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Wednesday May 28, 2025. 09:08 PM
When your local Waffle House locks its doors, it's time to evacuate. The venerable chain is famous for staying open through almost any weather conditions. But when storms are projected to be catastrophic, even Waffle Houses will close until the danger passes. — Read the rest...
When Congressperson Nancy Mace (R-SC) isn't confirming that people are in the 'right' restroom, she's apparently creating fake social media accounts to praise herself, or cyberstalking an ex. Wired reports that former employees and contractors claim Nancy Mace had them...
Natas Kaupas is the artist behind some awesome decks, the star of 80s and 90s skate movies, and one of the most innovative street skaters ever. Real Skate Stories shares an awesome documentary: I ran across this video not long after directing a friend to the Natas 720...
If you're looking for a natural way to improve your sleep, research points to an enjoyable solution: sex before bedtime. A new study from Central Queensland University found that on nights when participants had sex or masturbated, they experienced less nighttime wakefulness...
Bad cars are lemons. Good cars are peaches. There's a special kind of lemon that appears on the surface to be a peach, which Uri Bram calls an 'internally bruised peach.' On his Atoms vs Bits blog, he cites three examples: if you meet someone implausibly attractive and also ...
David Lynch's collection of stuff will be sold at a live auction in Los Angeles of June 18. It's going to be a mob scene. Take a look at the catalog of 450 items. I want his La Marzocco GS/3 Home Espresso Machine ($2,000-$3,000)! — Read the rest The post David Lynch estate...
Sex, slavery, and rebellion collide in Raging Clouds, a lush graphic novel that reimagines 16th-century Holland as a powder keg of female desire and defiance. Korean artist Yudori makes her English-language debut July 15 with this Fantagraphics hardcover about Amélie, a...
Several months ago, a beloved stuffed animal from the La Farge Branch of the Santa Fe Public Library disappeared. Clifford the Big Red Dog, a mainstay of the children's play area, was missing, and the library's young patrons missed him enormously. — Read the rest The post...
Watch as a farm uses a clever plastic bag technique for irrigation. In this oddly satisfying video, a water-filled tube of plastic slows the flow of water, giving soil more time to absorb the moisture. As water moves through the bag, it creates a rolling motion across the...
TL;DR: Get Windows 11 Pro for $14.97 before Windows 10 support ends in July. Enjoy better performance, gaming, shopping, and AI features. The clock is ticking. Microsoft 10 officially ends support on July 20, 2025, and that means no more security updates or bug fixes. —...
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Mac Schwerin reports on the use of 1993's Doom to illustrate the computing power of random gadgets with screens, from alarm clocks to pregnancy tests: 'The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere.' Doom's most entertaining developments happen in the shadow of the...
Wall Street was turned upside-down by President Donald Trump's tariffs, but now we've been through a few rounds of him posting then withdrawing threats and trying to shake down foreign governments, things are settling down. They have a nickname for him, 'Taco,' to remind...
Atheists, imagine you're going skydiving with a Christian baby. Suddenly, the baby tells you he won't open his parachute until you renounce atheism and accept Jesus as your lord and savior. What would you do? If your response to that question was anything other than 'what...
A study found that semicolons are in steep decline; I remain loyal. Its dectractors can be quite virulent. It is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism. Adrian Mole, the pretentious schoolboy protagonist of Sue Townsend's popular novels, says snobbishly of Barry...
Cooking with lava? Eugh. So last year. Lightning is what's in right now. Intrusive-thought-following YouTuber Max Fosh, who pioneered the bold cooking style of 'shoving a box of curry into molten lava', is back to break new ground in the culinary space again — this time by ...
It's the 'Oh' moment for nostalgic grown-ups excitedly revisiting the computers of their childhoods: how do I plug the damned thing into a modern TV? Though it's nothing an adapter box of some kind can't handle, Side Projects Lab went all the way and created a complete HDMI...
I just want to apologize in advance to any Cowboy Bebop fans. Live-action adaptations of anime have never exactly gone well, probably because translating stylized, dynamic action into 'some jackass in front of a green screen' is an exercise in misery, but Netflix's One Piece ...
Tuesday May 27, 2025. 10:39 PM
'Mickey Mouse started as a mischievous, rebellious trickster in the late 1920s,' writes Justin Papan in his newsletter, 'a subversive figure who connected with audiences struggling through the Great Depression.' As the cartoon mouse's popularity grew, Disney softened...
When I was a kid Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was constantly on Tom Hatten's Family Film Festival, and I loved seeing it. Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes are just outstanding. The tale of a well-meaning, but bumbling inventor, his kids, and a candy heiress on an adventure...
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