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Monday October 13, 2025. 08:00 PM
It does strike me as a little strange that the legendary animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender has yet to get a single good video game despite its twenty-year history and multiple sequel series, one of which is still slated for release in the near future. — Read the rest ...
Ah, birds, those most elegant creatures, who have captured human imagination for time untold. Who among us hasn't been awoken by birdsong or imagined what it might be like to soar with one? Unfortunately, their mystique breaks the second they turn their heads. — Read the...
A long-running joke among the Breaking Bad fandom is that Hank is the worst detective in the world, continually (perhaps willfully) ignoring clues to Heisenberg's true identity for five seasons straight. What if everyone in the show was at his level, though? — Read the rest ...
Every time I see Eddie on Wheels, my heart hurts a little. Not from sadness, but because I'm so touched by, first, how absolutely adorable the little fella was, and secondly, how wonderfully loved, adored, and taken care of he was. — Read the rest The post Eddie on Wheels,...
In case you're late to the, ahem, 'action,' the OnlyFans account created in May by the Quick Response Fund for Nature to raise money for engendered species is still up and running. The account, called 'OnlyEndangereds,' has posted 23 photos and 10 videos so far, at least...
Maxine, the corgi (AKA Mad Max Fluffy Road), rides around NYC in a backpack because she has short legs, and it's adorable. OK, it's probably more because of the rule that you can bring dogs on the subway 'in a bag or other container and carried in a way that doesn't annoy...
The Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, Long Island, receives hundreds of calls daily, with many seeking advice on injured wildlife, such as squirrels, birds, or turtles. Last week, they received a call for help with a butterfly with a broken wing. — Read the rest The...
TL;DR: If your digital storage is one accidental download away from total chaos, FileJump's Lifetime 2TB Cloud Storage for $69.97 (85% off) might just be the deep breath your hard drive's been waiting for. You know that feeling when your phone says 'Storage Almost Full'...
Abrams ComicArts has just released a huge new prestige book celebrating the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The Essential Peanuts is 336 pages, and filled with comics, but also packed with commentary from author Mark Evanier; essays, introductions, and quotes from...
A 2,000-year-old Roman toilet in Switzerland yielded an unexpected discovery: 19 large seeds from a fruit medieval Europe was obsessed with, but which has now vanished so completely that professional botanists often can't identify it. The medlar was politely named, but for...
Wine experts can't tell good wine from bad — and they've been exposed repeatedly for decades. In 1976's famous Judgment of Paris, French wine connoisseurs blindly rated California wines superior to French ones, shattering the assumption that only France produced excellent...
Of the companies making handheld consoles fit to play old games, Ambernic likes to stay close to its inspirations. The Ambernic RG DS is its latest, and it looks for all the world like a Nintendo DS. With two screens and a stylus for $100, it promises plenty of cheap...
Ever wonder why your grandmother called her refrigerator an 'icebox'? A YouTube video explores historic home features that have disappeared from modern architecture, revealing the clever solutions our ancestors used for everyday living. From dumbwaiters that transported...
Once upon a time in 1997, a campaign was started by one very religious man to replace the word 'hello' with the less satanic greeting 'Heaveno!' Canales campaigned to change his town's official greeting and was successful. He even had a website dedicated to 'Heavano!' — Read...
Dolly Parton's sister, Frieda, posted a request for prayers for her on Facebook. Then, a ghoulish AI-generated photo surfaced of Reba McIntyre at Dolly's deathbed. Dolly had recently canceled shows at her Las Vegas residency due to health issues, so fans were understandably...
Framework makes repairable technology and established an ecosystem of easily-upgraded modular components to go with their ultraportable laptops and tiny desktop PCs. But support for a project from David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and disliker of muslims,...
In this 1987 cartoon by Bulgarian artist Milen Radev, an engineer operates a wireless remote control to command a towering robot— but the robot's mechanical hands grip puppet strings attached directly to the engineer himself. Who's really in control? The image appeared in...
You might hide your bout of acute stress from human observers, but thermal imaging cameras won't be fooled: our noses cool sharply when we're under pressure, the result of our bodies altering blood flow to the face. Scientists have discovered that the drop in temperature...
In the flatlands of Sampson County, North Carolina, before telephones connected isolated farms, neighbors communicated across miles using 'hollers' — loud, melodic calls in falsetto that carried across open fields. Filmmaker Kier Cline captured this vanishing tradition in...
Last month, Costco ended sales of Xbox consoles or accessories in the U.S. and U.K. after Microsoft announced price hikes. Walmart and Target are following suit, report workers there on social media, though official sources were quick to state this is not true. — Read the...
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