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Monday August 18, 2025. 07:41 PM
KICK! PUNCH! It's all in the Mind! PaRappa the Rapper is a phenomenal video game. Every song is a worthy earworm. Watching PJ Berri play the game to sample it is a ton of fun. I'm hoping for a second installment! — Read the rest The post Sampling the legendary PaRappa...
In late 19th-century New York City, the wealthy traveled by horse and carriage. Even then, NYC real estate was priced at a premium, so the stables for the horses were multi-story buildings. The carriages were stored on the ground floor, and the horses lived on the upper...
It was a beautiful Sunday on a golf course in Sydney when a small plane suddenly — and loudly — hit the green around 2:00 p.m over the weekend. Caught on video, a small private plane carrying a student and instructor crash-landed near two trees, losing pieces of the...
Trading volume on AI prediction markets reached approximately $20 million this month across platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket. Kalshi reports ten times the AI trading volume compared to early 2025. Bettors place wagers on outcomes including monthly AI model rankings, ...
I think I may have finally found something to dethrone Food On My Dog as the weirdest culinary corner of the Internet. Time after time, incel communities have been banned from forums like Reddit due to their tendency to turn into festering pits of misogynistic toxicity...
A rare genetic mutation that makes some people naturally impervious to viral diseases could lead to a universal antiviral treatment. Columbia University researchers have transformed this genetic quirk into an experimental therapy that shows broad protection against viruses....
The subscription model comes for us all in the end, it seems. The concept of owning things seems more and more elusive nowadays, and Volkswagen is now taking the first steps toward enshittifying cars. Apparently Elon Musk needed help. Volkswagen is a fairly respected entity ...
Co-op horror has always seemed a bit of an oxymoron to me. Part of the appeal of the genre, at least when it comes to games, is that sense of isolation; the feeling that it was you against the world. Silent Hill did this especially well by making the titular town a character ...
Spoiler alert: the answer is 'not well.' Although scambaiters specialize in derailing the well-practiced scripts of online scammers, what would happen if one played along a little too well by asking a tech support scammer to actually do their supposed job? — Read the rest ...
Krypto is, without a doubt, one of the best things about James Gunn's Superman, which is not surprising since he is based on Gunn's own dog, Ozu. Krypto, as Superman points out, 'not a very good [dog],' but he is adorable and still a good boi, despite a lack of training from ...
It's been a while since we've had a good scambaiting featured here. For the uninitiated, this is the art of knowingly interacting with scammers, whatsoever domain they may occupy, for the sole purpose of wasting their time (and learning more about their operations as a nice...
Get your mind out of the gutter, it's not like that. A while back, I spent some time in Iceland on a research trip. Having never been, I took some time to visit the Phallological Museum in Reykjavik, as one does. — Read the rest The post Largest penis in the world causes...
Mini Museum sells all manner of cool collectibles, from T. Rex teeth and tiny bits from space shuttles to a section of cable from the Brooklyn Bridge. The IC chip from the CRAY-1 from Mini Museum is one of the coolest things I own. — Read the rest The post $39K gets you...
Amazon giant blames pricing bug after updated plans way more expensive than initially suggested Updated AWS has introduced new pricing for Kiro, its AI-driven coding tool, but unlike the pricing originally announced, the latest plans are 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy,'...
If you use a Mac at work or elsewhere, then you inevitably use Spotlight, Apple’s helpful search tool that has been blessed with a variety of productivity-enhancing improvements in macOS 26 Tahoe. Apple calls this the “biggest Spotlight update ever,” so it’s time...
Supply chain breach has been a major target of legal action Microsoft-owned talk-to-text outfit Nuance has agreed to cough up $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the sprawling MOVEit Transfer mega-breach – although it admits no liability.…
Prospect magazine, in a recent piece: 'LinkedIn doesn't know me anymore,' someone complained to me recently. 'What do you mean?' I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old 'recommended jobs' section, which used to show her quite useful job openings based...
P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds Boffins looking into the Australian solar energy ecosystem say that sharing really is caring – and potentially profitable when homes with solar panels can sell their excess energy to...
Dust is that 'feature' or drawback, The Verge's reviewer Allison Johnson argues. Samsung's head of smartphone planning Minseok Kang told her earlier this year that creating dustproof foldable phones remains technically challenging but 'not impossible.' Current flagship...
TL;DR: $49.97 gets you Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows—forever with no ongoing fees. You know what's fun? Not paying monthly for something you actually own. You know what's not fun? Subscriptions that siphon your bank account every 30 days like a needy vampire. —...
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