President Participation Trophy.

As someone who has many epubs courtesy of Humble Bundle and the olden days when Tor gave out weekly freebies, I absolutely want this. www.theverge.com/news/838885/...

HOLY CRAP, SAM ALTMAN DOES LOOK LIKE CARTER BURKE. boingboing.net/2025/12/03/o...

I’ve been exploring gaming PC options that don’t involve buying a Win11-capable PC. So far GeForce Now for games that support it is best. Second best is Bazzite, which runs Fallout 76 better than Windows. Next up is Crossover. Most convenient, runs most stuff well, crashes in FO76.

My old PC is dying. My new PC struggles to be born. Now is the time of AI datacenters that will be empty in three years.

Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."

"why did you start a new website?"

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Do you ever suddenly remember an artist you used to be hugely into? I just had a “holy crap, Tom Waits!” moment.

I would LOVE to buy this, but I'm not paying nearly $30 for shipping!! DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️ vole.wtf/doctype/

maybe i am going insane

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is looking to hire a Gamer in Residence to improve adolescent patient care and minimise trauma through gaming sessions www.gamesindustry.biz/great-ormond...

Okay, I'm not a huge extraction shooter fan (the only one I've stuck with is Duckov), but I'm starting to actually look forward to Marathon. There are enough callbacks to the original that I'm feeling better about things. Glad to see the power punch is in; many Phfor have fallen to my mighty fist.

Today's jam. soundcloud.com/timmyjd/prod...

So Cloudflare Toronto seems to be down. Therefore almost nothing loads. So glad we’ve decided to host the entire web on three company’s servers.

They left to glue more things to their families. gizmodo.com/the-head-of-...

Time to wipe my Mac Mini and reinstall Sequoia. Tahoe is just not ready for prime time.

Managed to get myself two grass spider bites today. Disturbed two huge grass spiders; one in a tarp, and another nestled amongst the water bags we use to tarp our pool.

Signed into the Google admin interface for the not-for-profit I volunteer for. Was presented with a notification. So glad the choir now has access to LaTeX features in Gemini. We'll use that a tonne.

Why is Death Stranding on the Mac App Store, but the Steam version doesn't run on Mac?

I still find it hilarious how American publications report on non-American locations. American location: Tiddly Bumport, Idaho UK/EU location: Oxford, England Canadian location: Canada

I've been making jokes about this not being on Disney+ for years. Joke's on me! (And Yay!) gizmodo.com/step-right-u...

Some pleasantness: I want to share with you one of my favourite kids' cartoons. The Tree Badge from Hey Duggee. Beautiful simple artwork, the sonorous voice of the narrator, and "Sheep may Safely Graze" playing in the background. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiNA...

I don't know who's paying $5 a month to read nonsense like this on Boing Boing. Man, this website has taken a dive in quality. boingboing.net/2025/10/15/w...

The enshittification of calm.com is well under way. First they spun out the sleep stuff into it's own app requiring it's own subscription (lifetime subs to the original app don't count), and now this. blog.calm.com/blog/calm-li...

Apple Support just updated to support iOS 26, and Liquid Glass. iOS 26 launched 23 days ago.

🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀 4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/... RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now. 🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

Morning walk

Man, I'm not liking the new 26-era OSes. Everything seems to take more clicks/taps than it did before. So much functionality is hidden. The latest annoyance was you used to be able to right-click on the Settings icon in the dock and get a list of all panes. That's gone now.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Been on iOS 26 for maybe an hour now. Not loving it. It looks really cool, but I’m finding things I do often are taking more taps than before.

Pretty sure this was the plot of Fallout.

I'm sad. My (admittedly 15-year-old) JBL Pebbles appear to have died. They were some of the best PC speakers I've ever had.

This is utterly disgusting. If you want a modern computing device, you have literally no option but to give money to a Trump supporter.

I can

It's a good day.

Shocking that a "study" funded by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association would find that beef is better than plants at preventing cancer. studyfinds.org/animal-prote...

Holy crap, 35mm film has gotten EXPENSIVE.

I've been playing Sable for a while now. I love it, and I don't. It's gorgeous. I love playing a game with no combat for a bit. I like having a young female protagonist who's just doing her thing. I like the hints at the world that was left behind. But it's just so empty, you know?

I’m doing a public talk with @perimeterinstitute.ca in Waterloo! www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-the-un... (Tickets are free but you have to be quick — Eventbrite ticket reservations open at 9am Eastern Sep 2, which is in… 5 minutes)

Happy to report that I am drum machine, restless leg syndrome, and wuss years old.

Dobson was a massive presence in the church in which I grew up. I do not mourn him.

Is it don't? I bet it's don't.

"Region of Waterloo staff will study whether right turns on red lights at certain intersections should be banned." No. They should be banned at all intersections. It's a ridiculous rule that risks many lives for a wee bit of convenience. www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...

Turned my Kobo on for the first time in years yesterday. Had to reactivate it with the Kobo service. Now I’m being flooded with ads for Kobo Plus, which I’d never seen before.