As if folks in California haven't already seen a dramatic, terrifying, and overly long fire season, SoCal braces for the Santa Ana wind...
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A brief documentary on the legendary 'Smokey and the Bandit'
Everything from the cars to Fred the basset hound made Smokey and the Bandit great. The performances by so many fantastic and favorite ac...
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Report: Ozy Media isn't just faking it, but making staff miserable
More trouble at media company Ozy is reported today by CNN Business , which gets past its comical pratfalls (such as an executive impersona...
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Listen to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore lovely cover of the Velvet Underground's "Heroin"
This week saw the release of I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico . It's the final project from t...
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TikToker who worked as Tinkerbell at Disneyland describes the creepy dads who hit on her
Sarah Daniels worked at Disneyland as Tinkerbell and other Disney princesses and she's been talking talking on TikTok about creepy dad...
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Woman charged for crying during surgery
Don't cry during a stressful or painful medical procedure, unless you're willing to pay extra. One woman learned this the hard way ...
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British cop nicknamed "The Rapist" by his police colleagues is jailed for life for rape and murder
Wayne Couzens, a police officer in London, was nicknamed The Rapist by his colleagues on the Metropolitan force. Couzens, 48, was today se...
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Man opens emergency door on plane and walks on wing
Here's a new twist on the weirdness we've come to expect in airplane passenger news. Right after an American Airlines flight from ...
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Religious scholar says serial liar Madison Cawthorn needs to go back to Bible study
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) recently spoke at the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Salt & Light Conference...
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Watch: This updated "I'm Just a Bill" reflects the new circus of Capitol Hill
In the olden days, Schoolhouse Rock!'s "I'm Just a Bill" taught kids all they needed to know about the steps a young bill...
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John Oliver's hilarious history of duck stamps
Proof that John Oliver can make anything funny, I was trying to skip this one based on its subject matter but nope, anatomically correct du...
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Atari ST in daily use since 1985 to run campground
Here's an Atari ST that's been in daily use since 1985 as a general-purpose business machine at a campground, complete with sof...
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Northern Ireland facing unprecedented clown shortage
As COVID-19 re-openings have staggered across Europe, the clowning industry has suffered. The BBC spoke with David Duffy, co-owner of D...
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Johnny Ramone's infamous Mosrite guitar was just auctioned off for nearly $1 million
From RR Auction : A 1965 Mosrite Ventures II electric guitar personally-owned and -used by Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) for nearly tw...
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Indoor fireworks display shows how quickly fires get out of hand
In this footage, pyrotechnics are inappropriately set off indoors, igniting flammable decorations above a wedding party. The blaze goes f...
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Watch Phoebe Bridgers cover a song from Bo Burnham's "Inside"
This past Monday evening, I went to my first full concert since March 2020 to see Phoebe Bridgers perform. The whole show was wonderful,...
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With a dual-camera drone like this, your aerial shots will never be the same
Whether it's a website, promotional content, or your personal social media account, photos and videos just aren't what they used to...
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Lego orrery with the Sun, the Earth and the Moon
This orrery, made by marian from Lego, models the movements of the Sun, Earth and Moon with accurate rotational and orbital periods, axi...
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Man runs like animals
My favorite is the squirrel, obviously. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/3D0WXhS via IFTTT
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Lil Nas X covers "Jolene," gets nod from Dolly herself
Imagine covering one of Dolly Parton's biggest hits and then getting a shoutout from the icon herself on social media. That's ex...
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What goes on in the brains of people that see Jesus in burnt toast: a scientific study
Seeing faces in inanimate objects isn't anything new, and the word pareidolia has been in use since the 1860s. An Instagram account ca...
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Kooky 1950's Japanese candy comedy
Image: YouTube Yasuzo Masumura's "Giants and Toys" (1958, color) is a funny and satirical look at go-go, post WWII Japan....
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Watch: visualization of how many solar panels are required to power the world
If you want to power the entire planet with photovoltaic power, you'll need twenty-three billion standard solar panels. That, of course...
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Watch a violent scuffle at a school board meeting after a man praises masks
After a man praises masks at a school board meeting in Eastern Carver County, Minnesota, things get ugly. The only accessories missing in t...
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This copy paste keyboard started as an April Fool's joke. Now you can buy one
Stack Overflow, a community help forum for programmers, announced a 3-button copy-paste keyboard as an April Fools' Day prank The joke ...
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Vanilla Ice's new refrigerator commercial is not a parody
This is not someone parodying Vanilla Ice, although Vanilla Ice may be parodying himself. Either way, word to your mother. From Samsung ...
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19 of the top 20 Facebook page for American Christians are run by Eastern European troll farms
It's not likely that the habitués of the top Christian Facebook page of 2019, Be Happy Enjoy Life, would give a hoot that the page was ...
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Ultrarich complain that their superskinny tower is a shoddily-built mess
New York City now has several ultratall buildings constructed for ultrawealthy owners. They're a Jungian archetype of howling inequalit...
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Lonnie Liston Smith, jazz organ maestro, RIP
The great Dr. Lonnie Liston Smith who has been pushing the edges of jazz organ since the 1960s died yesterday at age 79. Smith recorded ...
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An eight-foot-long handwriting robot
Aaron Francis wanted a pen-plotter that could write out thousands of pieces of direct mail. He bought the Axidraw from Evil Mad Scientist ...
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Scotland first country to teach queer history at school
The Scotsman reports that Scotland will be the first country to teach queer history as part of its standard school curriculum [paywall]. M...
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Racist plays loud monkey sounds and recorded slurs to harass Black neighbors
A resident of Virginia Beach, Virginia reportedly plays audio of monkey sounds and recorded racist skits meant to harass a Black family who...
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YouTube announced it will remove all anti-vaccine content, kicked off Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
YouTube announced that anti-vaxxers will no longer be welcome on the video-hosting platform, reports The Washington Post . YouTube alre...
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Check out these impressively epic balloon animals
Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto is a true auteur of the balloon animal genre. Which is not something I ever thought existed, until I ...
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