"Qantas Airways has agreed to pay 120 million Australian dollars ($79 million) to settle a lawsuit over the sale of thousands of tickets on already canceled flights," reports CNN We have obtained exclusive recordings between the Qantas CEO and executives who orchestrated the fraud: Qantas executive number one: Gee, I wish there was a way to make more money without buying more planes or offering better quality of service! — Read the rest The post Qantas coughs up $79M for selling tickets on already canceled flights appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Get Any Plant is an online aggregator of nurseries and online stores with some 6,000 species of plant to buy. It has Venus Fly Traps, handsome Echevaria, beautiful Salpiglossis, and many more. They're organized by type (flowing, carnivorous, pet safe, etc) and it offers fast facts about many species. — Read the rest The post Site tells you where you can order 6,000 species of plant appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

An adorable but fed-up Shit-Tzu pup was in no mood when her human pretended to play Rock Paper Scissors with her for food. Sitting in front of a plate of turkey, lettuce, and Cheerios, the man is seen pounding a fist into his hand, saying, "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot! — Read the rest The post Man who plays Rock Paper Scissors with his dog for food is met with snaps and snarls (video) appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

The MAGA geniuses who oversee the One Star State of Texas claim to revere religious freedom. So why, then, is the U.S. Justice Department suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for refusing to allow an employee to wear a head covering due to her religious beliefs? — Read the rest The post "You just pray to a rock!" — Justice Department sues Texas prison for discriminating against employee's religious head covering appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Republican former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Geoff Duncan has endorsed Joe Biden for President. In a scathing op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal, Georgia's former Lt. Gov. made it clear and in no uncertain terms that he would not be voting for Donald Trump. — Read the rest The post Trump losing support in key swing state appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

TL;DR: Carry your music anywhere with a TREBLAB HD77 Outdoor Speaker that's designed to be waterproof, shockproof, and on sale for $59.99.  You've got your driving playlist, your workout tunes, your lofi beats to relax and study to, but what do you listen to when the party is outside? — Read the rest The post Go wild with a rugged waterproof speaker that's on sale for $59.99 appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

In the grim confines of 19th century British prisons, wardens sought ever more sadistic ways to punish inmates through forced labor. One diabolical device they landed on was the crank machine. The crank was a hand-powered rotary mechanism that served no purpose other than to torment prisoners. — Read the rest The post Victorian Crank Machine: a soul-crushing gadget designed to break prison inmates appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

As graduating students began to file in for their commencement ceremony at Ohio State University yesterday, an attendant fell from the stadium stands to their death. But, as horrified as some of the attendants and graduating students who witnessed it were, the graduation bizarrely continued without interruption, and without a mention of the emergency situation going on right below their noses. — Read the rest The post Person falls and dies at Ohio State University graduation — but ceremony eerily continues as if nothing happened appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

During a live home shopping segment in Brazil, a host touted a pressure cooker that clearly lacked some vital safety features. He cracked it open mid-cook and scalding liquid erupted everywhere, instead of shouting or at least admitting that the pressure cooker was a dangerous piece of junk, the desperate pitchman just carried on like nothing happened. — Read the rest The post Exploding pressure cooker doesn't stop TV pitchman from pretending that nothing is wrong appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more

Most "fleece" is just extruded plastic filament and its use in clothing is, according to clothing company Patagonia, a serious source of pollution. Washing them turns results in microplastic soup, which then heads into the sewers and hence to the seas. — Read the rest The post Fleece clothing a "serious pollutant"—it's made of plastic, after all appeared first on Boing Boing ..read more