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vendredi 28 mars 2025, 17:09
Donald Trump flexed his fascist muscle on Truth Social today, warning that if the D.C. mayor doesn't clean up crime, 'I will have to do it myself.' Reality check: Violent crime in Washington D.C. is at a 30-year low, according to the U.S. — Read the rest The post Fascist...
Pop star Dua Lipa won a copyright lawsuit filed against her by songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who claimed her hit single Levitating infringed songs of theirs from 1979 and 1980. Judge Katherine Pok Failla ruled that only 'generic similarities' were shared...
When King Kong climbs the Empire State Building or a giant octopus pulls down the Golden Gate Bridge, they're not just breaking box office records — they're breaking the laws of physics. In biologist Michael LaBarbera's entertaining essay, 'The Biology of B-Movie Monsters' ...
After the success of the Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo gave the go-ahead for a live-action Legend of Zelda, and today the company announced that it would be in theaters March 2027. The two-year wait will have fans antsy for more information, as ther eare no casting...
TL;DR: Charge up anywhere with the GoCable 8-in-1 EDC 100W Cable for just $20.99 (reg. $44.99) through April 27. We've all got a ton of devices these days… and all of them have their own charger we have to keep up with. — Read the rest The post This on-the-go, 8-in-1...
A devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar and Thailand on Friday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 300 others. Dozens more are missing. Buildings in both countries were caught on video completely collapsing. The earthquake was centered in the large...
I've posted before about Andrew Hickey's excellent podcast 'The History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs' but a recent episode is just epic. For song #177 he takes on the old folkloric ditty 'Shortnin' Bread.' You might not think that such a goofy little tune would merit much...
I was wondering idly if the chain of lochs and rivers cutting across Scotland made an island of its north, and found this fantastic photograph of the country taken from the International Space Station a few years ago. As you can see, it's not quite an island. — Read the rest...
These 'Specimens of Fancy Turning' from a 1869 book of albumen silver prints look like antique, mystical spirograph toy drawings. These geometric designs were created on the hand or foot lathe'. The book is by Edward J. Woolsey (1803–1872). From The Public Domain review: ...
The weight of expectations is a powerful thing. The original Metroid Prime trilogy, released across the GameCube and Wii, were both Nintendo's first real foray into first-person shooters and excellent examples of the genre, casting you as badass bounty hunter Samus Aran and...
Lego YouTuber Bricked MC made a video in which he promised his viewers that he would create a build based on their interaction with his channel. For every view of the video, he would add one brick to the build, two bricks for every like, three per comment, four per...
With no new entries in the venerable The Sims series coming out for the foreseeable future (or ever, as long as EA can keep squeezing money out of The Sims 4), challengers to the life-sim throne have begun to emerge. — Read the rest The post Nintendo's Tomodachi Life...
Many Americans are becoming interested in Greenland right now for no particular reason. Here is a selection of interesting facts about the island territory. Let's get this out of the way first. Greenland is primarily white, not green. The Greenland ice sheet covers 80% of...
That vaccines do not cause autism is well-established. Scientists long ago debunked attempts to link the two, pushed back against the tide of misinformation and conspiracy theory, and countered the false narratives, 'vaccine detox' supplements, therapies, and other grifts....
The Clootie Well at Munlochy on the Black Isle in Scotland is a place where people go to receive healing. At his traditional Scottish healing well, people tie strips of cloth (cloots) to trees or nearby posts. The reason for this is to receive healing or blessings for...
TL;DR: Make sure you always have a good view with the high definition monocular telescope, now $22.97, 58% off, through April 27. Planning on spending more time outside this spring? If you want a better view of birds you encounter on a walk or need to scope the scene for...
A decade after buying Family Dollar for $8bn, Dollar Tree is selling its onetime competitor for $1bn. The marriage didn't work out: it turns out there wasn't space for both a 'strict' dollar store chain (though Dollar Tree now sells things for $1.25) and a 'loose' dollar...
Cretora Biggerstaff is a sharp 106-year-young passenger from Houston who travels to Florida twice a year with her daughter — but says the airlines flag her every time she flies. 'I know what the majority of people think, 'Oh, she's 106, she's probably…in a wheelchair,...
jeudi 27 mars 2025, 23:57
Red marks on a communion wafer were thought by parishioners in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Morris, Indiana, to be a miraculous sign of divine presence. The blood of Christ turned out, however, to be bacteria. The discovery at St. — Read the rest The post...
I always wanted to get into FPGA development, on the cutting edge of retrogaming authenticity, but simply trying to comprehend the OneChipBook-12's product page convinces me that I might be better off sticking with emulators and fantasy consoles. The device is a laptop form...
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