TL;DR: Get four Microsoft deals in one bundle: 2019 Office, Visio, and Project, with Windows 11 Pro, all for only $79.97! Like most things in life, Microsoft tools work their very best when they're used all together. Why settle for just one Microsoft program when you can four for the price of one? — Read the rest The post Microsoft Office, Visio, Project, and Windows 11 Pro are now less than $80! appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Pete O'Connell at vinepair.com has done us the favor of compiling what he calls "The 5 Worst Booze Ads of All Time." I disagree strongly with the first two I liked: a Falstaff beer commercial from the 1950s/1960s and a Schlitz beer campaign from 1977. — Read the rest The post Vinepairs' five worst booze ads of all time appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Check out Belgian musician Max Vandervorst playing a fantastic (and fantastical!) instrument he made—the porciphone. The what, you ask? Rare and Strange Instruments describes the porciphone as a "tuned pipe instrument played with two plastic pigs." Maybe you have to see it to understand. — Read the rest The post Behold the wonders of the porciphone! appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Apologizing to the cats, JD Vance attempts to cast his disparaging childless women as funny ha-ha. Trump's new liability, Vice Presidential running mate JD Vance's non-apology for his cat lady remarks, only serves to remind everyone that he thinks women's worth is only in being an incubator. — Read the rest The post JD Vance mansplains his "sarcasm" appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

The famed animatronic performers at kids' party restaurant Chuck E. Cheese are finally being taken out back, victim to changing trends, spiraling maintenance costs and the improved advertising revenues offered by the screens that shall replace them. The New York Times recently said goodbye to the mechanical marvels (archive.org — Read the rest The post Don't You Forget About Chuck E. Cheese appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

The astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station via NASA's Starliner spacecraft on June 5th, 2024, are still awaiting their journey back to Earth. Their return has already been delayed and rescheduled several times due to launch system and thruster issues. — Read the rest The post Stuck in space: 50 days and still no return date for NASA astronauts Wilmore and Williams appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

These clips of Don Jr interviewing his daddy's VP candidate are reported to be displayed at normal speed. When you look at Vance and Don Jr together, it is clear one has supernatural energy. Junior was sweaty and waving his hands so much I thought he might start hovering like a hummingbird. — Read the rest The post Bolivian hand-waving powder? Don Jr's energetic gesticulation appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Britain's new government has dropped its predecessor's plans to challenge to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The court accuses Netanyahu of orchestrating war crimes in the invasion of Gaza, where some 38,000 civilians have so far died in the ongoing conflict. — Read the rest The post UK drops plan to challenge to Netanyahu arrest warrant appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

People who murder or harm gay and transgender people have prevailed at trial on the strength of the "gay panic defence," which boils down to the idea that a victim's sexuality or gender may be so shocking that it diminishes legal responsibility for violent crimes committed against them. — Read the rest The post Michigan outlaws 'gay and trans panic defense' appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Donald Trump wants flag burners to get prison time, but the Supreme Court has already declared the action protected. Trump wants jail time for anyone who desecrates the US flag. Denying that the Supreme Court has ruled flag-burning to be protected free speech under the First Amendment, Trump seems to have called the court "stupid." — Read the rest The post The false patriotism of Donald Trump appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more