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Devumi is a sleazy Twitter-bot farm founded by German Calas, a serial liar who buys wholesale Twitter bots from even scummier bottom-feeders than him, and pays a series of low-waged patsies to direct them to follow people who want to seem more popular and influential than their actual Twitter follower-count suggests. (more…)

No matter where you fall on the Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux debate, one thing remains true: you shouldn't be forced to limit yourself to just one operating system. Of course, there are workarounds, like running a virtual machine, but they're not always intuitive and can inhibit your programs' performance.CrossOver 17 allows you to launch Windows apps natively on your Mac or Linux computer without buying a Windows license, rebooting, or using a virtual machine, and it's on sale for $19.From productivity software to games, CrossOver 17 lets you operate Windows software at native speed and without any performance limitations. You can install Windows programs with a single click, and you don't need to use Windows virus protection to access them. Plus, CrossOver 17 integrates seamlessly with your desktop environment, so you can get your new software up and running faster.CrossOver 17 is available in Mac and Linux variants and typically retails for $39.95 each. But, today you can get it on sale for $19, saving more than half off the usual price.

r/forbiddensnacks is my new favorite subreddit. It features consumer products that look just like candy or other delicious treats, but are in fact inedible or outright poisonous items such as pebbles, toilet cleaner or rat poison (pictured, by u/snarfgarfunkel)

For decades, Democrats in power and in opposition have traded away labor laws and rules that protected unions in order to gain short-term advantages in political horse-trades, and now, with union membership down from 26 to 10.7% since the Reagan years, districts that formed Democrats' "blue wall" have been poverty-struck and have flipped for Trump. (more…)

Trump went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and told the audience that the press is "nasty," "vicious," "mean," and "fake." His comment was received with a chorus of boos, which Sarah Huckabee Sanders will later describe as "enthusiastic applause."Catch his speech here:https://youtu.be/UT7GlaDc060Image: Youtube/NBC News

In the cosmology of bureacratic evil, United Airlines is the prince of Hell.Minutes before departure, already buckled into her seat, she was ordered to leave the plane. The gate agent told her that her reservation had been canceled. Traveler Help Desk, the online agency that sold the ticket, had rescinded it because the landlord made a change directly through United — even though United had assured the landlord that it was not a problem to do so.Unable to fly, Ms. Amrich drove through the night, not stopping even to use the bathroom. Her sister, in the hospital room, held a phone to their mother’s ear, and Ms. Amrich begged her to hold on.She was still driving when her cellphone rang again. Her mother was dead.I can just see the agent's smile when they told her that “nobody flies for free.” When she complained, United called her landord, to get her address, to send her flowers.Previously:• Watch bizarre video: United Airlines employee pushes 71-year-old to floor, leaves him motionless• Fecal rampage grounds international United flight• TSA says it doesn't know why United thought comics were banned from checked Comic-Con luggage

With the heaviest snowfall in Davos, Switzerland since the year 2000, this Swiss woman decides to have some fun. "Holy shit," someone says as she stands on the ledge of a fourth floor window. "Shit that's high." Someone else - sounds like her son – asks her to go head first, but to that she says "No." And then she does it with a Swiss "Yahoo!" landing safely in the white fluff.

Enjoy watching this swimming pool oscillate and overflow thanks to the high winds buffeting the high-rise building it is installed in. Good job they put a towel on the floor!

My dear friend Jenny Slater was in Nashville Wednesday. She dined with her new work team at SILO, an upscale eatery in the Germantown neighborhood.That's where they spotted an unusual offering on the dessert menu. They saw that, for an additional $20, they could "buy the cooks a round of beer." She wrote me, "I am lucky enough to eat in a lot of different restaurants, and this was a new one for me! (And yes, the food was amazing, and yes, we kicked in the $20!)"I had to know if the restaurant acknowledged it in some way. I mean, adding an extra $20 to your bill is not exactly chump change.We were chatting in real time, so at first she said there was "no acknowledgement yet, but they're busy." Then, a few minutes later, she exclaimed, "They cheered loudly!" and then "We're seated at a big table near the open kitchen, so it was a nice little celebratory moment!"I did a little digging around and apparently this is a thing. A 2011 article in Kansas City's alt-newspaper The Pitch describes the practice:Matt Hyde, the manager and co-owner of 715, says his business partner, executive chef Michael Beard, got the idea to add the option of tipping the kitchen crew with beer from the Publican in Chicago -- one of the several restaurants around the country featured in yesterday's Inc.com article by Clarissa Cruz on this very subject.There are some rules to the practice at 715, Hyde says: "The kitchen crew isn't allowed to drink while they're working, of course," he says, "and we have a policy that they can only have two beers after their shift in the restaurant. This way, the after-work beers accumulate."Hyde says as many as 10 customers a night will buy six-packs of Miller High Life (it's the only canned beer sold at 715) for the kitchen: "It prints up on the ticket that the servers turn in, so the cooks know right away when a customer has bought beer for them. It's a real morale booster and helps build a sense of community among staff and patrons. Sometimes the kitchen crew will come out and thank the customers."Cool, I'm glad this is still a practice, some seven years later.photo by Jenny Slater

Revolve has released a promotional video for its prototype collapsible airless tires. Originally designed for bicycles, the same tire can also be used on a wheelchair. (more…)

Web development is unquestionably one of the most in-demand and lucrative fields in tech at the moment, but for those not currently boasting a computer science degree, the thought of breaking into this line of work seems like a pipe dream. We're here to tell you that such is not the case, and creating professional websites is much easier than you think — provided you have the right training.Pick up the Complete Web Developer Course 2.0, and you'll get your coding skills online as you create 25 websites and mobile apps with one of the web's most popular instructors, Rob Percival — all for $19.Across 30 hours of content, you'll learn the fundamentals of HTML5, CSS3, and Python. You'll get an inside look at developing blogs and e-commerce sites with Wordpress, and you'll learn how to build responsive websites with jQuery, PHP 7, MySQL 5, and Twitter Bootstrap. With a handful of hands-on projects, including creating a Twitter clone, this collection offers a host of ways to put your knowledge into action and prepare you for a career in web development down the road.Catalyze your education with the Complete Web Developer Course 2.0, on sale for $19.

Trump ordered that special investigator Robert Mueller be fired, but backed off when the White House's legal counsel threatened to resign.The West Wing confrontation marks the first time Mr. Trump is known to have tried to fire the special counsel. Mr. Mueller learned about the episode in recent months as his investigators interviewed current and former senior White House officials in his inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice.Amid the first wave of news media reports that Mr. Mueller was examining a possible obstruction case, the president began to argue that Mr. Mueller had three conflicts of interest that disqualified him from overseeing the investigation, two of the people said.The man who mastered Trump here is Donald F. McGahn II. There seems to be a knack for manipulating Trump, through sycophancy or triggering his fear of looking stupid. Some people just never get close -- GOP politicians -- but military men and rock guitarists instinctively have his number.

Oxfam's released its annual report on inequality, timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum, and unlike previous reports (which focused on attractive but misleading stats about the relative wealth of poor and rich people), the new one focuses on the growth in the fortunes of the world's richest people, a stat that is a much more reliable indicator of growing inequality. (more…)

If you're lucky enough to be friends with a cop, they may give you one of their get out of jail cards, which you can flash to other cops along with a request for favorable treatment. (more…)

At the end of S. E. Hinton's classic 1967 novel The Outsiders, both Johnny and Dally die tragically. But what do their deaths mean? Is it a narrative device that pushes on the novel's themes of class conflict, the meaning of family, and the transition to adulthood? Nope, tweets S.E. Hinton in response to a reader's query. The reason for their deaths is much simpler than all that:(A/V Club)

Late last year, a redditor called Deepfakes gained notoriety for the extremely convincing face-swap porn videos he was making, in which the faces of mainstream Hollywood actors and rockstars were convincingly overlaid on the bodies of performers in pornography. (more…)

2018 marked the 75th year for the Golden Globes, and people are still talking about it, mainly due to the rousing speech Oprah gave during her acceptance of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. But that wasn't the only memorable moment.In particular, James Franco gave the industry a shock when he beat out big names, like Steve Carrell, Hugh Jackman, and Ansel Elgort, for his role as Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist, taking home the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.For the uninitiated, The Disaster Artist is based on a book of the same name that follows the making of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 film The Room, which is often considered one of the worst movies ever made. For many today, The Disaster Artist was their first introduction to Wiseau's cult classic, but it's long served as a clear example of how not to write a movie. That said, we'd like to propose a question:Would The Room have been better if it was written with Final Draft 10? While we’re not here to criticize Tommy Wiseau’s creative genius, sometimes a good movie can be decided by the very software you use to write it. And, had more attention been paid to story-mapping and collaboration, The Room may not have needed James Franco’s involvement to reach mainstream audiences.This takes us to Final Draft 10, which is the world’s number one screenwriting tool. Utilized by studios like Disney and Warner Brothers, this program has helped draft countless successful, big-name screenplays. And, with licenses on sale for half off their usual price, we thought now would be a good time to highlight three reasons why you should be using it to draft your next motion picture. Take a look at its features and decide for yourself if this Hollywood-approved tool could have changed The Room's fate.1. Story MappingA story without a roadmap is a like a roller coaster without brakes: It’s a chaotic and scary mess that’s sure to end in disaster. Final Draft 10 boasts two new features that allow you to plan your stories and make sure your ideas line up from start to finish. First, Story Map™ lets you outline acts, scenes, and sequences more efficiently.With Story Map™, you can keep track of your narrative arc by marking Structure Points, which allow you to plan and track tentpole moments of your screenplay. Combine this with Beat Board™, and you have a reliable way of keeping your plot and character arcs coordinated. Say you need to deduce where a character is emotionally in your piece, just add a beat at a pivotal moment, and you have a clear indicator of his or her development.2. Template SelectionIn case you weren't already aware, drafting content is a long and often tedious process, so it pays to shave off as much time as you can during the writing process. Final Draft 10 helps you do this by providing you with more than 100 templates for screenplays, teleplays, and stage plays.Each template includes industry standard title pages, which are streamlined and simple to modify, save, and print. When combined with Final Draft 10's other quality-of-life improvements, like automatic Hollywood-standard pagination and backups, you can grind through your next piece at a much faster rate.3. CollaborationAs the old saying goes, "Two heads are better than one," and this rings true when it comes to drafting a screenplay. Whether you're looking for ideas on how to improve a particular scene or just have someone peer-review your work, Final Draft 10 affords you the ability to do so from anywhere.With Final Draft 10, you can work on your script remotely and in real time with your writing partners, allowing you to share ideas and talk business without having to hassle with phone calls or meeting in person. That way, you can focus more on producing quality content in the environment that's right for you — even if that just means wearing pajamas in the comfort of your own home.In case you're curious about what else makes Final Draft 10 the top choice for studios, here are some more handy features:Global Name Changing: Sweet Christmas, how miserable a time it is when you need to edit a character's name late in the game. Final Draft 10 lets you edit a character’s name in script elements like dialogue and action and keep the appropriate casing without using "find and replace."Dictionary and Spell-checking: Part of what made The Room such a beautiful disaster was its questionable use of the English language. Thankfully, you can keep your film from going down the same path with Final Draft 10's included dictionary and spell-checking tools. Dictionaries are available for 12 languages and even offer country-specific spell-checks.Alternate Dialogue: Writing natural, convincing dialogue is tricky, and often you'll find yourself drafting multiple lines for the same scene. Final Draft 10 lets you store alternate lines of dialogue within the script itself. That way, you don't have to flip between pages or navigate through cluttered lines to see which options are available for a given scene.Revision Improvements: Finishing a script is but one part of the movie-making process. When it comes to bringing your story from page to screen, you still need to revise your script. Final Draft 10's revision mode allows you to track and review the changes you make at every step. Plus, you can set your revision colors to keep things coordinated and merge pages even when your script is locked.Watermarking: If you're going to spend hundreds of hours working on a screenplay, you'd best make sure you protect it, too. That's why watermarking your work is a must, and with Final Draft 10, you can secure your script by identifying each recipient with a custom watermark.2003 happened, and The Room will remain a cult-classic and clear indicator of how drastically the screenwriting process can spiral out of control. However, it's a new year, and you can start yours off right by taking the appropriate measures to ensure your screenplay is organized, streamlined, and polished to near perfection. Final Draft 10 usually retails for $249.99, but you can get it on sale today for $124.99, saving half off the usual price. Plus, take an additional 15% off with FD15 at checkout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7ppGFXUksBernie Sanders decided that the media would never give a fair shake to his bill proposing universal healthcare in America, so he sidestepped them by livestreaming a "Medicare for All town hall" where experts discussed the proposal, prompted by Sanders as a kind of talk-show host. (more…)

Los Angeles-based artist Veronica Moonhill thought it was crazy that she and her girlfriends were celebrating dicks at her bachelorette party.She writes:There we were, a bunch of fabulous women speaking our truths and drinking wine, when I looked up and realized we were surrounded by dicks: penis straws, penis lollipops, pin the junk on the hunk and of course penis confetti. I thought, "Why are a bunch of powerful ladies sitting around celebrating dicks? That’s insane! It's time we started celebrating VAGINA's!"I Googled it and was astonished. There was pretty much no vagina confetti, or vagina paraphernalia of any kind. So that night, surrounded by plastic penises and my favorite women, the idea for Clitter was born.She describes her shiny little breasts, vulvas, and ovaries as "pussy powered confetti." Clitter is available on Kickstarter (where it's already gone well past its goal). (RED)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yf_VINmbTE Robin Baumgarten's Line Wobbler is an incredibly clever dungeon crawler game based on a single, one-dimensional line of lights, traditionally implemented as large-scale, high-priced public art installations. (more…)

I have not found a set of IEMs that can not be improved with Comply Foam tips.While I've been trying a bunch of bluetooth amps out, the biggest single improvement I got with my aged set of Westone 3's was simply by changing from some rubber tips to these Comply Foam ones.Comply Foam fit my ears better and more comfortably than any other earbud tips. The Tx model also blocks wax from blocking up the sound channel. I'm a fan!Make sure to get the right model for your headphones and size for your ears!Comply Isolation Plus Noise Cancelling Memory Foam Earphone Tips Tx-100 (Medium, 3 Pairs) via Amazon

Not long after Donald Trump fired FBI chief James Comey in May, 2017, he summoned the bureau’s acting director Andrew McCabe to the Oval Office for “a get-to-know-you meeting.’ (more…)

Yeah, 'Monster' sounds about right. Five women are suing beverage maker Monster Energy over a workplace culture where discrimination and sexually abusive behavior by male executives proliferated with impunity. (more…)

Ursula K. Le Guin died today at 88. The author of the Earthsea novels, The Left Hand of Darkness and many others, she was and remains among the brightest stars in the sky of fantasy literature.Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88. Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause but said she had been in poor health for several months.Ms. Le Guin embraced the standard themes of her chosen genres: sorcery and dragons, spaceships and planetary conflict. But even when her protagonists are male, they avoid the macho posturing of so many science fiction and fantasy heroes. The conflicts they face are typically rooted in a clash of cultures and resolved more by conciliation and self-sacrifice than by swordplay or space battles.Photo: Oregon State University / Marian Wood Kolich (CC)

Use promo code 84AE5BMG and get this repair toolkit for $7. I bought one in August and it's come in handy many times since then.

Enjoy this fantastic, titular, trippy video from one half of HONEYHONEY, Bejamin Jaffe's new solo album Dominator.Baeble blog had this to say:At this point, it's no secret that we are absolutely obsessed with anything HONEYHONEY-related. It all started back in 2012 when we filmed a concert with the duo in Austin, TX. Then just last month, we welcomed one half of HONEYHONEY, Suzanne Santo, to our studio for a powerful session filled with lots of laughter. Naturally, now it's time to let the other half of the duo, Benjamin Jaffe, shine.It's safe to say we were pretty excited to receive "Dominator," the video for the lead single off of Jaffe's upcoming solo debut Oh, Wild Ocean of Love (out March 30th on Diamond Family Records). In the minimalistic visual, we see Jaffe sing against a white backdrop as graphics of drum kits flash, synchronized with the glitchy beat. Jaffe's vocal is smooth as butter and serves up spine-tingling harmonies reminiscent of Father John Misty. This gorgeous arrangement just goes to show that, while we will forever love HONEYHONEY, Jaffe stepping into the spotlight and showing off his musical chops might just be a really great move.Jaffe sent Baeble this quirky statement on the video: "We made this video with a little budget and a big dream of me eating the shrunken heads of politicians. Without (co-director) Sage Atwood, it never would have happened. See, without friends, dreams are just silly little stories to wile away the time. I hope you like the video, I know it likes you."(Thanks, Jim Turner!)

In Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination (published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, Sci-Hub mirror), a group of cross-institutional US climate scientists model what would happen if human embarked upon a solar geoengineering project to mitigate the greenhouse effect by aerosolizing reflective particles into the atmosphere, then gave up on the project after a mere half-century. (more…)

Taylor Weyeneth is America's number two official in charge of drug policy. He's a 24-year-old former Trump campaign volunteer whose resume is singularly unimpressive: apart from being a frat brother in good standing at St John's University and organizing a single charity golf tournament, the only real jobs he's ever held were working in his daddy's chia seed factory (which closed when his dad went to jail for illegally processing Mexican steroids) and working as a legal assistant at the New York white shoe law firm of O’Dwyer & Bernstien. (more…)

Dumb funny! (via Kottke)

Benjamin Mako Hill (previously) collaborated with colleagues involved in critical technology studies to write a textbook chapter analyzing the use of computational methods in social science and providing advice for social scientists who want to delve into data-based social science. (more…)

Technological limitations in the design of the Bitcoin system means that the network only processes about seven transactions per second, unless you pay someone with a lot of compute-power to log your transaction, currently at the rate of about $20/transaction. (more…)

In Seedship (previously), you play a colony ship's AI, piloting a thousand hibernating colonists through unimaginably vast stretches of space, scanning candidate planets and deciding whether or not to found a colony there. (more…)

Spend a delightful half hour watching master engraver Shaun Hughes turn an ordinary penny into an extraordinary artwork of skulls and scrolls. (more…)

A Satanic Temple's "Mary Doe" says her religious beliefs were violated by Missouri's informed consent law that required her to wait 72 hours before having an abortion in May 2015. (more…)

This wireless scale works with Apple HealthKit and costs $25 when you use the coupon on the Amazon page and apply promo code D7DQA4SJ. It measures body fat, too, but I don't think any scale is very good at measuring body fat.

The Royal Ocean Film Society looks at the work of pioneering animator Richard Williams, whose work on Pink Panther and Roger Rabbit bucked animation trends and pushed for a more exaggerated style of movement. (more…)

In a recent presentation at the Real World Crypto symposium, researchers affiliated with Brown University and a startup called Pixek presented their work developing an app that encrypts photos at the moment they're taken and uploads them in encrypted form to a cloud server, in such a way that the keys remain on the user's device, meaning the service provider can't view the photos. (more…)

Jon Yablonski has created a site that crisply illustrates the "Laws of UX" -- some well-known precepts of how people interact with on-screen information. One of my favorite laws, which you see in action all the time in the real world, is the "Serial Position Effect". As Yablonski describes it ...The serial position effect, a term coined by Herman Ebbinghaus, describes how the position of an item in a sequence affects recall accuracy. The two concepts involved, the primacy effect and the recency effect, explains how items presented at the beginning of a sequence and the end of a sequence are recalled with greater accuracy than items in the middle of a list. Manipulation of the serial position effect to create better user experiences is reflected in many popular designs by successful companies like Apple, Electronic Arts, and Nike.(Via Sarah Drasner)

A Quinnipiac poll of 1,212 voters taken last week found that Bernie Sanders was far and away the most viable Democratic candidate (76% approval), beating Oprah (69%) and Gillibrand (25%) -- and that moreover, his approval ratings were highest among women and people of color, putting a lie to the stereotype of "Bernie Bros" as young, middle-class white male political radicals who are oblivious to the more moderate preferences of others. (more…)

Buzzfeed has curated a list of old words that we should revive, because man, they seem to really fit modern life.Like "fudgel" -- "pretending to work while actually doing nothing at all." Or "ultracrepidarian": "Someone who gives opinions beyond their level of expertise".They're all taken from The Horologicon, a wonderful book by the writer and word-lover Mark Forsyth. My favorite is "uhtceare", which means "lying awake in bed before dawn and worrying about the day ahead". Forsyth's passage in The Horologicon about "uhtceare" is informative:Uht (pronounced oot) is the restless hour before the dawn, when Aurora herself is loitering somewhere below the eastern horizon, rosying up her fingers and getting ready for the day. But for now, it is dark. And in the antelucan hush you should be happily slumbering and dreaming of pretty things.If you are not, if you are lying there with your eyes wide open glaring at the ceiling, you are probably suffering from a severe case of uhtceare. There's an old saying that the darkest hour comes just before the dawn. However, that's utter tosh. If you get out of bed and peek through the window, you will see a pale glow in the east. But don't, whatever you do, actually get out of bed. It's probably chilly and you'll never get your posture in bed (technically called your decubitus) quite right again. You'll just have to lie there and try not think about how horrid it all is. Ceare (pronounced key-are-a) was the Old English word for care and sorrow, emotions that have an annoying habit of striking during the uht. For some reason these early hours are the time when you remember all your sins and unpaid bills and, perhaps, the indelicate thing you did last night, and as each of these creeps into your mind your uhtceare grows more and more severe. For an affliction so common, uhtceare is a very rare word. It is recorded only once, in a poem called The Wife's Lament, which, surprisingly, isn't about how awful and messy her husband is, but about how he has been exiled to a far country and left her here with her uhtceare and her vicious in-laws. Old English poetry is almost universally miserable, and Old English poets should really have bucked up a bit, but they did give us uhtceare and for that we should be grateful.

A dolphin ate an octopus, but the octopus got its revenge -- it attacked the dolphin's internal organs, killing it in turn.From National Geographic:Stephens says that the 4.6-pound cephalopod appeared to have grabbed onto Gilligan's larynx with a tentacle, preventing it from reconnecting to the dolphin's breathing apparatus and effectively suffocating him to death."That octopus might have been, in theory, dead, but the sucker was still functional," Stephens says, adding that while nobody wins in a situation like this, "the octopus gets a bit of a last hurrah."There's a study in Marine Mammal Science detailing the entire grisly affair.For the fifteen years I've been blogging, I have really had only one consistent message: Do not mess with octopuses, people. They will cut you. They will cut you while they are inside you.(Image from Marine Mammal Science)

Previously: Arf.mp4Ergo...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UpeLPBKi1IMoreover, it is postulated that...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVk5m3lospk

Between 1988 and 1990, Tacoma musician John Purkey says Kurt Cobain gave him demo tapes. Now, he's shared those early Nirvana cassettes on YouTube.Spin reports:One tape includes Bleach demos recorded during the band’s first ever session in 1988 at Reciprocal Studios in Seattle, with Melvins drummer Dale Crover on the drums. Another features Nevermind demos recorded with Crover’s short-lived replacement Chad Channing, who left the band during the making of the project and was replaced by Dave Grohl.The audio is raw, and many of the demos have seen the light of day via the numerous Nirvana compilations released after Cobain’s death, but the collection and backstory is interesting. Purkey played in several Tacoma bands during Nirvana’s early years and watched the band develop from scratch. He kept the cassettes in a metal box, hidden inside a second metal box, for years, he says in an accompanying video. https://youtu.be/yeNoZw0T1KQhttps://youtu.be/a72afxjLEYQhttps://youtu.be/PZG22Oy1anIhttps://youtu.be/5b5BaDWQl0c(Dazed)

Somehow I missed the successful kickstarter for a tiny bluetooth vinyl needle-in-a-box that powers 'round and 'round in circles along the grooves of a stationary record, obviating the need for an actual turntable. Now I've seen the Rokblok in action, I have to have one. Here's another video:https://youtu.be/LPIJVdQkb1Q?t=3m30sThis popular device is normally $90, but sold out at the official website. Amazon has them for $200.

Ever thought of whipping out two thick fleshy dildos and banging out a drum cover of Metallica's hit "Enter Sandman"? Well, don't kill the messenger but, YouTuber 66Samus has beat you to it. Watch him rock out with his, er, cocks out in this rousing video he shared Tuesday Commenter Gear Gods quips, "Now we know what it was that entered the sandman."Ba-dum tss...(Dangerous Minds)

Even by the standards of "storm-buffeted planes landing without incident", this is astounding: a small jet turboprop all but spinning in circles as it comes in, only to plop perfectly onto its wheels at the last moment. According to the video, there were 110 km/h (68 mph) crosswinds. (more…)

Master woodworker Matthias Wandel made this demonstration safe lock. He sells the plans for $7 here.

When Rep Tim Murphy resigned in shame after he was outed for pressuring his mistress to get an abortion while serving on the "House Pro-Life Caucus," it triggered a special election in Pennsylvania's 18th, a rustbelt district in the southwest corner of the state, where a strong Democrat candidate named Conor Lamb is polling high against his Republican opponent, torture advocate Rick Saccone, who served as an Army intelligence support consultant at Abu Ghraib prison after its torture scandal. (more…)

Donald Trump, President of the United States, is apparently rewriting the laws of human biology and procreation now. Yep, he really said this. (more…)

https://youtu.be/SdqKEHqt94gPianist Scott Bradlee gives the old ragtime treatment to Super Mario Bros. It's as if the music was always meant to be played that way.Here's the obligatory death metal version from the Bowser Castle music:https://youtu.be/NBgMk4X9MzA