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Thursday June 26, 2025. 12:37 AM
This excellent YouTube video demonstrates how some amazing early Hollywood camera tricks were done. Stunts by Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin are still astounding today. As a kid, I assumed most of these were stop-the-camera mid-filming and restart again ...
Wednesday June 25, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Pro 2019 and Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $45.97 (reg. $428) with this bundle deal. Getting things done requires the right tools to make it happen, but all too often, those tools come at a frustrating, recurring cost. — Read the rest The...
War Thunder is a free-to-play military vehicle combat game with a passionate fan base. So passionate that players occasionally share classified information to win an online argument about a vehicle in the game. A player recently shared a page from the NATOPS (Naval Air...
'In every local newspaper, there would be long lists for resort hotels in the Poconos or in certain parts of the Catskills, and they would just simply have the word 'restricted, '' recalls the late legendary MAD magazine artist Al Jaffee about life in mid-century America. —...
An automated welfare fraud detection system in Australia falsely accused hundreds of thousands of innocent people of theft, leading to multiple suicides and costing taxpayers $1.8 billion in settlements. As reported in Don Moynihan's analysis, from 2016 to 2020 the...
GOP folkhero Kyle Rittenhouse has vanished into thin air. The trigger-happy 22-year-old — who as a teen in 2020 crossed the Wisconsin state line and killed two protestors at a Black Lives Matters event with an AR-15 rifle — was working at a gun shop in Florida earlier...
Trillions of insects are being boiled alive in taxpayer-funded facilities that promised to save the planet but are actually making things worse. The insect farming industry sold us a dream: environmentally-friendly protein that would help feed the world. But according to...
I recently listened to a fascinating Supernatural podcast episode about the Lead Masks Case, an unsolved mystery involving two electricians who may have been trying to contact extraterrestrials. Two Brazilian electronics technicians died mysteriously on a hilltop in 1966,...
A hydraulic riddle from The Magician's Own Book, published in 1857, challenges readers to connect three fountains to three houses without any pipes crossing. The Fountain Puzzle A is a wall, B C D three houses, and E F G, three fountains or canals. — Read the rest The...
Big 'Edward Coristine' Balls, the teenage DOGE enforcer who became a symbol of Elon Musk's campaign to demolish Federal government, has reportedly left his role there. 'Edward Coristine resigned yesterday,' a White House official tells WIRED. Coristine received full-time...
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist from Queens, surged to a convincing win over former governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City's Democratic primary election. 44% of Democrats chose Mamdani as their first pick in the ranked-choice vote, enough to make victory ...
Tuesday June 24, 2025. 10:42 PM
AI worship is spreading across social media, with thousands claiming ChatGPT is a divine being sent to save humanity, according to tech journalist Taylor Lorenz. She has a 45-minute video about the phenomenon. The cult of robotheism isn't limited to fringe groups. — Read the...
While Donald Trump insists that Iran's core nuclear sites were 'completely and fully obliterated,' a breaking news report by CNN says otherwise. 'We have major breaking news into CNN,' the cable news channel reported this morning. 'Three sources tell CNN that according to an ...
If you're interested in psychedelic history, listen to the Otherworld podcast interview with journalist Susanna Cahalan, who discusses her new book, The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Leary, the largely forgotten wife of Timothy Leary. Rosemary was far more than just...
A visitor from Norway was reportedly denied entry to the United States after border officers found an unflattering meme of Vice President JD Vance on it. Mads Mikkelsen, 21, told his hometown newspaper that be was harassed by officers before being deported. — Read the rest ...
It's unfortunate that the career of famed sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know was cut short by the tragic passing of frontman Trevor Moore, because they're now more relevant than ever in the way they satirize the increasingly stupid modern world. — Read the rest ...
A vast digital trove of over 10,000 historical children's books is available for free browsing and download at the University of Florida's Baldwin Library. The collection includes centuries of children's literature, with emphasis on Victorian-era works. Newcastle University...
Visit coffee shops in different places around the world in this video. A coffee drink is ordered in nine countries, and we get to watch it through the customer's point of view. Each coffee drink is captioned, indicating its name and ingredients. — Read the rest The post...
A crafty parrot named Sweet Pea figured out how to get a treat after being told she could not have one — and all it involved was a bit of theatrics. 'Last night, Sweet pea started limping! I totally panicked,' her human says in a TikTok video, which shows the cockatoo...
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