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Sunday March 24, 2024. 01:00 PM
Machine with Wishbone is an awesome moving sculpture by Arthur Ganson. The piece features a wishbone, attached to a machine. The two objects depend on each other to move, and this involves the tiny wishbone pulling the large metal machine across the floor, connected by a ...
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Earlier this month, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law the state's plans to execute inmates using electrocution and nitrogen hypoxia. Lethal injection is still available, but sourcing the chemicals used is difficult. Amid a variety of other factors, the...
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The Big Rocking Horse [via Atlas Obscura] is an adorable roadside attraction in Gumeracha, Australia. This is said to be the world's largest rocking horse, and ws made in 1981 by Wal Wilkinson to bring attention to his toy factory. The horse stands 60 feet tall and can be...
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This 1980s Sony Walkman 'Monkey' ad from Japan stars one very relaxed-looking primate, who is deep into the vibes of the music coming from his walkman.  If it were 1980, this wonderful commercial would have me heading to the store to buy a walkman. — Read the rest The post...
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This 8-year-old young man is an absolute gem! His name is Jackson and he lives in Indiana, and he truly and deeply loves farming and farm equipment. The Farm4Profit podcast describes him as 'your farming grandpa, reincarnated' and explains that he is 'known for his quick-witt...
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Sharpshooters are bugs that catapult their urine out into the world. These bugs drink huge amounts of plant sap, which is then propelled outward from a special liquid-shooter in their butts. The video of this process is surprisingly beautiful to watch.  — Read the rest The p...
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It wouldn't be a huge stretch to say Dragon's Dogma 2 is having a rough launch. It's certainly not on the level of Cyberpunk 2077, but certain players are taking issue with the game's microtransaction strategy, which has led to a review bombing campaign previously discussed...
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There is a Royal Order of Adjectives, and you follow it without knowing what it is—a particular sequence to use when more than one adjective precedes a noun. There are exceptions, of course, because English is three languages in a trenchcoat. — Read the rest The post...
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I can't believe this century-old baby stroller was real.  The stroller consists of a metal frame, with wheels on the bottom. The baby had to stand inside of the metal frame, holding on to the sides for dear life as they got wheeled around.  — Read the rest The post...
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Microsoft has announced that is it transitioning Test Base for Microsoft 365 to end-of-life in just a few weeks. The EOL process for the service started at the beginning of March and will be complete by the end of May. As Test Base for Microsoft 365 is not something that...
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Father and son Dan and Dylan McFarland explore growing older in their latest video. The content they make with their family, the popular @itsthemcfarlands, is always wholesome but usually funny (like this viral gem). However, this piece, created for the TikTok Short Film...
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Way back in the days of no fiber optic internet, bountiful pirates and completely unregulated whaling, sailors had a rough time communicating to their betrothed back home. Once a shiphand had set out, there was no telling when he'd get back to his missus, let alone tell her...
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TL;DR: Get five courses and 27 hours of instructional content with this Learn to Play the Piano and Music Composition bundle. It's on sale for just $34.99 (reg. $80) for a limited time. Have you always dreamed of playing the piano or composing your own music but didn't know...
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Saturday March 23, 2024. 10:05 PM
I’ve got two bits of related news that will affect the future of OSNews. The first bit of news kind of led to the second bit of news. You don’t have to care much about former, but the latter will be important for where OSNews will be going from here on out. First, after 14...
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Robert Plympton, 60, was found guilty last week of murdering student Barbara Tucker in 1980 after sexually assaulting her. They caught him by using genetic tests on DNA from the crime scene, narrowing down suspects based on presumed traits ('there was extremely high...
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I used to think vaccines were the most important invention in human history. But I'm starting to believe it's smartphones, which have fundamentally and permanently changed how humans interact for the first time since language was invented. The difference is that vaccines...
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The human brain is amazing at certain tasks — say, inventing things like the wheel or Cheez Doodles — but it's always surprising to me how easily our big brains fall for blatant marketing tricks.  This Atlantic piece digs into a product that sounds so idiotic on its face ...
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The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency seems to spend a fair amount of resources on fact checking — in an era of lies and mega-lies (or is that MAGA-lies), quality fact checking is more important than ever.  Still, you can't fact-check everything from the firehose of...
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The foundational tenet of “the Cult of Mac” is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur. Call it “Apple exceptionalism” – the idea that Apple, alone among...
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If I wanted to hold a rave at my home, the JBL Partybox 110 would provide the sound. Time and weather destroyed my last outdoor-able Bluetooth speaker for playing music in my yards or on camping trips. I went back and forth between size and utility when looking for a...
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