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Sunday August 3, 2025. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: Get a refurbished 13.3″ MacBook Pro (2020) with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD, plus a lifetime Microsoft Office 2021 license for just $419.99. If your laptop is lagging and your monthly Office subscription is driving you nuts every time the fee is charged to your credit car...
Saturday August 2, 2025. 11:35 PM
Sure, a big part of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's appeal is the sense of quiet loneliness. You're tossed into this ravaged world overtaken by nature that's only just started to rebuild, making you feel isolated against a sprawling natural backdrop. — Read the...
I hate the ongoing, AI-powered enshittification of the Internet so much. Privacy is on the way out, and freedom of expression isn't too far behind it. Any kind of tech support is basically useless, and there's a 50/50 chance that any given person you reach out to online is...
Every year, hundreds of rhinos in South Africa are killed for their horns. Fake horns, embedded cameras, and aggressive enforcement have all been used in an effort to combat poaching. Conservationists now have a new tool in the anti-poaching toolkit — radiation. — Read the...
In my quest to document every gimmick account on the Internet, I've rarely come across something as patently bizarre as JAV Titles. With Elon Musk's grand Twitter experiment collapsing into a neo-Nazi-filled hellhole, we've entered something of a Wild West of posting as...
TL;DR: Your DVD collection deserves a glow-up. DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper lets you rip, convert, and edit DVDs (even the stubborn protected ones) into over 1,000 digital formats—for just $29.99. Chances are, your DVD shelf is looking more like a dusty museum exhibit than a...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Cleaner Kit Premium for iOS and reclaim space with AI-powered photo cleanup, video compression, inbox decluttering, and more—all for $29.99. So, you've got a 256GB iPhone, and 252GB of it is memes, blurry selfies, and 37 nearly identical...
Private therapy sessions, drug confessions, and intimate relationship details from ChatGPT users appeared in Google search results due to a controversial sharing feature that OpenAI has now removed. Ars Technica reports that users who thought they were simply saving their...
Male leopard seals are very enthusiastic singers when it comes time to woo a mate, and a new study found that their songs are similar to those of human nursery rhymes. Spring is a busy time for male leopard seals. It's mating season, and they have a lot of singing to do. —...
A gang of monkeys in Bali has mastered the art of high-stakes negotiation, stealing phones and valuables from tourists and trading them back for food at a historic cliff-side temple. At Uluwatu Temple, around 600 long-tailed macaques have developed a sophisticated bartering...
Friday August 1, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: I got fed up with my Microsoft 365 subscription, so I decided to grab this Microsoft Office 2024 lifetime license while it was discounted to $130. Check out what I thought! I can't be the only one who's sick and tired of paying subscriptions for everything from Uber...
Tesla has been found partly liable in a deadly crash where Enhanced Autopilot was engaged. The payout is hefty. The payout includes $129 million in compensatory damages, and $200 million in punitive damages against Tesla. Attorneys for the plaintiffs had asked the jury to...
In the cataclysmic finale of Mahler's Symphony No. 6, there is no cymbal crash, no brass blast — only the dull, devastating thud of a 22-pound wooden hammer crashing onto a custom-built box. Houston Symphony principal percussion Brian Del Signore built this singular...
Unable to handle some barbs on social media, ol' Ketchup on the Walls has deployed two nuclear submarines in response. Earlier this week, the deputy chair of Russia's security council, Dmitry Medvedev, implied that Convicted Felon #47 was behaving like 'Sleepy Joe.' — Read...
Ordered to make parts available and to allow consumers to fix their own devices, Apple does not play nice. 404media points out that Apple is not making repairs readily available, but rather so cost-prohibitive that one may as well buy an entirely new device. — Read the rest ...
Sworders' upcoming 'Out of the Ordinary' auction gathers 479 lots of uncanny bric-a-brac, from Dark-Ages pentagram rings to voodoo altarpieces and a petrified child's chimney shoe. The catalogue reads like the inventory of a wizard's attic, but two curios stand out even...
This video offers a detailed, yet hilarious look at COSplaying Homeland Security Barbie and Puppy Slayer, Kristi Noem. From an abusive Dad who died earning a Darwin Award, to developing a hilariously terrible anti-drug campaign, it'd be easier to laugh at Kristi Noem if...
Looks like someone's been a chatty little inmate! Child trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein's favorite enabler Ghislaine Maxwell just scored herself a sweet upgrade to a minimum-security prison in Texas, right after having a cozy two-day chat with a Trump administration official. ...
In this hilarious video, a woman's cat only comes running over when she sings The Hampster Dance Song. The cat's actual name? Doesn't work. Only the chorus to The Hampster Dance will get the kitty's attention. This video is just another reason added to the long list of...
This peculiar palm tree in Peru, shared by Atlas Obscura, grows like a serpent across the ground, and locals trim one of its 'heads' to ward off disaster. In Cachiche, near the city of Ica, the 'Palmera de Siete Cabezas' (Seven-headed Palm Tree) has become both a tourist...
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