Fear of Palindromes stuffed an entire computer inside a standard power supply box, complete with gaming-class GTX 1060 video card and a (s...
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David Clarke, America's other death-camp sheriff, resigns
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark, facing multiple federal lawsuits over deaths in his prisons, has unexpectedly resigned . He hasn'...
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45-piece toolkit for opening and repairing gadgets -- $7
I just bought this 45-piece toolkit for $7 on Amazon. It comes with tweezers, an extension bar, a handle, and 42 bits, including metric so...
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Disneyland Paris bans 3-year-old boy from princess event, then apologizes
If a young girl wanted to participate in a pirate event at Disneyland, it's unimaginable that she would be turned away because she'...
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Russia's "Bernie Madoff" has been pulling a multi-billion dollar scam for decades, and his victims love him
One of the hallmarks of a great con artist is that his victims will return again and again to be fleeced. A few months ago I interviewed ps...
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What the solar eclipse looked like from the Moon
If you were on the Moon during last week's solar eclipse, you would have seen the Moon's shadow moving across Earth. This image was...
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Flights From Hell: online documentary of unruly passengers and crewmembers
Airplane travel is not much fun these days (unless you are very rich). It's made worse by drunken passengers, sociopathic flight attend...
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Trump tweeted he witnessed "horror and devastation" of Harvey, but others say he didn't really
Yesterday morning, Trump tweeted, "After witnessing first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, my heart goes ...
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Nanomachines drill through cancer cells and kill them
Researchers demonstrated single-molecule nanomachines that can target diseased cells and then kill them by drilling through the cell membra...
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Amazon hit with class-action lawsuit for selling unsafe eclipse glasses
Corey Payne and his fiancée Kayla Harris bought a three-pack of eclipse glasses on Amazon. Now they say they are suffering from impaired vi...
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Lousy tank driver swerves into car on public road
The Russian army clearly needs to teach its tank drivers not to text and drive. from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2xyVtL5 via IFTTT
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Rooster vs. cobra: who wins?
In the video below, a rooster in India tangles with a deadly cobra that can deliver enough venom in one bite to kill 20 people, and many mo...
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Underwear-clad man outside of courthouse with sign: "Return my bong"
Jeffery Shaver, 31, stood outside the Kitchener, Ontario courthouse yesterday in his underwear beside two signs that read "RETURN MY B...
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Steven King's "It" hurting the clown business
Pennywise, the creepy clown in Steven King's "It," and the recent increase in " evil clown sightings " around the c...
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How to make a good lighting rig with a hamburger box and a flashlight
Photographer Philippe Echaroux used a cheap flashlight, a soda straw, and a Big Mac box to take some excellent portraits with his iPhone. ...
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That probably hurt
Of all the ways a Saarinen knock-off chair could fail, this ranks among the worst. [ via Bits and Pieces ] from Boing Boing http://ift.t...
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The meaning of "premium mediocre"
Venkatesh Rao coined the phrase " premium mediocre " and wrote about it on Ribbonfarm. The term came to him when dining at Veggie...
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Three gentleman on a motorcycle fail to break into a moving truck
Breaking into a truck, WCGW ? from Whatcouldgowrong A motorcycle with three riders drives up behind a large truck at night. One of them ...
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Cheap used Echo Dots on Amazon
My kids keep removing my Echo Dot from the the kitchen and taking it to other parts of the house (mainly to listen to music), so I bought a...
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Augmented reality project adds a little road system to your living room floor
Judith Amores Fernandez, Anna Fusté Lleixà , and Jam3 created the Invisible Highway at Google Creative Lab using Unity, Tango, and the AdaBo...
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This is a generic Millennial ad
And/Or studio created "This Is a Generic Millennial Ad" for a stock footage house called Dissolve as a way to show how agencies ...
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Stoner is a podcast that interviews creative people who smoke weed
This is a fun podcast I just learned about. It's called Stoner . The host Aaron Lammer (also the co-host of the Longform Podcast ) say...
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Man who created islamophobic children's book with Pepe the frog ordered by court to give profits to Muslim charity
In 2006 Matt Furie introduced a "blissfully stoned frog" named Pepe in a comic book called Boy's Club . But in recent years P...
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Here’s how to realize the true potential of Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi 3 can do almost everything a standard desktop can do, just for a fraction of the cost — as well as plenty of things tha...
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Spoiled Red Bull heir kills policeman, Interpol asking world for help in catching him
The 32-year-old grandson of the billionaire who invented the Red Bull energy drink killed a policeman in Thailand five years ago and is sti...
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Why we are prone to optimism and hope over realism and the skepticism of experience
When you think about your future health, career, finances, and even longevity — you imagine a rosy, hopeful future. For everyone else, thou...
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I want these gyro-buses to happen
The engineering firm Dahir Insaat presents the future of transportation: the monorail gyro-bus. It zips along congested urban roadways beca...
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Here are some of Xeni's favorite tools
We have hired an editor to edit the Cool Tools podcast. It costs us $300 a month. So far, Cool Tools listeners have pledged $247 a month to...
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