Why seafoam green was used in control rooms
Faber Birren, who once painted his bedroom vermilion to test his sanity, developed the color code that made light green a wall standard by 1948.
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Boing Boing, August 21, 2026
Seafoam green control rooms, sold body parts, and a 3,000-person crossing
Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market
Morgue manager Cedric Lodge got eight years in prison and 47 grieving families will split the settlement over the stolen remains.
This Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube
Traffic stops every two minutes at the Shibuya Scramble, and one feed offers a 360 view.
Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward
An essay argues we've turned effort into a stand-in for morality, and that the EU's AI-writing watermark rule is the same old instinct in new form.
Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE
His family says Oswaldo Pirela sought asylum and held a valid work permit through 2029 after entering legally from Venezuela in 2014.
ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with… Subway
Meal purchases through October 26th earn US players a code for the Subterranean skin and green-and-yellow color variants.
Anti-AI fonts considered harmful
Andrew Yaros argues these misshapen typefaces are inaccessible to screen readers and OCR while real AI defeats them anyway.
Big Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meat
Trump plans to drop tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of imported beef, drawing backlash from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
Trump meets boy rescued from drowning, tells him he probably wouldn't have helped
10-year-old Nathaniel Rai and the lifeguard who saved him were invited to the White House for the remark.
Emperor Palpatine loves Flock
A Darth Vader impersonator addressed a San Diego city council meeting to praise Flock's surveillance cameras.
Dutch police get lucky identifying mystery man
Two retired cops working the cold case traced the man found unconscious in Amsterdam in 2023 to a Buddhist community and a soup restaurant.
Fans smelled AI in James Pond Legacy's trailer. The studio says they're wrong.
System 3 posted four supposed process images of the Bovine Bomber redraw, but they look AI-made too.
Darth Vader tells San Diego that the Emperor is a fan of Flock
A costumed Vader urged city leadership to install more Flock cameras and use Jedi mind tricks to win over residents.
Navy considers replacing a Black Pearl Harbor hero with a fat, fraudulent loser
It would be the first aircraft carrier named for a sitting president. Some traditions survive for a reason.
Year in jail for tourist who wouldn't shut up on Bali's Day of Silence
Luzian Andrin Zgraggen filmed himself walking to a beach during Nyepi, called the tradition "crazy," and now faces a sentence from the Denpasar District Court.
More reflecting pool nonsense
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro wants to retry canoeist David Hearn, 67, claiming her failed vandalism case was sabotaged by evidence.
Vaccination rates show what leadership is for
California's tight exemption rules keep MMR coverage at 95.7%, while Florida's rollback has dropped it to 88.9%.
Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots
Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. sanctioned the litigant for white, tiny-type text buried in a filing against a New York bariatric center.
Boing Boing, August 20, 2026
Hidden AI prompts, a basement Magic Kingdom, and four stolen Renaissance paintings
Gulag for Russian mercenary who beat soldier to death with dildo
Alexey Marushchenko got 18 years after his Yastreb group extorted 12 million rubles from at least 95 recruits for the Ukraine war.
Mirrorless cameras remove the reflex, digital removed the fun
Canon and Nikon both switched to mirrorless, but the smartphone won and now handles nearly all my shots straight into an archive.
Cop found dead in home of woman who wrote book praising cops
Karen Solomon, 58, a Worcester suicide-prevention advocate married to victim Kurt Solomon, 57, is being sought as armed and dangerous.
Polaroid and Pokémon team up to catch all the moments
Three 30th Anniversary edition cameras are available starting at $99.
Darline Graham makes the case against Darline Graham in one answer
Asked at a debate about Taiwan and the South China Sea, Trump's Senate pick admitted she is not that informed on national security.
Your kid can't legally drive, so why did you buy them a 40 mph motorcycle?
Massachusetts caps e-bikes at 750 watts and 20 mph, so an 8,000-watt machine doing 50 requires a class M license.
Boing Boing, August 19, 2026
A moon crater from a SpaceX crash, repairable Fairphones, and early UFOlogy logos
Turns out Grandpa Pudding Brains' expertise is poles, not polls
As Reuters/Ipsos puts his approval at 33%, Trump touts new tapered White House flagpoles he says he paid for himself.
Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs go back to when America was Great
Ruben Bolling sends his time-traveling characters to find the exact moment the country was supposedly at its best.
Fairphone finally sells its repairable phones directly in the US
The unlocked Fairphone 6 Plus costs $649.99, works on T-Mobile and AT&T, and has a user-replaceable 4,415mAh battery.
Slow Horses season 6 is coming September 16th
The trailer shows someone picking off Slough House agents past and present, with the season possibly drawing from Herron's Joe Country.