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FreeInk is an open-source ecosystem for e-ink readers, aiming to replace locked-down software and walled gardens with a stack that includes everything from firmware to fonts and free file formats. There's even reference hardware and a manifesto. From the rendering engine to the charging circuit, every layer is documented and open. — Read the rest The post Open-source firmware and software for e-readers appeared first on Boing Boing.
The Castle Map is an interactive atlas of the world's greatest strongholds, featuring (at press time) 1,706 castles, 543 fortresses, 760 palaces and 682 ruins. They are further filterable by fame ranking, with 100 in the top category, and by their date of construction (going back to ~3000 BC's Aniba fortified village.) — Read the rest The post Interactive map of the world's castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins appeared first on Boing Boing.
The World Wide Web address turns 41 this year. DNS.pizza has analyzed 85,879 domains with verified registration dates and ranked the oldest active domains. The DNS opened for business in 1985, the site notes: nordu.net, a Nordic research network, was created on January 1, and symbolics.com — Read the rest The post A tour of the oldest domains still on the internet appeared first on Boing Boing.
Before becoming a 1980s TV-dinner hall of famer, Salisbury steak was a 19th-century health fad. Dr. James Salisbury looked at chopped beef and somehow saw medicine; America looked at it and covered it in gravy. Dr. Salisbury wanted to start a high-beef-scraps diet, and apparently only missed on the please cover it in cholesterol attractant. — Read the rest The post Salisbury steak was health food before it became cafeteria nostalgia appeared first on Boing Boing.
TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows is 54.99 (reg. 249.99) with Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and OneNote for one Windows 10 or 11 PC. Somewhere between the ninth app login and the fourth manage subscription page, normal software started to feel weirdly needy. — Read the rest The post Microsoft Office 2024 puts the old reliables back on your PC appeared first on Boing Boing.
The latest addition to LEGO's Ideas is a gorgeous dose of nostalgia. The upcoming X-Files set was introduced by none other than Gillian Anderson herself. When a mysterious black box arrives at her door, she dons her gloves and investigates. This is where it gets implausible, Anderson says with a skeptical grimace, as she assembles the alien ship. — Read the rest The post Gillian Anderson reveals X-Files LEGO set appeared first on Boing Boing.
The Orange Menace puked out a Truth Social post that started whinging over how Iran's Arrogance and the Reflecting Pool are his TOP Concerns, then somehow swerved into an ad for a Fasset/Tether gold-backed Visa card already issued to Myself and My Family. — Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains turns foreign policy into a crypto gold-card ad appeared first on Boing Boing.
Honest Trailers tackles Backrooms, the horror franchise where the monster is fear, the maze is infinite, and the production designer apparently died in a 1990s office park. The genius of Backrooms is that it understands the creepiest places in America are not haunted houses or even the supermarket. — Read the rest The post Honest Trailers gets lost in the beige hell of Backrooms appeared first on Boing Boing.
Asked why Democrats dumped Graham Platner after a sexual-assault allegation while Republicans keep Max Miller and Cory Mills in the conference despite domestic-violence allegations, MAGA Mike Johnson's offered the kind of moral clarity you get from a used car salesman: The key word there is allegation. — Read the rest The post Mike Johnson discovers the word allegation only applies to Republicans appeared first on Boing Boing.
Light, maker of the stripped-down Light Phones (previously recommended), today announced the Light Flip, a clamshell model that swaps e-ink for matte OLED and gets a hinge, a keypad and (drum roll!) a camera. As much as I loved my Light Phone II, the slow and frustrating e-ink screen ground me down; with OLED, the main tradeoff for responsiveness and clarity will be shorter battery life. — Read the rest The post Light Flip is a minimalist phone without the dumb appeared first on Boing Boing.
