Last year, Full House actress Lori Loughlin got caught (along with several others) trying to scam her kids' way into college. In August, she was sentenced to two months in prison, two years of supervised release, 100 hours of community service, and a $150,000, because no one's ever actually punished when they're rich. Also in…Read More

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With everything going on in the world right now, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of it all. With some many forces threatening to cast a shadow over you, your family and your day-to-day life, sometimes it pays to just take a short step back from it. Rather than letting world events…Read More

It is possible, thanks to the magic of modding, to play Minecraft as any of the creatures in its world. Can you beat the game while playing as a fish? You can beat Minecraft as a fish. I'm gonna change into a fish right now. Also just real quick guys, I know a lot of…Read More

A bodyguard protecting Dominic Raab, Britain's foreign secretary, left his gun on a plane after landing at Heathrow airport this week, reports The Sun. It's the second such event of late, after the bodyguard of former Prime Minister David Cameron left his gun in an airplane toilet during a flight. The loaded, semi-automatic Glock 19…Read More

This footage (relaxing, but unnecessarily sped up) shows Takumi drawing what the title describes as the "hardest" kanji—Japanese logographic character—in the world. I don't know what it means (and there is some suggestion among commenters that it is a literary contrivance, like Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft or floccinaucinihilipilification) but it sure is pretty.Read More

It's a toss-up over which harmful airborne pathogen is most disruptive for every American living on the west coast these days. As horrible as coronavirus has been, experts would probably say the recent wildfires have been what's truly been borderline apocalyptic from an air quality standpoint. In fact, global air quality trackers with IQAir said…Read More

The website Autowise recently asked fans on Twitter to name their top American dream car. And as it turns out, the U.S. has more ecologically minded car owners than you might think. In fact, drivers in 20 states said the dream car they salivated over the most…was a Tesla. As that survey shows, the luxury…Read More

With most of the world more conscious than ever about their carbon footprint and the sustainability of the actions they take, it begs an important question — can air travel ever be green? Unfortunately, giant planes provide a giant amount of carbon emissions. In fact, one flight from New York City to Amsterdam produces emissions…Read More

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of "complications of metastatic pancreas cancer," the Supreme Court announced Friday. She was 87. Ginsberg's dying message: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." "Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.…Read More

Be honest. How many plastic lids are stashed away in your kitchen? No, seriously…how many? Go ahead and check that black hole of a cupboard down there and find out. We'll wait… Was the number up over 20? Over 30? More? Now the second question is…could you even guess at which containers actually fit half…Read More

In this video [via Storyful], an armed Federal security guard raises a gun in a firing position toward a group of protesters on September 16, in the lobby of a federal building in lower Manhattan. An FBI office and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office are located inside the building. Jarrett…Read More

The Justice Department announced charges against three Iranian nationals over the hacking of aerospace and satellite tech firms. Here's the news release from the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia, published early Thursday: Iranian Hackers Indicted for Stealing Data from Aerospace and Satellite Tracking Companies ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An indictment was […]

Every time a White House official speaks about the pandemic we need a graphic just like this. Raw Story:

"I was flying my drone in my backyard, when I noticed a large bird in a nearby tree watching intently," says the drone pilot who posted this video. "I flew over to find the bird with the drone to get a closer look, and the bird took off and knocked it out of the sky."

I'm fond of 40% keyboards—the Vortex 40 is a great place to start if you're curious (and also you can buy it right now, rather than waiting three years for a group buy to drop). But what if you hate minimalism? What if you're a maximalist? Behold Ren Rose's astonishing 433% keyboard, made for people […]

I got my first PC in 1996, and the games to get were Civilization 2 and Quake. Quake had the better soundtrack. NINE INCH NAILS' SOUNDTRACK TO THE LEGENDARY FIRST PERSON SHOOTER FROM ID SOFTWARE. AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON VINYL. REMASTERED 2XLP PRESSED ON 180GRAM VINYL. At $35, it's a great collector […]

It's a few years old and I no longer have a computer with a CD tray, but I enjoyed this guide to removing ham from optical drives all the same. I might have to head up to the attic to find my old machine, as a large cotto salami is in its Blu-Ray player and […]

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph writes that BP's move to green energy marks the end of Big Oil: With a single stroke of the pen, BP has written the obituary of the global petroleum industry. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company that once fuelled the British Empire and long defined Big Oil has confirmed what the technology […]

The New York Subway isn't like this anymore, but the sheer decrepitude and negligence of it in the 80s is always amazing to behold. This video shows a ride to Coney Island in 1987. Londoners like me will sometimes get a bit snooty about this sort of thing, but the London Underground was about as […]

A striking review of Fury Road (2015) by comedian and author George Carlin (d. 2008). It's 2 minutes and 41 seconds long, a breath short of the ideal pop song. Definitely one for the guys who think that when he talked of political correctness, he meant what they meant by it. Where do you think […]

My friend James Sligh is a brilliant sommelier (and writer) with an uncanny ability to talk about wine and figure out exactly what you want to drink. I don't even care for wine (I like malted barley more than grapes), and I've always been impressed at his ability to find precisely the right drink for […]

In Phoenix on Sunday, the National Weather Service's radar captured what first appears to be rain clouds blooming over the Valley of the Sun. Turns out, it was likely a large colony of Mexican free-tailed bats on the move. From WSMV: "That doesn't look like a normal shower, the way everything is sort of fanning […]

After nearly a century in business, Cleveland's beloved Old Fashion Hot Dogs, closed since March, will not reopen. The owner of a nearby business says that the "family was ready to retire" but someone apparently thinks more nefarious forces are at work: Millennials! The above sign was placed in front of the closed shop. OK, […]

CEC Entertainment, owners of Chuck E. Cheese, who filed for bankruptcy in June have 7 billion paper prize tickets they need to destroy, according to a bankruptcy filing in a Texas court this week. That's apparently enough tickets to fill more than 60 of those 40-foot cargo shipping containers. From Restaurant Business: CEC Entertainment has […]

Pretty much anyone 16 and older can hunt big game alone in the United States, but many states allow pre-teens to hunt big game alone, not just rabbits and squirrels and the like. As list maintainer Outdoor Empire notes, "Generally it's recommended to be around 10 years of age to understand everything taught in the […]

This illusion done 18 times in under one minute is pretty impressive, especially the last one. If you want to see how it's done, there are videos online, but that kind of ruins the fun. Image: YouTube / Guinness World Records

TIL: Glass Gem is a beautiful and rare variety of heirloom corn (aka calico, flint, or "Indian" corn) that looks like candy, or maybe beads (previously). It was developed by Oklahoma farmer and breeder Carl 'White Eagle' Barnes and was originally only distributed to tribal members. Barnes, who passed in 2016, was half-Cherokee, half-Irish-Scotch and […]

Surveillance cameras aren't just a luxury anymore. They're practically a necessity. Whether you want to keep an eye on your home or children, secure your business or just make sure your actions are documented correctly, discreet, portable security cameras have never been more accessible or more powerful. The Tokk C2 Discreet Day/Night Vision Camera is […]

Sometimes, you and all your friends just need to crawl up into your little basket-bowls with a blankie, and take a nap. More fun images at kagonekoshiro.com.

Illegitimate U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr told federal prosecutors on a call last week they should consider sedition charges against those suspected of violent crimes at recent racial justice protests. The Wall Street Journal first reported Barr's sedition comments. From reporting by Katie Benner at the New York Times: The highly unusual suggestion to charge […]

Trump's latest attempt to downplay his murderous response to the Covid pandemic is to ignore deaths in "blue states." It's not only a stupid thing to say, it's not even true:

Mountain Dew and Red Lobster have jointly crafted the Dew Garita. The first official Mountain Dew cocktail will soon be available at Red Lobster. The "Dew Garita" will be rolling out to select restaurants in September and expected to be available nationwide by the end of 2020. In a news release Tuesday, Red Lobster and […]

Do we all have Zoom fatigue yet? So many annoying aspects to living our work and social lives over video conferencing. One of these is the need for everyone having to mute when listening and unmuting when talking, especially just to say "Yes," "No," "Great," "BRB," etc. Engineer Cameron Hunter got tired enough of these […]

When you were a kid, your mom and dad probably told you to grow up and become a doctor or a lawyer. Practical people that they were, your parents probably assumed that if you were able to scale the educational heights of those revered professions, you'd be handsomely rewarded with a hefty paycheck. While you […]

Almost two-thirds of Americans 18-39 didn't know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a survey. From The Guardian: According to the study of millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 18 and 39, almost half (48%) could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto established during the second world […]

Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming Dune recently got its first trailer, with a surprising soundtrack: a cover of the outtro to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. A tribute to Alejandro Jodorowsky's legendary 1970s effort to film the novel with a full Floyd soundtrack, it was crafted by Hans Zimmer, working remotely with an L.A. choir. […]

Stanislaw Mayakovsky — a fictional character from the 1992 comic book series Aliens: Hive — was a Russian sociobiologist and artificial life expert from the 22nd century who made a tiny autonomous robotic ant and placed it in an ant colony to study social insect behavior. He wrote a book about it, called Cyberantics (published in 2172). In 1992, Dark […]

Jimmy Senda was strolling along a beach in Racine, Wisconsin when he found a package wrapped in aluminum foil with a pink rubber band around it. "Curiosity got to me, so I popped it open and it looked like a chicken breast — kind of," he told Fox 6 Now. "It took a little bit […]

My first exposure to Dune was the David Lynch movie, and then I read the first 4 books in middle school. Being the precocious kid I was, I definitely understood all of the nuances that were going on there, like how the Fremen were obviously an allegory for Native Americans and the coveted spice melange […]

While "Stayin' Alive" (1978) and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was the pinnacle of the Bee Gees' mainstream success, real heads know that before they became disco icons, the brothers Gibb were an excellent psych-pop band and, before that, were teen rock 'n' roll celebs in their native Australia, opening for the likes of Chubby […]

Zackrydz Rodzi, a student in Batu Pahat, Malaysia, woke up on Saturday to find his mobile phone missing. He finally located it the following day after hearing it ring in a jungle area behind his home. Zackrydz's uncle joked that perhaps there was a photo of the thief on the phone. Turns out, he was […]

One Million Moms is an anti-LGBTQ organization listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. As we've pointed out before, "the group's true size obviously falls far short of its ambitious name, and may even be the effort of a single person operating under the broader aegis of the American Family Association." Today, One Million […]

After watching this 1960s-vintage British Pathé reel showing how electrical trasmission towers used to be built, I no longer wonder why infrastructure used to be cheap. Hampshire. An item showing the dangerous job of building electricity pylons. Various shots of half built pylons, a man collects his tools and climbs up the side. Part of […]

Yesterday, as this gentleman was being booted from Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studios theme park yesterday for refusing to wear a mask, he attempted to rouse support from onlookers by loudly misquoting A Bug's Life. According to witnesses, the fellow also yelled, "I'm not crazy! I have a wife and two kids!" (WDWNT)

In this footage, an army of ducks (previously) helps a farmer in Thailand clean out the paddies. After the rice crop was harvested on a farm in Nakhon Pathom province in Thailand, a flock of around 10,000 ducks was released from a pen – and instinctively streamed towards the flooded fields to devour pests such […]

Tiger King's Carole Baskin debuted on Dancing With the Stars on Monday. The family of her missing ex-husband Don Lewis aired a plea for information regarding his disappearance during a commercial break of the show. They are offering a $100,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for his death. USA […]

WonderGround Gallery, the best place to shop in Anaheim's Downtown Disney (imo), has just closed its doors in favor of a Galaxy Edge's pop-up. Trader Josh and Trader Dave of @EnchantedTikiBar write that the WonderGround space has been converted into a Star Wars Trading Post and that all of the artist-created merchandise has been replaced […]

Kris Genijn and Pieter Vanluffelen describe their award-winning film as "a poetic creational epic about perseverance and passion, crafted with the same traits." They also spoke with Belgium's Cinevox about Ultrapictura, which developed software specifically for this movie. The director was originally going to do the whole thing by hand, which sounds exceedingly laborious. Image: […]

The Alfonso Cuarón movie Children of Men depicts a world ravaged by economic decline and mass sterility, the first scene showing glum-faced Londoners learning that the last child on Earth was murdered by a crazed fan. As society slips toward decrepitude and annihilation, the most heavily-advertised product is a suicide potion called Quietus. It is […]