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A musician from Salt Lake City, Utah filmed their dog Honey becoming confused about how to eat a noodle. Her reaction is hilarious. [ Video ] from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/32J2lGI via IFTTT

A naked man has been arrested in Montana after crashing his vehicle into a grocery store. No one was injured. Police say he showed signs of drug impairment at the time of his arrest. Police say the man crashed his car into the store, fled the scene, and was later arrested after he ran nude through a nearby retirement home. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2UpYw4N via IFTTT

SpaceX is delaying its planned second astronaut flight by a day because of high wind and weather conditions that threaten recovery and recycling of the rocket booster. The launch has been pushed to Sunday night. The news of a launch scrub came late Friday after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted he received mixed test results for COVID-19, and was waiting for more testing to confirm whether he had the disease caused by coronavirus, which he has spent months minimizing and once said would be gone from the USA by April. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3kuhPVf via IFTTT

• Widow, 94, reveals she cast one of the ballots that Trump claimed was submitted by a 'dead voter' • Atlanta's 11Alive News confirmed that 2 of the 4 Georgia voters the Trump Campaign accused of fraudulently voting 'dead' are alive. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3lHHwTq via IFTTT

I've put off buying a Switch controller because I don't want to spend $60. But if you use code 50VTY8Z5 at checkout you can get this highly-rated third-party wireless Switch controller for a great price. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3len5gY via IFTTT

Craig Mod is a writer and creative person who's lived in Japan for a long time. I subscribe to his excellent podcasts ( On Margins , about making books, and SW945 , 15 minutes of binaural audio recorded wherever Craig happens to be at 09:45am) and newsletters ( Roden , about writing, photography, books, and travel, and Ridgeline , about walking, Japan, literature, and photography). — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/36lpOi9 via IFTTT

Just a few days ago, streaming giant, Netflix, announced their plans to raise U.S. standard plan prices by $1 a month, and premium plans by $2 per month . It's a safe bet that it won't be the last time Netflix will be asking  subscribers for more money.  — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2GF4cVc via IFTTT

The Atlantic's James Parker wins the Sunday coverage of Election 2020 and the sad and silly Trumpian aftermath with a poem: "Total Landscaping: A Masque." America is loose as a goose It avoided becoming Belarus. But that sulking Caesar, POTUS—where's he gone? — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3ld7TR1 via IFTTT

If you've got a smartphone or tablet, odds are you've got over 100 different apps already sharing space on your home screens. But while the average user will check that device over 60 times a day , there's also a sobering stat app developers need to remember — almost 80 percent of apps get abandoned after their first day of use. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/32me3a6 via IFTTT

Captain Sheridan – Babylon 5, Endgame " This is not the voice of treason. These are your sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered, whose beliefs in this Alliance has forced us to take extraordinary means. For justice, for peace, for the future,  we have come home ! — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2U3KxBF via IFTTT

Anybody can learn to play the piano. Or a violin. Or the guitar. But how many musicians are game to jump in and start learning to play electricity itself? That's part of the appeal of the Tesla coil, a curious invention pioneered by Serbian-American genius inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3mY5n1q via IFTTT

Check with almost any parent and they'll probably be able to tell you exactly where it is. You know…the box. The box that collects the accumulated masterpiece works of their junior Picasso over the years. The drawings. The finger paintings. The macaroni collages. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/32nDPuG via IFTTT

Do you really need a sleep robot? Do you need a robot to cut your meat for you and teach you how to walk and chew gum at the same time too? At first glance, a sleep robot probably sounds pretty silly. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/36cmxli via IFTTT

Is America burning? Are its streets torn by riots and violence? The 'Globe' is banking on post-election mayhem, but since it went to press the day before Tuesday's November 3 election, it had to commit to reporting on civil unrest before it ever happened. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2TYYyAm via IFTTT

My guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week is  Tiffany Shlain . Tiffany is an Emmy-nominated  filmmaker , founder of the Webby Awards, and the author of the national bestselling book  24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week , which was the winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3kcYfgc via IFTTT

Though the 2020 election officially remains too close to call, President Trump made his first appearance in two days to claim that the Democrats had stolen it—perhaps the most telling condemnation yet of his own chances. Trump's claims were offered without specifics, evidence or energy in a rambling oration at the White House late Thursday. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2U0hgaJ via IFTTT

Watch these North Korean officials' reactions to seeing a K-Pop show for the first time in their lives. They liked it, but their excited expressions are apparently everyone else's flatlining in a coma expressions. The performance happened in 2018, and was covered by CNN . — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2TQp4vJ via IFTTT

The most hated feature of 2016's election-night prognostications, the New York Times' ever-wobbling forecast needles were thought to be consigned to history. But they announced that they're bringing them back to fully maximize readers' anxiety and anguish as the evening progresses. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3kVfELx via IFTTT

" Honk if u paid taxes more than trump ." Video by @deya_elayyan , an engineer who lives in Chicago and captured the sound of MANY vehicles honking in this hilarious video. Do go watch it at TikTok . from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3oVY50c via IFTTT

At 7 p.m. eastern time, polls closed in Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia. CNN called it for Trump in Indiana based on early reporting; CBS News called it for him in South Carolina, and for Biden in Vermont and Virginia, leaving Georgia the only toss-up. — Read the rest from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3oWHR75 via IFTTT