Youtuber Erica Hoff shares this video of a motorcyclist having a very bad day. This guy merged onto the I-80E (Sacramento, CA) on his mo...
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Bid on old computers, speakers, radios, and other junk from the bowels of RadioShack
Starting July 10, you can bid on TRS-80 computers, dot matrix printers, Realistic speakers, shortwave receivers, old catalogs, and company ...
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Look at the public bike purgatory in Hangzhou,China
The city of Hangzhou, China has more than 86,000 public bicycles. Unfortunately, when many people are done using them, they don't put t...
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Felt Tardigrade
FoxWoolDesigns will make you a perfectly pink felt tardigrade , and has one in stock to fulfill your immediate felt tardigrade requirement...
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Japan plans to land a human on the moon by 2030
Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Wednesday that it plans to land an astronaut on the moon by 2030 , joining China ...
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The forgotten cyberspace of the Neuromancer computer game
William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer is far from forgotten; the times seem almost uncannily like an interregnum between the world h...
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This grill press speeds up 4th of July BBQing
Gotta make 25 burgers for a whole bunch of tykes? Increase the speed and control the consistency of your burgers doneness with a grill pres...
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The truth about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley
In the New York Times, Katie Bienner relates a cultural shift in Silicon Valley: women victims of sexual harassment describing their exper...
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Wikipedia as a Zork-style text-adventure
Kevan Davis's Wikitext is an incredibly clever mashup of Wikipedia and Infocom-style text adventure games: starting with a random Wiki...
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"We Buy Ugly Houses" franchisee pleads guilty to defrauding investors
It pleases me to no end to learn that a " We Buy Ugly Houses" franchise owner was found guilty of wire fraud charges . The "...
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President Trump attempted to "blackmail" TV hosts with threat of tabloid smears, they claim
Yesterday, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough were subject to typical ( if unusually gross ) insults from the President of the...
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Grilling mats are great for grilling cut vegetables
Amazon has a good deal on these BBQ grilling mats . You just set them on the grill and place whatever it is you want to cook right on them....
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Our fascinating evening with Bassem Youssef, the exiled "Jon Stewart of Egypt"
Earlier this week we went to see a Los Angeles screening of Tickling Giants followed by a Q&A with Bassem Youssef, the subject of the ...
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Patricia Arquette tweets cryptic warning to Trump about "gossip on the streets"
Actress Patricia Arquette reacted to Trump's childish "bleeding badly from a face-lift" tweet yesterday with a cautionary twe...
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New oven to bake bread in space
A German start-up has prototyped a bread oven that operated in microgravity that may someday enable astronauts to enjoy fresh-baked goods i...
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This company analyzed 100 million headlines to find out which ones were the most effective
Buzzsumo analyzed 100 million article headlines on Facebook and tracked how well they did in terms of shares. In our sample the most po...
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Watch this mama bear carry her cubs across a river on her back
David Roseman, an employee at Alaska's Wood Tikchick State Park, spotted this big bear carrying her cubs across the river on her back. ...
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The Private Eye: a supervillain tries to bring the internet back to a world where the press are the cops
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How to have a great weekend by engaging in "serious leisure"
Katrina Onstad, author of a new book called The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of O...
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Disney to stop auctioning off women
After decades of running a mock slave market inside Pirates of the Carribean , Disney has finally decided that Pirates selling women is not...
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Algorithms try to channel us into repeating our lives
Molly Sauter ( previously ) describes in gorgeous, evocative terms how the algorithms in our life try to funnel us into acting the way we a...
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How to replace yourself with a very small shell script
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2btv0yUPNQ Data scientist Hillary Mason ( previously ) talks through her astoundingly useful collection o...
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Slammed by bus, man stands up and enters bar
Simon Smith was walking beside a bus stop in Reading, Berkshire, on Saturday when he was hit from behind by a double-decker. The 53-year-...
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Man collides with door divider
Yes, the guy should have looked where he was walking, but good design should take this kind of think into account. [ via Twisted Sifter ]...
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Why do men have nipples?
Dr. Justin Lehmiller answers the question " Why do men have nipples ?" on his Sex & Psychology blog: For the first six weeks...
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This chair is weaponized ugly
Looking for a gift for your crab or crustacean enthusiast best friend? Amazon has you covered. Even then, this chair is probably too ugl...
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Broflake defined
Perhaps you are tired of the terminology of online trashtalk, where words (such as snowflake and bro ) form billowing epicycles of sinceri...
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Man dragging roadkill raccoon shot by bad Samaritan who thought it was an abused dog
Police in Washington state want to find a driver who shot a man Sunday, apparently under the mistaken belief he was abusing a dog. The vict...
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Goop and Infowars sell the same wellness stuff
You'd think Goop , Gwyneth Paltrow's "lifestyle brand" for clean-freak whippies, and Infowars , Alex Jones' conspirac...
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How to start a yard fire
The key component of a quality yard fire is ignorance, but you must remember to mix it with a sufficient quantity of flammable material and...
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Watch a pro drone racer zip around a construction site at sunset
Johnny FPV is a drone racer on the pro circuit. He took one of his drones out for a sunset spin in a construction site next to his hotel, ...
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Watch 'Jaws' with your feet dangling in the water
Here's an immersive experience that you can truly, well, get immersed in: JAWS on the water . With dates from now until the end of July...
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Here’s how to make your own Butterbeer
In honor of Harry Potter ’s 20th anniversary, the gentlemen of SORTEDFood concocted their own Butterbeer recipe, which is both sickly swee...
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Six movie-inspired cocktails (and one TV-inspired hangover cure)
From The Dude’s White Russian to James Bond’s shaken martini, Binging with Babish demonstrates how to make six movie-inspired cocktails. H...
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Intricate paper cutouts of animals, colored by nature
Faye Halliday recently started making variants of her intricate animal drawings with cut-out sections. She then held them up in beautiful ...
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