TL;DR: Summer is right around the corner, and so are the heat waves. The Costway 3-in-1 Portable Evaporative Air Conditioner Cooler with Remote Control will help make your space more bearable, and it's on sale for $95.99 (reg. $299) or 68% off. — Read the rest The post Get this 3-in-1 portable air conditioner for only $95.99 ahead of summer appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

When Nintendo took legal action against open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Yuba, many developers forked the repository, effectively creating thousands of duplicates on GitHub and elsewhere. The Japanese game giant went after them, too, "blitzing" GitHub with takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. — Read the rest The post Nintendo hits GitHub with 8,000 emulator takedown notices appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

The Bonniebrook Home Museum is where the creator of the Kewpie Doll, Rose O'Neill, once resided.  From Atlas Obscura:  "ROSE O'NEILL WAS A FORMIDABLE Renaissance woman. Born in 1874, she worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She created the Kewpie, which would become the first trademarked household name cartoon character.  She was also a champion for women's rights and suffrage. At the peak of her career, O'Neill was the highest-paid illustrator in the world." This home-turned-museum celebrates O'Neills art and is filled with display cases full of different ..read more

For the first time, a wild animal was observed treating itself with a medicinal plant. According to the journal Nature, Rakus is a Sumatran Orangutan who moved into Gunung Leuser National Park in South Aceh, Indonesia, in 2009. In 2022, he was seen with a significant injury on his cheek, possibly from fighting for dominance with other mature males. Days later, Rakus was observed eating the stems and leaves of the creeper akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria), which local people use to treat diabetes, dysentery and malaria, among other conditions. Orangutans in the area rarely eat this plant. In ..read more

Classic cartoon fans will soon have another source for watching Bugs Bunny, Jonny Quest, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Speed Racer, and more. Bruce Haring on Deadline.com reports that a new network, MeTV Toons, is set to launch June 25, 2024 The new MeTV Toons collaboration between Warner Bros. Discovery and Weigel – the company behind the MeTV Network – will welcome dozens of the world's classic cartoons, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry, George Jetson, Top Cat, Yogi Bear, Popeye, Johnny Quest and Fred Flintstone, among others. Alongside Warner Bros ..read more

Back in 2010, writers Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery teamed up with artists Andy Belanger, Ian Herring, and Kagan McLeod for a bloody, pulpy take on the ol' Bard. The first volume of Kill Shakespeare was a tremendous hit, pitting Hamlet against Juliet, Othello, Falstaff, and others in his quest to resurrect his father. Later volumes introduced the menacing Mac family, along with a mysterious wizard known as William Shakespeare. The series even spun off into a board game, an audio drama, and even a stage show (which enjoyed a brief engagement at Shakespeare's Globe). Now, Kill Shakespeare ..read more

Have you ever had the urge to drink 94 year-old canned baby formula? The gentleman in this video sure did, and he seems to have no regrets about his decision. The can does look amazingly well-preserved for how old it is, and I'd guess that the high sugar content of the formula helped keep it drinkable.  Watch the process of the antique can getting opened, boiled, sipped and discussed. I would be fearful about drinking modern-day baby formula, let alone a can of the stuff from 1930.  See also: After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the ..read more

If you've been having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep through the night, you may want to try listening to pink noise. What is pink noise exactly? As the Sleep Foundation explains, "Pink noise is a sound that contains a random assortment of all the audible frequencies, with more power in the lower frequencies. Specifically, pink noise contains the same overall intensity in each octave, but the volume of individual pitches decreases by 3 decibels with each higher octave." In other words, it's like a pleasant, balanced hum. Pink noise is common in nature sounds like "rain, waterfall, wi ..read more

Onigiri is a delicious snack from Japan made of sticky rice that's shaped into triangles or balls and stuffed with anything from little bits of veggies to fish to different types of meat. You can find them at any convenient store in Japan, and they're super cheap (around 64 US cents). Unless, that is, they contain the "unique flavor" of human sweat. For that extra ingredient — sourced from women's armpits — it will cost you a pretty yen, according to a the South China Morning Post. Or more like $1,000 yen (close to $6.50). The snack is now being prepared by young women who use their armpits ..read more

Fox News praised the exhausted, trial-riddled ex-president yesterday for "delivering" pizza to the New York City Fire Department. "Donald Trump delivers pizza to New York City firefighters … after day in court," said the faux news headline, applauding the four-times indicted conman for his grand and selfless photo-op, er, gesture. — Read the rest The post Donald Trump pretends to deliver pizza to New York firefighters — watch how the grift works (video) appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more