582 posts tagged ‘Post’
Tom the Dancing Bug: Bad Fetus, in "Fetal Firepower"
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Wake the kids, phone the neighbors. The Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2024 has been announced. As 2025 starts, might you SIGN UP FOR THE INNER HIVE and you'll get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic at least a day before publication? — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: Bad Fetus, in "Fetal Firepower" appeared first on Boing Boing.
ShredOS is an entire OS just for destroying data
Want to utterly wipe a drive? ShredOS will do it for you. Install it to a USB stick, boot from said stick, and let it annihilate all those ones and zeroes. READ BOING BOING AD-FREE! ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of securely erasing the entire contents of your disks using the program nwipe. — Read the rest The post ShredOS is an entire OS just for destroying data appeared first on Boing Boing.
Mixbox simulates natural color mixing in pigments
In painting apps, color gradients are calculated within abstract color models, apparently without any particular care for how humans see or what humans expect. If you've ever felt you could see "Photoshop colors" in the dull and stodgy hues of a digitally-colored comic book or illustration, it might well have something to do with that. — Read the rest The post Mixbox simulates natural color mixing in pigments appeared first on Boing Boing.
The death stairs of Pittsburgh
The Facebook group Death Stairs is dedicated to staircases likely to murder those who set foot on them. Though there is a variety of subgenres—consider ultramodernist glass stairs with no railings or risers, for example, or the DIY witch stairs of an amateur carpenter's first tiny house project—one source dominates the group's imagination: Pittsburgh. — Read the rest The post The death stairs of Pittsburgh appeared first on Boing Boing.
British furry franchise The Wombles may soon return to screens
The Wombles are Britain's counterpart to the Smurfs, the Gnomes, the Trolls, and so on: in the 1960s and 1970s, every European country had its own cast of counterculture-influenced yet eminently franchisable creature cultures. The Wombles are hedgehog-like characters who live in burrows in parkland ("the Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we…") and clean up after thoughtless, littering humans. — Read the rest The post British furry franchise The Wombles may soon return to screens appeared first on Boing Boing.
Prove you're human by playing Doom in a captcha
"Can it run Doom?" is a clever way of reminding us that everything, from toasters to tealights, are general-purpose computers underneath the polypropylene. Though Doom in the browser is nothing new, Doom in a captcha in a browser as a test of humanity is a potentially disarming development. — Read the rest The post Prove you're human by playing Doom in a captcha appeared first on Boing Boing.
Judge won't let Giuliani keep his witness list sealed
Rudy Giuliani—formerly America's Mayor and lately Donald Trump's startlingly disgraced lawyer—will not be able to keep a list of witnesses hidden until a legal hearing next month that could strip him of his Florida condo. Giuliani is on the hook for a $148m defamation verdict after lying about two election workers, but has been doing his best to avoid compensating them. — Read the rest The post Judge won't let Giuliani keep his witness list sealed appeared first on Boing Boing.
In Canada, Justin Trudeau's Liberals sink to 16% in polls
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was once the fresh face of the Liberal party there, winning three elections on center-left platforms despite a string of scandals. His popularity faded slowly, then suddenly: in recent months the bottom has fallen out in his polling, sinking his party to just 16% with a general election looming. — Read the rest The post In Canada, Justin Trudeau's Liberals sink to 16% in polls appeared first on Boing Boing.