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Sunday November 30, 2025. 01:24 PM
Inexpensive 'balcony' solar power panels, which plug into a standard wall socket and provide up to a kilowatt of power, have become popular in Europe and elsewhere—but not in the U.S., where business-friendly regulations prohibit attaching such devices to the power grid. —...
Double denim? Rookie numbers. On a good day, I can muster septuple denim: jeans, jacket, cap, boots, scarf, gloves and bag. But soon I shall have the unimaginable power of octuple denim at my disposal, thanks to Xiaomi's Poco F8 Ultra Denim smartphone. — Read the rest The po...
A fine example of whiplash in the news this morning: first, a negative-toned segment lamenting the increased prices of everything due to high tariffs. Then, a positive-toned segment exalting Black Friday spending being up 10 percent. The two segments exist in different...
Saturday November 29, 2025. 09:00 PM
I lose SD cards like socks, but it never struck me that wallet-sized SD card holders might exist, or that they might be cheap enough to buy on impulse. And at $6, the Oda Slim Card Holder is that. It holds two SD cards and two Micro SD cards. — Read the rest The post SD...
Sir Tom Stoppard, the acclaimed playwright who authored Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun and many other movies, is dead at 88. Born Tomáš Sträussler in Czechoslovakia before his family fled the Nazis and...
PC bits company Silverstone revived the beige plastic PC case in 2024 and is continuing this campaign with these handsome tower cases, out early next year. There's lots of hard-to-dust slit vents to trace gently with one's fingertips; oh my God, one of the models even a key. ...
Friday November 28, 2025. 11:58 PM
Christie's expects the Winter egg, one of just seven of Peter Carl Fabergé's creations still in private hands, to sell for more than £20 million when it lands on the auction block Tuesday. The 10cm-tall egg is made from finely carved rock crystal, covered in a delicate...
My first computer suffered an economy found in early 8-bit machines with limited video memory: if you wanted lots of colors, you got less pixels, and a rational way to do that with the hardware back then was to make pixels twice as wide. — Read the rest The post Tiny pixel...
I love solid-state drives (SSDs). For a guy who travels a lot, having one in my laptop instead of a spinning hard drive is such a relief. Outside of fireworks and unattended bags, nothing stresses me out faster than lifting a laptop that's slightly off level and hearing its...
Reponding to reports of a small dog tied to a post and abandoned on the roadside in Matlock, England, an officer from Derbyshire Police was surprised to instead find a toy there. This led to the issuance of the only good kind of police press release, the ones full of puns...
Another holiday, another chance to inflict Male Chef on those around me (including you, dear reader!). Never mind all those AI Thanksgiving dinners; this kind of wretchedness could only be crafted by human hands. The now-defunct 'Male Chef' blog was a long-running satirical...
Adolf Hitler Uunona, a local councilor in Namibia tired of reading annoying stories like this one, has filed to change his name to Adolf Uunona. The Namibian's Hileni Nembwaya reports that Uunona, a well-respected politician, no longer wants to be known by a name that does...
Netflix really wants to be a one-stop shop for all things entertainment. Three years after launching a mobile game division, the streamer has released a pack of word puzzles. Ever since the New York Times bought the beloved word game Wordle and added it to its collection of ...
An assault victim in New Zealand tired of waiting for the law to catch up with his attacker, so he rounded up a posse and went to the man's house to do so himself. The incident did not go as planned, and now both men have relevant convictions. — Read the rest The post Man ja...
Putting Joe Rogan and Elon Musk in the same room always feels like a real-life reenactment of that one Tweet: 'two dumb b*****s telling each other 'exaaaaactlyyyy'.' His latest appearance on Rogan's podcast is as actively brain-killing as you'd expect, with Musk essentially...
Last week, a new weevil sculpture, the Hamburglar McWeevil, was unveiled in Entreprise, Alabama, a town that's famous for its boll weevil-laden history, and that has humorously embraced its boll weevil past via erecting statues that celebrate the disruptive and destructive...
Ubisoft is in a bit of a weird place at the moment. With their hold over the casual gaming space finally beginning to slacken and their financial future unclear (delaying earnings calls is a good sign, right?), Ubisoft's direction over the next few years, or even whether...
Thursday November 27, 2025. 07:00 PM
NGC 6302, more romantically known as the Butterfly Nebula, was chosen by Chilean schoolchildren as the latest subject for observation by the Gemini South telescope there. The resulting image, released by the National Science Foundation's NoirLab, is the most detailed image...
Ayaneo's Pocket Vert is pitched as a premium retro-gaming handheld console, and the spec sheet shows just how premium they mean: the Snapdragon 8+ chipset found in flagship Android smartphones, a 1600×1440 615-ppi display ('pixel‑perfect 10× upscaling for Game Boy'),...
Christ Penelope, founder of Seven Fold Holy Spirit Ministries in Limpopo, has an unusual method of pastoring to his flock: he farts on them, claiming it part of a healing process. 'He says it's important that the fart be near the person's nostrils so that the 'healing power' ...
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