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mercredi 25 septembre 2024, 16:42
When I first got online in 1994 or so, the World Wide Web was in full flower but had yet to obscure other efforts to bring people together on the Internet. CompuServe was among them, and even then was surprisingly durable: it was founded in 1969, offered to enthusiasts in...
We've come a long way since Soundtracker on the Commodore Amiga! Furnace is a new tracker—a highly-technical music-making app remiscent of player piano rolls sliding through The Matrix—designed for making chiptunes on the platform of your choice. It's powerful, present...
A Texas mom said she knew something was up when she approached her son and he became 'very sweaty.' Then, after he tried to block her from walking past him, she peered around the family RV and saw a human foot. — Read the rest The post Texas mom wondered why her son was...
A few years ago I wrote about a fun paper, dice, and pencil solo game called Paper Apps Dungeon. The creator just announced a new game. In Paper Apps Galaxy players navigate a spaceship through deep space. The goal is to complete missions, such as destroying enemy ships,...
Twitter, latterly known as X, is limiting the effect of blocking. Blocking people will no longer stop them from seeing tweets, though it will continue to hide them from the blocker and prevent interaction. Musk has been vocal about his dislike of the block button. — Read t...
In the time-honored tradition of things being both bad for you and good for you, depending on variables, we learn today that coffee is good for you. You should be necking three servings a day of it and shimmering along on 200-300 mg of caffeine. — Read the rest The post...
A Montana grizzly bear reminds us why it's never a good idea to get too close to wild creatures for the sake of a good Instagram post. After the folks at Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks transported the 22-year-old male bear from a neighborhood filled with tempting chicken...
Harvard medical student Nick Norwitz ate 720 eggs in a month as an experiment to study the effects on his cholesterol levels. 'I hypothesized that eating 720 eggs in one month, which alone amounts to 133,200 milligrams of cholesterol would not increase my cholesterol,'...
Here's another reminder to avoid self-checkout scanners at Walmart and other stores. Meaggan Pettipiece, a former Olympic athlete, was arrested for failing to scan ham and asparagus at a Walmart self-checkout machine in Indiana on March 28, 2024. She paid $176 for the other...
It's a grainy, blurry, black-and-white image so low in quality it could be anything you like. But what it is is a scan of a photocopy of a printout of an email containing a photo, released in the spirit of malicious compliance as the state's response to a Freedom of...
Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen is fixing to scram if Donald Trump takes over the White House in January. In other words, Cohen plans to grab his passport, hop on a plane, and run for dear life. 'I'd have no choice,' he told Deadline host Nicolle Wallace via Daily Beast. —...
Mitt Romney holds the distinction of being the only Republican Senator who voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials. And with Trump increasingly threatening to wage a revenge vendetta against anyone who doesn't show total loyalty to him, Romney fears what...
A man smashed Ai Weiwei's sculpture Porcelain Cube, leaving it in pieces on the floor of Bologna's Palazzo Fava in what the show's curator described as a 'reckless and senseless act.' A 57-year-old Czech man was arrested; he is 'known' to have targeted artworks in the past,...
Alex Jones's InfoWars empire is going on the auction block to pay the $1.5 billion he owes to the Sandy Hook parents for claiming they were actors hired by the deep state to gut the Second Amendment. 'FSS [Free Speech Systems, InfoWars' parent company] will now be sold at...
Caroline Ellison, former CEO of a hedge fund tied to crooked crypto exchange FTX and former girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried (himself already sentenced to 25 years), is off to jail for her part in it all. Ellison will serve two years, having served as his prosecution's star...
A third house collapsed on the shore of Rodanthe, North Carolina yesterday after two others fell apart on Friday. And it is the ninth home to collapse in the area since 2020. Footage shows a pair of beach houses perched above the water when one suddenly loses its stilts and...
Stewart Rosenwasser, a former county court judge in Orange County, New York, shot and killed himself as FBI agents came to arrest him on a corruption and extortion indictment Tuesday. His death followed an exchange of gunfire with the approaching agents, according to WABC...
Death row inmate Marcellus 'Khaliifah' Williams, 55, was executed by lethal injection yesterday. As reported in The Guardian, Missouri's Attorney General Andrew Bailey and Governor Mike Parson insisted on executing Williams even though the St. Louis County Prosecuting...
TL;DR: The TREBLAB WX8 earbuds are designed with IPX8 waterproofing, now available for $24.99 (reg. $29)! The earbuds you bought off a random stand at the mall or at Five Below aren't designed for your workouts, you know. If you've noticed your music cutting off mid-run or...
TL;DR: Detect hidden cameras, bugs, and GPS trackers with this portable detector for just $39.99 (reg. $59.99). Privacy has become a precious commodity. Whether staying in a hotel, booking an AirBnB, or simply trying to safeguard your personal space, the warranted fear of...
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