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Thursday May 6, 2021. 04:00 AM
In your eternal search to cool up your home — both figuratively and literally — a bladeless fan might be a great investment as the summer months start rolling into view. For efficiency, new power-saving bladeless fans help cool a space without being forced to pay the...
Wednesday May 5, 2021. 11:54 PM
When the city of Detroit obnoxiously gave $150 tickets to drivers who unwittingly parked in unmarked handicap spots, a pizzeria owner across the street thought it was outrageous. The problem was, there was only one handicap sign for four parking spots, according to AP, and...
Microsoft has Windows. Apple has Mac OS. Between them, they're the operating systems running 92 percent of the computers in the world. And they were created, developed, owned, and sold as proprietary software by those two companies for use on their particular machines. —...
Robert Moog (1934-2005) was the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, which he introduced in 1964. His Minimoog, which debuted in 1970, was the first synthesizer to be sold in stores. It cost $1,600 at the time. (You can buy an iOS version of the Minimoog Model D Synthesizer for...
The small coastal town of Noto, Japan, decided to spend $228,000 of its $7M+ in COVID-19 relief money on a 13 x 29-ft statue of a giant squid. The statue has received criticism from some, but town officials hope it will help promote tourism in the area
If you are interested in recognizing the celebration of No Pants Day, like Dennis the Menace will this year, then you should express yourself and go sans trousers this May 7th, always observed on the first Friday of May. Regular U.S. — Read the rest
This gentleman, who apparently organized a protest outside of Facebook's NY offices in hopes of restoring his great leader to social media, says many things. Organizer of the protest outside Facebook HQ in NYC today said that 'Trump would make a good king,' and his...
Nela Zisser is a 26-year-old med-school student from New Zealand who also happens to be a competitive eater. In this video she scarfs down a waffle tower – 10 pieces of chicken and 6 waffles 'drenched' in maple syrup – in less than five minutes. — Read the rest
This adorable creature has found a friend to swap inedible husks for delicious nuts. In this video, we see it standing outside a window with an empty shell in its mouth. Its human friend opens the window and the squirrel pops,in drops the shell in the human's hand and goes...
This Saturday, May 8th, Erika Larsen's ultra-exclusive Brookledge theater is streaming one night only event featuring a ton of my favorite performers. The line up includes the Amazing Jonathan, Puddles Pity Party, Rob Zabrecky, Bonnie Morgan, Lindsay Benner, Paul Reubens. ...
A man in Australia notices a baby koala on the side of a road, much too close to cars, and decides to move it out of the way. But the combative koala doesn't make it easy, fighting for its life with deep demonic growls the size of a full-grown bear, trying to scratch the...
Brian Kilmeade to a 6th grader who said he doubted if Trump could handle reopening well: "Really? That's hard to believe. Because the last president was saying I want every kid back in school." pic.twitter.com/5USXBhAnBU— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 5, 2021 Meanwhile, the...
Julie Walrand of Berekely, California (35) doesn't seem happy in this photo. That because it's a mugshot taken after she was arrested for committing a hate crime, battery, and false imprisonment against a Black delivery driver in April. Walrand and her boyfriend...
Yesterday, Halima Cisse, 25, of Mali, gave birth to nine babies, two more than doctors expected. Mali's government transferred Cisse to Morocco for the actual Caesarean delivery in order to ensure she had the care of specialists. Mom and her nonuplets are doing well and...
'Can I Binge?' is a curious and useful single-serving site by Web designer Brian Young that calculates how long it would take you to binge watch a TV show based on the length of each episode and the total number in the series. — Read the rest
This scathing 9-minute look at the life Ted Cruz can be summed up in a quote by Craig Mazin, creator of the five-part miniseries Chernobyl and Ted Cruz's college roommate at Princeton: 'Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being. — Read the rest
Covid herd immunity is now unlikely going to happen thanks to the anti-vaxxers – 26% of the population – who don't plan on getting either shot. They prefer Facebook fiction over facts, which, as Jimmy Kimmel points out, gives the virus space to mutate into a variant that ...
There has been a lot of discussion in our forums over the arrival of 'sus' in our current vernacular as well as its origin. Inverse did some research for me to cut and paste: The shortening of suspicious to 'sus' first took place in England and Wales as far back as the...
Police in Chauvin, Louisiana arrested Dawn Marie Baye, 38, a cafeteria worker at Lacache Middle School who allegedly hosted student sleepovers where teens drank alcohol, watched porn, and had sex. Baye was charged with multiple charges of indecent behavior with a juvenile...
This friendly clown is thrilled to be eating a bowl of Sugar Rice Krinkles in this 1956 commercial. The video begins when Krinkles the clown pops his head out of a miniature house with a rooster on it. He then explains the joy of Sugar Rice Krinkles cereal and looks like...
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