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lundi 8 octobre 2018, 20:46
My friend has a mouse problem and I'm helping her with it. I've been using humane traps to catch the mice, and I just found these highly rated ones on sale: $9 for 2. Here's a video review of how it works:
There was a time when you could get the smartest people at Google to do the stupidest things you could imagine by getting Yahoo to do them first; thankfully that era ended -- only to be replaced by an era in which every stupid thing Facebook did became a bucket-list item for ...
SS runes were found carved on the service flashlight of a cop fired after repeatedly punching a handcuffed black man, and everyone is scrambling to solve the mystery of how it got there. After Leroy Hair was fired, a police-issued flashlight carved with a racist Nazi symbol...
Some guy threw a paper airplane from the nosebleed section of an arena, and the missile hit one of the players on the field far below.
Meet Travis and take a tour of Larzland, his magical basement, which is an incredibly detailed recreation of Disneyland's Fantasyland – without the actual rides. He explains how he went to Disneyland by himself and took thousands of pictures so that he could get every...
If I came across a sidewalk like this, I would do exactly as this guy did, including the part at the end where he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. I cheered for him all the way... from r/Unexpected
Huffington Post made good use of an old Spy magazine experiment: it called 16 of New York's most snobbish restaurants to find out if any of them would be willing to accommodate Harvey Weinstein and five guests for dinner at 8pm that evening, 'something that, for those living ...
In Chesapeake, VA, trick-or-treaters over 12 face fines of $25-100 and up to six months in jail (under-12s who trick-or-treat after 8PM face fines of $10-100 and up to 30 days in jail). In Newport News and Norfolk, over-12s who trick-or-treat are 'guilty of a Class 4...
Remember the photos of Shridhar Chillal and his insanely long fingernails that were featured in so many editions of the Guinness Book of World Records? After 66 years, Chillal has cut them off! At the time of the manicure earlier this year, the combined length was 29 feet,...
The latest data from Levada, an independent Russian pollster, finds that support for all Russian political figures, including Vladimir Putin, has plunged, following a shift in the pension system that raised the retirement age by five years. Russia is an economic and...
Laura Kampf made a bunch of 'metro tiles' from a stack of plywood cutoffs she came across. The result is beautiful.
The Action Lab got a bottle of the much-hyped Black Water and tasted it. Turns out it tastes like plain water, but bitter. (Strike one against it.) It's not black, it's the color of 'flat Coke.' (Strike two.) It is advertised as 'Premium Alkaline Water.' According to the New ...
Starting Thursday, Singapore Airlines will offer a nonstop flight between Singapore to New York, becoming the longest commercial non-stop route at 19 hours in the air. That's 3 hours longer than Quantas Airlines' Perth to London long haul. To handle the distance, Singapore...
Tech workers are in demand: companies find it easier to raise cash than to hire engineers; this gives workers enormous bargaining power, and they're using it. From the Google uprisings over a Pentagon babykiller project and a Chinese surveillance project to the Microsoft...
Christopher Sadowski is, his lawyers submit, a most accomplished photographer of... Hitler admirer Heath Campbell? The New York-based shooter is threatening to sue the website Something Awful over a photo of the nazi spotted in its forums unless they pay $6750. The...
Control Panel is a fantastic visual blog 'in praise of dials, toggles, buttons, and bulbs,' a companion to the Control Panel group on Flickr.
Currently undergoing clinical trials, the Vibrant capsule is a tiny vibrator inside a capsule that you swallow to relieve constipation. Don't worry though because according to the web site, 'the capsule is controlled by an algorithm.' Whew. From Vibrant Ltd: Constipation...
To celebrate the leaking of 50 million user accounts last week, Facebook is today launching two 'video call machines' that 'automatically zoom in on users and follow them as they move.' You'll be putting them in your homes, so you can watch Facebook while Facebook watches...
NASA's Voyager 2 space probe, launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the solar system, may be nearing interstellar space. Carrying a message for extraterrestrials, the iconic Golden Record, the Voyager 2 is now about 11 billion miles (about 17.7 billion kilometers) from Earth...
A packed stretch limo blew a stop sign and crashed in upstate New York on Sunday, killing all 18 people in the car and 2 pedestrians. It's the worst U.S. road accident in a decade, reports the AP. The 2001 Ford Excursion limousine was traveling southwest on Route 30 in...
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