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Tuesday September 16, 2025. 07:56 PM
In 1956, Horace Mitchell Miner visited the Nacirema people to study their habits. He wrote a paper on what he observed, 'Body Ritual among the Nacirema,' which was published in the June 1956 edition of American Anthropologist. Excerpt: The daily body ritual performed by...
As FBI bungler Kash Patel sat for questioning before Sen. Cory Booker at this morning's oversight hearing, all hell broke loose. Apparently, the Democratic senator hit a sore spot when he told Patel that Trump was 'not loyal to people like you.' — Read the rest The post...
The body of 21-year-old Delta State University student Demartravion 'Trey' Reed was found hanging in a tree by the campus pickleball courts. A few hours later, 36-year-old Cory Zukatis was also found hanged in a wooded area outside a casino in Vicksburg. — Read the rest ...
Trump's lapdog Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has vowed to go after people who employ 'hate speech,' where hate speech is any speech Donald Trump hates. Trump is already threatening journalists who ask about this clearly illegal move. Trump is directly threatening a...
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has done it again. Just as the memory of him saying 'real fans' would 'find a way' to purchase a potential $80 Borderlands 4 was beginning to fade, he decided to once again insert foot in mouth when the game actually launched. — Read the rest ...
Ivan Aivazovsky, famous for painting huge ocean scenes like 'The Ninth Wave,' turned 70 in 1887 and did something unexpected. He painted tiny seascapes, each only about 4 by 3 inches. He didn't put these little pictures on walls. Instead, he had them pasted into studio...
Ahh, Animal Crossing, everybody's favorite crushing debt simulator with cute animals. A common criticism of the last game in the series was its limited pool of dialogue for each possible animal personality type, with even the previous 3DS title beating it out for variety. —...
This slug has been found guilty of pranking an apartment block in Bavaria, southern Germany, with incessant doorbell ringing in the middle of the night. When residents of the apartment had enough of the noise and harassment, some decided to call the police. — Read the rest ...
Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, a sprawling, hypnotic tale of love, danger, and dreamlike dislocation is getting a beautiful Folio Society edition. For the first time, Murakami's 1000-plus-page magnum opus is being released in a fully illustrated edition, with artwork by Colombian...
As Valve co-founder and president and head of the company's distribution service Steam, there are very few people out there who have done more for PC gaming than legendary developer Gabe Newell. Evidently, though, even he is not immune to the occasional toxicity of the...
A fatal accident involving an autonomous, self-driving Waymo, a motorcycle, and a third vehicle, occurred in Tempe, Arizona early Sunday morning, September 14, around 1:30 am. AZ Family reports that Tempe police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who ran over and...
In 1910, an experiment was conducted to see if music made milk taste better. According to Weird Universe, nine musicians got together and played various songs, including the 'Blue Danube' waltz, while farmers milked 61 cows. The experiment was featured in a newspaper...
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Getting seminal first-person shooter Doom running on minimal or bizarre hardware is a sport among hackers, but the fact that Doom runs in fast, portable C makes it possible. What if Doom were instead ported to the least convenient and most inappropriate language? — Read the...
Robert Redford, star of All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, director of A River Runs Through it, and a prominent liberal activist, is dead at 89. Brooks Barnes: His death, in the mountains outside Provo, was announced in a statement by Cindi...
A study of digital decay, the phenomenon of websites slowly vanishing from the web, found that 38 percent of the sites that were online in 2013 are now gone. When Online Content Disappears found that 8% of sites from just two years ago are no longer accessible. — Read the...
In remembering the Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum, one likely recalls the simpler graphics and gameplay of the 8-bit era, or perhaps those distinctive 1980s chiptune harmonies. One probably does not think of each system's distinctive odor. Andrews UK did, though, and now makes...
Monday September 15, 2025. 11:30 PM
There are hundreds of cases of sober drivers being charged with DUI. The lawsuits are becoming costly for taxpayers. Tennessee has been particularly plagued by one worthless officer who seems to be allowed to continue terrorizing folks. These fake DUIs are terrible for...
The story of China's first ascent of Everest, in 1960, raises considerable doubt among veteran climbers. This video does an excellent job of highlighting the numerous discrepancies and anomalies in the story of China's 1960 summit of Everest. Most suspicious to me are...
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