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Saturday April 12, 2025. 02:59 PM
I have to admit, as an academic who is frequently frustrated by predatory journals as well as by the inability to extricate myself from some journal and conference mailing lists, I thoroughly resonate with the paper 'Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List,' which I can only...
I've watched this video countless times now, and it still hasn't stopped making me laugh. When two dudes at a gas station try to read a moving digital sign, they first read the words 'cold bee' out loud. One of the guys says 'cold bee!? — Read the rest The post Watch two...
We've all heard of sugar plums, but what are they? I realized I've never actually eaten a sugar plum, and I can't imagine what it is. Are sugar plums an extra-sweet type of plum? This video, What Are Sugar Plums?, will answer all of your sugar plum related questions. — Read...
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Friday April 11, 2025. 11:21 PM
A baby golden retriever was learning how to jump off his backyard deck down to the grass below, but wasn't so sure about the two-foot drop. That's when he decided to jump into the other, much taller patch of 'grass' — and into the bush he disappeared. — Read the rest The...
In celebration of the Jewish holiday of Passover which starts tomorrow night, I suggest watching The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic silent film version of the biblical Exodus story. (The full movie also includes a separate modern story that I never bothered...
TL;DR: Empower non-Bluetooth tech with wireless capabilities when you get the EVE II Bluetooth Transmitter & Receiver for $42.97. Give new life to your older tech when you use the EVE II Bluetooth Transmitter & Receiver to turn them wireless. Plug directly into older devices ...
Another day, another deadly air crash. This time it was a small plane that dropped from the sky Friday morning in Boca Raton, killing all three people on board and injuring a bystander on the ground, who was rushed to the hospital. — Read the rest The post Today's plane...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has issued an executive order instructing diplomats to rat out their colleagues for insufficient Christian fervor. Politico reports that State Department employees received a cable ordering them 'to report on any instances of coworkers...
While American retirement savings went up in smoke last week, Georgia's own QAnon Queen, Marjorie Taylor Greene, was busy snagging shares of Lululemon, Dell, and Amazon right when Trump's tariff tantrum sent them plummeting 40%. Quite the timing for someone who'd spent the...
Dan Walsh's Garfield Minus Garfield is a brilliant parody of Garfield comics in which he has removed the crotchety cat from every panel. The result highlights 'the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle,' as Walsh explains it. 'It is a journey deep into the...
A helicopter crashed in South Africa when the wrong control lever was pushed — not by the pilot, but by a penguin sitting right next to him. The 'unsecured' penguin was sitting in a cardboard box, which was on the lap of a passenger sitting next to the pilot. — Read the...
Welcome to 2025, where suggesting Vice President Vance might not be infallible is a firing offense. As reported by the BBC, 821st Space Base Group commander Colonel Susannah Meyers dared to send an email stating Vance's 'Denmark bad, US annexation good' routine didn't...
Earworms are annoying. It's like a loop playing over and over, sometimes for hours or even days. Mostly, they're triggered by hearing the song, but sometimes my brain will just dredge one up randomly. One surprising way to stop the madness is to chew gum, according to...
If you visit allow.webcam and, yep, enable webcam access, your computer will take your photo and add it to a collage of the prior snapshots. It's surprising there aren't more penises and butts in the collage but maybe it's a signal that culture has shifted. — Read the rest ...
Anti-Musk protestors armed with sledgehammers and baseball bats took out their frustrations by smashing up a used Tesla in London. The 'Everyone Hates Elon' group then found a way to turn the heap of Tesla junk into joy. The second-hand Model S was 'safely and legally'...
Albert Saniger is about to learn that AI stands for 'Actually Incarcerated.' The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Saniger, the 35-year-old CEO of nate (lowercase 'n' because disruption), has been charged with fraud for allegedly tricking investors into believing his ...
TL;DR: Enjoy pro-level photo editing software for a one-time low price with this Corel AfterShot Pro 3 PC lifetime license, now just $15.97 (reg. $59) through April 27. We all carry smartphones in our pockets, which means we can capture moments anywhere. — Read the rest The...
Elon Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI, but the AI startup (then posing as a non-profit) soon parted ways with the talkative Tesla CEO. Since then there's been a war of words and lawsuits—from Musk, at least. OpenAI has finally retaliated, asking a court to deal with what it ...
A clever restaurant owner flooded his own building with clean water to prevent dirty flood water from seeping in. During the recent flooding in Georgia, the restaurant wonder had to act fast. This was far too much water for sandbags to keep out, and the flood waters were...
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