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Wednesday November 13, 2024. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: Save 21% on this Dell Inspiron laptop that comes with Windows 11 Home, now $469.99 (reg. $599). Eyeing up a laptop upgrade? While you may be tempted to spring for the newest MacBook with a four-figure price tag, why drop all that cash when you could get a laptop with...
One of the grimmest things about this election was watching news journalists performing their jocular cynicism and earnest triangulation on Elon Musk's website. That sort of thing has become suddenly more disreptuable (ahem). Coincidentally, The Guardian, based in the U.K.,...
Earlier today, I had to check my spam email folder for a completely legitimate reason. But while I was down there in the dregs, there was another message that caught my eye—one sent from timesnewdumbass@gmail.com. They wrote: Elon does this stupid 'X' jump all the time. ...
A worker made a gruesome discovery while raking a South Florida beach yesterday: a human head was floating along the shoreline. The head, found near Key Biscayne, seemed to have belonged to a man, reports The Independent. But so far, no other body parts have been found, and...
Convicted felon and President-elect Donald Trump announced that he is naming a nonexistent organization after Elon's favorite cryptocurrency so Elon and Vivek can 'advise' on efficiency. In addition to Military spending, the US Government spends heavily on income security,...
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Tinfoil—Glenn Sage—collects the earliest sounds recorded by humankind (and has an online store). There are digitizations of wax cylinders, antique phonographs, and other experimental technologies. This is, ironically, an old website dependent on an old digital format:...
Like strapping a rocket to a milk float, cooling a Raspberry Pi 5 with liquid nitrogen had interesting results. 'I tried everything but couldn't turn this Raspberry Pi 5 into the World's Fastest Pi 5,' writes Skatterbencher. 'Unfortunately, we can't quite claim that title...
Kazuo Umezu, master of horror comics and a manga pioneer whose careers spanned nearly seventy years, is dead at 88. Asahi Shimbun reports that the author of The Drifting Classroom and Makoto-chan first made his debut in 1955 illustrating rental books. — Read the rest The...
Spend no more than 10 minutes sitting on a toilet, say doctors Farah Monzur, director of Long Island's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Stony Brook Medicine and Lai Xue, a colorectal surgeon out of Dallas. One's buttocks are compressed by the seat's descending oval...
Anna Abalkina and Retraction Watch have begun tracking scientific journals which show signs of having been hijacked by frauds, mountebanks and whatnot: The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. Sometimes this is crudely accomplished by displacement, through replicas and ...
TL;DR: Transform your data by putting it into clean, easy-to-read diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2021 Pro, now on sale for $17.97 (reg. $249) until November 17. As much as you love how hilarious The Office's portrayal of #corporatelife is, one thing's clear: you definitely...
Usually it's a thief one might look out for when withdrawing cash from an ATM. But one man in India dealt with another kind of aggressive trespasser when he stepped into an ATM enclosure Monday morning, only to have his life threatened by a wild boar. — Read the rest The...
Tuesday November 12, 2024. 11:47 PM
The Magic Circle is a renowned British organization for magicians, founded in 1905. Women were not allowed to join the Magic Circle for most of its history, until it lifted its ban in 1991. Now, reports Sky News, the Magic Circle is trying to locate Sophie Lloyd, who...
Gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto bounded through Super Nintendo World yesterday with the energy of someone half his 71 years, offering YouTube viewers an exclusive first look at the newest addition to Universal Studios Japan in Osaka: Donkey Kong Country, opening December 11,...
TL;DR: Start liking cooking when you use this Konig Kitchen Damascus 5-Piece Knife Set. Skip to checkout and get them for $74.97 (reg. $249). If you're like me, you spent years thinking you hated cooking, and that's fair. It's a ton of work slicing and dicing and prepping...
Kum & Go, the unfortunately (fortunately?) named gas station and convenience store is currently rebranding all of its locations. According to Maverik, which acquired Kum & Go last year, the reason is 'to unify our entire combined footprint under the Maverik brand.' — Read...
Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Sprungli has always charged premium prices for its self-described 'excellence' and 'finest ingredients' — but the company now says it was just kidding, after the discovery that its so-called fine ingredients allegedly includes heavy metals. The...
Esteemed vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson presents us with an array of curious vintage photographs featuring questionable question marks. See 'em all at his latest Flashbak gallery: Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs ...
Dave Clifford, who lives in the Ilocos Sur province of the Philippines, was looking at video footage from his home security system 'as we've had a lot of cats trying to get at the birds in our aviary,' he said. In the below clip, you can see a stream of motorcycles go down...
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