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vendredi 28 novembre 2025, 22:52
My first computer suffered an economy found in early 8-bit machines with limited video memory: if you wanted lots of colors, you got less pixels, and a rational way to do that with the hardware back then was to make pixels twice as wide. — Read the rest The post Tiny pixel...
I love solid-state drives (SSDs). For a guy who travels a lot, having one in my laptop instead of a spinning hard drive is such a relief. Outside of fireworks and unattended bags, nothing stresses me out faster than lifting a laptop that's slightly off level and hearing its...
Reponding to reports of a small dog tied to a post and abandoned on the roadside in Matlock, England, an officer from Derbyshire Police was surprised to instead find a toy there. This led to the issuance of the only good kind of police press release, the ones full of puns...
Another holiday, another chance to inflict Male Chef on those around me (including you, dear reader!). Never mind all those AI Thanksgiving dinners; this kind of wretchedness could only be crafted by human hands. The now-defunct 'Male Chef' blog was a long-running satirical...
Adolf Hitler Uunona, a local councilor in Namibia tired of reading annoying stories like this one, has filed to change his name to Adolf Uunona. The Namibian's Hileni Nembwaya reports that Uunona, a well-respected politician, no longer wants to be known by a name that does...
Netflix really wants to be a one-stop shop for all things entertainment. Three years after launching a mobile game division, the streamer has released a pack of word puzzles. Ever since the New York Times bought the beloved word game Wordle and added it to its collection of ...
An assault victim in New Zealand tired of waiting for the law to catch up with his attacker, so he rounded up a posse and went to the man's house to do so himself. The incident did not go as planned, and now both men have relevant convictions. — Read the rest The post Man ja...
Putting Joe Rogan and Elon Musk in the same room always feels like a real-life reenactment of that one Tweet: 'two dumb b*****s telling each other 'exaaaaactlyyyy'.' His latest appearance on Rogan's podcast is as actively brain-killing as you'd expect, with Musk essentially...
Last week, a new weevil sculpture, the Hamburglar McWeevil, was unveiled in Entreprise, Alabama, a town that's famous for its boll weevil-laden history, and that has humorously embraced its boll weevil past via erecting statues that celebrate the disruptive and destructive...
Ubisoft is in a bit of a weird place at the moment. With their hold over the casual gaming space finally beginning to slacken and their financial future unclear (delaying earnings calls is a good sign, right?), Ubisoft's direction over the next few years, or even whether...
jeudi 27 novembre 2025, 19:00
NGC 6302, more romantically known as the Butterfly Nebula, was chosen by Chilean schoolchildren as the latest subject for observation by the Gemini South telescope there. The resulting image, released by the National Science Foundation's NoirLab, is the most detailed image...
Ayaneo's Pocket Vert is pitched as a premium retro-gaming handheld console, and the spec sheet shows just how premium they mean: the Snapdragon 8+ chipset found in flagship Android smartphones, a 1600×1440 615-ppi display ('pixel‑perfect 10× upscaling for Game Boy'),...
Christ Penelope, founder of Seven Fold Holy Spirit Ministries in Limpopo, has an unusual method of pastoring to his flock: he farts on them, claiming it part of a healing process. 'He says it's important that the fart be near the person's nostrils so that the 'healing power' ...
Adolf Hitler has retained his seat in Ompundja, Namibia, winning a fifth term of office with Oshana Regional Council. The 59-year-old regional councilor and member of the South West Africa People's Organisation is lauded for his grassroots work and anti-apartheid activism,...
Martin Vizcarra was president of Peru for just two years, but earned himself a 14-year jail term before even taking up residence in the House of Pizarro. Vizcarra was gound guilty of accepting bribes as a state governor on Wednesday and immediately incarcerated. — Read the re...
Martin Bally, a vice president in Campbell's information security department, said that the company's product is highly processed and unhealthy food for poor people and suggested it was experimenting with bioengineered chicken 'that came from a 3D printer.' Exposed in a...
TL;DR: Snag yourself this 14-inch 2020 Dell Latitude 7410 and MS Office 2021 Pro lifetime license at 73% off. The worst thing about getting a new laptop is having to buy the software that goes with it. Sure, Apple products are expensive when compared to other models. — Read...
Following up a Teenage Engineering collab must be quite an imposing challenge, and Swedish designer Tekla Evelina Severin's new range of bluetooth speakers for Ikea presents a thematic opposite: soft, muted colors, natural textures and rounded forms. All speakers are...
Five years ago I bought a precision screwdriver that immediately replaced a whole box full of them and it's gotten regular use since. The clever design was by Hoto, and now it and other companies like it are experiencing success in the west thanks to their growing ranges of...
The United Nations reports that Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, is the world's largest urban area. Almost 42 million people live there, according to its research, more than the 37m living in Dhaka, Bangladesh or the 33m in Tokyo, which was largest when the survey was last...
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