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Having a tiny wireless camera in your box of gadgets has more uses than you might think. — Read the rest
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Extreme weather has caused a crawfish crisis in Louisiana, prompting Governor Jeff Landry to issue a disaster declaration. A brutal and ongoing drought dried out the ground to the point that crawfish can't burrow to lay eggs. The resulting crawfish shortage has decimated the state's $300 million crawfish industry by more than half for the year. — Read the rest
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Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, and Karen Casbohm, 63, lived in Ashtabula, Ohio with a fellow named Douglas Layman. When Layman died at home last week, Feralo and Casbohm didn't see a tragedy but rather an opportunity. What happened next could be called "Payday at Bernie's." — Read the rest
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Wordle was a runaway hit word-deducing game on the web, so popular that The New York Times bought it outright and moved it to its website. A couple of years in, though, and it's launching a crackdown on clones and games too similar for its lawyers' comfort. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: Sometimes, a laptop just won't cut it. Now, you can get your own powerful desktop computer for less than $190 with this pre-loved Lenovo ThinkCentre M900!
When people visualize desktops, they imagine something big, bulky, and outdated. That's not the case anymore, however! — Read the rest
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Here are some fantastically fun bicycle designs in Chicago from 1939. Watch people ride around on them in the middle of traffic, sans helmet.
The footage shows a double-decker bike, a super tall bike, a two-story bike with a sewing table in the middle (including a woman sewing a garment while others peddle), and more. — Read the rest
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If not, here's your chance! In this video, you can see an absolutely adorable rabbit first check out the water, and then jump right in. It immediately starts doing the rabbit version of a doggie paddle—I guess that'd be called a bunny paddle? — Read the rest
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In 1996, Stefan Sigmond smoked 800 cigarettes in less than six minutes, breaking the previous world record of 750. Sigmond completed this difficult and dangerous task by attaching all the cigarettes to a circular inhalation device, where he could breathe in the smoke from all the burning cigarettes through a single tube. — Read the rest
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Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) was a "British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre," according to Wikipedia.
He also had the best bathroom wallpaper I've ever seen. — Read the rest
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An Instagrammer named Bugnails created this incredible claw-nail look, and I can't stop watching the video.
These creepy and wonderful nails look slightly bloody at their base. They would be perfect for a Halloween costume or for a daring everyday look. — Read the rest
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The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)—the US defense department's group that investigates unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs)—is developing a portable UFO detection kit. The device is apparently called a Gremlin.
"We're working with some of the government labs, such as the Department of Energy labs, and we have a great partner with Georgia Tech," AARO acting director Tim Phillips said. — Read the rest
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NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission will carry a unique artifact to Jupiter's moon Europa, blending science, technology, and art. The spacecraft is set to launch in October and will journey over 1.6 billion miles to orbit Jupiter, making multiple flybys of Europa. — Read the rest
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This Daily Show segment on the border security circus in Eagle Pass, Texas, fully displays the Republican political stunt.
The Republicans are beating a drum about the border, even though most Americans recognize they could have passed the laws and policies they were looking for and just wanted their favorite issue to remain available to them. — Read the rest
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When Tesla introduced the Cybertruck, it posted a photo of an add-on tent so owners could sleep in the back of the vehicle. The price tag for the tent, named "Basecamp," was a steep $3,000, but for people who think the Cybertruck is cool, it's probably not an outrageous amount. — Read the rest
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Scam Buster Jim Browning collaborated with an insider to record undercover video inside a pig butchering scam operating from a large complex in Dubai. Here, offices full of migrant workers impersonate glamorous models on dating apps to lure victims into fake investment opportunities. — Read the rest
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If you've ever suspected that the seemingly innocent Winnie the Pooh had a hidden sinister side, here's your proof.
The lovable, roly-poly, honey-aficionado became a cherished figure in children's literature almost overnight with the publication of author A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young in 1924. — Read the rest
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Your parents always warned you of stranger danger, and the same holds true as an adult. — Read the rest
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As the United States Presidential contenders are now set, late-night host Seth Meyers rattles off Donald Trump's long list of "qualifications."
Republican voters should be reminded, at every opportunity, that their party has chosen such a loathsome clown to be their candidate. — Read the rest
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I've always been partial to the Stoic philosophers. Something about their approach to life has always resonated with me:
"The Stoic virtues of Courage, Temperance, Justice, and Wisdom offer a timeless roadmap to living a life of purpose and integrity. These virtues are not mere abstract ideals but practical principles that guide our actions, decisions, and character. — Read the rest
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From a scary kitchen, Republican Senator Katie Britt of Alabama gave a scary speech that confused more than scared people.
After apparently spending far too much time with Speaker Mike Johnson's face coach, Senator Katie Britt gave the worst rebuttal to a State of the Union I can recall seeing. — Read the rest
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OpenAlternative collects and sorts open-source alternatives to popular software.
OpenAlternative is a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications.
Our goal is to be your first stop when researching for a new open source service to help you grow your business.
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I love bowling! And I love nudity! But these two delightful things DO NOT go together. Ever. At all. Seems there's some people in Pittsburgh who disagree.
"Nudity is required with the exception that women can wear bottoms," reports WTRF on the Balls Out Bowling event. — Read the rest
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Here's a killer quote — it really captures how a MAGA type can be a kind, decent individual, love their family, pet the dog, etc., and still defend absurd, noxious, or plain monstrous ideas to the death:
"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
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As much as it amazes me that a found-liable rapist, defamer and fraud is still in business, Donald Trump is at least on the hook for the tab: a New York Judge denied him relief from the $83.3m verdict against him for raping and defaming E. — Read the rest
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The tire fell off, reports ABC 7 News out of San Francisco.
A tire fell off a United Airlines flight departing from San Francisco International Airport to Osaka, Japan Thursday morning, officials confirmed.
"At approximately 11:35 a.m., United Flight 35 departing to Osaka lost a portion of landing gear tire during takeoff," a United representative said.
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Police in Uvalde, Texas stood by for an hour as a gunman embarked on a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School there, refusing to confront or otherwise intervene as he killed 19 children and two adults. Though widely condemned for their behavior and an international disgrace—at one point hundreds of officers from many departmenrts were milling around and doing nothing in particular beyond stopping distraught gathering parents going in themselves—an "independent" report commissioned by Uvalde has found the first responders didn't do anything wrong. — Read the rest
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Case Esparros, an independent filmmaker from Los Angeles, about his sophomore feature, The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost. It's an experimental narrative featuring Gary Wilson, outsider pop music extraordinaire with an original score by Aaron Dilloway. — Read the rest
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Sorry, folks, I've got some real shitty news for you. Turns out that closing your toilet lids when flushing isn't all that effective for cutting down viral contamination. At least, that's what a team of researchers reported in a recently published study in the American Journal of Infection Control, entitled, "Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing and of toilet bowl cleaning on viral contamination of surfaces in United States restrooms." — Read the rest
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Journalis, author and Boing Boing contributor Glenn Fleishman has launched a Kickstarter to fund an upcoming book, How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page. The book is scheduled to be released October, 2024. — Read the rest
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Comic book letterer and historian Todd Klein has released what he calls an "online book" on his blog: The Art and History of Lettering Comics.
Neil Gaiman, who employed the lettering services of Klein on his legendary Sandman run, among other projects, writes in the introduction:
If you have even a passing interest in lettering, Todd Klein's writing on the subject and the people who he knew and the people he only knew through their work is gripping.
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