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Thursday May 22, 2025. 06:37 PM
The BBC reports on the sudden and bizarre closure of The Abbey, a tiny historical pub in Derby, England, whose operators were dismissed with immediate effect because someone took a photo in the building. CLOSED!! Due to someone posting pictures of the Abbey on social...
The Fujifilm X Half is a compact camera with a 32mm-equivalent fixed F2.8 lens and a portrait-oriented 'half-frame' 18MP sensor. It only outputs JPEGs, but has all of Fujifilm's fabulous film simulations and various nods to the classic film-shooting experience (such as a...
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Wednesday May 21, 2025. 11:00 PM
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The Wii has been a bit of a favorite for miniaturization enthusiasts – its circuit board has been cut down to just about every size and shape imaginable, from an Altoids tin to a cute tiny version of itself. Although other consoles have received this treatment – take, for...
A Federal Judge tore into Trump's Interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, for abusing her office as a weapon against the administration's political enemies. Dismissing the charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for 'trespassing' at a detention facility for...
Wesley Lowery, one of America's most prominent journalists, faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct spanning from 2018 to 2024, with four women describing a pattern of plying them with alcohol before sexually assaulting them. The Columbia Journalism Review reports...
The media's current focus on former President Biden's health is a convergence of two sad things: the ex-President has cancer, and the cowardly media wants to talk about anything but the disaster Trump is causing in the world. Things were much better for the United...
R&B singer and professional violent offender Chris Brown just proved that assault charges are merely a speed bump when you're rich, dropping £5 million to stay out of a British jail cell – and he didn't even have to show up to his own hearing to make it happen. — Read the...
I have recently stumbled upon a new genre of ASMR that's just terrific—dachshunds eating watermelon. The very best vidoes of the genre include not only the wonderful crunching sounds, but also terrific close-up, fish-eye angles of glorious wiener-dog snouts in action. —...
'The man with the hat is back. And this time he's bringing his dad.' That was the tagline for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when it was released (sigh) thirty-six years ago. The latest installment of Fathom's Big Screen Classics is a re-release of the third, and some...
Somewhere in Oregon, a prosecutor is sitting in a shiny new office, surrounded by fancy drug-detecting gadgets that don't work, wondering why the state's addiction crisis isn't solving itself. As reported in The Guardian, several Oregon counties have taken $20 million meant...
Ordered not to communicate, the Centers for Disease Control isn't. Diseases, however, keep on diseasing. The CDC's communications people are being fired or simply told not to stop distributing Health Alerts and other newsletters critical to informing the public. NPR finds...
UPDATE [May 21, 2025]: According to Coinbase, Ed Suman was not among those affected by the recent breach of Coinbase's customer support system in India. Additionally, a spokesperson for Coinbase says Suman has not conducted transactions on Coinbase since 2022, predating the...
Oscar Mayer is racing six of its WienerMobiles against one another on the Indy 500 track. Two laps, five miles, six hot dogs, a whole lotta silly! After mistakenly rebranding the WienerMobile as the FrankMobile, Oscar Mayer is back to embracing the glizzy. — Read the rest ...
A Georgia woman is being forced to keep her brain-dead but also pregnant daughter alive on machines. The costs, emotionally and financially, are crippling. It seems the hospital isn't even being clear which of the many applicable Georgia laws restricting women, and their...
A Chinese printer manufacturer allowed one of its printer drivers to get infected with Bitcoin-stealing malware, resulting in the theft of $950,000 before the driver was updated. The malicious code contained a crypto-stealer that monitored users' clipboards for Bitcoin...
After former FBI director James Comey shared an inspirational photo of seashells arranged to say '8647,' a sniveling Donald Trump sicced the Secret Service on him. But that didn't stop the same thin-skinned president from posting a violent video of himself hitting a golf...
I'm from Louisiana, so my social media feeds have been filled with news about Nottoway Plantation—which was destroyed in a fire last week. Black Enterprise describes Nottoway as 'a monument to Southern grandeur built on the backs of enslaved Black people.' — Read the rest...
Minecraft might soon overtake DOOM for its sheer number of nonsensical ports onto every device under the sun. It's already been on the last three Nintendo consoles, including a chugging, lackluster 3DS version for some reason only Satoru Iwata knows, but apparently that...
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