Have you ever heard the sound of an eider duck before? These special ducks don't make the typical quack-quack sound. Instead, they make a sound that is much more human — almost uncannily so.

As someone in the comments pointed out, they sound like a bunch of gossiping grandmas. — Read the rest

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The Hat 'n' Boots gas station was once a bustling roadside attraction in Seattle during the 1950s. The station featured a gigantic cowboy-hat-shaped building and a pair of oversized cowboy boots that served as a restroom. This beloved landmark was almost lost to history. — Read the rest

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Outside of the Yotsuya Station in Tokyo, you can wave hello to two unique railway employees. These two hard workers have horns, fur, and hooves. You can probably guess by now that they are goats, hired to keep the hillside pretty by eating excess foliage. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Help someone discover their musical side with this portable keyboard bundle, complete with light-up keys, interactive lessons, and more for just $335.99 (reg. $469.99). 

Get ready for the gift-giving part of the year with this PopuPiano bundle, which features two keyboards, a chord pad, speaker, and pedal for just $335.99 (reg. — Read the rest

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For a hundred years, the Original Pantry never closed. It reopens Nov. 19 under new management. Hope the Mission, a San Fernando Valley nonprofit, will run it, with all profits going to shelters for L.A.'s unhoused community.

The iconic diner, which had served downtown L.A.

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Ukraine's Starshield service has again developed the same oddly specific problem it had last month: move faster than 100 mph and the connection drops.

President Zelenskyy says the military has ruled out random technical failures; this is a service-level restriction imposed by the provider. — Read the rest

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The University of Virginia has spent decades collecting one of academia's strangest datasets: thousands of young children who insist they remember being somebody else.

One analysis of the data examined 1,678 of those cases and found that when the alleged "previous person" died unexpectedly or unnaturally, the interval before the child's birth was substantially shorter. — Read the rest

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The alleged Chinese intelligence honeypot is the fun part of Jensen Huang's fall, but the balance sheet may prove more problematic. Huang bows out of Nvidia just in time for a new CEO to explain how much of the AI boom depends on Nvidia investing in, financing, and backstopping the companies buying Nvidia chips. — Read the rest

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The SS United States spent decades resisting being sunk.

Engineers spent 18 months underestimating how badly this ship did not want to go down. She has tried becoming a hotel, and then every loophole was tried to avoid her becoming an artificial reef. — Read the rest

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it a crime to remove the encryption from software. That means you can't customize or repair your applications or devices if they are encrypted. Consumer electronics manufacturers abuse this dumb law by encrypting invasive spyware. — Read the rest

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I had fun playing the web-based demo of IT THINKS! It's a game where you are challenged to build logic gates and then wire them up to create chips that run devices. You start with a box of NAND gates, and use them to build NOT, OR, AND, XOR, and other gates. — Read the rest

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YouTube is awash with videos on the best way to tie your shoes. Uri Bram of Atoms vs Bits says he finally found a method that works, called the Berluti knot.

From Atoms vs Bits:

Despite the fact that you would think this instruction is straightforward, and that just by chance if you went in random directions you would surely get it right about half the time, I was continuously unable to implement this and my laces continued indecorously untangling themselves.

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TL;DR: From language lessons to professional development courses, this Language Learner Bundle ft. uTalk can help you learn something new for life for just $32. 

Learning a new language is an easy and useful way to improve your quality of life, no matter if it's for work, a skill for travel, or for those simply wanting to give themselves a fun new challenge. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a touchscreen laptop that doubles as a tablet and digital notebook with the refurbished Lenovo 500w Gen 5 for $259.99 (reg. $499.99) along one month of the Surfshark VPNs Starter Plan for free.

Why settle for a basic laptop when you can get one that also works as a tablet and digital notebook? — Read the rest

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Here's a fantastic Kickstarter for a book by Boing Boing reader Stephen Voss.

From Stephen's email to Boing Boing:

I wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past three years. I'm a photographer based in Washington, DC and I've become obsessed with photographing the data centers in Virginia, trying to make a record of the physical landscape of AI and our digital lives that's being built in Virginia.

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We are about to see what happens when Alina Habba's credentials meet an organization that cares about professional standards. New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics is taking a look into the time Habba pretended to befriend a Trump golf course employee, apparently to derail a harassment claim against said golf course. — Read the rest

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Laughing and enjoying themselves while observing Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery, Whiskey Pete Hegseth and his tour group were told to knock it off and respect hallowed ground. Appropriately, the Tomb Guard takes his job very seriously.

It comes as no surprise that candidate-for-impeachment Pete Hegseth was posing for photos with a group of laughing men and women outside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. — Read the rest

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One of my favorite artists is the painter Tim Biskup. I've covered his work quite a bit over the years here on Boing Boing, and he has a new series of paintings called Arrangements. These are still-life, flower-based paintings, but they have Biskup's wonderfully whimsical style, including a touch of anthropomorphism. — Read the rest

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The song on this website has no end because it uses the digits of pi as the notes. The melody is played in F major, and 0 and 9 are rests. As the music plays, a visual reveals pi's randomness.

From The Pudding:

This station will remain on-air until the collapse of humanity, or we stop paying our web-hosting bill.

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TL;DR: Get the Lifetime AI Software Stack Bundle for writing, image and video generation, prompt building, and more for $59.99, plus an extra 20% off using code DEAL20 through November 15 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Paying for more than one AI subscription can get expensive fast, especially when you're switching between them for different tasks. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix does feature Doug, Mickey Mouse, Nathan Fielder and MORE!

-APlease join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere, plus exclusive commentary, content, contests, giveaways, other stuff, and other other stuff! — Read the rest

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Someone's pet dog and cat align their heads for the perfect optical illusion. The pets both have black fur and look like one creature instead of two in this photo. The cat has its head upside down on top of the dog's head, right where the dog's eyes are. — Read the rest

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In Scotland, there is a special medieval abbey called Paisley Abbey. In the '90s, the abbey went under construction to restore its gargoyles. Many of the gargoyles were in such bad shape that they had to be removed entirely.

New gargoyles were made to replace the old ones on the abbey. — Read the rest

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These bottle cap paintings by Craigio Hobson are so awesome. I love when artists use everyday objects as canvases. The rusty and bent quality of the bottle caps makes them feel even more special because each one is unique.

Some of the designs feature little characters, while others are small objects. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get open-box JBL Vibe Beam 2 noise-canceling earbuds for $24.97 (reg. $64.95), plus a free one-month Surfshark VPN Starter Plan.

Name-brand earbuds with active noise canceling usually cost $60 or more, and the cheap pairs tend to drop noise canceling first. — Read the rest

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Politizane recently updated his famous chart of income inequality in the U.S., circa 2013. The bad news is that things have gotten worse in the last 13 years. The good news is that Politizane now has a website showing the data in "scrollytelling" format. — Read the rest

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Far-right pest Jake Lang tried to disrupt a cat enthusiast's adoption festival. Looking for one sort of groomer, the professional grievance merchant found the kind with clippers and a comb.

The alleged furry conspiracy had whiskers and adoption papers.

Previously:
• Capitol rioter turned Senate candidate gets clocked on camera

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A Nature Sustainability study argues that New Orleans should start packing its bags as rising seas, sinking land, and disappearing wetlands increase the city's risk.

Studies confirm what Hurricane Katrina taught us. New Orleans already has a fascinating and entertaining system of levees and defenses to keep a city that lies more than occasionally below the water table somewhat inhabitable. — Read the rest

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Representative Hakeem Jeffries seems to believe the 2026 blue wave was a positive performance review. Asked about his own future, he replied, "You think I don't have the votes nailed down?" Jeffries also defended Chuck Schumer staying on as Senate leader. — Read the rest

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A little late, but Senate Republicans have decided to suspend their leadership election and wait for "a plan."

Senate Republicans met Tuesday to choose their leaders, but John Thune couldn't explain what he intended to do if re-elected. After nearly two hours, senators paused the meeting without voting on John Thune's future. — Read the rest

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