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Some things from the past are best left to the past. The segregation of schools. Smallpox, Cop Rock… and Libby's Spread n' Heat Pizza. Born in 1975 of an unholy union between a can of Manwich and a bottle of Ragu, Spread n' Heat Pizza sounds good on paper, provided you're hungove … | Continue reading
The world is absolutely filthy with Google Home Minis. The wee smart speakers made their debut back in 2017 and were inexpensive enough to be given away by telecoms, banks as a promotional gift for opening a new account. Hell, if you were feeling daffy, you could even buy one. — … | Continue reading
In fairness, audible indifference is still technically a reaction. Devoid of charisma, JD Vance stepped up to the podium and was greeted with the kind of applause usually reserved for a substitute assistant vice principal being introduced at a mandatory assembly announcing a chan … | Continue reading
Proof that even in the 80s, immense wealth could not protect you from aggressive beige. You might expect the hidden crash pad of CNN founder and billionaire media baron, yacht enthusiast, and owner of enough land to have his own zipcode, Ted Turner, to look like a Bond villain's … | Continue reading
I came across a September 1976 piece in High Times headlined "Missouri — 12 Years for 11 Grams." Jerry Mitchell, a 19-year-old from West Plains, Missouri, had sold about a third of an ounce of marijuana to an undercover Highway Patrol agent for five dollars. — Read the rest The … | Continue reading
One assumes this was either a routing glitch or the first step in selecting tribute. Atlanta residents recently awoke to what appeared to be the opening scene of a very boring AI apocalypse, as empty Waymos repeatedly looped through their neighborhood in apparent service to some … | Continue reading
The problem wasn't that the money went somewhere; it was that the jingle strongly encouraged donors to imagine it going somewhere else. In a rare triumph for both consumer protection law and everyone with functioning ears, a California judge has effectively told Kars4Kids that if … | Continue reading
Nothing says "serious law enforcement leadership" like a secret VIP snorkel at Pearl Harbor The FBI was reportedly very keen to emphasize that Kash Patel's Hawaii trip was absolutely, definitely official business. This begs the question of how the FBI forgot to mention the part w … | Continue reading
Watch the Harmony Town chorus sing the theme song from Popeye the Sailor. This lovely cover of the song is like a time machine to the past. This is the most wholesome video I've seen all day. Everyone in the video looks like they're having a blast and reconnecting with their inne … | Continue reading
Have you ever wondered where all those spam phone calls you get actually come from? What does an average work day look like for people who spend hours daily doing nothing but cold-calling people in hopes of landing one gullible enough to hand over enough personal information to s … | Continue reading
Way back in 2014 we shared the news that the Internet Archive Book Images account was up and running on Flickr, thanks to the hard work of Kalev Leetaru who was, at the time, a Yahoo research fellow at Georgetown University. — Read the rest The post Here's a terrific search hack … | Continue reading
For as many times as The Last of Us has been remastered, remade, rereleased and remixed, it's a shame that the series dropped its best idea so early. Factions was an entire separate multiplayer mode only found in the PS3 original and its PS4 remaster, which shifted the focus away … | Continue reading
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Threatening the messenger instead of addressing the message is one of history's less convincing tells. Nicholas Kristof publishes a deeply reported piece in the New York Times collecting horrific allegations of sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees, and Israel's response app … | Continue reading
The January 1936 issue of Real America magazine ran a long exposé by De Lysle Ferree Cass, general manager of the Illinois Intelligence Bureau, on a Depression-era racket — organized gangs of "charity chiselers" running phone-bank fundraisers out of Chicago and New York. — Read t … | Continue reading
Bread is about to get more expensive. The last time U.S. farmers brought in a wheat harvest this small, Richard Nixon was still president. The USDA told farmers on Monday that the 2026/27 crop will come in around 1.561 billion bushels, a drop of more than 400 million bushels from … | Continue reading
Eleven years ago, an X user who goes by cprkrn changed the password on a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC. He was stoned at the time. He forgot the new password by morning, and 5 BTC sat untouched while it grew to roughly $400,000. — Read the rest The post After 3.5 trillion guesses … | Continue reading
A centaur is a person assisted by a machine — anything from a bicycle to a spell-checker. A reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow says, is "a person who has been conscripted to assist a machine." Most of the people AI is being inflicted on today are reverse centaurs — warehouse pickers, … | Continue reading
The "sir" anecdote is always a handy red flag that reality has left the building. Once again, as constant as the northern star, Donald Trump has entered the familiar third act of his scandal lifecycle: after publicly enthusing about his wonderful handpicked guy and the terrific p … | Continue reading
Beijing once again gets the full Grandpa Pudding Brains experience! There's diplomacy, and then there's whatever it's called when The Orange Menace visits China and attempts cultural flattery by inventing restaurant statistics on the spot. Offering Beijing a clear indicator that … | Continue reading
This ethereal, spooky sculpture garden at Jupiter Artland is by artist Laura Ford. The sculptures show ghostly girls standing amongst the trees with their hair covering their faces. There is something obviously horror-movie-esque about them, but they also feel like friendly ghost … | Continue reading
The Store Called Store is selling wonderful objects in Brooklyn, NY. It's described here as: "A colorful, fun shoppable art installation by artist Kelly Adelia, open since October 2025. Think vintage toys, magnets, stickers, puzzles, Polly Pockets, paint-by-numbers, black velvet … | Continue reading
Here's your daily dose of wholesome cuteness: a man rocking his pet baby donkey in his arms. Both the man and the donkey look like they're in a state of pure bliss. This might be the most adorable thing I've ever seen on the internet. — Read the rest The post Man lovingly rocks … | Continue reading
You've heard of the Internet of Shit, but this is literally the case: an AI-powered poop analysis app's database of user-submitted poop images leaking into the wild. If you use PoopCheck and don't know what you signed up for, it's time for a reality check. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
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Police released pictures of a man suspected of killing a transgender University of Washington student this week, and called upon the public to identify him. The high-definition security footage clearly shows the suspect's features and attire: in one he's looking right at the came … | Continue reading
Dalton Eatherly, 28, posts video of himself as "Chud the Builder," directing racial slurs at black people and challenging them to fight him. He carries a gun and says his intent is to kill someone and get away with it: "Series finale is dead chimp on the pavement and you monkeys … | Continue reading
Kouri Richins, who poisoned her husband then published1 a book on grief for their own and others' children to read, will serve a life sentence for his murder. Convicted in March, Richins spiked Eric Richins' cocktail in 2022 with a lethal dose of fentanyl. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
In 1986, road crews repairing 30-year-old pavement on the route between Caracas and its airport spotted a 50-yard smudge of greasy black gunk. It looked like chewed bubble gum, made the road slick as ice, and swelled in hot, wet weather, then shrank when things turned cold and dr … | Continue reading
Two men sat in a car on Abbey Road in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, on the night of February 1, 2025, waiting to catch a ghost. Luke Roberts and Jai Brewer call themselves the "banana hunters," and they had come to watch a particular street corner opposite a church. — Read the rest … | Continue reading
Nicholas Kristof's latest column is a brutal reminder that "believe survivors" often becomes negotiable the moment the survivors belong to an inconvenient population. Palestinians describe sexual torture and abuse in Israeli custody, while the governments that loudly condemned Ha … | Continue reading
In September 1925, a month after some 30,000 hooded Klansmen paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in the largest Klan rally in Washington's history, the satirical weekly Judge declared the Ku Klux Klan effectively dead. What remained, the editorial argued, was a fraternal dress-up or … | Continue reading
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Just over a year ago, I upgraded my 11-year-old Kindle Voyage to the latest Paperwhite SE. I had a lot of fears, but they were all unfounded. I've been a huge fan of e-readers ever since I received my first-edition Kindle. — Read the rest The post One year with the 12th-generati … | Continue reading
"Life has gotten too darned complicated," declared Russell E. Oakes in the January 1956 issue of Celebrity magazine. "Our scientists and inventors are just great at investigating the sex life of the polyp or building bigger and better positronic re-diffraction hypotelemeters — bu … | Continue reading
This nostalgia-inducing collection of photos shows payphones that still exist in the United States. While hard to come by nowadays, there are still some beautiful payphone booths scattered around America. While many of them are out of service, they're relics of a time when everyo … | Continue reading
Valve's second-generation Steam Controller was released last week, and it sold out immediately at $99. The lucky gamers who got their hands on one have noticed an Easter Egg. If dropped from the right height, it screams. And not just any scream, but the ultimate cinematic Easter … | Continue reading
No matter how much you love camping, campfires, sleeping outdoors, or eating highly processed tubes of meat cooked over an open flame, there's an almost 100% chance you hate setting up a tent. Even under ideal conditions, it's a pain in the ass. — Read the rest The post This inf … | Continue reading
It looks like the Trump administration's anti-trans bullshit has drifted north. According to the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, the student health clinic at McGill University has refused Hormone Replacement Therapy to American students studying in Canada, citing legal advice fro … | Continue reading
As usual, MAGAs will paint themselves into corners trying to rationalize things that simply can not be. The insistence that the United States is a "Christian nation" runs into a wall when it meets Trump's converted-to-Judaism sweat shop running daughter, his owned and opera … | Continue reading
Canada rewrote its citizenship laws late last year, and the new rules could be a lifeline for Americans hoping to escape Trump's rights-canceling jamboree. Bill C-3 scrapped the generational limit on inherited citizenship. The old rule capped it at one generation: your parents ha … | Continue reading
The best time to start keeping track of the saga of Lapis and Lazuli building their nest in a garden birdhouse, laying six eggs, incubating them, hatching them, and feeding their tiny, naked babies was two months ago. The second-best time is today. — Read the rest The post Lives … | Continue reading
An unexpectedly and weirdly specific way Trump's global disruption is touching civilian life: the Iran war has apparently reached the snack aisle. Japanese chip maker Calbee is sending some of its famously cheerful packaging into an austere black-and-white witness protection prog … | Continue reading