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Sunday April 7, 2024. 12:53 PM
Mother Nature seems irked. First, a surprise earthquake in New York. Then, a total eclipse of the sun. And, due up at the end of April, a trillion cicadas. The New York Times reports that for the first time since Thomas Jefferson was in the White House, two different cicada...
Saturday April 6, 2024. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: It's not possible to watch everything all the time, which is why you need a powerful security camera to help stand guard. Thanks to our special Secure Solutions sale, which runs through April 7, you can get the TOKK™ CAM C2+ now for an extra 20% off. — Read the rest...
Anna Green is an 18-year-old hospitality intern just trying to keep her head down and do the job at her first hotel gig. That job is on HOTELITOR, a 'luxury class defense and hospitality unit' parked inside of a 'retail and leisure' space colony. — Read the rest The post...
Inmates at a New York prison will be allowed to view Monday's total eclipse outside after suing over a planned lockdown during the event. The inmates at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Sullivan County, N.Y., were objecting toa statewide plan to confine prisoners to...
Consuelo Dal Bo, 56, and daughter Isabella Dal Bo, 18, were arrested this week in Texas after a sting operating targeting illegal butt injections. The pair were charged with practicing medicine without a license, a misdemeanor, and their sloshing bladders of mystery brown...
A man sprayed a flammable liquid on the door of Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' office in Burlington and set fire to it Friday. No-one was hurt in the fire, which was soon extinguished, and police released a security still showing the suspect. — Read the rest The post A...
On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Matt Damon shared this wonderful story about a cat he and his family took home from Costa Rica. (Don't worry, fellow cat lovers. It sounds like the story will be sad, but it will be OK. — Read the rest The post Matt Damon has a...
TL;DR: If you need a tablet, but are on a tight budget, we have a solution for you. The Apple iPad 6th Gen 9.7' + Accessories Bundle is on sale for $159.99 (reg. $249). It's no secret that iPads make everything easier. — Read the rest The post This grade A refurbished 6th...
It is an irrefutable fact that crows are awesome. I don't know what was going on in the world in April of 2020 that could have missed this video of Gabby, a clever crow, playing a game of Connect Four at the Texas State Aquarium. — Read the rest The post Clever crow plays...
Brent George, 61, was charged with battery after a drunken and violent incident at a Disney World resort bar earlier this year that's only recently being reported in local media. It reportedly began with his consumption of bourbon and beer, proceeded to him mocking someone...
Where is the line between life and death? For centuries, it was pretty clear. You stopped breathing, your heart stopped beating, your brain shut down, it was off to the morgue. Well, now the science is showing that the demarcation line for crossing the River Styx may not be...
Bulletin Board Systems allowed computer users in the dial-up days to access shared resources on the internet: discussion forums, games, utilities, demos, culture, without the astronomical expense of an always-on connection. The technology behind them is long in the tooth,...
Kristen Key's Lesbian Army wants you! You don't have to be a lesbian to join, however. Kristen Key is a comedian with a guitar. The words 'guitar comedian' are not always a recipe for comedy gold, but I encourage you to give Kristen Key a shot. — Read the rest The post...
When I was a kid, Mad Magazine was our comedy gold standard. I had piles of them stacked up under my bed, mixed together with Marvel comics and (I'm embarrassed to admit) an occasional Richie Rich. At 12 years old, we were not really aware of Mad's liberal politics but it...
The NUCA is a camera that uses AI to turn any photograph of a person into a nude. Sounds gross, and it is, but that's the point. The purpose of this art project is to highlight how easy it already is to create nonconsensual pornography. — Read the rest The post Every photo...
Tarta Relena is a duo from Barcelona that started off a capella. Their songs focus on remarkable swirling harmonies that are rooted in a folk tradition, but are accompanied by synth loops of irregular beats and pounding bass. The results are beautiful, immersive and not...
I was unaware of the strange, twisted, twisting story of Fergie Chambers — he is both heir to one of the largest family fortunes in America… AND he's a hardcore Communist. Cognitive dissonance here I come. Rolling Stone has a fascinating, in-depth profile of Chambers and ...
By now, we've all seen that raunchy Roman bathroom graffiti that confirms that historical peoples were just as gross and juvenile as our contemporary friends and neighbors. The human inclination to write a dick joke on the walls of the stall are intrinsic to our species. —...
This weekend, a giant spectacle of (mostly) tiny creations will saunter their way onto stages around New Orleans. Puppets built on backpacks, puppets that fold up and fit into shoeboxes, red puppets, blue puppets, tiny little finger puppets, shadow puppets, three-person...
Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote today that this morning's unusual East Coast earthquake and next week's total eclipse are among signs sent by God to warn America to repent. 'God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. — Read the rest The...
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