Diogenes is the pithos-inhabiting star of Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, the most sadistic game to never spill a pixel of blood. He (Diogenes, not Bennett) is hereby immortalized as a $25 plushie by Makeship: "If we get 400 preorders they'll do a production run!" [via @bfod]

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The science-fiction dream of videoconferencing is finally grim, merciless reality, but tech companies have wanted to foist it on us for decades and this business-to-business marketing video for AT&T's early-1990s solution makes for amusing viewing. They hired David Fincher to do TV ads for AT&T about the same time. They don't depict the VideoPhone itself,&

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This is sadly and absolutely as true today as it was when they wrote it.

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When we pick up our phones to shoot a video, most of us aren't looking to craft "The Godfather." We just want something that looks reasonably decent that won't be an embarrassment when it gets posted to YouTube or social media. But while not every video needs to reach Spielbergian levels of production, you might&

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Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler reprise their 50 First Dates roles in this comedic short that imagines what life would be like now for the 2004 film's characters, Lucy and Henry. Lucy (Drew Barrymore) wakes up to husband Henry's (Adam Sandler) routine message to remind her of what's been going on the past 16 years&

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For the last few months, I've been making ice cream every weekend. Here's my recipe for low sugar vanilla chocolate chip ice cream. The Zeroll Ice Cream Scoop has come in handy. The scoop is designed to bite into hard ice cream and roll the ice cream onto the scoop. It has some kind of heat conductive&

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Rejoice all ye bakers and lovers of kinder, gentler competition reality shows. The Great British Bake-Off, known to Netflix audiences as The Great British Baking Show, is back for its eighth season. It will premier on Netflix, September 25th. I love what Boing Boing pal, Steve Silberman, said on Facebook about the show: The subversive&

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The Pretenders recorded this Live at Home rendition of "Back on the Chain Gang" for BBC Radio 2. Chrissie Hynde's voice is apparently immortal.

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Be honest. How many plastic lids are stashed away in your kitchen? No, seriously&how many? Go ahead and check that black hole of a cupboard down there and find out. We'll wait… Was the number up over 20? Over 30? More? Now the second question is&could you even guess at which containers actually fit half [&]

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In this video [via Storyful], an armed Federal security guard raises a gun in a firing position toward a group of protesters on September 16, in the lobby of a federal building in lower Manhattan. An FBI office and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office are located inside the building. Jarrett [&]

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Former FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 30, which is just about one month before the presidential election. The GOP keeps trying to gin up the lie that Comey and the FBI under his direction conspired against Donald Trump in 2016. From the Associated Press: Comey, [&]

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IMAGE: This photo published by Alexei Navalny on his Instagram shows Alex and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. He posted this on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: "Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still can't do much, but yesterday [&]

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The Justice Department announced charges against three Iranian nationals over the hacking of aerospace and satellite tech firms. Here's the news release from the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia, published early Thursday: Iranian Hackers Indicted for Stealing Data from Aerospace and Satellite Tracking Companies ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An indictment was [&]

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Twitter added a warning label to a tweet by impeached and unfit U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday. The label says Trump's post includes misleading information about the voting process. "Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to "voters", or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election [&]

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"He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off," Amy Dorris told The Guardian of her alleged sexual assault by Trump in 1997. "And then that's when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything. I was in [&]

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Every time a White House official speaks about the pandemic we need a graphic just like this. Raw Story:

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"I was flying my drone in my backyard, when I noticed a large bird in a nearby tree watching intently," says the drone pilot who posted this video. "I flew over to find the bird with the drone to get a closer look, and the bird took off and knocked it out of the sky."

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The pandemic has convinced many U.S. workers, especially young tech workers, that going into an office isn't really necessary. If you can Zoom in from anywhere why pay inflated NYC or San Francisco rental prices when you can work from Austin or Atlanta? From High Society Investors: Silicon Valley, New York, and other big US [&]

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Heavily armed men in camouflage have set up at least two roadblocks in Oregon's wildfire-raged Multnomah county, reports The Guardian. Drivers who were stopped said the vigilantes asked them for identification and questioned their reasons for travel. Some drivers reported that police were on the scene allowed the vigilantes to conduct the illegal traffic stops. [&]

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I'm fond of 40% keyboards—the Vortex 40 is a great place to start if you're curious (and also you can buy it right now, rather than waiting three years for a group buy to drop). But what if you hate minimalism? What if you're a maximalist? Behold Ren Rose's astonishing 433% keyboard, made for people [&]

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