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Thursday October 31, 2024. 03:20 PM
The more Donald Trump's crowd size shrinks, the more he shouts about how big his rallies are. But last night, just as the insecure ex-president was trying to convince his North Carolina audience that no one ever leaves his rally early, a man right behind him hilariously...
Spinda and Gary got themselves Nintendo's adorable Alarmo alarm clock, whose detailed animated displays hint at the powerful computer within. They got hacking and have already made fantastic progress. You can already run custom code on it without hacking hardware. — Read the...
Elon Musk's daily $1m giveaways to registered voters are not illegal, he insists. But it has been noted that the winners are attendees at political rallies for the candidate he has given hundreds of millions to—and that it looks awfully like vote-buying and a lottery. —...
If you're worried about microplastics, you should certainly not be scraping your hot cooking surfaces or slapping your food around with soft black plastic. Worse, some is recycled from electronics waste and may contain things even less appetizing than polyethylene. For the...
Experts ran the numbers on each candidate's tax plans. If you're very rich, you'll do better under the GOP candidate—and the richer you are, the further ahead you'll be. If you earn the median income—in fact, anything less than about $100,000 a year—you will be ahead...
You're not paying defense contractor Boeing a 7943 percent margin on spare parts. You're paying Boeing for its lifetime of experience charging 7943 percent margin on spare parts! The latest moneyspinner: soap dispensers. 'The Air Force did not always pay reasonable...
It's sensible to follow Howard Lyon's methodical guide to painting in a renaissance style without using actual oil paints, but as someone who learned with oils back in the day I would like you to suffer as I once did, and spend at least two weeks just getting through the...
Paid door-knockers for Elon Musk's Get Out The Vote effort, America PAC, complain of mistreatment, threats, and impossible goals. An article by Wired details the many abuses suffered by people who've accepted Elon's kind offer to pay them to campaign for Donald Trump. —...
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Wednesday October 30, 2024. 11:14 PM
'People collect spiders a bit like people collect Pokemon – they want to 'catch 'em all',' says University of Hong Kong biologist Alice Hughes. She's referring to the booming global trade in tarantulas, much of which is entirely illegal. Through online forums, collectors...
Jay Olson is a stage magician and psychology researcher at University of Toronto. Given his unique background, he was recently called in to help design a scientific study in which the participants would be convinced they had taken a psychedelic compound when really they were ...
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and let's be honest—you're going to need some backup. With 18 bottles of wine (yes, 18!), this deal from Swirl Wine Shop is your secret weapon for surviving all the awkward family conversations and the inevitable political debates at ...
A pair of beautiful white cats play all sweet and innocent when their human enters the kitchen to find that someone has knocked over their water bowl. And since no one confesses to the shenanigans, their two-legged waiter refills the bowl and waits around, with camera in...
Announcing the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book: 'IT'S THE GREAT STORM, TOM THE DANCING BUG!' collecting all Tom the Dancing Bug comics from 2020-2023 (and more!)! Now accepting orders right HERE! Get your personalized / signed / sketched / swagged copy while it's still...
This 'things you didn't know' video on John Carpenter's cult classic 'Big Trouble in Little China' is an excellent distraction at a time we really can use to be distracted. Jack Burton is the greatest bumbling sidekick who thinks he is the main character ever. — Read the...
This Chinese woman is purportedly 107-years-old but it's not just her age that has raised her, um, profile. Known as Chen, she's caused quite a stir on the social media platform Douyin thanks to the four-inch horn growing from her forehead. — Read the rest The post Woman,...
These simple, short statements by Vice President Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump display one of their fundamental differences. Vice President Kamala Harris cares about people and understands that we don't have to all agree, all the time, on everything. — Read...
The town of Salem, Massachusetts, gets overrun by tourists every October, with more than 1.5 million people visiting the small community over the last few weeks. That's according to some guy I met outside of the Salem Polish Legion of American Veterans Club on Friday night....
'Bizarre!' is how the city ecologists in Utrecht, The Netherlands describe this bright orange sac discovered attached to a floating island in one of the city's canals. It turns out that the 'large slippery thing,' as described by the ecologists, is actually a colony of tiny ...
In what could be Randy Rainbow's last parody song if the MAGA party has its way next week, the comedic singer uses ELO and Olivia Newton John's utopian 'Xanadu' to paint a grim picture of what Trump's dystopian 'Magadu' will look like. — Read the rest The post From Xanadu...
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