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lundi 1 décembre 2025, 02:32
The Maclock is a clock that looks like a Mac—an old Mac. The monochrome LCD display has three modes (the time, the date, and Susan Kare's famous 'Happy Apple' pixel art face. It's only 11cm (4.3 inches) tall and doesn't do anything else, but it's only $29.99 and has a...
In shots from Nasa's Perseverence rover on Mars, the skies are usually clear or fogged by dust storms. As it explores the Jazero Crater, the probe's SuperCam has now recorded evidence of a phenomenon familiar on planet Earth: lightning. — Read the rest The post Lightning...
dimanche 30 novembre 2025, 23:30
Looking for speakers that fit perfectly in Ikea's Kallax cube shelving¹, I was surprised to find only a single good fit on offer: the Tangent Spectrum Square. It's exactly what I'm looking for, though there's two problems: they're €249 each, and they're not available in...
An Iowa man accused of flashing drivers on the interstate highway told authorities he 'needed some excitement in his life,' report local media. Danan Ary, 30, was charged with indecent exposure. Drivers saw Ary in his vehicle, exposing his genitals to oncoming drivers,...
Let them bake cake: on Tuesday, a 17-year-old boy dumped flour on Jordan Bardella, the leader of France's far-right National Rally. On Saturday, a 74-year-old man dropped an egg on his head. The boy must attend a citizenship course, according to CTV News, and the senior was...
After a hard day downt pit, gaming, I like nowt better than to slip into the massive Mirai Human Washing Machine. Only paid ¥60 million for it and knew I had to have it the moment I visited the Experience Corner at Yamada's flagship store in Ikebukuro. — Read the rest The p...
Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition government has seen Israel subjected to a horrific terrorist attack, retaliatory genocide in Gaza, recognition by key Western powers of a Palestinian state, and the total collapse of its international standing. A rarely-mentioned...
Inexpensive 'balcony' solar power panels, which plug into a standard wall socket and provide up to a kilowatt of power, have become popular in Europe and elsewhere—but not in the U.S., where business-friendly regulations prohibit attaching such devices to the power grid. —...
Double denim? Rookie numbers. On a good day, I can muster septuple denim: jeans, jacket, cap, boots, scarf, gloves and bag. But soon I shall have the unimaginable power of octuple denim at my disposal, thanks to Xiaomi's Poco F8 Ultra Denim smartphone. — Read the rest The po...
A fine example of whiplash in the news this morning: first, a negative-toned segment lamenting the increased prices of everything due to high tariffs. Then, a positive-toned segment exalting Black Friday spending being up 10 percent. The two segments exist in different...
samedi 29 novembre 2025, 21:00
I lose SD cards like socks, but it never struck me that wallet-sized SD card holders might exist, or that they might be cheap enough to buy on impulse. And at $6, the Oda Slim Card Holder is that. It holds two SD cards and two Micro SD cards. — Read the rest The post SD...
Sir Tom Stoppard, the acclaimed playwright who authored Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun and many other movies, is dead at 88. Born Tomáš Sträussler in Czechoslovakia before his family fled the Nazis and...
PC bits company Silverstone revived the beige plastic PC case in 2024 and is continuing this campaign with these handsome tower cases, out early next year. There's lots of hard-to-dust slit vents to trace gently with one's fingertips; oh my God, one of the models even a key. ...
vendredi 28 novembre 2025, 23:58
Christie's expects the Winter egg, one of just seven of Peter Carl Fabergé's creations still in private hands, to sell for more than £20 million when it lands on the auction block Tuesday. The 10cm-tall egg is made from finely carved rock crystal, covered in a delicate...
My first computer suffered an economy found in early 8-bit machines with limited video memory: if you wanted lots of colors, you got less pixels, and a rational way to do that with the hardware back then was to make pixels twice as wide. — Read the rest The post Tiny pixel...
I love solid-state drives (SSDs). For a guy who travels a lot, having one in my laptop instead of a spinning hard drive is such a relief. Outside of fireworks and unattended bags, nothing stresses me out faster than lifting a laptop that's slightly off level and hearing its...
Reponding to reports of a small dog tied to a post and abandoned on the roadside in Matlock, England, an officer from Derbyshire Police was surprised to instead find a toy there. This led to the issuance of the only good kind of police press release, the ones full of puns...
Another holiday, another chance to inflict Male Chef on those around me (including you, dear reader!). Never mind all those AI Thanksgiving dinners; this kind of wretchedness could only be crafted by human hands. The now-defunct 'Male Chef' blog was a long-running satirical...
Adolf Hitler Uunona, a local councilor in Namibia tired of reading annoying stories like this one, has filed to change his name to Adolf Uunona. The Namibian's Hileni Nembwaya reports that Uunona, a well-respected politician, no longer wants to be known by a name that does...
Netflix really wants to be a one-stop shop for all things entertainment. Three years after launching a mobile game division, the streamer has released a pack of word puzzles. Ever since the New York Times bought the beloved word game Wordle and added it to its collection of ...
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