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samedi 9 novembre 2024, 13:08
November 9 is the 96th birthday of Harrison Tyler, whose grandpa was the United States' tenth president. John Tyler (1790-1862), served as president from 1841-1845. How can the grandson of a president born in the 18th century still be alive? John Tyler had his son Lyon...
November in Seattle means grayer skies, shorter days, and Short Run Comix Festival, the gathering of indie comics and illustrators now in it's 20th year. I enjoyed seeing the work of the featured local and regional creators–and many are women. — Read the rest The post Meet...
Watch a timelapse of the way that a Square Watermelon is grown in Japan. The watermelon is grown in a glass and metal box, where it molds to the shape of the box over the course of 2 weeks. Square watermelons, or 'suika,' have an interesting history in Japan. — Read the rest...
TL;DR: Upgrade your productivity suite to Microsoft Office 2021, available for Windows for $69.97 (reg. $219) for just two more days. While the modern age is full of awesome tech innovations, one thing that's come out of it is annoying subscription fees (yuck!), — Read the...
The Honest Guide YouTubers, known for their tips and advice for people visiting Prague, traveled to Paris to reveal the 'cups and ball' scammers who target tourists around landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Cœur Basilica. The cups and ball scam operates with...
Image from Wikipedia The post Watch these cannibalistic corn figures roast their own kind in bizarre cooking video appeared first on Boing Boing.
vendredi 8 novembre 2024, 23:00
TL;DR: Junk journalers love this Kodak instant photo printer—check out now to save 30%. It's garbage. Yup. Everywhere these new scrapbookers go, they collect pieces of trash like raccoons — train tickets, receipt paper, a piece of their muffin wrapper, etc. — Read the...
Standing for just one hour at the shore of Russia's Lake Karachay ('black water') in 1990 would have killed you. Before it was buried beneath concrete and stone, the lake held an apocalyptic secret: over 50 times more radioactive material than was released in the Chernobyl...
A car exploded this morning before 7:00 a.m. in Queens, New York, spewing fire and debris that damaged five nearby houses and five cars. The Infiniti belonged to a plumber, who used it not only to get to work, but to store natural gas and acetylene tanks, according to ABC7...
Back in the day, when personal computers were first making their way into homes, buying a desktop was often a massive investment. The price tags on those early machines were no joke, especially in the ’80s and ’90s. Dropping a couple of thousand dollars on a beige box...
More bad news from Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.” […] Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on...
Earlier this year, a proposal was made to replace the primary edition of Fedora from the GNOME variant to the KDE variant. This proposal, while serious, was mostly intended to stir up discussion about the position of the Fedora KDE spin within the larger Fedora community,...
French tech company Mistral AI has launched a new online moderation tool based on the AI model Ministral 8B that can detect and remove offensive or illegal posts automatically. (There is still a risk of some misjudgments, however.) According to Techcrunch, for...
For decades, neuroscientists have focused on neuron firing—tiny 'spikes' of voltage—as the way information is transmitted in the brain. These spikes are thought to play a foundational role in generating conscious experiences by enabling communication, integration, and...
Back In Time is a GPL-2.0-licensed backup tool based on rsync and written in Python. It has both graphical and command-line interfaces, and supports backups to local disks or over SSH. Back In Time was originally written by Oprea Dan and released in 2009. The tool has been...
Umberto Eco's 1995 essay 'Ur-Fascism' outlines 14 common features of fascism based on his experience growing up as a boy in Mussolini's Italy and his analysis of fascist movements throughout history. He begins his essay: In 1942, at the age of ten, I received the First...
Did you know that Apple’s macOS 15.1 Sequoia now lets you install and use applications acquired from the Mac App Store directly onto an external drive? This enhancement is actually particularly useful if your workflow requires you to handle a space-devouring application. ...
Archaeologists exploring an ancient burial cave in northern Morrocco were surprised to find 15,000-year-old evidence of drug use. The individuals in the cave were buried with seeds of ephedra, a genus of shrubs containing the alkaloid ephedrine which is used to treat...
A tourist in Mammoth, California tried to hobnob with a coyote, and swiftly learned a painful lesson in the process. 'Come here. It's cold, I know,' the gentleman cooed, beckoning the wild creature with an outstretched arm. But rather than considering the man as his new...
A customer of an RSPCA thrift shop in North Yorkshire, England spotted two polished curved metal objects on a table of bric-a-brac. Noting that they appeared be toys of the adult variety, she decided to inquire about them. 'I asked the shop assistant if she knew what they...
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