- newStop PDF headaches — convert, merge, and edit files in minutes with AcePDF for a one-time $24
TL;DR: Convert, edit, and unlock PDFs into Word, Excel, and more with AcePDF Converter & Editor for $23.99 (MSRP $99.99) with promo code EXTRA20 until July 19, including OCR and batch tools in a lifetime license.Working with PDFs can get frustrating fast, especially when you just need to make a quick edit, pull text from a scan, or convert a file into something usable. — Read the rest The post Stop PDF headaches — convert, merge, and edit files in minutes with AcePDF for a one-time $24 appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 9:00pm -
- newRussians returning to 1 horsepower amid gasoline shortages
Russian villagers have begun buying horses instead of cars as the country's gasoline crisis deepens, The Moscow Times reported Monday, citing claims by horse breeders there. Demand for workhorses has risen severalfold in recent weeks, sparing about 1,000 animals from slaughter. — Read the rest The post Russians returning to 1 horsepower amid gasoline shortages appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 3 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 8:23pm -
- newPoet's copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift tossed again
A federal judge in Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift by self-published poet Kimberly Marasco, ruling (not for the first time!) that the material Marasco claimed Swift stole is not protected by copyright at all.Marasco alleged that more than a dozen songs from Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department lifted from poems she wrote between 2017 and 2021. — Read the rest The post Poet's copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift tossed again appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 7:20pm -
- new"Knockoff" browser add-on filters junk brands from Amazon results
Knockoff is "Amazon, without the knockoffs": a browser extension for Chrome that filters out the gibberish factory brands that are typically favoried over quality products in the online retailer's search results. What's left, creator Josh Pigford writes, is "brands with a reputation to lose" rather than HORUSDY or PHRXXI or whatever. — Read the rest The post "Knockoff" browser add-on filters junk brands from Amazon results appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 6:46pm -
- newIn 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high
According to Bart Huges, the Dutch librarian attended medical school in Amsterdam "but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use." In 1964 he published a scroll arguing that trepanation — drilling a hole in the skull — "could be used to enhance brain functionality by balancing the proportion of blood and cerebral spinal fluid." — Read the rest The post In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 5:44pm -
- newFor 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon
According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand years, and astronomers still cannot fully explain them. The British astronomer Patrick Moore coined the term for a 1968 NASA catalog of reported lunar events. — Read the rest The post For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newIn 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres
By 1987, Kowloon Walled City held an estimated 33,000 residents on 2.6 hectares — "approximately 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometer (3 million per square mile)," according to Wikipedia, making it one of the most densely populated places on Earth. The 1898 convention that leased the New Territories to Britain excluded the old Chinese fort, leaving an enclave claimed by two governments and governed by neither. — Read the rest The post In 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 5:36pm -
- newA volcano froze crops worldwide in 1453
According to the record of the 1452/1453 mystery eruption, a volcano erupted somewhere on Earth powerful enough to inject about 11 megatons of sulfur into the stratosphere — "roughly one-third that of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora" — and no one knows which volcano it was. — Read the rest The post A volcano froze crops worldwide in 1453 appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 5:28pm -
- newMike Ehrmantraut gets his moment in the newest Saul4Democracy PSA
Another week, another Saul4Democracy video. For the uninitiated, this is a web series run by Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, featuring actors Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks back in their iconic characters. Rather than a continuation of BCS (which was itself kind of a continuation of Breaking Bad), Saul4Democracy is more of a disconnected series of PSAs covering various aspects of American politics, for better or worse. — Read the rest The post Mike Ehrmantraut gets his moment in the newest Saul4Democracy PSA appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 4:52pm -
- newLEGO horror trailer Yellow looks ready for A24
If you've ever stepped on a LEGO piece, you already know they have the ability to strike fear into anyone's heart. Despite this, though, their potential for horror has never been properly explored… until now.Animator George Coley's fan trailer for Yellow, a LEGO horror film that looks worthy of A24, is as darkly hilarious as you'd expect a LEGO horror film to be. — Read the rest The post LEGO horror trailer Yellow looks ready for A24 appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 4:51pm -