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Friday December 26, 2025. 03:06 PM
The doors on gentlemens' bathroom stalls at the Shuibei mall in Shenzhen, China, have smoked glass windows for privacy. But they turn clear if the occupant smokes, report local media, and trigger an alarm. The glass uses a special technology that is normally opaque and cuts ...
Kyle Hedquist, then 17, murdered Nikki Thrasher, 19, in 1994, shooting her in the head and leaving her body on the side of a rural road. Sentenced to life without parole, he received clemency in 2022 from Oregon's then-governor, Kate Brown. — Read the rest The post Murderer...
Thursday December 25, 2025. 11:00 PM
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Happy Holidays! Have a happy and safe holiday, however you celebrate. Previously:• Run-DMC invades MTV• Run-DMC's lesser-known holiday track 'Christmas Is' asks listeners to 'give up the dough'• Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Run-DMC Releases Their First...
TL;DR: This refurbished Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 packs an Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD for $379.99 (reg. $1,099), which means serious Windows horsepower without the financial side-eye. If your current laptop sounds like it's asking for early retirement, this...
Wednesday December 24, 2025. 11:28 PM
A Bloomberg News report found that at least 15 people have died in Teslas when their doors failed to open after crashes. The doors are electrically controlled, reportedly at the insistence of CEO Elon Musk, leaving panicking occupants to cook, drown or bleed out when the...
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TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows is available as a lifetime license for $34.97, giving you permanent access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more with no subscription required. Microsoft Office remains one of those tools most people end up needing...
Kimberlee Singler fled the U.S. after allegedly shooting and stabbing her three children in 2023 during a custody dispute. Though she claimed a burglar broke in, one of her daughters survived to tell police a different story. Singler got far—London—thought not for long....
Residents of Haverhill in Massachusetts are upset by the sickeningly sweet smell emanating from Dunkin's new donut factory there, and have taken their concerns to a city council meeting and health inspectors. The odor, described as that of fried dough and carnivals, is...
Tuesday December 23, 2025. 10:43 PM
Former comedian Russell Brand, already facing charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault, was charged Tuesday with another rape and another sexual assault. The BBC, citing a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service, reports that each charge concerns two...
The legend sounded too perfect to be true: a video game company, humiliated by the worst game ever made, crushing millions of unsold cartridges and burying them under concrete in the New Mexico desert. For three decades, people argued whether it actually happened. — Read the...
In 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn trash in a landfill built inside an abandoned strip mine. The fire never went out. Sixty-three years later, it's still burning. The underground coal seam fire spreads through a labyrinth of abandoned mines...
Elon Musk promised DOGE would cut 'at least' $2 trillion from federal spending. By the first cabinet meeting, that number dropped to $1 trillion. Now, according to a New York Times analysis, the actual savings are far smaller — and many of DOGE's biggest claimed wins don't ...
An elderly woman died on an Easyjet flight as it prepared to take off, but other passengers are pretty sure she was dead when her family wheeled her onto the plane. The airline insists they did not board a corpse. — Read the rest The post Elderly woman "already dead" when...
Anna's Archive has scraped almost 300TB of data from Spotify. In a blog post, the site claimed to have downloaded metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million music files. All of the metadata is currently available to torrent, with the music tracks to be available later. —...
Mouse Print tracks the fine print and asterisks on food labels, which can hide information you wouldn't expect. This time, however, they found something troubling that a food company isn't even bothering to hide. The first ingredient in Stouffer's meat loaf, roast turkey,...
Florida's Catholic bishops asked for a brief Christmas pause in immigration raids, appealing to ideas like mercy, dignity, and not terrorizing families during the holidays. The Trump administration responded by reiterating that deportations will continue uninterrupted,...
Like Stories of Old, a series of media essays by Tom van der Linden, tackles a subject everyone seems to have an opinion on: why do modern movies, with all their modern effects, look less realistic than old ones? Why are Harryhausen skeletons still scarier than the finest...
When MTV's Sean Duffy threatens to cut off road and bridge funding unless states escalate immigration enforcement, they're not just talking about budgets: they're redefining who gets to move freely. In a country where traffic stops already function as a frontline for racial...
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