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
"The Mandalorian and Grogu" is about a guy wearing a helmet and his puppet son dealing with CGI creatures. This is a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away… Read the rest of the article: "The Mandalorian and Grogu" looks incredible until you realize almost nobody is actually acting
Los Angeles residents were evacuated Wednesday after police discovered a massive cache of illegal fireworks inside a South LA home. Such a development would be alarming in any urban metro… Read the rest of the article: LAPD discovers huge fireworks cache, raising fears of another LAPD fireworks disaster
Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says Americans have made a terrible mistake by trying to eliminate hate from public life, arguing instead that the country should relearn how to hate… Read the rest of the article: Indiana Lt. Gov says America needs to rediscover the joy of hatred
As administration officials gathered for a high-stakes meeting, delicate negotiations with Iran, potentially ending the war, Grandpa Pudding Brains reportedly seized the moment for an urgent ten-minute philippic on the… Read the rest of the article: As war looms, Grandpa Pudding Brains delivers emergency remarks on decorative water features
A Florida traffic citation accusing a woman of holding her phone in her right hand collapsed under the crushing weight of a key factual complication: she does not have a… Read the rest of the article: Florida cops drop ticket for woman accused of holding phone in hand she does not have
America's ongoing experiment in handing microphones to cranks took another turn when RFK Jr. floated the thoroughly debunked claim that early circumcision doubles autism risk, prompting Donald Trump to claim… Read the rest of the article: Raising many questions, Grandpa Pudding Brains says he's "studied" circumcision for a long time
In an unsettling sign that Southern California's bear population may be entering its prep-school era, two smarter-than-average bruins were caught on video casually hopping a fence onto a Calabasas school… Read the rest of the article: Bears, smarter than average, decide to attend Calabasas school
British police are reportedly expending actual investigative resources in pursuit of the mystery artist behind a bit of graffiti reading "I fart3d in yoga," proving once again that somewhere between… Read the rest of the article: London police launch manhunt for artist behind "I farted in yoga" graffiti
For decades, dystopian fiction has warned us that artificial intelligence may one day turn against humanity. Instead, it appears to have taken the form of a mildly passive-aggressive Subaru that… Read the rest of the article: New Subaru repeatedly prevents its owner from the joy of distracted driving
SpaceX filing reveals Elon's business plan remains "all of civilization, plus ads" Elon Musk's newly public SpaceX filing reads less like a sober disclosure document and more like a hobbyist… Read the rest of the article: The most alarming parts of Elon Musk's SpaceX filing, ranked
A sweeping new review of decades of research has reached the kind of conclusion your pancreas could probably have offered for free: alcohol contributes to a startling range of diseases,… Read the rest of the article: Scientists confirm alcohol is, in fact, bad for you despite civilization's vigorous objections
Turns out you may not need to carry a tracking device everywhere if the room itself is already doing the job: researchers say ordinary WiFi can recognize individuals with startling… Read the rest of the article: Your WiFi router knows it's you
At Arlington National Cemetery, in a speech ostensibly honoring Americans who died in military service, Donald Trump somehow veered into a strange little stand-up routine about how many of the… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains pauses Memorial Day tribute to workshop a joke about dead soldiers named Donald
Next week's breakthrough: why "knife" starts with a K. In the middle of calling someone stupid, Donald Trump took a detour into what appeared to be a fresh personal revelation… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains: "Most people don't know dumb has a B"
The Louvre is giving the Mona Lisa her own dedicated exhibition space, a move that should dramatically improve conditions both for art lovers and for the daily migrating herds of… Read the rest of the article: Louvre creates containment zone for people who only came to selfie with Mona Lisa
Doctors are pleading with men to stop injecting assorted fluids into their testicles for social-media masculinity cred, which feels like the sort of sentence that should never have needed writing.… Read the rest of the article: Experts warn men not to turn scrotums into septic DIY water balloons
