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Tuesday June 3, 2025. 03:55 PM
Stew Leonard's is considered by many to be the Disneyland of grocery stores. If you've ever dreamed of buying fresh milk and cheese while watching animatronic bananas dance and sing under the same roof — welcome to Stew Leonard's, America's most delightfully bizarre...
The Associated Press reports that the Puerto Rico Supreme Court will allow a third gender option on birth certificates. 'X' marks the spot, covering anyone that the traditional two picks don't. The ruling, which also allows nonbinary and gender-nonconforming individuals to...
A High Court judge has ordered the U.K. internal security service MI5 to hand over secret documents after saying he had 'no confidence' in its explanation of how a senior officer gave false evidence to the court. The case concerns a violent Nazi MI5 agent who abused his...
Geert Wilders, the flamboyant Islamophobe who leads the Dutch far right, today pulled his party from the governing coalition there after less than a year in power. The rift was caused by infighting over asylum applications and other immigration matters, but critics say...
I love a good underdog story. Especially when it's an underdog story that makes a vein stick out in Vladimir Putin's forehead. Earlier this week, the Ukrainian military rolled up on multiple Russian military airfields in three different time zones and blew the silly crap...
Monday June 2, 2025. 11:53 PM
After working at my desk with increasingly annoying lower back pain, I tried a memory foam foot rest pillow, and it's made a difference in my daily comfort. Most days I use it as a standard foot rest, but when I'm feeling fidgety (which is often), I flip it over to use the...
TL; DR: The TREBLAB X-Open earbuds give you crisp, dynamic audio and noise cancellation, without drowning out the world around you. While there are definitely moments where we all wish we could shut off the world's audio, tuning out completely at work or on the go is how you...
A new movie from Guillermo del Toro is cause for celebration. With Netflix's release of the first trailer for the horror director's Frankenstein, we're ready to party. While the film won't be streaming until November, from what's on offer here, it's a sure bet that we're in ...
Some sad news out of San Antonio, Texas today: Jonathan Joss, best known for veining John Redcorn on King of the Hill and appearing on Parks and Recreation as Ken Hotate, has been shot dead. According to a spokesperson for the San Antonio Police Department, officers were...
Are you struggling to make sense of today's overwhelming global challenges? You might find strange comfort in the work of H.P. Lovecraft, whose century-old tales of cosmic horror feel relevant to our modern anxieties. A new interview from Five Books explores why this...
Matthew Tyson's iarticle on InfoWorld, 'AI didn't kill Stack Overflow,' is a post-mortem on what really happened to the once-thriving software developer Q&A community. While generative AI delivered a blow to Stack Overflow, the platform had been in decline long before AI came...
For a show that pokes so heavily at the sprawling, tangled mass of IP that is the MCU, The Boys often feels like it's on the verge of becoming the monster it fights — it is produced by Amazon, after all. — Read the rest The post Gen V season 2 promises more gore and MCU-st...
From layout choices to advanced algorithms, this video shares the secrets of drive-thru science. There should be no surprise that chain restaurants have invested a significant amount in drive-thru architecture, design, and marketing to maximize the use of space, sell...
The older I get, the more I become convinced that the best thing for me is to move the hell away from everyone. Someplace quiet, deep in the woods, with naught but some billionaire jerk's Satellite Internet technology and an unkindness of ravens to keep me company. — Read...
Here's a short fable about a lawyer used quick thinking to save his career. From How to torture your mind; paradoxes, fallacies, dilemmas, figures, and word wonders by Ralph L. Woods (1969): Two business partners placed $20,000 in the hands of a lawyer as custodian, with an ...
Jurupa Valley High's AB Hernandez, a transgender high school athlete, achieved top placements at California's state track championships, receiving widespread support from fellow competitors despite Trump threatening to withhold funding to the state. Non-competitor adults are ...
Invoking the tooth fairy and Jesus in her non-apology, Senator Ernst sounds like the wicked witch. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst recently told someone unhappy about losing their medical care that no one lives forever. Rather than own the mean-spirited and ugly remark, Ernst...
My everyday carry hasn't changed much over the years. It includes a small number of items: a medical kit, a knife, a flashlight, keys, a Midori Traveller notebook and whichever laptop or tablet I happen to be using at the time. — Read the rest The post Review: Triple Aught...
If you've ever caught someone in a lie and thought 'Hmm, I bet they do this all the time,' you might be onto something. A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has found that dishonesty is actually consistent behavior — in other words,...
When asked who is behind all this 'voting machine fraud,' MyPillow Conspiracy Theorist Mike Lindell identifies 'Satan.' Perhaps Lindell's insanity defense needed a stronger foundation. At a press conference leading up to a defamation trial in which Lindell is accused of...
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