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Friday May 30, 2025. 05:00 PM
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...
The Atlantic's Benjamin Wallace reports on the world of extreme privacy consultants — people who help clients vanish from the digital landscape. The piece focuses on Alec Harris, CEO of HavenX, whose own privacy measures include 191 virtual debit cards, multiple phone...
Tech entrepreneur Sahil Lavingia's 55-day adventure inside Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ended with an unceremonious pink slip after he spoke to the press. The Gumroad founder details his short-lived government career in a blog post titled 'DOGE Days.' —...
Years ago, Carla and I spent a five weeks in Kobe, Japan. Carla had a gig there, and I was just tagging along. It's a lovely city, and I mainly remember walking through lush green hills filled with roaring cicadas. We stayed in a tiny room at the Kobe Washington Hotel. —...
After watching this video of Ryan Luney beating the world record for backflipping while on fire, I felt a bit sheepish about skipping my YouTube workout video this morning. Backflipping over and over isn't enough for this guy — he has to do it while completely engulfed in...
For some reason, mass debate videos have become popular lately — and I don't just mean the ones you can find on certain shady websites. Naturally, pseudo-intellectual sniveler and walking clown suit mannequin Jordan Peterson has been quick to hop onto the trend, squaring...
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