I got my first PC in 1996, and the games to get were Civilization 2 and Quake. Quake had the better soundtrack. NINE INCH NAILS' SOUNDTRACK TO THE LEGENDARY FIRST PERSON SHOOTER FROM ID SOFTWARE. AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON VINYL. REMASTERED 2XLP PRESSED ON 180GRAM VINYL. At $35, it's a great collector [&]

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It's a few years old and I no longer have a computer with a CD tray, but I enjoyed this guide to removing ham from optical drives all the same. I might have to head up to the attic to find my old machine, as a large cotto salami is in its Blu-Ray player and [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/17/how-to-remove-ham-from-your-di.html

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph writes that BP's move to green energy marks the end of Big Oil: With a single stroke of the pen, BP has written the obituary of the global petroleum industry. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company that once fuelled the British Empire and long defined Big Oil has confirmed what the technology [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/17/goodbye-big-oil-half-the-w.html

Taco Bell in Canada has announced that it will now be offering a special Taco Bell-brand house wine at some locations, with the wonderfully puntastic name of Jalape~no Noir. The grapes comes from "a vineyard in Ontario," though it's not clear what kind of grapes they are — whether it's actually a Pinot Noir, or [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/17/taco-bell-is-now-selling-jal.html

Remember the Anchorage, Alaska dentist who was busted for pulling a patient's tooth while balancing on a hoverboard? A judge just sentenced Seth Lookhart, DDS, to a dozen years in prison for charges including Medicaid fraud, reckless endangerment, and unlawful dental acts. Apparently, he sedated patients for much longer than necessary, removed teeth without permission, [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/17/dentist-who-pulled-patients.html

The New York Subway isn't like this anymore, but the sheer decrepitude and negligence of it in the 80s is always amazing to behold. This video shows a ride to Coney Island in 1987. Londoners like me will sometimes get a bit snooty about this sort of thing, but the London Underground was about as [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/17/a-nyc-subway-ride-to-coney-isl.html

The latest bizarre invention from Simone Giertz, the woman once known as "The Queen of Shitty Robots," involves a basic MIDI keyboard and a bunch of those creepy plastic wind-up teeth. The goal was to kind-of try to make each tooth-chatter correspond to a different pitch, so as to actually produce something that sounds sort [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/17/check-out-this-diy-teeth-chatt.html

Surveillance cameras aren't just a luxury anymore. They're practically a necessity. Whether you want to keep an eye on your home or children, secure your business or just make sure your actions are documented correctly, discreet, portable security cameras have never been more accessible or more powerful. The Tokk C2 Discreet Day/Night Vision Camera is [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/this-portable-security-cam-is.html

Sometimes, you and all your friends just need to crawl up into your little basket-bowls with a blankie, and take a nap. More fun images at kagonekoshiro.com.

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Illegitimate U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr told federal prosecutors on a call last week they should consider sedition charges against those suspected of violent crimes at recent racial justice protests. The Wall Street Journal first reported Barr's sedition comments. From reporting by Katie Benner at the New York Times: The highly unusual suggestion to charge [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/protesters-should-get-sedition.html

Remember that Trump photo op in front of St. John's Church in Lafayette Square in DC, on June 1st, where American citizens were tear-gassed? Military police were also considering using what is described as a heat ray to burn the skin of people protesting the killing of George Floyd on that day. Previously, the heat [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/military-police-weighed-using.html

• Users who sued claim Trump's ban on WeChat prohibits "millions of WeChat users in the United States & from using the most popular social media space for Chinese speakers in the world." The Justice Department said on Wednesday that U.S.-based users of the Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat will not face civil or criminal penalties, [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/wechat-users-in-u-s-will-not.html

I have self-healing cutting mats in a few different sizes. One of them is over 30 years old. I used it to help make the zine version of Boing Boing in the late 1980s. I still use it today. If you have never used a self-healing cutting mat, you don't know what you are missing. You can [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/why-everyone-should-have-a-sel.html

Trump's latest attempt to downplay his murderous response to the Covid pandemic is to ignore deaths in "blue states." It's not only a stupid thing to say, it's not even true:

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/trump-if-you-take-the-blue.html

A Missouri court sentenced two men to write a letter of apology to their Amish community after pleading guilty to sexually abusing their sister when she was 12 and 13 years old. Webster County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Berkstresser explained why he didn't seek prison time for rapists: "These two young men would've been eaten alive [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/no-prison-time-for-two-men-who.html

Mountain Dew and Red Lobster have jointly crafted the Dew Garita. The first official Mountain Dew cocktail will soon be available at Red Lobster. The "Dew Garita" will be rolling out to select restaurants in September and expected to be available nationwide by the end of 2020. In a news release Tuesday, Red Lobster and [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/mountain-dew-and-red-lobster-u.html

Do we all have Zoom fatigue yet? So many annoying aspects to living our work and social lives over video conferencing. One of these is the need for everyone having to mute when listening and unmuting when talking, especially just to say "Yes," "No," "Great," "BRB," etc. Engineer Cameron Hunter got tired enough of these [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/comic-book-style-gesture-messa.html

When you were a kid, your mom and dad probably told you to grow up and become a doctor or a lawyer. Practical people that they were, your parents probably assumed that if you were able to scale the educational heights of those revered professions, you'd be handsomely rewarded with a hefty paycheck.  While you [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/electrical-engineering-is-one.html

Almost two-thirds of Americans 18-39 didn't know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a survey. From The Guardian: According to the study of millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 18 and 39, almost half (48%) could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto established during the second world [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/16/percentage-of-americans-who-do.html

Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming Dune recently got its first trailer, with a surprising soundtrack: a cover of the outtro to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. A tribute to Alejandro Jodorowsky's legendary 1970s effort to film the novel with a full Floyd soundtrack, it was crafted by Hans Zimmer, working remotely with an L.A. choir. [&]

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