This fun online museum showcases many of the internet's famous and beloved cats. The website is divided into areas for celebrity cats, fictional cats, cat memorials, funny cats, cat memes, and more.
The memorial section of the museum is my favorite because it contains some interesting historical cat stories from many decades ago. — Read the rest
The FBI has unraveled a years-long scheme to defraud streaming services with bot accounts and AI-generated music.
This RollingStone article describes a confusing scheme in which a gentleman set up a huge bot network to allegedly play and share AI-generated ripoffs of actual artists' music. — Read the rest
Heart-wrenching news from Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. America's school shooting epidemic continues unchecked.
It is a horrific situation, and thinking of the children, parents, teachers, staff, and everyone else who has been subject to the nightmare brings me to tears. — Read the rest
It took former Vice President Mike Pence years to finally join the rest of us in realizing that Trump is bad for America. After all, a president who incites a mob to storm the Capitol, overthrow the government, and chant for the hanging of the vice president for not helping him destroy democracy isn't exactly the ideal candidate for reelection in a representative democracy. — Read the rest
Contrary to The Economist's volitional disinterest in its history, Germany's hard right territory is in fact charted. Why, here's an actual chart:
Previously:
• 'Who Goes Nazi?' This 1941 spot-the-fascist game could come in handy soon
• Wolfenstein: 30+ years of killing Nazis
• EAT THE REICH is a new RPG where vampires get to suck Nazi blood
The Nintendo characters at Universal Studio Hollywood were doing their thing this summer, meeting and greeting park guests, when an excited l'il Toad made a mistake and broke into some dance moves. Yes, it was cute — so darn cute, in fact, that everyone with a TikTok account started to ask the adorable toadstool to dance with them. — Read the rest
Advantage Air makes smart air conditioning systems in Australia, a place with a very captive summer audience. The wall controller, which turns it on and off, is a lowest-conceivable tier Android contraption doomed to fail the second the warranty expires—and they see you coming a mile off, charging $1245 for a replacement and trying to tack on all sorts of extras. — Read the rest
Twenty-one cases of Oropouche virus disease, also known as sloth fever, have been reported in the United States (20 in Florida and one in New York), as well as 19 cases in Europe, according to a Washington Post report. Most of these cases involve travelers returning from Cuba and Brazil. — Read the rest
Residents of some Asian countries recently celebrated Ghost Month. Originating in Taoist and Buddhist traditions, it's a period during which the spirits of the deceased return to the world of the living, prompting rituals and offerings to appease and honor them. — Read the rest
Back in April, a video on social media depicted two imbeciles gleefully pushing boulders off an ancient rock formation at Nevada's Lake Mead National Recreation Area. A few days ago, a federal grand injury charged Wyatt Clifford Fain, 37, and Payden David Guy Cosper, 31, with with one count each of injury and depredation of government property and one count of aiding and abetting. — Read the rest
The National Park Service once again brings its "A" game and showcases how awesome and talented its Rangers are! This time, the NPS brilliance comes in the form of a concert series called "NPS Front Desk," a clever riff on NPR's Tiny Desk series. — Read the rest
"Chocolate breakthrough" sounds like a euphemism for something unpleasant, but in this case it's good news: Swiss scientists report successfully making chocolate with the entire cocoa fruit rather than just the beans.
— Read the restThey say traditional chocolate production, using only the beans, involves leaving the rest of the cocoa fruit – the size of a pumpkin and full of nutritious value – to rot in the fields.
"Any consumers who buy organic food because they believe that it contains more healthful nutrients than conventional food are wasting their money." says Joseph D. Rosen, emeritus professor of food toxicology at Rutgers. This quote appears in a "mythbusting" article about organic foods by Christie Wilcox, a postdoctoral researcher in cellular and molecular biology at the University of Hawaii, published in Scientific American. — Read the rest
Pavel Durov, the CEO of private messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France this weekend and charged under various spectacular crimes—terrorism, pedophilia, fraud, etc.—on the rationale that the company's failure to police and moderate users amounts to complicity in crimes involving use of the platform. — Read the rest
TL;DR: Mini size, mega features. Get the NanoPhone for just $109.99 (reg. $199).
What is this? A smartphone for ants?
Meet NanoPhone, the credit card-sized smartphone that would've really pissed Derek Zoolander off but is about to change how you think about staying connected. — Read the rest
Why Ann Coulter thought it was a good idea to mock Tim Walz's 17-year-old son for his emotional reaction at the DNC, calling him "weird," is a real stumper. But the perpetually mean conservative immediately got her comeuppance with fierce online backlash from both sides of the political aisle. — Read the rest
On Tuesday night, an unidentified man scaled an apartment building in Rome's Della Vittoria neighborhood and climbed into a private residence via a balcony door. The 38-year-old was in the process of burglarizing the apartment when a book on a bedroom nightstand caught his eye. — Read the rest
Peloton's numbers show that rising prices and cutting staff can help slow their losses, but the business is still shrinking.
Peloton made slightly more money from both business segments—subscribers and hardware sales—than in the same quarter last year, but the revenue growth masks their shrinking market. — Read the rest
Earlier today, the trailer to Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis dropped, with the first 45 seconds dedicated to nasty things that critics of yore said about his most famous movies—an attempt to get in front of the critical mauling his new sci-fi epic is expected to receive. — Read the rest
Cabin crew aboard an American Airlines flight out of Miami were alarmed to find a passenger bleeding from the scalp after a hair transplant, and asked him to deboard after he said he had no extra bandages. He and another passenger refused and were arrested. — Read the rest
