582 posts tagged ‘Post’
Chris Christie shuts down MAGA Newsmax host: "The truth is coming, baby"
Boing Boing,
Think what you will about former Trump-sycophant Chris Christie, but as the only Republican candidate who consistently hammers Donald Trump and MAGA propaganda, he sure is fun to have around. Especially since, as a former federal prosecutor (and Republican bully himself), he knows how to clobber hard, as he did yesterday when he punched the stuffing out of far-right Newsmax host Eric Bolling. — Read the rest
White House condemns Musk's antisemitism; Apple finally suspends advertising on Twitter
Yesterday, Elon Musk promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory and described it as "actual truth," and in the aftermath Media Matters posted an exposé on the brands whose ads appear against such material on the site. IBM, with its uneasy past of collaboration with the Third Reich, was first to jump. — Read the rest
Master maker Simone Giertz spent three years designing a better coat hanger
For more than a decade, Swedish maker Simone Giertz has inspired us with her "shitty" robots, DIY Tesla pickup truck, mantis shrimp costume, and other curious and "useless" inventions. For the last three years, she's been designing a better coat hanger. — Read the rest
Click here to make your life more suspenseful
Is your life humdrum? Short on drama? Lacking intrigue? "Suspense Accents" can help. Just click on any of the soundboard buttons to add tension to your boring day-to-day. For even more menace, switch to dark mode. Created by Robb Knight, original design by John Voorhees, VLCNR icon by Simon Buckmaster. — Read the rest
Blink and you lose: try the intense stare-off challenge of staring at strangers online
How long can you stare at a stranger without blinking? That's the object of Stranger Video. When you visit the site and give it access to your webcam, you get paired with a stranger that you must stare at. The first person to blink loses. — Read the rest
RetroTINK recreates the beauty of CRT displays for serious and seriously deep-pocketed retrogamers
Pixel-peeping retrogamers know the joy of thrifting that exact 2007-era Dell LCD with both the right shape and a high-enough resolution to not look skanky when upscaling ancient arcade and console games to fill it. Some of us even go as far as to buy, hack or DIY upscalers to connect them to the original outputs of real arcade games and consoles—emulation be damned. — Read the rest
Flux Keyboard has an adapting display behind transparent keys
The Flux Keyboard takes a more practical approach to the dream of keys that change to fit the current app, game or other layout required. Instead of the spectacularly expensive Optimus keyboard, where every key is a miniature display, the Flux has a single large display visible through individual, magnetically-levitated keys. — Read the rest
Happy Life Day, the Star Wars holiday celebrating Wookiee life
November 17 is the generally accepted date of Life Day, the holiday that according to Star Wars lore originated in Chewbacca's Wookiee culture and then spread to the rest of the galaxy. It was first introduced in the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special," a television special broadcast on CBS on November 17, 1978. — Read the rest