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mercredi 31 décembre 2025, 05:39
An elementary school in Akwesasne, a Mohawk nation territory straddling Canada and the U.S., finds itself having to explain to enraged local parents why it has a large wooden crate in it called the 'time out box.' CBC News reports that 'several staff' are on leave and an...
Handsomely wrapped if oddly regular in form, the heap of Christmas presents in Jacob Talamantes' car marked him as a generous giver this holiday season. Unfortunately for the would-be Santa in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a police dog at the shopping center on Bluegrass Parkway...
mardi 30 décembre 2025, 23:00
TL;DR: Get the productivity powerhouse Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows with a free suite of training courses for just $34.97, or 85% off the $239.99 regular price. Do you have an older Windows machine that needs a new shot at life? — Read the rest The post...
A simple idea, handsomely done: Epilogue's SN Operator, a USB dock that accepts Super Nintendo carts. It comes with an emulator app (though you can use all the popular ones) and is compatible with Windows, MacOS and Linux. From the website: Play iconic SNES® titles with...
After 5 seasons and about 50 hours of television, Stranger Things ends this week. Netflix dropped the trailer for the finale: 'I need you to fight, one last time.' As Vecna prepares to destroy the world as we know it, the party must put everything on the line to defeat...
It turns out that sloths do fart after all. Zoologist and founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, Lucy Cooke, once gave a delightful TED talk about sloths. She defended the notably unhurried creatures against the disparaging words of a Spanish conquistador who said...
I have the saddest news to share. One of my favorite internet animals, Cindy the Baboon, died over the weekend. She was 31 years old, and lived a wonderful life filled with lots of love from her human and animal family. — Read the rest The post Cindy the Baboon dies at age...
How often do you hear the name Atari in the news nowadays? For many, the last noteworthy thing the historic* gaming company did was bury close to a million unsold games in the harsh New Mexico desert, which feels about as close to a death rattle as a corporation can get. —...
Everyone has that one friend who spends more time in tanning salons than they do sucking the marrow out of their work week lunch hours. Their skin's about the same color as the leather seats in a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba. — Read the rest The post Tanning beds are worse for you...
The Orange Menace declared that he may have invented the word 'caravan,' a claim so historically illiterate it threatens the entire concept of language as a shared human project rather than a Trump-branded intellectual property soon to be bankrupt. At a recent event,...
When you turn a memorial into a gross monument, don't be surprised when artists walk away. What was once America's premier cultural shrine, the Kennedy Center, has become ground zero for an arts rebellion after its trustees voted to slap Trump's name onto the building. —...
Star Wars Outlaws had a rough start, but for 20 bucks, it's a no-brainer. When Outlaws was released in 2024, it arrived with a lot of hype, but reactions were, to put it mildly, mixed. It was met with complaints about crashing, frustration with stealth, (justifiable) hatred...
Never ones to miss an opportunity for an excessive demonstration of force, the LAPD destroyed a business and failed to get their man. Los Angeles Police blew up an innocent man's business during a standoff he had nothing to do with, and when he asked to be compensated for...
I took a risk and ate some raw oysters the week before Christmas, when I was visiting New Orleans. I was lucky enough to dodge any foodborne pathogens that sometimes accompany the delicious mollusk snack, but, sadly, others haven't been so fortunate. — Read the rest The...
Sprawling massively-multiplayer space RPG Star Citizen is either the most lucrative scam in gaming or a project with infinite potential, according to who you ask. What it isn't, though, is anywhere near finished. Developer Roberts Space Industries has supposedly been working ...
I knew Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac, for years. I interviewed him multiple times for Irish Music Magazine. We shared the stage with The Chieftains on opening night of inaugural Celtic Colours Festival in the late 1990s. I sat in with him at my friend Joanne's tea...
A man moved near the wilderness and is furious that the wilderness wants his house. An Altadena homeowner is reportedly considering legal action over a bear that refuses to leave their property. That sentence contains every clue you need about how this is going to go. — Read...
In true Silicon Valley fashion, when asked to stop being disruptive, Waymo chose litigation. The City of Santa Monica did not suddenly decide it hates technology. It told Waymo to stop running loudly disruptive, brightly lit overnight charging operations at two Broadway...
TL;DR: This Sam's Club membership is 50% off at $25 while supplies last — one purchase gets you two cards for two shoppers! Who says you have to pay a fortune for just one bottle of hot sauce when you could take home a whole gallon for nearly the same price? — Read the rest...
Cecilia Giménez, who so amazingly botched a restoration of a fresco depicting Jesus Christ that it and she became internationally famous, is dead at 94. The parishioner from Borja, Spain, set out to restore the faded and peeling icon 13 years ago, having gotten permission...
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