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Tuesday February 18, 2025. 08:03 PM
United States patent number 6,469 is for 'buoying vessels over shoals.' Granted on May 22, 1849, the concept involves equipping large boats with 'india-rubber cloth, or another suitable waterproof fabric' on the hull as inflatable floats. If a boat became stranded, these...
California's Fifth Appellate District Court has unanimously ruled the owner of a Bakersfield, California, bakery who refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple in 2017 has broken the law. While the bakery owner, Cathy Miller's, lawyer attempted to portray her...
The weak-kneed members of NYU's College Republicans of America chapter forced their president to resign after she told Vanity Fair that Barron Trump was 'an oddity on campus.' 'He's sort of like an oddity on campus. He goes to class, he goes home,' Kaya Walker said on the...
Police busted two men outside of Grant Parish Detention Center in Colfax, Louisiana for allegedly attempting to deliver contraband to inmates. Their plan was to launch the items over the prison wall using an air cannon. 'This was not something that was homemade,' said Grant...
Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings may not be entirely abstract. According to new research from UC San Diego psychiatrist Stephen Stahl and colleagues, Pollock likely suffered from bipolar disorder. They tie this posthumous diagnosis to the likelihood...
Looks like somebody's not a team player! Denise Cheung — described by Reuter's as 'the top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney's office — just rage-quit her job because she wouldn't help Trump grab back a measly $20...
Under normal circumstances, the United States government would not be meddling in the prosecution of an accused international sex trafficker and would let the law of the land in the countries where the accused sex trafficker purportedly violated the law handle it. — Read the...
If the idea of emulating a PC on a Nintendo Entertainment System sounds like a torturous exercise in proving Turing completeness and the very opposite of fun, console yourself with knowledge that it's the oldest PC. Behold NES86. The goal of this project is to emulate an...
Remember YouTube Multiplier, which played multiple YouTube embeds at once? The logical next step is here: the YouTube Sequencer, which allows users to play YouTube videos like drum samples, arranging them into loops. Have you ever hit the number keys while watching...
New video of yesterday's Delta Air Lines crash shows fire bursting from the plane right after it touched down at the Toronto Pearson Airport. We then see the burning plane — which had just come in from Minneapolis with 80 people on board — taxi down the runway for a...
Someone on Reddit asked ChatGPT to forecast America's future under continued Trump policies, and it reads like a horror novel written by George Orwell after binge-watching Handmaid's Tale. The AI laid out a progression from democracy to corporate autocracy through the...
'Border Czar' Tom Homan is unhappy that Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminds people of their rights, so he is hoping someone will declare that illegal. Trump stooge Tom Homan has taken to the Fox News airwaves to complain about a Congressperson explaining to...
Target is learning that its efforts to please Donald Trump and the GOP have done nothing to improve its bottom line while generating worse 'real consequences,' reports Ariel Messman-Rucker for Yahoo Finance. It is beset by lawsuits and its share price is going nowhere good....
At tintin.dlazaro.ca you may experience the 'What a week, huh?' meme, updated daily in accordance with the current day. It's at the website of Daniel Lazaro, a Canadian computer scientist, designer and developer. [via] There's a page for every timeframe:– 'What a day':...
If you're looking for simple, one-off ways to make your life a bit easier, then check out Practical Betterments. This fun website offers life hacks and tips that you can do right now. You can even subscribe to their news;etetr to get these tips sent to you daily. — Read the...
These two rocks in Pacific Grove, CA, are known as Kissing Rock. They stick out from the sea look like they are leaning towards each other and kissing. To me, they look more like two dogs or sheep than people because of the way the rocks' heads are shaped. — Read the rest ...
I had a good chuckle today when I came across the website SwearSky, which displays live swears from bluesky. This website is the definition of NSFW, so beware. The site shows live swears floating by in fluffy little clouds against a blue, sky-themed backdrop. — Read the...
Recently, over 300,000 individuals in Taiwan sought medical treatment for diarrhea at outpatient and emergency departments during one week (February 2-8)—the highest numbers in the last ten years. Additionally, over the past month, almost 400 'diarrhea cluster...
As planes keep crashing down on a weekly basis since Donald Trump took office, new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reiterated that he's fired hundreds of FAA employees so far. He then had the gall to criticize former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — who had...
A single three-minute exposure to deep red light in the morning can significantly improve aging adults' color vision for up to a week, according to research from University College London published in Nature. The study found that shining 670 nanometer deep red light into...
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