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Wednesday July 23, 2025. 04:52 PM
The iconic stone steps made famous in 'The Exorcist' began their life in 1895 as a simple public right-of-way next to a cable car barn in Georgetown, Washington D.C. Long before they became associated with one of horror's most chilling scenes, locals called them the...
Draw a fish is a fun, interactive website. The concept is simple. Draw a fish and then release it into the stream of fish drawn by other users. Once you release your fish, you'll see it in a yellow circle. You can click on other fish to give them a thumbs up or thumbs down...
Watch a courageous farmer save his goat from a huge snake. When a farmer discovers that a large, dangerous snake has wrapped itself around his sweet little goat, he handles the situation like a total badass. The farmer calmly removes the snake in a genius way. — Read the...
Last night I watched the entire recent Jubilee 'Surrounded' debate, '1 Progressive vs. 20 Far-Right Conservatives,' featuring Mehdi Hasan and a whole cast of unsavory characters. I was struck at just how uninformed and willfully ignorant most of the 'far-right conservatives' ...
Maingear's Retro95 PC looks like it was made in the nineties but packs a modern punch: it's offered with up to 95GB of RAM, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, an RTX 5080 video card and 8TB of NVMe storage. I'm pretty sure it can handle Doom. — Read the rest The post Retro95 PC...
Tuesday July 22, 2025. 11:43 PM
This is Part Two of our three-part post on how U.S. citizens and green-card holders can protect themselves at the border, in which we interviewed deputy director of ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Nathan Freed Wessler. In Part One, we covered the rights of...
Having failed to secure the Senate's confirmation and been passed over by the district judges, Alina Habba is now the former interim US Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Habba was only able to stay in the post as an interim U.S. — Read the rest The post Federal...
TL;DR: Upgrade your chess game with the GoChess Mini smart board and storage bag for $249.99 with code CHESS. Tired of being humbled by 12-year-olds in online chess tournaments? Meet your new secret weapon: the GoChess Mini Smart Chess Board. — Read the rest The post Get sch...
What can be done with 1 kilobyte of javascript? Marvels of code efficiency await you at this year's golf tournament. Entries include graphical demos such as Quantum Worm, Metaballs, Creepy Organ, simple but evocative games such as Slenderman 2D, BackRooms Escape and When The ...
Tech workers who want to unionize have discovered an awkward truth: the code they write can outlast them. Walk-outs that shut down factories barely dent a company whose servers hum on autopilot. So an anonymous engineer, writing for the group Collective Action in Tech,...
Delightful and dark, I am enjoying the first novel in Katherine Applegate's Endling series. When I saw the cover and read the description, I knew I had to give Endling a try. Applegate's 'dairnes' are the most ridiculous and snuggly large dogs around, similar to the Golden...
Black Sabbath frontman and TV star Ozzy Osbourne died Tuesday, his family announced. The famed singer of hits such as Paranoid and War Pigs was 76. 'It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this...
Donald Trump told reporters this morning that former president Barack Obama should face 'severe consequences' for trying to 'lead a coup' in 2016. 'This is like, proof. Irrefutable proof that Obama was seditious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup,' the wannabe king...
Cybertruck sales have fallen for three consecutive quarters and they are being outsold by Ford and GMC. Getting back to the Tesla Cybertruck, its sales numbers are the worst recorded over the course of a year. Compared to the first quarter, sales of the stainless steel EV...
As the House Oversight Committee attempts to interview Ghislane Maxwell, 'MAGA' Mike Johnson is blocking for the Trump Administration in an obvious manner. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he's shutting down the House of Representatives until September to stave...
Why do people keep choosing the harmful option after being told it hurts them? UNSW Sydney's Dr Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel led an international study that found the obstacle is not a lack of motivation but a failure to link action to a painful result. — Read the rest ...
Certainly affirming that convicted felon #47 fears evidence of his close relationship with a known sex trafficker of minors, the White House has tossed the Wall Street Journal from Trump's upcoming trip to Scotland. Not only is Trump suing the Wall Street Journal, but he is ...
Here's a fantastic list by Atlas Obscura that includes 14 dinosaur attractions around the US. Dinosaur roadside attractions are a classic road trip staple and are always a great excuse to hop out of the car, stretch your legs, and take a photo. — Read the rest The post...
Fred Armisen—everyone's favorite drummer, comedian, actor, and all around awesome human — recently announced that he'll be releasing his new album, called 100 Sound Effects, on September 26, 2025. With the announcement he also gifted seven of the 100 (actually,...
This video of a cat and lamb duo is the sweetest thing I've seen in a while. The little lamb is named Toffee and refuses to leave this cat's side. The lamb's owner says that this sweet kitty came to comfort Toffee once when they were sick. — Read the rest The post Opposites...
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