Two railway workers in California were fired by Caltrain after the company realized they had quietly converted unused offices into secret apartments to avoid the area's brutal commutes. The two… Read the rest of the article: Railway workers built secret apartments in train stations
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Rob Beschizza I wasn't expecting the Virtual Colossus to be implemented in three-dimensional space as a browser-based first-person experience. It's a little nightmarish, even, clacking rhythmically, insistently, ominously. And you need to… Read the rest of the article: Tinker with a virtual Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer
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Rob Beschizza The floating world of media punditry is learning all about Donald Trump again, from scratch, in stories with headlines like "Why Trump Media stock is subject to extreme turbulence." The… Read the rest of the article: Trump Social stock sinks to IPO level
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Rob Beschizza Scented thermal paste is a thing, now, and it comes in plastic syringes with doe-eyed anime characters and a variety of vegetal flavors. Joanna Nelius: Are scents a practical feature… Read the rest of the article: Cool your hot chips with scented thermal paste
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Rob Beschizza Sadly, the periodical implied by the headline here doesn't exist, but maybe it should: a local charity dealing with pollution reports an interesting haul this year. voodoo dolls, whoopie cushions,… Read the rest of the article: The New Jersey Review of Beach Trash
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Rob Beschizza Jesse E Kipf, 39, on the hook for $100k in child support, faked his death and even created a fake death certificate for himself. The plan didn't work out: Kipf… Read the rest of the article: Man faked own death to avoid paying child support
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Rob Beschizza Norfolk Southern, operator of the train that derailed near Palestine, Ohio in February 2023, has agreed to pay a $600m settlement to end a class action lawsuit filed against it.… Read the rest of the article: Norfolk Southern to pay $600m settlement over toxic train derailment in Ohio
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Rob Beschizza Staff turning up to the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, found the building had been damaged by fire the night before. No-one was hurt and bomb technicians confirmed the device… Read the rest of the article: No-one hurt in Massachusetts Satanic Temple bombing
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Rob Beschizza CNC News reports that Viaguard Accu-Metrics sold paternity tests that it knew were inaccurate and did so for years. Harvey Tenenbaum, the owner of Viaguard Accu-Metrics, told a CBC producer… Read the rest of the article: Canadian DNA lab sold paternity tests it knew were inaccurate
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Rob Beschizza Traditional wheel-locking boots being easy to remove in the age of 40v cordless angle grinders and the like, New York Police Department is switching to windshield-covering boots instead. "Good luck… Read the rest of the article: NYPD debuts windshield boot to trap parking offenders
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Rob Beschizza Autism Awareness Week won't be a thing at Trinity Christian Academy near Lake Worth in Florida: its lead pastor, Matt Baker, decided that it is "demonic." Parents upset by a… Read the rest of the article: Florida private school cancels Autism Awareness Week after pastor says it's demonic
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Rob Beschizza AI-generated books—at best useless mish-mashes of written works and at worst lethal nonsense—are flooding Amazon and other venues. Google Books is indexing it indiscriminately, reports 404 Media, and the junk… Read the rest of the article: Google Books ingesting all the AI-generated rubbish
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Rob Beschizza The Raspberry Pi 400 is a keyboard with a single-board computer built-in, like the old 8-bits of yore. The PiDock is a display+trackpad caddy for it which converts it into… Read the rest of the article: PiDock converts a Raspberry Pi 400 into a laptop
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Rob Beschizza The fashion people were at it again, selling ruined clothes for astronomical prices to people who think they get it. Following his viral SS23 'Mud' show, Balenciaga's Demna Gvasalia explained… Read the rest of the article: Ruined jeans yours for $2500
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Rob Beschizza Re:AMP is a modern implementation of the fast, simple, handsome y2k-era music player Winamp, by Alexander Vasilchenko. To whip this llama's ass you'll be needing a Mac. For Windows, check… Read the rest of the article: Re:AMP implements classic music player WinAMP on modern Macs
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Rob Beschizza Start your week with the best bit from a NSFW clip of a woman blocking traffic and abusively declining to move her car into a parking space. Ultimately, she utters… Read the rest of the article: Upset driver gives others her thoughts
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Rob Beschizza Emulators, long forbidden on the App Store unless baked in to a single app or game, may finally do what they're good for: downloading, storing and running retro games, apps… Read the rest of the article: Apple allows game emulators on App Store, finally
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Rob Beschizza Inmates at a New York prison will be allowed to view Monday's total eclipse outside after suing over a planned lockdown during the event. The inmates at Woodbourne Correctional Facility… Read the rest of the article: New York prison inmates win right to watch eclipse
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Rob Beschizza Consuelo Dal Bo, 56, and daughter Isabella Dal Bo, 18, were arrested this week in Texas after a sting operating targeting illegal butt injections. The pair were charged with practicing… Read the rest of the article: Texas mom and daughter arrested over illegal butt injections
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Rob Beschizza A man sprayed a flammable liquid on the door of Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' office in Burlington and set fire to it Friday. No-one was hurt in the fire,… Read the rest of the article: Arsonist targets Bernie Sanders' office; no-one hurt in fire