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Friday December 5, 2025. 05:54 PM
The YouTube account 'Boxlapse' created this stunning compilation of plant-growth timelapses filmed over 12 years. Watch plants of all kinds grow from seed to maturity. Seeing years of growth compressed into minutes is mesmerizing. This video inspired me to visit the seed...
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The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh tradition in which a group of people carry a horse skull mounted on a pole — draped in a white sheet with the operator hidden underneath — to your door at Christmas and demand entry through song. — Read the rest The post Medieval rap battles...
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In a move so shameless it could only come from Dear Leader Donald Trump's administration, the Orange Menace has slapped his own face on the 2026 America the Beautiful park pass; likely violating federal law in the process. Turns out desecrating sacred spaces isn't limited to ...
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In 1975, Australia's capital city began installing cylindrical concrete bus shelters that look like someone buried a giant culvert pipe halfway into the sidewalk and cut a door in it. They are brutalist as hell. They are also now considered a beloved cultural icon. — Read...
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Sparkling new Republican candidate for Congress in Texas, Vincent Shlomi, is proving he is well qualified to join the GOP caucus. Once arrested for beating up a sex worker, Shlomi took to NewsMax to decry discrimination, which he imagines, against himself. — Read the rest ...
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TL;DR: Get cloud storage with a lifetime subscription of FolderFort 2TB Cloud Storage Pro Plan for just $99.97 (Reg. $749.00). Cloud storage options are everywhere. Your phone or laptop OS is probably selling you a cloud storage solution, too. But how do you know which...
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FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered the security detail protecting his girlfriend to drive one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville. According to MS Now, Patel's girlfriend Alexis Wilkins (a...
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The White House just released a 33-page National Security Strategy that reads like a far-right European party manifesto. The document claims Europe's economic problems are 'eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure' within the next 20 years,...
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After years of ignoring warnings, mocking regulators, and turning Twitter into a Xitter: literally a hotbed of extremism, state propaganda, and election disinformation, pedo guy Elon Musk finally got what he was begging for: a direct hit from the European Union. — Read the re...
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Brian Cole, the 30-year-old man arrested Thursday for planting pipe bombs near the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before January 6, told FBI investigators he believed the 2020 election was stolen. This is the first indication of a possible motive in the nearly...
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An accused thief held in custody since swallowing a valuable Fabergé pendant has, after six days, returned the miniature treasure. His bowels yielded the James Bond-themed 'Octopussy' egg, inlaid with diamonds and opening to reveal a gold octopus; the New Zealand man still...
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Cyberpunk 2077's Night City is probably the single most detailed city in any video game ever made, bar none. (I say 'probably' because Yakuza's Kamurocho also exists, but that's neither here nor there). Given that you'll be spending all your time there as a badass,...
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War never changes, but it does occasionally shift into badass animated form. You ready for Season 2 of the Fallout TV show? No? Well, it'll be upon us soon anyway. Before it drops later this month, though, I'd like to direct your attention to another adaptation of Fallout:...
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As we've well documented here, Helldivers 2 is a lot of fun. Helldivers 2 also requires an ungodly amount of space, though, falling victim to the software bloat that plagues a lot of big-budget games. It's tough, having to weigh the enjoyment I'll get from a game against the ...
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TL;DR: Get the tiny but impressive NanoPhone at its lowest price ever, normally $199.99 but available now for just $84.97 Is bigger better? Not always — and definitely not when it comes to the NanoPhone. This credit-card sized smartphone packs all the features you love in...
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Thursday December 4, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Run your AI experiments in one place with ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Plan for $79.97 (reg. $619) for a total savings of $539 through Dec. 7 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If your browser currently looks like an AI convention — one tab for ChatGPT, one for Claude, another for...
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Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders are asking the right question in their new book Rewiring Democracy: not whether AI will change politics, but how we can shape that change. The cybersecurity expert (behind Data and Goliath) and data scientist tackle something most AI...
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Purveyor of surveillance software that enables authoritarian oversight, Palantir CEO Alex Karp behaved very strangely during an interview with the New York Times. Appearing drunk on more than power and money, Karp lectured the Times to bow down. Palantir CEO Alex Karp's...
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'You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it.' –Vacation The station wagon lost the culture war to minivans, got buried by SUVs, and crushed by corporate tax incentives. But it's not dead, just hiding in Europe under a roof box and calling itself a 'crossover.' —...
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For just $599 and your dignity, Kohler's new 'smart' toilet cam will lovingly photograph your excrement. Ostensibly to analyze your gut health, but, and this is a big but, share those snapshots with the cloud. Nothing says privacy like a lens staring up from your plumbing...
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