Aretha Franklin honored at Buckingham Palace by British Army during Changing of the Guard Unknown 16:12 Add Comment Edit The life of Aretha Franklin is being celebrated today in Detroit, at what is already described as a legendary memorial service. Earlier tod... Read More
Ian M. Smith, Homeland Security staffer tied to white supremacists, was in White House policy meetings with Stephen Miller Unknown 15:42 Add Comment Edit This guy worked for DHS. This is really bad stuff: “Smith responded to a group dinner invitation whose host said his home would be 'jud... Read More
In-N-Out donates $25,000 to California Republican Party, under Trump. There's a boycott. Unknown 15:22 Add Comment Edit In-N-Out, the popular California burger chain, just dropped $25,000 on the California GOP under Donald Trump. (more…) from Boing Boing ht... Read More
Good kit for starting out with Raspberry Pi Unknown 15:12 Add Comment Edit I've been doing a lot of work with the Raspberry Pi lately for a book my daughter and I are writing, and I'm really liking the inex... Read More
DO NOT travel to North Korea, what's left of the U.S. State Dept. warns Americans Unknown 14:52 Add Comment Edit “Do not travel” to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the U.S. State Department warned American citizens in a renewed advisory ... Read More
TSA + CBP test new facial recognition tech & computed tomography scanners at LAX Unknown 14:42 Add Comment Edit A new facial recognition technology screening system will soon be used on some travelers who pass through Los Angeles International Airport... Read More
Fortnite Battle Royale and "The Mystery of the Weird Cube" Unknown 14:33 Add Comment Edit Speculating about what the hell is actually happening to the in-game universe, and odd backstory, is a Fortnite fan favorite activity. (mo... Read More
RIP The Village Voice Unknown 14:22 Add Comment Edit "Today is kind of a sucky day," Village Voice owner Peter Barbey told newspaper staff in a phone call Friday. "Due to, basi... Read More
My 12 y-o niece really loves Maxine the corgi Unknown 14:22 Add Comment Edit Maxine seems to represent the breed standard well. Thanks, Lana. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2N8sgky via IFTTT Read More
Racist robocalls from an Idaho Neo-nazi group plague Floridians Unknown 13:52 Add Comment Edit Idaho Nazis. I hate Idaho Nazis. These assholes used a mocking dialect and jungle noises while impersonating the Florida democratic candid... Read More
Japanese Whisky: beautiful book about the best booze east of Glen Garioch Unknown 13:47 Add Comment Edit For me, it amounts to a useful guide to the next step. I like Suntory Toki a lot... ...but haven't wanted to commit to more expensive ... Read More
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte says "beautiful woman" are to blame for rape crisis Unknown 12:52 Add Comment Edit Philippine dictator Rodrigo Duterte, whom Trump envies and greatly admires for his ruthlessness and cruelty, told people at a public event ... Read More
American Conservative magazine says stop calling Trump a racist because there are bigger racists in the world Unknown 12:22 Add Comment Edit The replies to The American Conservative's exceedingly stupid tweet make for good reading. There are sandwiches with far more ham an... Read More
Thousands of fish dropped from the sky Unknown 11:57 Add Comment Edit Since the 1950s, wildlife departments have airdropped fish from planes to repopulate remote lakes. Above is video shot by Kamas State Fish ... Read More
Bank of America is freezing accounts of US citizens for not proving residency status Unknown 11:57 Add Comment Edit It's legal to have a bank account in the US without being a citizen. But Bank of America has been freezing accounts of people who don... Read More
San Francisco rejects permit application for Bird and Lime scooters Unknown 11:42 Add Comment Edit E-scooter sharing companies Scoot and Skip scooted and skipped their way to the head of the permit approval processing line in San Francisc... Read More
Trump's approval rating hits rock bottom in latest ABC-Washington Post poll Unknown 11:02 Add Comment Edit A new ABC News/Washington Post poll that was conducted between August 26-29 shows Trump's approval and disapproval ratings to be at the... Read More
Mad Musk: Tesla CEO angrily headbutted car after safety sensor paused assembly line Unknown 10:27 Add Comment Edit The first paragraphs in this Washington Post story about the Tesla CEO's ego problems are absolutely b🔥o🔥n🔥k🔥e🔥r🔥s. During a tou... Read More
61 year-old swimmer punches shark and escapes, just like on TV Unknown 10:17 Add Comment Edit I guess Shark Week is educational. Via CBS News : "I'd been gone 20 minutes and that's when my leg was seized," said ... Read More
Ghostbuster arrested for firing gun at an apparition Unknown 09:52 Add Comment Edit Paranormal investigator Christian J. Devaux of Tolland, Connecticut called 911 to report an intruder in his home. While on the phone with t... Read More
Mysterious doorbell ringer is now safe, boyfriend is dead Unknown 09:32 Add Comment Edit Earlier this week, police in Montgomery County, Texas were searching for this mysterious woman who was apparently ringing multiple doorbel... Read More
Sigh... I bought a 'Gene Frenkle and his cowbell' Funko Pop Unknown 09:27 Add Comment Edit Evidently, I have developed a fever. It seems the only solution is a Gene Frenkle Funko Pop . (more…) from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2o... Read More
Weird time-jumbling quantum device defies "before" and "after" Unknown 09:22 Add Comment Edit In normal life, you open the car door before getting into the car. Operation A happens before operation B. That's the causal order of t... Read More
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" suit reissued by Hugo Boss Unknown 08:12 Add Comment Edit In 1982, Michael Jackson wore a snazzy white suit by Hugo Boss on the cover of Thriller. Now, Hugo Boss has reissued the iconic suit in a l... Read More
Vinod Khosla, Beach Villain Unknown 07:42 Add Comment Edit Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla has spent years trying to block public access to a public beach in California adjacent to property he ... Read More
How to boost your job prospects with this Excel and Office training Unknown 06:22 Add Comment Edit There's more to Microsoft Office than meets the eye. From automating tedious tasks in Excel to visualizing data in Access, the Microsof... Read More
Telco lobbyists accidentally send TechDirt all their bullshit talking points Unknown 05:27 Add Comment Edit USTelecom emailed a 12-page document to Mike Masnick , founder and editor of TechDirt, detailing the talking points to be used by company p... Read More
Trump volunteer tries to block reporter from photographing rally protestor Unknown 04:37 Add Comment Edit Evan Vucci's incredible photo from last night's Trump rally in Evansville, Indiana, shows the moment one of his volunteers "bl... Read More
Five dead after air conditioners break down in Japanese hospital Unknown 04:27 Add Comment Edit Between August 26th and 28th at the Fujikake Y&M Daiichi Hospital in Gifu City, five elderly patients (all in their eighties) died aft... Read More
Review: Blendy Black Lemon Coffee from Japan Unknown 04:27 Add Comment Edit In Japan when I see the name Blendy , I imagine coffee. Usually I think instant coffee, or some kind of stick thats contents can be stirred... Read More
His Dream of Skyland, a mysterious and touching journey through opium-drenched colonial Hong Kong Unknown 04:27 Add Comment Edit (more…) from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2wwmjEt via IFTTT Read More
Duplicitous Catholic Bishop buys $2.3 million home with church funds after pleading for parishioners to help the homeless Unknown 17:24 Add Comment Edit A couple of years back, the Most Reverend Patrick J. McGrath , Bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, California, wrote an impassioned missive.... Read More
New Mexico Greyhound Bus Crash: Multiple deaths and serious injuries reported Unknown 15:52 Add Comment Edit Multiple deaths and many people with serious injuries are reported in a Greyhound bus crash on a freeway in New Mexico, police say. (more…)... Read More
Mastercard sold Google data on cardholders' in-store credit card use Unknown 15:52 Add Comment Edit Bloomberg: For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led ... Read More
Amazon not releasing new Woody Allen movie as planned Unknown 15:42 Add Comment Edit “Oh no! For the first time since 1981 there will be no Woody Allen this year,” lulzed Joe Berkowitz , speaking for me also, and everyone wh... Read More
Trump on Mueller probe: 'I view it as an illegal investigation' Unknown 15:32 Add Comment Edit “I view it as an illegal investigation,” President Donald Trump said today, referring to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. (more…) ... Read More
I finally added weights to my DIY Peloton set-up Unknown 15:22 Add Comment Edit I have posted a couple times about my DIY Peloton indoor exercise bike. I recently added weights for the arm and chest exercises, I like ... Read More
What's this ex-ICE official doing at an anti-Muslim hatefest in Virginia? Unknown 14:42 Add Comment Edit “America is at stage two Islamic Cancer,” says the founder of ACT for America. Why exactly is Thomas Homan, former acting director of U.S. ... Read More
Florida sheriff makes reasonable stand-your-ground shooting sound like casual murder Unknown 14:22 Add Comment Edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkKjkCBCGFs Jason Boek swerved his truck in front of an Uber driver at 2 a.m., forced him to pull over, the... Read More
Trump says Sessions to remain Attorney General until after midterms Unknown 14:12 Add Comment Edit Hey, a lot can happen in 8 weeks. Donald Trump, President of the United States, said today he's keeping Attorney General Jeff Sessions... Read More
That time Daryl Hannah and Neil Young got married Unknown 11:42 Add Comment Edit Did you know that Canadian music icon Neil Young and American mermaid-patch-eyed-movie-psychopath icon Daryl Hannah have been dating since ... Read More
Canada's Prime Minister mandates examination of a full ban on handguns and assault weapons Unknown 11:42 Add Comment Edit Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister, has released a wide-ranging mandate letter asking Canada's Minister of Border Security an... Read More
Someone pulled their dick out: Louis C.K. and the #MeToo movement Unknown 10:37 Add Comment Edit People make mistakes. They commit crimes. Sometimes they pull their erect dick out and start masturbating in front of female colleagues. Lo... Read More
Médecins Sans Frontières is on the front lines of the Mexican drug war Unknown 10:17 Add Comment Edit The northwestern Mexican state of Guerrero’s ocean side vistas, Mayan and Zapotec heritage and mountainous terrain would make it a postcard... Read More