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jeudi 28 août 2025, 16:16
There's the 1-px side subpixel font named Millitext and a 3px-wide subpixel font that passes as type, but sticking with full pixels makes legibility tough at tiny sizes. Jason Kottke's Silkscreen is exemplary at 4×5. Making a gruesome 3×3 font is a kind of ritual for pixel...
I discovered arcades when I was about 7 or 8 years old and got to enjoy the late '80s renaissance, such as it was, driven by spectacular new hardware and more thoughtful game design. My local haunts were in Worthing, England—the New Amusements on the pier (latest and...
Florida sent workers in the night to paint over the Pride stripes of the memorial crosswalk outside the Pulse gay nightclub, where 49 revelers were murdered in a 2016 mass shooting. The Trump adminstration has demanded the removal of all such LGBTQ+ symbolism by local...
The ankylosaurus, already the best dinosaur, has been further improved. Spicomellus afer, sporting what the BBC describes as 'punk rock' dermal armor along its head and back, is at 165m years the oldest example of the family. Though previously known from scant fossils, a...
mercredi 27 août 2025, 23:00
TL;DR: Stop paying for cloud storage month after month. Get 20TB of lifetime storage with Internxt for $499.99 (reg. $4,900) — you'll have full control over your files for life. What do Dropbox and your ex have in common? They keep taking your money and offer no long-term c...
A man walking down a Washington D.C. street got stopped for carrying three ounces of marijuana — one ounce over the legal limit. Surrounding him weren't just local cops, but agents from five separate federal agencies, including the FBI and Secret Service, all for what...
What if California stopped sending its tax money to Washington? What if Massachusetts refused to let federal agents use state databases? What if blue states with the biggest economies just said 'no' to a federal government they don't trust? These aren't hypothetical...
Congratulations MAGA, you've successfully bullied an honor student into giving up on her dreams. As reported in WFAE, Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla — nursing student, scholarship recipient, and apparently grave threat to national security — has chosen 'voluntary' removal...
A Washington grand jury has tossed out the felony-assault case against Sean Dunn — the 37-year-old ex-Justice Department paralegal who threw a sandwich at a federal officer on August 10 — delivering a rare public setback to the Trump administration's military takeover of ...
The old joke is that grand juries are so pliant a prosecutor could get one to indict a ham sandwich. But they couldn't get this one to indict the guy who threw a sandwich at a masked federal agent in Washington D.C. — Read the rest The post Grand jury declines to indict man...
TL;DR: Protect your privacy with a 3-year subscription to Surfshark VPN, now $67.19 with code SAVE20. The internet is kind of like McDonald's in 2025: everything is expensive, it's not as fun as it used to be, and the ads are ridiculous. — Read the rest The post One of the...
Imagine a law so broad it could make your dreams illegal. That's the essence of the 'born secret' doctrine, a part of U.S. law that automatically classifies all information about nuclear weapons. Created by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, this rule says any nuclear weapons...
Cracker Barrel recently unveiled a simplified logo that tried to split the difference between modernization and tradition: they kept the old timey font (no blanding) but lost the fiddly art of an old guy. After thinking about it for a while, Conservatives reacted with...
The other day, we wrote about a piece of Nazi-looted art turning up in a real estate listing in Argentina. 'Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni)' was stolen by the Nazis from the collection of a Jewish art dealer and gradually passed hands and continents out of the public...
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Canada is going tee-total on Tropicana and other U.S. sources of fruit juice, avoiding entanglement with the Trump administration's unpredictable policies. Moreover, locals are eager to avoid American products in general, writes CBC News, driving imports to the lowerst level ...
In a meeting that combined the scientific rigor of a flat Earth convention with the intellectual depth of a graphene monolayer, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined forces to announce their theory on the 'real' cause of autism, dismissing decades of research...
A Canadian worker near Smithers, British Columbia, fended off a cougar attack with a well-placed punch to the animal's face. As reported in Yahoo News, the man was working outdoors when the cougar approached and swiped at his torso. He retaliated with a punch, causing the...
mardi 26 août 2025, 23:47
You can walk alone at night mostly without worry; you will see babies sleeping peacefully in prams outside cafes and shops while their parents enjoy a meal or [are] running errands; and the local police don't carry guns,' says Inga Rós Antoníusdóttir, describing daily...
A long-lost masterpiece, stolen by Nazis over 80 years ago, unexpectedly appeared in an Argentine real estate listing. The portrait by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, looted from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker in 1940, was spotted hanging above a sofa in a seaside...
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