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Friday May 30, 2025. 06:06 PM
A YouTuber named Steve bares his soul, recounting the sad tale of how he fell for a romance scam in the Philippines. As Steve walks through a jungle, he films himself explaining how a woman he fell in love with was a con artist who took advantage of his 'euphoria' to...
Every game under the sun seems to be hopping on the roguelike trend lately — God of War is doing it, Elden Ring is doing it, and now it's come for… Peggle? Streamer DougDoug, known for both his coding expertise and his frankly inadvisable levels of audience participation,...
France, maintaining character, has yet to ban outdoor smoking. But it's coming soon, officials there say, with one key exemption: café terrraces. 'Tobacco must disappear where there are children,' Catherine Vautrin said in an interview published by the regional...
The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world — the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support 2000 metric tons, or 4.5 million pounds, or about the weight of 1300 cars. ...
Yesterday, a new work by Banksy—a lighthouse formed by the shadow of a street bollard and the phrase 'I want to be what you saw in me'—was posted to the British artist/collective/persona's Instagram page. The hunt was on to find it; withing a day, it was tracked down to...
TL;DR: This Asus Chromebook CM30 is on sale for just $179.99 — that's 45% off the $329.99 regular price. The promise of Chromebooks. Feature-packed, durable, and go-anywhere There's a lot of good reasons to make this Chromebook part of your arsenal. — Read the rest The po...
An intellectual property battle between two Clean Girl influencers is over, per a filing by one of the parties. Both women reviewed identical junk from Amazon in their identical off-white minimalist homes: an advertant image of gentility sold to a declining middle class...
Strip Mall is a short story by Leigh Alexander (previously) about a small town's run-down shopping drag, told entirely through Yelp reviews. There's the praise and the angry rambling you'd expect to read about venues in a deteriorating mall—and then there's something else. ...
Two hikers reported that a third member of their party died on Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks, but it turned out they were just high. The two hikers, that is, not the guy who wasn't dead. The BBC reports on what it calls a 'backcountry saga.' — Read the rest The post...
When a one-year-old baby excited his family by learning to crawl, his Staffordshire bull terrier felt left out. So the hilarious pup began to crawl as well, dragging his legs and torso along the floor. And even when the baby was done and sat up to play, the doggo kept up...
Motor vehicles are among the top five causes of bird death in the United States, killing about 200 million birds in collisions every year. But a juvenile Cooper's Hawk has turned the tables, developing an ingenious method for using cars and traffic signals to its advantage....
Fantagraphics Books has launched a new line of non-superhero Marvel comic book compilations, 'Lost Marvels,' with the publication late last month of Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows, collecting the full 9-issue 1969-1970 run of the horror comic book series. — Read the...
Far be it from me to let you go a week without something new (but also kinda neat) to fret over. According to a recent Brunel University of London press release, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common infection caused by Pseudomonas bacteria, isn't just a superbug that's proven...
Thursday May 29, 2025. 11:01 PM
RFK Jr's 'Make America Healthy Again' report appears to be riddled with AI hallucinations. Karoline Leavitt calls them 'formatting issues.' Found to contain citations that do not exist, and other telltale signs of AI all over RFK Jr's touted 'MAHA' report, the White House...
TL;DR: Streamline your workflow when you use SwifDoo PDF Pro, on sale for $29.97 now. I used to audibly sigh when I received a document if I saw that it was in a PDF format. I would try to avoid them as much as possible, but with many businesses going paperless, PDFs are...
If you wanted to target the guns as an Imperial Super Star Destroyer bombards a planet, you are in luck. In all of my Star Wars adventure dreams, I do not recall targeting the guns for a Super Star Destroyer, but someone wanted the experience. — Read the rest The post...
Engineering the Impossible shares the history and future plans for New York's years empty Flat Iron building. I had several meetings in the Flatiron Building back in the early 2000s. It was another old building that wasn't very comfortable but had a lot of charm. — Read...
A Congressperson from Florida claims Congress will cut funding for the Washington DC Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) if it isn't renamed WMAGA (Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access) and called the Trump Train. I do not want to ride the Trump Train. — Read the rest ...
My friend Dug North, who wrote a lot of excellent how-to articles for me when I was editing Make magazine, has a YouTube channel where he make things from old books and magazines. In a recent video, Dug built a tin can steam engine from a 1963 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. ...
Dutch consumers of Haribo's Happy Cola F!ZZ are checking production codes to see if they got a bag of 'cannabis contaminated' candy. While only three bags of this candy have been identified, Haribo has recalled its production across the Netherlands. Unless the factory also...
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