The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon is the obverse of events where people get together to create cool new stuff, and it's coming up, on May 27:
A "hackathon" is a social event where people come together for a short period of time to make a project, like an app or hardware device. A "stupid shit hackathon" is an event where people come together to make projects that are terrible, useless, horrifying, and probably should have never been made.
Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
In the area of Bedford and Kingston streets, around 9:45 p.m. Victim was driven to a local hospital before police or EMTs could arrive.
Live Boston reports that in addition to investigating the shooting, police had to quell "a massive crowd" in the area.
N spotted this newly unhitched boat inside the O'Neill Tunnel northbound today.
Back in 2015:
Yacht founders on icy shoals downtown.
Update: Board requested Millare meet with the neighborhood group, but said it didn't want to hold her up when the mayor's office told her she didn't have to, so approved her license.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to Janeth Millare to open Pinoy Kabayan Filipino Asian Cuisine at 71-73 Broad St. downtown.
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Adam Smith watched the golden stripes on Boston buildings at sunset today.
A Chelsea man admitted last week he forced a woman to accompany him from Bromfield Street downtown all the way to the Public Garden, where he raped her, in November, 2020.
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The MBTA reports one of the exciting-and-new Orange Line trains was held at State Street for about ten minutes so workers could whack the hell out of get a recalcitrant door on one car to work again.
Travis Watson wonders what Spider-Man is running from along the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and whether he's run out of his Web fluid.
The deceased train. Photo by Peppamint Patty.
The T spent all that money on brand-new Orange Line cars and yet, here we are this morning with a dead brand-new Orange Line train at Haymarket gumming up the works.
At 10:23 a.m., Peppamint Patty reported from the platform, just a few feet away from the dead train: Read more.
John Daley captured this winged spectre perched at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.
One of the MBTA's newest trolleys suffered some sort of catastrophic failure with that swiveling mechanism in the center of the car near Boylston shortly before 3 p.m., jamming up the line on one of its busiest days of the year - and leaving some passengers on other trolleys trapped for an hour or more as T workers tried to get them and the newly dysfunctional trolley safely out of the tunnels. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer with access to the City Hall garage spotted this turkey this morning pondering which car to take home.
Downtown Boston and Beacon Hill reflected on the placid, largely boat-free, Charles River Basin around 11 a.m. today.
A Back Bay consulting company that had sued Twitter for not paying a bill for services rendered last week dismissed the suit after previously telling the judge it and Twitter were working to resolve the case. Read more.
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
A developer has proposed replacing a vintage-furniture store at 115 Boston St. in Dorchester with a two-building, six-story complex with 90 "compact" apartments. Read more.
Transit Police say they remain as opposed to a proposed full-service liquor store at South Station as they were to a smaller liquor kiosk proposed last year. Read more.
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