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Sunday December 14, 2025. 01:04 AM
They had me at 'Orville Peck as Vega,' honestly. Fighting games are a notoriously difficult beast to adapt — all characters, no plot — but that hasn't stopped people from trying. This newly announced Street Fighter movie marks the third attempt at bringing the...
This Christmas, let us celebrate with one of comedy's all-time classics: Al Jaffee's 'If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys' from Mad Magazine issue #76, January 1963 (on sale November-December 1962). Jaffee's genius lay in presenting children's crude toy drawings, then...
Watch bikers speed down the Mountain of Hell in France, a race notorious for its treacherous terrain. This footage captures over 1,000 riders charging down the mountain in what may be the world's most chaotic mountain bike race. Despite its ominous name, the Mountain of...
We recently brought you news of the 'peanut butter man' running wild on Purdue University's campus. He was actually slathered in sunflower seed butter, but the original moniker stuck. Now it's time for Purdue's peanut butter man to step aside — there's a new peanut butter...
The funk/pop/soul/klezmer band Vulfpeck played its second sold-out Madison Square Garden show on September 13 and on Thursday posted video of the entire performance on YouTube. I was at the show—I've been attending Vulfpeck's NYC performances for nine years—and it...
'Rap battles between two or more larger-than-life characters' is now a whole genre on YouTube, but Epic Rap Battles of History is one of those rare cases where the original is still the best. Sure, they may only drop two videos a year in a good year, but every bit of...
Titanfall 2 is, without exaggeration, one of the best online shooters ever made. Not that that's a high bar, but still! Switching between scrappy, agile pilots with full 360-degree movement and lumbering battle mechs that trade mobility for overwhelming firepower was such a...
I've found my new favorite animal on the internet! Meet Roo-bee (aka Roo), an adorable six-year-old goat who was born with severe congenital deformities and who came to Black Goat Farm and Sanctuary as a newborn with badly deformed front legs. — Read the rest The post This...
A few days ago, McDonalds Netherlands posted an absolutely horrid Christmas ad generated by AI. Link to the Boing Boing article by Rob Beschizza here. McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas adThe studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while ...
Here's a fun math problem for a Saturday afternoon: You've got 100 kg of potatoes that are 99% water. You leave them out overnight and they dry slightly, becoming 98% water. How much do they weigh now? If you guessed somewhere around 99 kg, congratulations — you're wrong....
Saturday December 13, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Give your entire system an overhaul with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows & Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now just $39.97 (reg. $418.99). Louisa May Alcott said it best: it takes two flints to make a fire. — Read the rest The post Save 90% with this MS...
TL;DR: The 2025 Complete ChatGPT Skills Business Mastery Bundle is just $24.99 (reg. $197)—a sharp, low-cost way to upgrade how you write, plan, ideate, and communicate at work. If your goal for 2026 is to stop dabbling in AI and start using it like someone who gets...
In April 2022, artist Steph Maj Swanson asked an AI image generator to produce something as far from Marlon Brando as possible. After a couple of iterations, the system started generating the same woman over and over: an older figure with hollow eyes and triangular patches...
Friday December 12, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows at 82% off. It doesn't matter how many times you tell yourself that Black Friday sales aren't as good as they used to be — missing them still feels like a loss. — Read the rest The post Why...
Planning a trip to Cuba, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or southern China? The CDC would like a word. The agency has issued Level 2 travel advisories — 'practice enhanced precautions' — for all four destinations due to outbreaks of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus with no...
After Trump's election win last November, California governor Gavin Newsom lurched to the right, hanging out with MAGA weirdos and adoping anti-trans talking points. But after finding surer footing mocking Trump on social media and countering Texas's Republican gerrymander,...
When unmarked vehicles full of armed men pull up and someone jumps into your car, driving to the nearest police station seems like a reasonable response to a potential kidnapping. That's apparently what Rekeya Lionesha Lee Frazier, 23, did in Plymouth, Minnesota — except...
Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was apparently a doctor who mistook his patients for fictional characters. The celebrated neurologist who taught generations to see the poetry in damaged brains invented a lot of that poetry himself. — Read the...
Justice Department prosecutors have to please the president, but grand juries don't. A second panel assembled to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James has refused to do so, after last week's failed effort. 'For the second time in seven days, the Department of...
House Oversight Committee Democrats released 19 photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Friday, showing a parade of powerful figures, including President Trump, Steve Bannon, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and other high-profile figures in the late sex trafficker's orbit....
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