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Thursday October 17, 2024. 02:34 AM
Luxury perfume manufacturer BOHOBOCO has released a fragrance called Polish Potatoes and it's apparently mash-nificent. While I'm a massive potato enthusiast, I don't think I could stomach the scent—it would teasingly remind me of the tubers I'm not eating at that moment....
TL;DR: You can own Microsoft Office 2021 for Windows for life when you pay only $54.97 (reg. $219) through October 27! Does it ever feel like, well, nothing you have is really yours? It's so easy to feel like you don't truly own anything, whether you're renting out your...
Bizarre white blobs have appeared on beaches across Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Nobody know what the hell they are. 'They are like touton dough and all over the beach,' posted one resident, Philip Grace, on the Beachcombers Facebook group. 'These were in sizes...
Wednesday October 16, 2024. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Turn your TV into an at-home art gallery with Dreamscreens, now $74.99 (reg. $89) while supplies last! You've seen Samsung's 'The Frame' TV go viral on TikTok, right? You know, the one that has a stunning art mode that lets you display them on your walls instead of...
Some 20 years ago I cut my bones in blogging with a simple trick: take a press release for a gadget and rewrite it in snarky terms. The reader is pleased to be swindled of trust and attention because they sense kayfabe and enjoy the act, which in stylized repetition shapes a ...
At last night's Texas senator election debate, Colin Allred made incumbent Ted Cruz squirm and giggle like a coward over his actions during the January 6th Capitol riot. Allred exposed Cruz's complicity in the attempted coup. 'You can't support the mob on January 6th and...
Twenty five years ago, filmmaker Kevin Smith released Dogma. The fourth film in the loosely-connected Jersey saga that began with his indie hit Clerks, Dogma took a huge swing, trading suburban sex jokes for a sprawling cross-country battle between Heaven and Hell. — Read...
According to YouTuber Nate B. Jones, an AI researcher named Andy Ayrey created a chat room based on the infinite backrooms where multiple AI language models (LLMs) could interact indefinitely. Jones claims that during these interactions, the LLMs accessed unusual areas of...
This version of Earth, Wind, and Fire's 'September' by artist and content creator Rudy Willingham is so amazing, I can't stop watching it! Willingham created 170 fall leaf cutouts and then photographed each of them to create the impressive stop motion video that perfectly...
More than 800 military veterans kicked out because of their sexual orientation during the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' era are to receive honorable discharges following a review of Pentagon records. 'Under President Biden's leadership, the Department of Defense has taken...
The ninth annual International Space-Out Competition was held last week in Hong Kong—a grueling contest of grit and wit in which contestants go head-to-head to see who can chill the fuck out more. Yes, really. You just have to daydream. If you give into the...
Last week, when Polygon proclaimed Hundreds of Beavers to be the 'funniest movie of the year,' I admit that I scoffed. Granted, 2024 hasn't exactly been a laugh riot in the world of film, but here is the synopsis to back my skepticism: In this 19th century, supernatural...
German politicians love to make a show of supporting the state of Israel, but the national carrier's willingness to accomodate orthodox Jews is another matter. Lufthansa must pay a record $4m fine after turning away a large group of passengers from a 2022 flight in...
Nathan Kehn, aka Nathan the Cat Lady, recently uploaded a one-minute compilation of the best cat-aoke (cat + karaoke) performances at the CFA International Cat Show and Expo that took place October 12-13 in Cleveland, Ohio. In the video you can see participants...
There were no claims of anal beads vibrating in morse code or steel conkers hidden in his pockets, but chess grandmaster Kirill Shevchenko was kicked out of a tournament in Spain all the same: he allegedly used his mobile phone during a match. — Read the rest The post Chess ...
A student at Hingham High School in Massachussetts used generative AI to complete an assignment in their history class. The teacher, upon learning that AI was used to complete the assignment, awarded the student a low grade and punished them with detention. — Read the rest ...
TL;DR: Save 35% on this Bluetooth remote ring that'll turn your Kindle pages, scroll through TikTok, and snap photos for you! Have you ever snuggled up on your couch or bed to catch up on your guilty pleasure or book club Kindle read? — Read the rest The post Winter is...
The Seattle Times reports that Microsoft is now cutting back on office space, despite a recent trend in the tech industry of summoning remote workers back to their desks. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and AI division, told employees during an...
Trump Media sank under $13 a few weeks ago, then bounced back to $30. Yesterday it plunged again, so fast that trading was automatically suspended by the exchange. The yo-yo-ing stock formally represents the obviously worthless 'Trump Social' website, but is really MAGA...
The Mobile Phone Museum has 2800 individual handsets in its collection, all beautifully (and consistently) photographed and described. The curators hunger for more. The Mobile Phone Museum project was conceived by Ben Wood in 2004. In 2019 he joined forces with fellow...
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