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vendredi 30 août 2024, 15:34
In Harpers, Jasper Craven reports on 'The Thin Purple Line'—the quickly-growing, heavily-armed and increasingly belligerent private security forces at work in America: 'Americans' fear of crime is particularly disconnected from reality' Yet while guards lack the training...
The CRKD Atom is an adorable keychain game controller, similar to the 8bitdo model we've covered a few times, but a few bucks cheaper and offered in a calamity of colors. [via The Verge] A one-of-a-kind Keychain Controller compatible with Nintendo® Switch™, PC/Mac,...
Lego recently ended one effort to use sustainable plastics to make bricks, but now reports success and a big contract to secure the supply chain. It will replace the oil used in its plastics with a renewable material over the next eight years. — Read the rest The post Lego t...
Earlier this summer, Texas megachurch founder and Trump advisor Robert Morris stepped down after some 25 years when a minor he sexually abused—now a woman—went public with her story. His replacement at Gateway Church soon resigned after it emerged he had an undisclosed...
The Nintendo characters at Universal Studio Hollywood were doing their thing this summer, meeting and greeting park guests, when an excited l'il Toad made a mistake and broke into some dance moves. Yes, it was cute — so darn cute, in fact, that everyone with a TikTok...
TL;DR: See aliens and wildlife in the dark with these portable night vision binoculars — now available for $89.97 (reg. $159.99) through September 3! Sure, your smartphone might be a decent contender for capturing your cryptozoological sightings, but they can be finicky...
A 37-year-old Singaporean man has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in jail after attempting to frame his estranged wife by planting over 500 grams of cannabis in her car, a plan that could have led to her facing the death penalty. — Read the rest The post Failed...
jeudi 29 août 2024, 23:52
A 60-year-old woman who works at Wells Fargo in Arizona died on the job while sitting in her cubicle last week. But, sadly, nobody in the building noticed until four days later. The employee, Denise Prudhomme, had entered the Tempe Wells Fargo corporate offices around...
Advantage Air makes smart air conditioning systems in Australia, a place with a very captive summer audience. The wall controller, which turns it on and off, is a lowest-conceivable tier Android contraption doomed to fail the second the warranty expires—and they see you...
TL;DR: Want to start coding as swiftly as the pros do? You need Microsoft Visual Studio Professional, now discounted to $34.97 (reg. $499) for three more days! Any coder will understand the struggle of spending hours debugging their software only to realize that it was a prog...
President Obama took to Instagram to remember Tan SuitGate and acknowledge Vice President Kamala Harris's excellent sartorial taste. Fox News and a plethora of conservative blowhards went batshit over President Obama wearing a tan suit. Now, ten years later, Obama is...
For years, the conversation has gone something like this: Normal Person (NP): Trump cheats on his wives!Trump-Loving Evangelical Christian (TLEC): I support President Trump because he's promised a nationwide ban on abortion.NP: But he brags about sexually assaulting women! ...
Beloved claymation characters Wallace and Gromit are back in a new trailer. It's been a while since we saw Wallace and Gromit. The underappreciated Curse of the Were-Rabbit was almost twenty years ago, and the 2010 BBC show Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention didn't air...
We Called Them Giants is an upcoming graphic novel written by Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine) with lusciously painted pages by artist Stephanie Hans. The duo previously worked together on the 'Goth Jumanji' comic book series (and tabletop roleplaying game) DIE, which ...
Have you ever eaten purslane? If you've never tried it, you should! Not only is it delicious and nutritious, but it's also free if you can find some growing near you! What's purslane, you ask? Hunt Gather Cook explains: Primarily we are talking about Portulaca oleracea, a...
According to ABC LA News, scammers have affixed counterfeit QR codes to parking meters, making them appear as legitimate links to pay for parking. Vance Ingmanson, a victim of the scam, recounted how he scanned a QR code while parking in San Clemente. — Read the rest The...
JD Vance is a stinker, and everyone knows it. In fact, he's considered to be one of the most unpopular U.S. vice presidential picks over the last 100 years — even more unpopular than Sarah Palin! So, although amusing, it's no surprise that even the (normally friendly)...
Dot matrix paper is as dangerous as it is outdated. In a study entitled Competition between slicing and buckling, which underlies the erratic nature of paper cuts, physicists have determined the type of papers most likely to give you paper cuts. — Read the rest The post...
The US Army has issued a stinging rebuke of the Trump team's lies about filming campaign propaganda at Arlington National Cemetary, as news surfaces that Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pulled strings to get them access. US Armed Servicepeople are nothing but...
Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani's dog Decoy threw out the first pitch on a special night when the two were immortalized in bobblehead fashion. Fans lined up, hoping to grab one of the bobbleheads, as the stadium filled up, and Ohtani's dog took the mound. — Read the rest ...
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