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Thursday October 24, 2024. 01:30 PM
Many people began to experiment with Coca-Cola for cleaning rust and stains due to its acidic properties. While the classic drink has been around since the late 19th century, its reputation as a cleaning agent is relatively recent. The exact time when Coca-Cola was first...
Mexico City has announced the date of this year's annual Day of the Dead parade, November 2. You might think that this massively popular Día de Muertos parade through the city streets is an ancient tradition, but in fact it was started in 2016, after a fictitious Day of the ...
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a pair of new homeowners in Concord, Massachusetts installed a new locked gate across a dirt road on what they perceived to be their property. They had only bought the house a few weeks before the lockdown hit, and were reportedly...
I was a huge fan of Charles Yu's brilliantly metafictional novel Interior Chinatown, about a stereotypically Chinese background character who's perpetually trapped in the screenplay of a police procedural TV show. Just read this delightful blurb: Willis Wu doesn't perceive...
Six weeks after professional beanie wearer Tim Pool was revealed to have been a very useful idiot for a Russian influence campaign, the unfortunately-popular right-winger announced plans to step down from his streaming empire to focus on his family. The problem is that Tim...
'The Incredible Machine' a fascinating 15-minute 1968 documentary from Bell Laboratories, showcases cutting-edge developments in computer graphics and digital technology that would lay the foundation for today's digital world. At the heart of the documentary is the 'Graphic...
TL;DR: Save 25% on these JBL on-ear headphones that offer almost 60 hours of listening! Okay, we're trying to stop judging people, but are you seriously still listening to your tunes with wired earbuds? Sure, you're being cost-effective, but at what cost? — Read the rest ...
The creeps of the MAGA empire are using the tired deepfake defense to try to mitigate the damage from rumored video of Trump that could hurt his reputation. 'You are about to see insanely desperate stuff from Democrats. Expect fake Al generated crap about Trump coming soon. ...
Someone is planting booby-traps across forest roads and trails in Oregon, and the U.S. Forest Service is looking for the culprit. Forest officials describe the malicious traps as either wires spread across roads or hidden boards with nails or spikes sticking out of them. —...
Wednesday October 23, 2024. 11:59 PM
Eek! A passenger on a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last week noticed an un-fur-gettable stowaway when the silhouette of a huge rat appeared through the airplane cabin's overhead light fixture. 'What in the fu–' the passenger says, calling the rodent a 'super rat' before...
This sliver of a skyscraper will soon rise up from Dubai's skyline. The 73-story apartment building is 1,246 tall but, with only one apartment per floor, is just 73 feet wide. The posh flats in the new developmenrt—called Muraba Veil—start at around US$5 million. — Read t...
Famed statistician Nate Silver—founder of polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight—writes that his gut is telling him the next US president will be convicted felon Donald Trump. To be clear, Silver also writes, 'But I don't think you should put any value whatsoever on...
TL;DR: Listen to sound from airplane screens, amplifiers, and TVs on your wireless devices with this Bluetooth transmitter, now $16.99 (reg. $31)! Have you ever boarded an airplane, sat down, and looked at the screen at your seat only to realize that it's not compatible with...
Grocery stores in the Ontario city of Guelph have been plagued by at least seven butter burglaries in the last 10 months. On October 12, two men entered a market separately and filled a shopping cart with nearly $1,000 worth of butter before making a beeline out of the...
When asked if Donald Trump's praise of Adolph Hitler — as described by Trump's own former Chief of Staff John Kelly — is a red flag, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu sides with fascism. 'No… it's all about results,' he told CNN today. — Read the rest The post Gov. Sununu ...
The CEO of HeyGen, a deepfake company, just got cloned on his own website by someone, and then they put his deepfake in an ad for a crypto phishing scam. Here's the deepfake scam ad. DO NOT DO WHAT THE FAKE PERSON IS TELLING YOU TO DO IN THIS SCAM VIDEO. — Read the rest ...
Joe Gow was fired from his job as chancellor of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse because he also films porn and has a sexy cooking channel on YouTube with his wife, Carmen Wilson. I earlier posted this as an example of clueless administrators Streisanding the thing it...
In a reasonable and logical reality, this ad by Rep. Eric Swalwell is how the world would regard the confused former President Trump. Instead, 46% of our country thinks this befuddled old Nazi is their choice for supreme leader. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) crafted a mock ad...
As the ol' saying goes, 'Everything Trump touches dies.' (It's also the name of a book by former GOP strategist Rick Wilson.) And so it comes as no surprise that Yelp had to kill the comments for the McDonald's in Pennsylvania after Ronald McDonald Trump pulled his stunt as...
President Barack Obama opened his speech in Detroit after being introduced by Eminem with a respectable tribute. Obama shows that he knows how to do it. Doing his laid-back take on Eminem's colossal hit, Barack offered respect to the artist and slyly reminded us that Trump...
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