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Save 50% on 14 coding course bundles that can turn you into a serious programmer
As a web developer, you never know what tool you'll need to do the job. Some coders have full workshops full of crafty little baubles r...
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These Mayflash arcade-style fight sticks will upgrade your gaming experience
As any true gamer will tell you, not all joysticks are created equal. While standard-issue joysticks and console controllers are often fine...
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Wonderfully strange music videos featuring earnest fellow singing COVID-themed lyrics over familiar rock songs
"My mind works in unusual ways," says soon-to-be YouTube sensation Allan Herrod . "When I hear a song, I frequently think...
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This bulky heavy coin purse costs $49 and holds exactly $5.44 in U.S. coins
What is the point of this aluminum coin purse called The Dango Coin Capsule? Rain Noe of Core77 is as perplexed as I am . The advertisin...
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How Frasier afforded his fancy Seattle apartment
Gabriella Paiella ran the numbers and found that Frasier Crane would likely have had the savings, from his psychiatry career, to put 20% do...
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High school moved into empty Macy's department store
High school students in Burlington, Vermont are now going to class in a deserted former Macy's department store. The school's pr...
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Should you laminate your Covid vaccine card?
When you get a Covid vaccination, the person who administered it will give you a card that has information about the manufacturer and date,...
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QAnon "tearing families apart"
Essential (and bleak) reporting by David Gilbert on how the QAnon conspiracy framework is tearing American families apart: "there is n...
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Facing lengthy prison terms, Capitol terrorist suspects are suddenly sorry for rioting on January 6
Many of the suspected terrorists who broke into the Capitol seem to have lost the gleeful enthusiasm they had on January 6 when they were a...
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Behold the dreaded cosmic horror of this Lovecraft Rickroll
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, because you're a indescribable non-Euclidean entity who defies all physical comprehe...
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Penis-shaped dog toy
Not Your Nanas Yarn on Etsy sells a squeaky penis dog toy and it can be yours for just $22! My dog absolutely loves squeaking the balls ...
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Math's incredibly fun "Levine Sequence" simply explained
If you love math puzzles, you'll love this sequence, discovered by mathematician Lionel Levine in 1997 . Neil Sloane, founder of the...
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Rep. Matt Gaetz, being investigated for sex with 17-year-old girl, is getting what he wished for
In 2017 Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) bragged on Facebook that he was "the only 'no' vote in the entire Congress against legislati...
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Creepy commercials for Omega Mart, a supermarket with a difference
Enjoy Mike Diva 's ads for Omega Mart, a real-life place you can go in Vegas made by Santa Fe art collective Meow Wolf. These segme...
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Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz investigated over relationship with 17 year old girl
Matt Gaetz, a loyal pro-Trump Republican representing Florida's 1st congressional district since 2017, is under investigation by the De...
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What was up with the galactic chaos movie theater carpets of the '90s?
The notoriously sticky concrete or tile theater floors experienced a makeover in the '90s. Teal, purple, and yellow confetti star and s...
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God-Man, in "Thoughts and Prayers, in the Air"!
YOU can buy the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse , and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader ! Informa...
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UK rollout for sweat-testing ankle bands to enforce alcohol bans
Big Brother is licking you. Sweat monitors (aka scram cams ) are ankle bands that monitor the wearer's sweat for alcohol , to enforce c...
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The Smashing Pumpkins remixed as an awesome 80s Pop Band
I would totally listen to to this band. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3cATuMA via IFTTT
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Have you ever wanted to spend $1000 to eat a wagyu steak coated in 24-karat gold? Now you can!
A few weeks back, a restaurant receipt went weirdly viral on Twitter, because it was, well, wow. I'd be sick if the waiter handed ...
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Homemade Film Festival wants your short films
San Francisco's PBS affiliate KQED launched the Homemade Film Festival last year as a means to stay connected and creative during shel...
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Airwolf villain and inept burglar G. Gordon Liddy dead at 90
G. Gordon Liddy, the retired FBI agent best known for his 1986 turn as Berkeley Case in "Day of Jeopardy", the fifteenth episide ...
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6 apps that will help you read more, smarter, and faster — now an extra 30% off
As it turns out, those who claimed they were going to spend their quarantine time catching up on books they'd been meaning to read have...
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Watch this crab leave its buddies to chase and snuggle with a camera
If a crab can cuddle, this is what it looks like as it stares at the underwater camera, chases it a bit, and then gives it a long snuggl...
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The trailer for Uzumaki based on Junji Ito's horror manga is a true teaser
Horror is my favorite genre of comics and manga, especially the kind where a person's ordinary life takes an unexpected turn that he...
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Ultimate snowflake Ted Cruz whines about being taunted at border wall
I can't believe Ted Cruz survived this. How harrowing. pic.twitter.com/nzoXBD6xDe — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 30, 2021 Ted Cr...
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Texas police stop using hypnosis because it doesn't work and leads to false convictions
After four decades of the dubious practice, the Texas Department of Public Safety has stopped using hypnosis during police investigations. ...
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When officers get violent with who they think is a protestor, their own police dog attacks the cop
Police dogs are trained to attack aggressors, so it's a wonder more four-legged officers don't do what this one did: attack the cop...
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Toxic QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says vaccination passports are "Biden's Mark of the Beast"
Marjorie Taylor Greene says that a vaccine passport is "Biden's Mark of the Beast" and that any company the requires one i...
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Twitter bans "fake" Amazon workers praising company
Twitter has suspended a number of accounts claiming to be Amazon workers who love working for the company , reports the BBC, after Amazon c...
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QAnon flopped in Japan because it's a piece-of-junk conspiracy theory
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Pure Invention author Matt Alt explains why QAnon didn't take off in Japan. In short, as a ...
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Check out this excellent video for the new Moog Sound Studio
Moog Sound Studio, announced today, is a modular analog synthesizer "exploration station" designed to give even newbies the th...
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MyPillow CEO promises Trump will return to Oval Office in August
Mike Lindell declares that as a result of voter fraud lawsuit he'll soon be filing, "Donald Trump will be back in office in Aug...
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Vintage photos of women in wonderfully odd hats
Intrepid vernacular photography collector Robert E. Jackson curated a delightful collection of vintage snapshots of women making fashion ...
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Lawyer Cat: The story behind that hilarious Zoom "cat-astrophe"
The New Yorker went into the depths of Dell to understand the tech history that resulted in an iconic pandemic moment when a live-stream...
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Capitol riot suspect arrested in shirt saying "I Was There"
The AP reports that a man suspected of participating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was arrested at his home while wearing a t-shirt s...
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U.S. church membership plummets
Less than half of Americans are in a church , according to Gallup, the lowest in the history of its survey. A membership rate around 70% he...
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Jumpstart your power and electrical engineering career with these $40 training courses
Power and electricity are so foundational to modern life that it's jarring to even consider what happens if the delivery of current to ...
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Eight metal spheres explosively hydroformed simultaneously
You've seen a metal sphere explosively hydroformed. But have you seen eight metal spheres explosively hydroformed? from Boing B...
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He wanted to carry a giant anime sword, so he bought a new exoskeleton
Not all heroes wear capes. Allen Pan of the YouTube Channel Sufficiently Advanced wears a $900 camera-stabilizing exoskeleton, which he ...
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It's not just you. Brussels Sprouts were gross in the 90s
I remember being grossed out by Brussels Sprouts as a kid. Because I was a kid, and there were reasons to be grossed out by every vegetable...
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COVID-19 killed the last man of an indigenous Brazilian tribe
Aruká Juma is dead, reports The New York Times — and with him, the culture knowledge of the indigenous Juma people of the Amazon. Aruká ...
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Tuesday tunes: Here Comes the Sun – Frankie Gavin & De Dannan
The worst of winter is behind us. Things are still terrifying out there, but vaccinations have begun (unless you live anywhere other tha...
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Stuck Suez cargo ship added to Microsoft Flight Sim
The Ever Given is free at last , but if you miss sitting back and watching capitalism choke at the table you can now fly around the enor...
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Upcycling gave me an iPhone case I absolutely love
I've been using Moment's lens system since the company was a scrappy Kickstarter startup. For a fella keen on traveling with nothin...
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Throwback video of Daily Show's response to Anti-Asian "comedy" piece on Fox News
Fox News harbored sexual harasser Bill O'Reilly , whose offensive show pandered to the gaggle of dopes his former network still attrac...
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