Mojave Desert lives one of the rarest fish on Earth. The tiny, shimmering blue fish can be found in only one known natural habitat in the world: a water-filled limestone fissure called Devils Hole. — Read the rest The post Devils Hole pupfish: rarest fish on Earth lives in one Nevada cavern appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 6 May 26, 9:56pm -
- newHis brother's hamster is charging his phone now
A YouTuber going by Flamethrower spent nights listening to his brother's new hamster squeak through the exercise wheel and decided to harvest the energy. The result is a working phone charger powered by the rodent.A hamster runs in bursts, while a phone wants steady voltage — that's the engineering problem. — Read the rest The post His brother's hamster is charging his phone now appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 6 May 26, 9:53pm -
- new1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth
This unusual set of dentures was made in the 1940s by a California miner named George Washington Hancock, who couldn't afford conventional dental care. He needed teeth, so he made them. Hancock fashioned the bases himself by heating celluloid toothbrush handles and pressing them into denture-shaped molds. — Read the rest The post 1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 6 May 26, 9:44pm -
- newThe man who discovered microwaves measured a flower's heartbeat in 1926
In August 1926, Jagadish Chandra Bose walked into an Oxford lecture hall carrying a snapdragon stem. He hooked it to one of his handmade instruments, told the audience they were watching the plant's heartbeat, and pointed to a tracing that rose and fell in rhythm. — Read the rest The post The man who discovered microwaves measured a flower's heartbeat in 1926 appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 6 May 26, 9:30pm -
- newUpgrade to Windows 11 and get Office 2024 for under $100
TL;DR: Give your wallet and chosen device an easy win with lifetime access to both Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for Mac or PC—now just $95.97 (reg. $448.99). Microsoft recently ended Windows 10 support, which means there's never been a better time to upgrade your operating system. — Read the rest The post Upgrade to Windows 11 and get Office 2024 for under $100 appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 6 May 26, 9:00pm -
- newSimple app to make images look like they're on an old CRT display
Everytime I want to make pixel art look old-timey, I find myself searching for and fussing with online filter sites that don't look right, or trying to do something clever with scanlines or shadowmask textures in Photoshop, which also never looks quite right. — Read the rest The post Simple app to make images look like they're on an old CRT display appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 7 hours ago 6 May 26, 8:17pm -
- newMusk defends tweets that allegedly tanked Twitter stock before buyout
Elon Musk defended his conduct in federal court Thursday as former Twitter shareholders accused him of deliberately driving down the company's stock price ahead of his 2022 purchase of the platform now known as X.The case, which represents Twitter shareholders who sold the stock between May 13 and Oct. — Read the rest The post Musk defends tweets that allegedly tanked Twitter stock before buyout appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 7 hours ago 6 May 26, 7:40pm -
- newSecurity researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare
A security researcher who decompiled the White House's new mobile app says it contains hidden GPS-tracking capabilities, weak security protections, and code loaded from an outside GitHub page, raising serious questions about privacy and cybersecurity.And it gets even stranger. Apparently, the app is loading JavaScript from a random person's GitHub site for YouTube embeds. — Read the rest The post Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 8 hours ago 6 May 26, 7:26pm -