St Louis cops indicted for beating up a "protester" who turned out to be an undercover cop Unknown 20:09 Add Comment Edit After St Louis police officer Jason Stockley, killed an unarmed black man named Anthony Lamar Smith with an unauthorized AK-47, planted a pi... Read More
Trump OKs seismic tests in Atlantic that can harm thousands of dolphins & whales Unknown 16:09 Add Comment Edit Trump's about to make a bunch of whales, turtles, and dolphins go deaf. The Trump administration is about to take a preliminary step to... Read More
Astronomea: a gorgeous, handmade, astronomy inspired desk lamp Unknown 16:09 Add Comment Edit Art Donovan ( previously ) writes, "Delivered. A very special design commission for the Project Director of NASA's James Webb Space... Read More
Cop who shot neighbor in his own apartment indicted with murder Unknown 13:29 Add Comment Edit Amber Guyger, the Dallas cop who killed an unarmed neighbor in his own apartment then claimed she had thought she was in her apartment , wa... Read More
Tavi Gevinson is folding up Rookie, after seven years: part mediapocalypse, part moving on Unknown 12:49 Add Comment Edit At the age of 15, Tavi Gevinson was the prodigy founder of Rookie, a latter-day second-coming of Sassy Magazine -- a smart, funny, critical ... Read More
Two huge earthquakes hit near Anchorage, causing major infrastructure damage Unknown 11:59 Add Comment Edit A 7.0 earthquake hit eight miles north of Anchorage, AK this morning, followed by a 5.8 earthquake. The earthquakes caused buildings to crac... Read More
Hate crime numbers reach an all-time high in Canada Unknown 11:49 Add Comment Edit It's becoming more difficult by the day to recognize the nations we live in as the same ones we grew up in. Men and women, terrified of ... Read More
Watch: Woman whoops would-be purse snatcher's ass Unknown 10:49 Add Comment Edit There are few things more satisfying in life than watching someone who attempted to do something awful being handed their ass by their woul... Read More
Electric vehicle makers serving up customer location data to China on a silver platter Unknown 10:34 Add Comment Edit There's been quite a bit of bad ink surrounding Tesla electric vehicles this year: delays in production, growing rumors about subpar cus... Read More
Putin high-fives MBS: Russian leader and Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman bro down at G20 Unknown 10:34 Add Comment Edit Watch. So chilling. Find someone who is as happy to see you as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman, who high... Read More
Ted Cruz whines after Trent Reznor dissed him and insists he didn't "drink all of his beer" Unknown 10:14 Add Comment Edit After Trent Reznor dissed Ted Cruz at his Nine Inch Nails concert a few days ago, telling his audience that the "pain-in-the-ass"... Read More
Pastor floats over congregation to deliver sermon Unknown 10:09 Add Comment Edit On Sunday, Pastor Bartholomew Orr of Southaven, Mississippi's Brown Baptist Church flew down from the rafters to deliver a sermon about... Read More
A list of real songs about fictional songs (e.g. "Jailhouse Rock") Unknown 09:49 Add Comment Edit On Making Light, Avram Grumer is compiling a list of real songs about fictional songs , like "The Time Warp," "Jailhouse Rock... Read More
New game played using sensor that you swallow Unknown 09:34 Add Comment Edit As part of their research on the future of play, RMIT University's Exertion Games Lab demonstrated a game based around an ingestible se... Read More
Code recreates Pfizer's 1956 effort to procedurally generate drug names Unknown 09:34 Add Comment Edit Procedural generation isn't just for video game landscapes and galaxies. The technique for creating vast amounts of realistic but uncann... Read More
New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape kits, then sent debt-collectors after them Unknown 09:19 Add Comment Edit New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood has concluded that seven New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape... Read More
Space station astronauts have a new floating AI robot companion Unknown 09:19 Add Comment Edit Astronauts on board the International Space Station have switched on CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN), a new AI companion robot bui... Read More
Walmart shopper shoots self in groin Unknown 08:59 Add Comment Edit Blue light special in his pants. Newsweek : The local police department tweeted on Tuesday officers were working what appeared to be a “s... Read More
Watch runners cheat in big Shenzhen half marathon Unknown 07:39 Add Comment Edit More than 200 runners in last weekend's big Shenzhen Half Marathon were caught cheating by traffic cameras as they snuck through trees,... Read More
Wild tricks advertisers use to make food look appealing Unknown 07:19 Add Comment Edit Even though now I know how it's done, that food still looks so damned delicious. (via Kottke ) from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2rfPH... Read More
Peak indifference has arrived: a majority of Republicans say climate change is real Unknown 07:19 Add Comment Edit Five years ago , I coined the term " peak indifference " to describe a moment when a public health problem -- like climate change,... Read More
Marriott-Starwood data breach: 500 million guests may be affected, hackers active since 2014 Unknown 07:14 Add Comment Edit How bad is the Marriott/Starwood breach disclosed today? "Unauthorized access to the Starwood network since 2014 … For approximately 32... Read More
Trump-Putin meeting at G20 is...back on? Says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Unknown 07:09 Add Comment Edit It's on? After important legal news in the Trump-Russia investigation broke on Thursday, Donald Trump canceled a planned one-on-one meet... Read More
Conan's Japanese rent-a-family is told to laugh at all his jokes Unknown 06:34 Add Comment Edit You may remember that, in Japan, you can rent fake family members to fight loneliness (or for other reasons, like you want your kid to have... Read More
DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather fined over posts promoting fraud-tainted cryptocurrency Unknown 06:04 Add Comment Edit DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather both pitched deals to their followers, but did not disclose or admit they were paid to do so. Both are being ... Read More
Man made $2500 in a day buying Monopoly for Millenials at Walmart and selling them online Unknown 05:34 Add Comment Edit Monopoly for Millenials , an edition of the game noted for its surprisingly contemptuous mockery of younger generations, was perfectly-des... Read More
The EU took the word "filters" out of the Copyright Directive, but it's still all about filters Unknown 05:24 Add Comment Edit Some drafts of Article 13 of the pending EU Copyright Directive no longer contain the word "filters" -- because the world's l... Read More
An online market of goods made by the XOXO community Unknown 05:04 Add Comment Edit Want to skip Amazon and support independent artists this holiday season? Head to the online market put together by the good folks of the XO... Read More
Marriott admits hack exposing "as many as 500 million" travelers Unknown 04:59 Add Comment Edit Stayed at a Starwood hotel in the last five years or so? Every one of you— as many as 500 million people, says owner Marriott —are implicate... Read More
Fancy apothecary-style jars to hold your peyote, hash, LSD, and shrooms Unknown 04:54 Add Comment Edit These porcelain druggist jars by Jonathan Adler are certainly conversation starters but do you really want to label your drug stash so obvi... Read More
How to wrap a gift without tape Unknown 04:44 Add Comment Edit The best part of this marvelous guide is the " draw the rest of the owl " moment halfway in where you must perform an act of ori... Read More
The Dyslexie Font makes reading easier for people with dyslexia Unknown 04:39 Add Comment Edit They say to create solutions for the problems you have and that's just what graphic designer Christian Boer did. He has dyslexia and, fo... Read More
One More For the Road: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats are back! Unknown 04:39 Add Comment Edit Back in 2007, Adam " Apelad " Koford created a marvellous, funny, weird alternate history for the then-viral phenomenon of LOLcats... Read More
Calamityware now makes porcelain ornaments with its signature disaster scenes Unknown 04:09 Add Comment Edit If you're not familiar with Don Moyer's Calamityware , you should be. His series of blue-and-white porcelain pieces look like ordina... Read More
Internet of Shit mattress is stuffed with sensors, including a microphone, and you consent to being spied on by setting it up and sleeping on it Unknown 20:09 Add Comment Edit Sleepnumber is an adjustable "smart" mattress whose sensor-package include a microphone and weight sensors; the microphone collect... Read More
Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Unknown 19:04 Add Comment Edit Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros because he gave a speech boldly critical of the social media giant as a “menac... Read More