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Thursday May 8, 2025. 01:20 PM
With the U.S. economy shrinking for the first time since the pandemic amid growing prices and stock market chaos, the trade deal announced today with the U.K. comes at a critical time for both countries. 'The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one ...
New Zealand contains a vast army of sheep, which famously outnumber humans there. But the ratio is slowly trending down with the international decline of the wool trade. Government statistics show that the jokes are old: long-gone are the days when there were fifty sheep for ...
Death Grips' seminal debut, Exmilitary, will see its first ever official vinyl reissue since the original 2011 vinyl release via Ormolycka, who is also handling the reissue. The new reissue, limited to 500 copies, features a 140 gram 'Camo Swirl' record, an insert of the...
Wednesday May 7, 2025. 09:40 PM
So Grand Theft Auto 6, the most hyped entertainment product of all time except for maybe the epic of Gilgamesh, has been delayed to next year. In what must surely be a calculated move to keep a legion of angry gamers from burning down their offices, Rockstar Games has...
On paper, the anatomy of a refund scam is simple. A scammer calls a victim, alerting them of some fictitious tax rebate or tech refund. After gaining access to the victim's computer and navigating to their banking page, the scammer uses simple text edits to 'change' the...
Or Hellywood, as the 'director' of Marked or Delivered describes it. After months of flirting with AI video generators and crowing about how actors' jobs are on the chopping block, the AI crowd has put their best foot forward with the so-called first feature-length AI...
The Pushcart Press Bookstore, claiming to be the world's smallest bookstore, is an enchanting literary destination in Sedgwick, Maine. Located atop Christy Hill overlooking Acadia National Park, this tiny bookshop was created by Bill Henderson, founder of the independent...
These Medieval illustrations perfectly capture the hilariously strange powers of the Bonnacon, a mythological being from European folklore that sprays explosive diarrhea onto its victims. When threatened, it expels a stream of caustic dung that can scorch anything it...
'Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly' (1919) is one of the early animated shorts from the Out of the Inkwell series, created by Max Fleischer and starring his iconic character, Koko the Clown. The series is known for its innovative techniques and experimental animation,...
The trailer to Steven King's The Long Walk opens with heartwarming guitar tinklings as young men share their names and set out on a walk. The creator's name notwithstanding, a few clues might soon be observed that not everything is lovely in the country—but when the mood...
Pennsylvania newscasters debate whether the big bird caught on a Pennsylvania highway is an ostrich or an emu. ChattyG offers the following criteria for judging: Main differences between ostrich and emu: 1. Size: • Ostrich: Taller (up to 9 ft), heavier (up to 320...
Fortnite's Star Wars season has been stellar. The Force has overtaken Fortnite's island. The new map includes Rebel and First Order/Sith hideouts, and all the weapons have been replaced with blasters or lightsabers. X-wings and TIE-Fights take to the skies. Time to kill ...
Police have apprehended the driver who attacked a motorcyclist. That this motorcyclist escaped with only a concussion is amazing. The video describes a situation where the auto driver had endangered the motorcyclist several times, eliciting the biker's response seen at the...
In preparation for the 2025 FIFA World Cup, couch enthusiast and one of the last people to see the Pope alive, Trump's tiny right-hand JD Vance is threatening international tourists. 'We will have visitors probably from close to a hundred countries,' he said at a White...
The Angled Sunbeam larva has an unusual defense mechanism. When it feels threatened, this larva extends two small, wiggling sprouts from its head. They look like dandelions, or little pom-poms. This is the cutest defense mechanism I've seen. This curious adaptation works as...
With ten thousand trucks, around eight hundred million dollars in inventory, sitting around collecting dust as the glue weakens, why is Tesla still making Cybertrucks? Having produced over six thousand new trucks in Q1 of 2025 at its Austin Gigglefactory, Tesla seems unable ...
When an Ohio police officer pulled over a vehicle registered to someone with an active warrant, he probably thought the odds were high he'd find drugs. Officer Austin Branham surely did not expect to find a raccoon in the driver's seat holding a meth pipe. — Read the rest ...
Weight Watchers, the dieting lifestyle brand, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday. Weight-loss drugs, keto and the rest of it left the company an 'icon of a bygone dieting era,' writes the Wall Street Journal. The company announced Tuesday it has entered Chapter 11, which 'will ...
Perhaps something is wrong with the arresting wire aboard the USS Harry S. Truman? Just a week after one F/A-18 jet slipped into the sea while landing on it, a second jet was lost to the waves. Those aboard suffered only scrapes, but a two-seater Super Hornet is expensive...
Responding to questions about his tariffs on imports, President Trump said your children don't need so many toys. If the specific reason why remains a mystery to anyone, Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz explains: because they're going to raise prises on the toys. — Read the rest The po...
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