TL;DR: Get Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021 lifetime licenses for $38.39 (reg. $418.99) with code DEAL20.

Word and Excel get most of the attention, but there's quite a bit more to Microsoft's desktop software. This bundle pairs Office Professional 2021, which includes Outlook, Access, and other familiar apps, with Windows 11 Pro and its advanced security and virtualization features. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a one-year flowkey Classic subscription with interactive piano lessons and more than 1,000 classical pieces for $31.99 (reg. $189) with code DEAL20.

Maybe you took piano lessons as a kid and can still remember a few scales, but the rest is a little fuzzy. — Read the rest

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The Trump Administration is so invested in their silly names for things that during a frightening nationwide all-ground stop at our airports, Markwayne Mullin is policing language instead of explaining what the heck is going on.

Neither the FAA nor the DOT has reported on what broke. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the entire Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows for just $47.99 (reg. $249.99) while it's on sale.

Upgrading your productivity suite when there's a good bargain is always a win, and Microsoft Office is sure to provide. — Read the rest

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Using hatred to write laws, instead of thinking about the consequences, does have consequences.

Florida's pudding-eating Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1134 to stop local governments from spending public money on "identity politics." The law prohibits counties and municipalities from "funding, promoting, or taking official action related to DEI."  — Read the rest

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Post-election Iranian LEGO propaganda hits even harder.

The Trump Administration has been bested by Iran's propaganda engine at every turn. These LEGO videos are just going to be legendary in history classes.

Pig Donald is great.

Previously:
• After hitting U.S. — Read the rest

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Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has spent a decade refusing to pay the fines for standing behind her bigotry instead of doing her job. Now, she's evidently in hiding.

The fee began at $50,000 for refusing a gay marriage. Her decade of appeals added "$246,026.40 in attorneys' fees and $14,058.30 in expenses," then another "$201,592.60 in attorneys' fees" after the Supreme Court "declined to hear it." — Read the rest

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Darth Vader's hero dueling lightsaber that was used in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi sold for $4.875 million. It's the highest price ever paid for a Star Wars item at an auction. 

Experts screen-matched the lightsaber to the same prop in the films to guarantee its authenticity. — Read the rest

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There are two kinds of coffee origin videos, and in this report straight from Peru, coffee YouTube's biggest star, James Hoffmann, has a problem with both of them.

One typical video is romantic: the steep hill, the birds, the sun offer a story that is "not the whole truth." — Read the rest

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My friend Uri Bram created a party guessing game called Person Do Thing. To play, you draw a card from a deck with a "target word" on it. No one else can see the word. You have to try to get the group to guess the word using only 34 simple words. — Read the rest

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Coral reefs are dying from rising ocean temperatures. They lose their color and die. A serendipitous event in a Stanford lab may have given scientists a way to save them.

In a tank at the Hopkins Marine Station, a healthy coral fell onto a bleached one. — Read the rest

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Painter Ryan Heshka's terrific mini-exhibition, Gate Kreepers, is coming up at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle.

Gate Kreepers runs November 14 to December 5. Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 6–9 p.m. Roq La Rue, 117 W Denny Way #217, Seattle. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Record, transcribe, and summarize with this lifetime subscription to the My Notes AI Pro Plan for just $31.99 (reg. $299). 

The truth is that note-taking is an elite time-saver. However, keeping up with the task and organizing notes afterward is a chore everyone tries to avoid. — Read the rest

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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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