United flight UA236 was supposed to take passengers from Newark to Mallorca. Instead, it became a lesson in why teenage comedy and aviation security should never share a cabin. It… Read the rest of the article: A Bluetooth speaker named "BOMB" ruined everyone's flight to Mallorca
This YouTube video shows how to sideload apps onto a Roku, which is useful if your streaming box has not been doing enough 1980s computer-game archaeology. Games lovingly ported to… Read the rest of the article: Sideload Lode Runner onto your Roku
Arthur Cofield was already famous for running an $11 million fraud scheme from prison with contraband phones, gold coins, and a private security company. Now he has improved the story… Read the rest of the article: Man who stole $11 million from prison has a new trick: escaping
For 150 years, Jack Daniel's sold the tidy story of a white country preacher teaching a boy to make whiskey. The man actually running the still was Nearest Green, an… Read the rest of the article: Jack Daniel's sold a preacher story and buried the enslaved distiller
Grandpa Pudding Brains is bragging that America has "a war going on" and the economy is booming, because apparently, the Dow hitting "number 69" is now how we measure national… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains says war is fine because number 69
I am not sure who failed harder, the AI used to create the image, or the social media manager who let it out into the wild: I do not think… Read the rest of the article: Acupuncture hits different in Nebraska
Grandpa Pudding Brains is mad that the "Third Rate Artists" are getting "the yips," so he may replace them with the only performer he truly respects: Grandpa Pudding Brains. Get… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he's bigger than Elvis
The anti-vaccine crowd spent years trying to rebrand measles as a harmless childhood inconvenience. Texas just supplied the hospital records. In a study published yesterday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly… Read the rest of the article: RFK Jr.'s "just a rash" disease filled Texas hospital beds
The second annual Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 is eleven innuendo-packed minutes of giant hot dogs racing around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which is more or less what we call fine art… Read the rest of the article: Oscar Mayer's Wienermobiles returned to Indy to haul buns
The pyramids used to be smooth, white, and blinding in the sun. Now they look like giant ancient staircases, and the usual explanation is that people stole the good bits.… Read the rest of the article: The pyramids' missing casing stones have a better story than "thieves"
San Diego's vacancy tax points to a much bigger California problem A lot of California's problems are made worse when homes and storefronts become investments rather than places where people… Read the rest of the article: California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts
Pattie Gonia is a drag queen and climate activist who raises money for environmental causes, hikes in heels, and has apparently become an existential threat to Patagonia's fleece empire. The… Read the rest of the article: Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia, which seems off-brand
Fox News host Harris Faulkner is gamely trying to turn Trump's sanctuary city airport sabotage into a misguided travel brochure. International travelers are not interchangeable units in a national tourism… Read the rest of the article: Harris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states
Gray whales beat commercial whaling, only to run into a warmer Arctic that is quietly starving them. Gray whales were one of the great marine mammal recovery stories. Commercial whaling… Read the rest of the article: Gray whales made a comeback, and now the food is disappearing
After performing some destruction-derby tactical driving on the streets of Downtown that was especially impressive for how easily a person evading capture could escape, whichever of Los Angeles' law enforcement… Read the rest of the article: Dashcam shows Los Angeles cops dangerously lose their suspect
Continuing to bust moves, Young MC has joined Morris Day in walking away from Trump's big MAGA-palooza. The Trump-linked Freedom 250 festival, part of the planned Great American State Fair… Read the rest of the article: Morris Day and Young MC nope out of Trump-linked festival
After being canceled last year over safety concerns, Vivid Sydney's drone show returned this week and immediately dove 89 drones into the water. That is one way to answer the… Read the rest of the article: Vivid Sydney's drone show became a drone rainstorm
Thinking the show was doomed, legendary television sci-fi writer David Gerrold gave Land of the Lost an elegant series finale. Then the Marshall family got renewed, and the show promptly… Read the rest of the article: David Gerrold gave Land of the Lost an ending, then renewal ate it
Starbucks Korea apparently looked at the anniversary of soldiers using tanks to crush a democracy uprising and thought: great day to sell a "tank" tumbler. The coffee chain sparked public… Read the rest of the article: Starbucks Korea chose "Tank Day" for the anniversary of a massacre
Burning Man's Orgy Dome has survived two decades on the playa. Pumping away through the dust, the heat, and an inexhaustible human capacity for nudity in inhospitable climates. What it… Read the rest of the article: Burning Man's Orgy Dome got wrecked by 50 mph winds, now needs $30k to get properly erected again
