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Monday August 18, 2025. 09:21 PM
Every time I go to Japan, I can't help marveling at the hyper-realistic food replicas displayed in restaurant windows. Next month those edible illusions get their own spotlight at JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles in 'Looks Delicious! | Exploring Japan's Food Replica Culture.' — Read...
Have you ever gotten bored and tried to play Grand Theft Auto like a law-abiding citizen? You know, putting the gun down, cruising around the city, taking in the sights? I'm sorry to report that even that might be illegal, thus ruining your crimeless run. — Read the rest ...
YouTube channel Scary Interesting shares a detailed look at what happened to drain Lake Peigneur in an astonishing few hours. Popular bass fishing Lake Peigneur was situated above a giant salt mine. An oil rig was drilling on the lake, as oil is frequently found near salt...
The world's already nuttier than a chipmunk turd, but take it up a notch: Rolling Stone reports that a directive signed earlier this month by President Trump gave the go-ahead to start scribbling attack plans for use in Mexico. They say that it's for taking down cartels: A...
The Speaker of the House is completely behind Texas's attempt to gerrymander seats that'll help him keep his job; California, however, is committing a great evil by doing the same thing. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declined to oppose a Texas gerrymandering...
Amazon is a very difficult company to love. The company uses Alexa to listen in and figure out what to sell you. Their logistics team keeps tabs on how long their workers take to go to the bathroom. Back in 2023, Bezos' baby got hit with a $30 million judgment against them:...
Dominion Voting Systems will receive what should be a crippling settlement from NewsMax, a right-wing cable conspiracy network known for pro-Trump commentary, sensationalist framing, and wild-eyed theories. Newsmax is on the hook for $67 million for spouting egregious lies ...
KICK! PUNCH! It's all in the Mind! PaRappa the Rapper is a phenomenal video game. Every song is a worthy earworm. Watching PJ Berri play the game to sample it is a ton of fun. I'm hoping for a second installment! — Read the rest The post Sampling the legendary PaRappa...
In late 19th-century New York City, the wealthy traveled by horse and carriage. Even then, NYC real estate was priced at a premium, so the stables for the horses were multi-story buildings. The carriages were stored on the ground floor, and the horses lived on the upper...
It was a beautiful Sunday on a golf course in Sydney when a small plane suddenly — and loudly — hit the green around 2:00 p.m over the weekend. Caught on video, a small private plane carrying a student and instructor crash-landed near two trees, losing pieces of the...
I think I may have finally found something to dethrone Food On My Dog as the weirdest culinary corner of the Internet. Time after time, incel communities have been banned from forums like Reddit due to their tendency to turn into festering pits of misogynistic toxicity...
A rare genetic mutation that makes some people naturally impervious to viral diseases could lead to a universal antiviral treatment. Columbia University researchers have transformed this genetic quirk into an experimental therapy that shows broad protection against viruses....
The subscription model comes for us all in the end, it seems. The concept of owning things seems more and more elusive nowadays, and Volkswagen is now taking the first steps toward enshittifying cars. Apparently Elon Musk needed help. Volkswagen is a fairly respected entity ...
Co-op horror has always seemed a bit of an oxymoron to me. Part of the appeal of the genre, at least when it comes to games, is that sense of isolation; the feeling that it was you against the world. Silent Hill did this especially well by making the titular town a character ...
Spoiler alert: the answer is 'not well.' Although scambaiters specialize in derailing the well-practiced scripts of online scammers, what would happen if one played along a little too well by asking a tech support scammer to actually do their supposed job? — Read the rest ...
Krypto is, without a doubt, one of the best things about James Gunn's Superman, which is not surprising since he is based on Gunn's own dog, Ozu. Krypto, as Superman points out, 'not a very good [dog],' but he is adorable and still a good boi, despite a lack of training from ...
It's been a while since we've had a good scambaiting featured here. For the uninitiated, this is the art of knowingly interacting with scammers, whatsoever domain they may occupy, for the sole purpose of wasting their time (and learning more about their operations as a nice...
Get your mind out of the gutter, it's not like that. A while back, I spent some time in Iceland on a research trip. Having never been, I took some time to visit the Phallological Museum in Reykjavik, as one does. — Read the rest The post Largest penis in the world causes...
Mini Museum sells all manner of cool collectibles, from T. Rex teeth and tiny bits from space shuttles to a section of cable from the Brooklyn Bridge. The IC chip from the CRAY-1 from Mini Museum is one of the coolest things I own. — Read the rest The post $39K gets you...
TL;DR: $49.97 gets you Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows—forever with no ongoing fees. You know what's fun? Not paying monthly for something you actually own. You know what's not fun? Subscriptions that siphon your bank account every 30 days like a needy vampire. —...
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