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Tuesday September 16, 2025. 06:00 PM
Ivan Aivazovsky, famous for painting huge ocean scenes like 'The Ninth Wave,' turned 70 in 1887 and did something unexpected. He painted tiny seascapes, each only about 4 by 3 inches. He didn't put these little pictures on walls. Instead, he had them pasted into studio...
Ahh, Animal Crossing, everybody's favorite crushing debt simulator with cute animals. A common criticism of the last game in the series was its limited pool of dialogue for each possible animal personality type, with even the previous 3DS title beating it out for variety. —...
This slug has been found guilty of pranking an apartment block in Bavaria, southern Germany, with incessant doorbell ringing in the middle of the night. When residents of the apartment had enough of the noise and harassment, some decided to call the police. — Read the rest ...
Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, a sprawling, hypnotic tale of love, danger, and dreamlike dislocation is getting a beautiful Folio Society edition. For the first time, Murakami's 1000-plus-page magnum opus is being released in a fully illustrated edition, with artwork by Colombian...
As Valve co-founder and president and head of the company's distribution service Steam, there are very few people out there who have done more for PC gaming than legendary developer Gabe Newell. Evidently, though, even he is not immune to the occasional toxicity of the...
A fatal accident involving an autonomous, self-driving Waymo, a motorcycle, and a third vehicle, occurred in Tempe, Arizona early Sunday morning, September 14, around 1:30 am. AZ Family reports that Tempe police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who ran over and...
In 1910, an experiment was conducted to see if music made milk taste better. According to Weird Universe, nine musicians got together and played various songs, including the 'Blue Danube' waltz, while farmers milked 61 cows. The experiment was featured in a newspaper...
TL;DR: For a limited time, you can grab 2TB of zero-knowledge, encrypted cloud storage from Drime for a one-time payment of $149.99 (reg. $299). No subscriptions—just a secure digital vault that doesn't ask for rent every 30 days. Let's face it — paying a monthly fee to...
Getting seminal first-person shooter Doom running on minimal or bizarre hardware is a sport among hackers, but the fact that Doom runs in fast, portable C makes it possible. What if Doom were instead ported to the least convenient and most inappropriate language? — Read the...
Robert Redford, star of All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, director of A River Runs Through it, and a prominent liberal activist, is dead at 89. Brooks Barnes: His death, in the mountains outside Provo, was announced in a statement by Cindi...
A study of digital decay, the phenomenon of websites slowly vanishing from the web, found that 38 percent of the sites that were online in 2013 are now gone. When Online Content Disappears found that 8% of sites from just two years ago are no longer accessible. — Read the...
In remembering the Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum, one likely recalls the simpler graphics and gameplay of the 8-bit era, or perhaps those distinctive 1980s chiptune harmonies. One probably does not think of each system's distinctive odor. Andrews UK did, though, and now makes...
Monday September 15, 2025. 11:30 PM
There are hundreds of cases of sober drivers being charged with DUI. The lawsuits are becoming costly for taxpayers. Tennessee has been particularly plagued by one worthless officer who seems to be allowed to continue terrorizing folks. These fake DUIs are terrible for...
The story of China's first ascent of Everest, in 1960, raises considerable doubt among veteran climbers. This video does an excellent job of highlighting the numerous discrepancies and anomalies in the story of China's 1960 summit of Everest. Most suspicious to me are...
TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2021 for Windows is down to $49.97 while supplies last! Don't miss out (MSRP $219.99). All about Microsoft Office 2021 Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, and Access One-time purchase installs on one Windows PC —...
Congress ordered all monuments to and base names honoring Confederate leadership, men who rebelled against the Constitutional government of the United States of America and attempted to overthrow it, removed but Donald Trump wants them honored. It was not clear how West...
Convicted felon, liable for fraud, and luminous mind behind four bankruptcies, Donald Trump wants public companies to report results half as frequently. Where is the sense in this? Having served as a senior executive at several public companies, chasing 'the number' is a...
Should you need any additional confirmation that the Trump Administration has turned the FBI into a clown show, you need look no further: Bongino discusses a note the FBI was evidently in possession of detailing the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk's plans, and one of Kash ...
A Manchester doctor left a patient under anesthesia to have sex with a nurse during surgery. Dr. Suhail Anjum, 44, a consultant anesthetist at Tameside Hospital, admitted to this 'shameful' behavior during a fitness to practice hearing. As reported in the BBC, Dr. — Read the...
On Sunday evening, MAGA folks came together at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for a memorial service and prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk. One 'MAGA Star' (to quote The Daily Beast) who spoke, Kari Lake, who is senior advisor for the US Agency for Global Media, used the ...
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