The longest straight lines you can sail or walk before hitting the shore

What's the longest straight-line route over land or water, uninterrupted by a shoreline? It's a question that gets complicated as soon as you recall that map projections are lies: no matter how straight you think you're going, you're always walking in circles. Computer scientists have answers.

The longest straight-line path over water begins in Sonmiani, Balochistan, Pakistan, passes between Africa and Madagascar and then between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego in South America, and ends in the Karaginsky District, Kamchatka Krai, in Russia. It is 32,089.7 kilometers long.

Right wing snowflakes moaning about Michelle Wolf's hilarious White House Press Corps monologue show us real "PC"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDbx1uArVOM

Michelle Wolf delivered the best White House Press Corps monologue since Colbert's amazing 2006 performance, and it has made the right (as well as establishment handwringers) really angry! (more…)

The GDPR might actually create an "attention economy"

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect this month and will completely overturn the way that businesses gather and circulate data about internet users. (more…)

iMazing 2 lets you easily manage all of your iOS data

Apple products are fairly intuitive, but when it comes to moving data from one device to another, the process isn't quite as easy as it should be. Whether you're upgrading to a new device or trying to move some media from your phone to your Mac, iMazing 2 gives you the tools to seamlessly wrangle your iOS data. You can get it in the Boing Boing Store for $24.99.

This all-purpose tool lets you browse and manage your backups, extract and print your text messages, and drag and drop songs to your iPhone without jailbreaking your device. You can quickly update a new iPhone with your old data by copying everything or selecting the content to transfer and copy your music back and forth between iPhone, iPad, iPod, and your computer. What's more iMazing 2 lets you export media, like photos and video, without having to go through iCloud or iTunes.

Universal licenses iMazing 2 are on sale in the Boing Boing Store for $24.99.