Hackers was so terrible, I loved it. The honest trailer points out all the hilarity without having to watch the entire film, but maybe I s...
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Keep up with your New Year's fitness goals with over $100 off this elliptical machine
Fitness isn't just an activity, it's a lifestyle. Plus, if you want to be your happiest and healthiest self possible, it's easi...
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Watch Nirvana play live in 1989, years before they smelled the teen spirit
Watch Nirvana grind through a killer noisy set on December 1, 1989 at Fahrenheit, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Note that the drummer was...
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People are already being sexually assaulted in Facebook's Metaverse
Earlier this month, The Verge reported that a beta tester for Facebook's Metaverse reported that her avatar had been sexually harassed...
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The US just recorded its first omicron death in Texas
The first known death related to omicron in the United States was reported yesterday in Texas. The Houston-area man, who hasn't been id...
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World Cup hosts Qatar seizes rainbow-colored kids toys for being "anti-Islamic"
Qatari authorities boasted monday that they'd seized a range of rainbow-colored childrens' toys because they displayed "anti-I...
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Listen to the Beach Boys sing T-Pain
The connection between music and comedy isn't new. Matt Bellamy of Muse once claimed to have penned several songs from the band'...
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Hark! The tenor crumhorn
To quote the Hidden Gems Literary Emporium: "Whenever someone is explaining something you don't care about whatsoever, this is ...
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The reason you find Christian films boring
Even though cinema is as subjective as any other art form, box office data helps us gauge a movie's quality, a metric for how passio...
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The life and (possible) death of Tokyo's capsule tower
While some tiny apartments are cute pieces of architecture crafted with the highest efficiency in mind, others are so cramped and depres...
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Watch this Japanese schoolgirl fight crime with a rocket launcher
Japanese culture is a beautiful, bottomless treasure chest. If you're shopping for quality animation, you're seldom going to be ...
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Woman describes experience of being tracked with an Apple AirTag
Apple AirTags are tiny wireless tracking devices that you can attach to things so you can find them if you lose them. Last Friday, Jeana Je...
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Watch these cute, thoroughly captivated manatees checking out a kayaker
I'm not sure whether its the silly winter PJs the kayaker is wearing or the see-through kayak itself, but three captivated manatees jus...
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Real Gregorian monks singing the Halo theme is pretty insane
Halo's music has always been amazingly spot on. This live rendition of the main theme is pretty great. I do want the heavy drums to sta...
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Anti-vax Washington state senator dies after coming down with Covid-19
Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen became sick with Covid-19 last month while on a trip to El Salvador. The 52-year-old Republican — wh...
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Take a look at why The Michael Richards Show failed to take off
Seinfeld wasn't just a popular show; it was a cultural leviathan. I didn't start watching Seinfeld until my late teens, and I u...
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A professor hid $50 on campus and put the location in the syllabus. No student read it
Kenyon Wilson is a professor of performing arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and this semester, he ran an experiment: hidi...
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Help the Alpha Young Writers Workshop for its 20th anniversary
Since 2002, the Alpha Writers Workshop has hosted a group of a teenagers from 14 to 19 years of age for an 11-day residential writing work...
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Relax to this 1-hour dumpster fire ambience video
"Fall asleep to the sounds of the world around us," promises Real Life Ambience, "1 Hour of fire sounds for the whole family...
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Kellogg's removes its logo from Pop-Tarts boxes
On Friday, Kellogg's confirmed online rumors that it has removed its name from Pop-Tarts boxes. The move comes amidst a months-long s...
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Before "What We Do in the Shadows," Mark Proksch was a yo-yo-wielding morning show prankster
Before Mark Proksch's Collin Robinson character started boring people to death as the energy vampire on What We Do in the Shadows...
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Check out this retrospective on the platinum age of comics
As much as comic fans fawn over the Golden Age, it's equally important to look at the preceding era, which set the stage for modern ...
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Funeral for ice cream truck driver is surprisingly sweet
Hassan Dervish spent 40 years of his life selling ice cream in southeast London. Sadly, his life was taken by cancer at the age of 62. T...
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Dressing for minus fifty (or less): what people in Yakutsk wear out in the coldest city on Earth
Here's how people in Yakutsk, Siberia—the coldest big city on Earth—dress to go out in the extreme cold there. Meanwhile, over in F...
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Behold the Lego tapas factory
My young son has become transfixed by videos of Lego robots moving bread around and preparing meals. Here's one of them, now watched pe...
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Kanye West's presidential campaign was run by GOP
When footage emerged of Kanye West's "publicist" threatening an election worker after Trump's 2020 election defeat, it wa...
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Poop texture organized by similarity to UK chocolate brands
An author I follow on Twitter reports spotting this wonderful variation of the Bristol Stool Chart in a UK hospital while having some test...
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The story of how Coke designed Santa
Christmas is next week, which means our society's obligatory celebration of consumerism, materialism, and family is finally here. In...
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Japan and the issue of racial profiling
In recent months, Japan has come under fire for racially profiling people who visit the country. As a result, the US embassy has even is...
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Watch Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights prototype, The Dirk Diggler Story
Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Licorice Pizza is currently in the middle of its theatrical release and enjoying strong approval f...
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Check out this trailer for the new dimension-hopping kung fu flick from A24
Spider-Man: No Way Home , Marvel's first cinematic foray into the multiverse concept, is currently dominating the box office and cri...
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Tucker Carlson seems to think you can catch prostate cancer from your idiot neighbors
I'm not sure what Tucker Swanson Carlson, the idiocracy's favorite schoolmarm, is pretending to be upset about here. I think he is ...
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Scientists discover first actual millipede with more than 1,000 legs
The word "millipede" means "thousand feet" but nobody has ever identified a millipede, or any other kind of animal on E...
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Tokyo fire department warns residents not to leave roombas in rooms with standing heaters
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Man injured when his oxygen tank explodes, after he pounded on it with a hammer
In Charleston, West Virginia, a gentleman was taken to the hospital after his oxygen tank exploded outside his home. Prior to the explosion...
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Listen to the Ninja Turtles 90s Christmas album
Back in 1994, the Ninja Turtles were already on the way down their early 90s height of popularity. So naturally, the best way to save th...
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Three great art books that'll arrive by Christmas
Still looking for gifts for art book-loving friends or family? Just in time for holiday gift giving (or wish-listing) here a few reviews th...
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On the 50th anniversary of Hunky Dory, here's a bit of David Bowie trivia
English performer and actor David Bowie released Hunky Dory, his fourth album, in 1971 when he was 24. Rolling Stone calls it the 88th gre...
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Limited edition color-shifting turntable designed by Brian Eno
It's already too late to sign up for Brian Eno's colorful, glowing turntable : the limited edition sold out almost as soon as it be...
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Wanna learn how Psilocybin actually works
Pop quiz: what's the compound that makes you trip when you're munching on psychedelic mushrooms? If you said psilocybin, you...
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Are Tyler Perry's film harmful to the image of Black Americans?
The cornerstone of the cultural appropriation argument centers on the amount of respect, or lack thereof, shown to the borrowed culture ...
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Gaze into the abyss that is Garfield
Cards on the table: the video linked above is a long one. It's a labyrinthian journey into the rotten core of the internet, and one ...
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This unique personal fireplace is on sale for under $100
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Brilliant shot of drone swooping through campus
I was wondering why it was clever that a drone video was shot in a single take. Then I watched it! One of our most spectacular films w...
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Listen to this great playlist of Black artists covering the Beatles
I recently worked on a project (more info TBA once it's public!) that involved some digging into music scene around Muscle Shoals, Alab...
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Watch Mike Tyson explain the X-Men to Roseanne Barr
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gabe Loves 90s Comics (@gabelove90scomics) I...
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