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There's a pretend country hiding in every book's barcode
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (349+ words) There's a pretend country called Bookland. If you're an avid reader, there's a good chance that you have a book on your shelf that has been labeled as being from this pretend land. Bookland was created to serve as a…...
Normally $199, it’s only $10 to get Windows 11 Pro right now
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (452+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Get Windows 11 Pro while it's on sale for $9.97 (reg. $199). Windows 10 is over a decade old, and it shows. Between the outdated interface and rusty…...
A cereal-box whistle that could trick the phone system into free calls
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (298+ words) A former Air Force engineer named John Draper used the whistle to make free phone calls and was the subject of a 1971 article in Esquire magazine. He was subsequently caught and arrested based on the publicity from the article and…...
The White House built five Trump-themed video games, and they're bleak
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (454+ words) At the moment, there are five games, with a sixth threatened to release in the near future. Some of them are more egregious than others. All of them are knockoffs of classics you've played before. Flappy Bill is an obvious…...
Replace your everyday laptop with a 16GB MacBook Air for $319.99
1+ week, 1+ day ago (469+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: This Grade A refurbished 2018 MacBook Air is just $319.99 (MSRP $2,299) with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, a Retina display, an Intel Core i5, and support for macOS…...
Can you draw the unusual suspects? - Boing Boing
1+ week, 3+ day ago (327+ words) Unusual Suspects is Neal Agarwal's latest fantanstic web-based game/toy (previously, previously, previously, previously). You're given comically nonspecific yet oddly detailed descriptions of suspects and must draw them on-screen. The game then identifies the suspect based on your sketch, which…...
More than 153 million drivers licenses on sale after "breach" at identity verification service
1+ week, 3+ day ago (297+ words) The name of the identity verification provider isn't disclosed by the seller, and it has not announced itself. KrebsOnSecurity's own informal investigation found that idscan.net provides relevant services to retailers and services implicated by those exposed in the data....
LCD replicas of retro CRT monitors questioned
1+ week, 3+ day ago (358+ words) All these screens, including the Unico TRAVELLER-ULW10, will save you the trouble of figuring out how to connect retro consoles to modern TVs. I'd love to gulp down the proverbial Kool-Aid and believe that this latest pseudo-tube will actually emulate…...
Someone may have told a bunch of military fridges to defrost
1+ week, 4+ day ago (274+ words) Today in "things I never thought I would type:" Refrigeration units in multiple military commissaries across the United States may have been hacked. A Defense Department official told Military Times that there was "a possible refrigeration disruption at some Defense…...