This is a fun video introduction to feeding yourself in Japan, even if you don't know Japanese. Really, it's pretty easy to get food in Japan if you're a foreigner,… Read the rest of the article: How to get food in Japan without knowing how to speak Japanese

Writing for Bloomberg Businessweek, Paul Ford says Facebook's "not-a-breach" of personal information on 50 millions of its users is just the latest example of why it's time for a digital… Read the rest of the article: Facebook says giving Cambridge Analytica info on 50 million people wasn't a "breach." It was a feature

Last night I learned that one of my favorite things about Los Angeles — Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood — is closing its doors after 25 years. It… Read the rest of the article: Meltdown Comics, a Los Angeles landmark, is shutting down

Tinkercad is a web-based 3D design application. It's free and easy to use. I've been using it for years to design models for 3D printing. What I didn't know until… Read the rest of the article: Tinkercad has a nifty Arduino simulator

The Illinois Republican Party was unable to draft a candidate against Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, and now he's won the Republican primary in Illinois' Third Congressional District. Jones is a… Read the rest of the article: Illinois Nazi wins GOP primary for Congress

ABC News reports that sources have told it that the special counsel investigating Russia-Trump collusion in the 2016 election has turned its attention to Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytica.… Read the rest of the article: Mueller is investigating Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytica

Actor Lindsay Lohan has a new job! She's a spokesperson for Lawyer.com. It's a truly brilliant move on both their parts. Here's the details from Lawyer.com's "About Lindsay" page: Lindsay… Read the rest of the article: ​Lindsay Lohan is Lawyerdotcom's new exclusive spokesperson

Two Sacramento police officers were placed on administrative leave after shooting an unarmed black man to death in his backyard on March 18, 2018. The officers were responding to a… Read the rest of the article: Police shoot and kill unarmed black man holding a cell phone in his backyard

Fandom has a description of this funny video starring the Cookie Monster and a talking coffee machine. The Coffee Break Machine was used for an IBM training film and performed… Read the rest of the article: In this 1967 IBM training video, the Cookie Monster eats a talking computerized coffee machine

By now, every sane person realizes that Facebook is horrible. It uses your personal data in unsavory ways. It sells your data to unscrupulous companies. It encourages businesses to build… Read the rest of the article: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

Executives at Cambridge Analytica, the data mining firm that worked with Facebook to develop a microtargeted propaganda campaign that helped Trump get in office, were secretly recorded boasting about entrapping… Read the rest of the article: Top execs at Cambridge Analytica boast about using sex workers to blackmail politicians

Kurzgesagt, the maker of the world's best explainer videos, is back with an explain about the "selfish argument for making the world a better place." The entire video is worth… Read the rest of the article: Egoistic Altruism – a selfish argument for making the world a better place

This reminds of the saying that goes something like, "A mistake is when you fall. Failure is when you don't get back up." This little kid is the opposite of… Read the rest of the article: Little kid works hard at jumping onto stool

Take a gander at this huge poster from 1962 for Thunderball, starring Sean Connery as Agent 007 (in my book, Connery will always be the only 007, just as Shatner… Read the rest of the article: James Bond poster for Thunderball expected to fetch $10k at auction

Every year we invite a bunch of friends over for Christmas dinner. We always have oven roasted turkey. But for 2017, I was given a loaner unit of the Lynx… Read the rest of the article: Review: Lynx Sonoma smoker makes the perfect turkey

Rihanna criticized Snap for running an ad on its platform that asked users if they would rather "Slap Rihanna" or "Punch Chris Brown." In 2009 Chris Brown beat Rihanna so… Read the rest of the article: Snapchat removes ad that asks people if they would like to "Slap Rihanna"

Combined gifs – the art of taking clips from two or more different videos and mixing them together to create a funny little story – are hitting a new high… Read the rest of the article: Funny collection of combined gifs

This dog has bumped his snout into the sliding glass door enough times to know that taking a treat offered by its human companion could have painful consequences. Good Boye… Read the rest of the article: Dog has been stopped too many times by hard air to accept treat from owner

New York Police Department Officer Yessenia Jimenez was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents on weapons and drug trafficking charges following a month long investigation. According to AP, Jimenez "helped… Read the rest of the article: NYPD Commissioner "troubled" by news of cop arrested for running an international heroin ring

This guy set up a telescope in public areas around Los Angeles and invited people to look at the Moon. They react with astonishment and joy.