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Watch Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones

Tom Selleck was Steven Spielberg's pick to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. However, Selleck was under contract with CBS ...

Listen: "Bela Lugosi's Dead" vs Disneyland's Haunted Mansion

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In 2004, Howard Hallis celebrated the devilishly wonderful crossover of Disney and Goth culture with the now-classic " Haunted Bela ,&q...

Let's celebrate with Ministry's "(Every Day Is) Halloween," plus a bonus acoustic live version!

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From the days when Al Jourgensen cultivated an English accent, Ministry's underground club hit "(Everyday Is) Halloween" (198...

Scariest Halloween decoration ever: measles viruses

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Toronto's Andrea Addario lives next to one of the world's greatest Halloween haunters. As she tweeted , he exhibits "extreme ge...

Here's TED-Ed's explainer about the llluminati

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The Illuminati was a real secret society in the 18th century, but it was short lived, even though contemporary bullshit theorists pretend o...

After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services

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This week, Facebook filed suit against the NSO Group , a cyber-arms dealer that supplies some of the world's most oppressive regimes wi...

Video of kidnapping attempt badly backfiring on perpetrators

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I'm not sure where this video was shot but many commenters in Reddit say it took place in South America and was likely a kidnapping att...

Best price I've seen on the LEGO Saturn V rocket

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The 1969 piece LEGO Apollo Saturn V rocket may be my favorite BIG set of all time. Build the entire three-stage rocket, the command module...

McDonald's apologizes for advertising "Sundae Bloody Sundae"

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Bloody Sunday was an atrocity committed by British troops in Northern Ireland, killing 14 unarmed Catholic protesters at a 1972 march. Sund...

The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims"

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Meaghan Winter is the author of All Politics Is Local: Why Progressives Must Fight for the States , a new book that analyzes how Democrats l...

Nick Offerman deepfaked as Wednesday Addams

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In this video by Dr. Fakenstein , the face of Nick Offernan (in character as cantankerous libertarian Ron Swanson) is deepfaked onto that o...

This vintage Halloween safety video from 1985 is a real treat

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This Halloween safety video from 1985 starts with puffs of dry ice smoke set to funky music. It then cuts to floating disembodied masks, a...

Belgian synthesizer master Mario Mathy in action

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Mario Mathy still lives , but even when he is gone, the jumping dance will live forever. Mathy was recently Keyboard Mag's featured art...

Tiny rooms that look convincingly real

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Realistic tiny rooms by Mozu Studios : #誰かの推し作家になりたいミニチュアやトリックアートを制作しています！ 1、自分の部屋のミニチュア。高2の頃制作。生活感出すのが楽しかった。 2、こびとシリーズ第一弾「こびとの階段」。妄想...

How Mafia Killed the Pope, Meghan & Harry quit the Royal Family, and the Obamas divorce, in this week’s dubious tabloids

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Under the banner “First To Know,” the ‘National Enquirer’ reveals the psychological turmoil that has undermined golfer Tiger Woods’s game in...

Rian Johnson will kill you if you talk or text during his new movie

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Knives Out director Rian Johnson demonstrates his killing form in the Alamo Drafthouse's latest Don't Talk PSA: Previous PSAs have...

Boost the storage on your Xbox One or PS4 with these SSHDs

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Games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare offer hours of cinematic gameplay. They're so engaging you might not...

Foie Gras banned in New York City

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Foie Gras, a fatty dish created by force-feeding ducks and geese through tubes, will soon no longer be served in the thousand-or-so NYC rest...

Decades of antigravity research went nowhere

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Brett Tingley writes about 70 years' research into anti-gravity and similar fields of science fiction, an effort to harness nature's...

How America's hatred of the poor ties back to Puritan work ethic

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Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowship-winning philosopher Elizabeth Anderson recently spoke with Joe Humphreys at the Irish Times about Ame...

Florida man tries to have sex with Olaf from "Frozen" and a stuffed unicorn in a Target

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"Do you want to fuck snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman…" Apparently—if you're 20-year-old Cody Meadar of St. Peter...

Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs' Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy

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Tomorrow, Toronto's City Council will hold a key vote on Sidewalk Labs's plan to privatize much of the city's lakeshore in the ...

Kickstarting STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion

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Brian Van Slyke writes, "STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion is a board game about building a city-wide rebellion to stop a mega-corpo...

When you run out of gancha

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Well, whatcha gonna do? According to Classical Gas Emissions , "The band is called Mental Note, and they appeared on a show called &q...

Suspicious package at train station was new device for reporting suspicious packages

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Police shut down part of a train station in Westchester County, New York to investigate a suspicious package. Turned out that the suspicious...

Fantastic version of Mr. Tambourine Man, sung by kids

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Enjoy this cover version of Bob Dylan's 1965 song, "Mr. Tambourine Man," performed by The Starbugs from New Zealand. It's...

Burbankers! Help put an eviction-protection measure on the 2020 ballot!

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The passage of AB1482 , which limits annual California rent-increases to 8%, is an important step to solving California's urgent housing...

It's "Evil Week" at Lifehacker. Check out their sneaky tips

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Lifehacker's " Evil Week " tips aren't necessarily evil, or even unethical. They are all a bit sneaky, though, but could c...

Crowdfunding "Vital," an sf anthology about the future of health care

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"Vital: The Future of Healthcare" is a crowdfunded anthology of short science fiction stories about the future of health care, wit...

The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy

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A HISTORY It began, as all things do, with a geology joke. We ranked candy based on their location in various geological strata, both real...

Vice suggests Millennial video game enthusiasts suck it up and admit they are old

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What is all the hubbub, bub? Gen X is doing just fine playing video games while it appears some Millennials are unable to keep up with the ...

Wearable pop-up personal tent

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A few years back, my older brother Rick Pescovitz invented the " Under the Weather Pod ," a single-person pop-up shelter to sit in...

With "OK boomer," millennials are killing intergenerational resentment

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"OK boomer" is an all-purpose rejoinder for millennials and Gen Y/Zers who are accused by their elders of eating too much avocado ...

Funny honest trailer about The Shining

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This Honest Trailer to Kubrick's The Shining pokes fun at noted weaknesses in an otherwise excellent movie. Before watching the video,...

Lawsuit says Juul shipped a million contaminated pods

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“Half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the fuck is going to notice the quality of our pods?” Juul's then-CEO Kevin Bu...

Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials

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The NSO Group is one of the world's most notorious cyber-arms dealers, selling hacking tools to some of the world's most oppressive...

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