A Huntington Beach, CA man expressed his displeasure for a hovering multicopter by knocking it to the ground with his shirt. As the drone fell, it cut the man's leg.… Read the rest of the article: Angry gentleman, possibly inebriated, breaks $1,350 multicopter
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Mark Frauenfelder Six bucks is a great deal for this 2-Port USB wall charger. (I travel with a 5 Port USB charger and love the long AC cord on it, but it… Read the rest of the article: 2-Port USB travel wall charger on sale for $6
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Mark Frauenfelder The Wall Street Journal has a juicy excerpt from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff's new book, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of… Read the rest of the article: The inside story of how the iPhone crippled BlackBerry
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Mark Frauenfelder At Target, a single lorazepam pill costs about 14 cents. The Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles sells them for $20, and doesn't tell you that until you get the… Read the rest of the article: LA's Good Samaritan Hospital marks up the price of a lorazepam pill by 14,000%
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Mark Frauenfelder "Officers and Troopers searched the car, after finding drugs in the vehicle, and slammed the trunk in fear when this little guy aggressively jumped at them! Oklahoma Game Warden Carlos… Read the rest of the article: Police say snapping turtle used to guard drug stash was "aggressive"
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Mark Frauenfelder This guy says he's doing a public service by showing women how easy it is to covertly drop pills into their drinks at a restaurant, but he comes off as… Read the rest of the article: Guy films himself dropping fake drugs in women's drinks
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Mark Frauenfelder A San Diego neighborhood is in an uproar because a man spread chocolate on his lawn to deter dog walkers from allowing their pets to evacuate their bowels on his… Read the rest of the article: Man who spread chocolate on lawn to deter dog-walkers draws neighbors' wrath
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Mark Frauenfelder Arrested for drugs, Lashon Stuckey, 33, chewed his way through a car seat belt so he could spend time with his son, who was celebrating his birthday. Stuckey was apprehended… Read the rest of the article: Man chewed through police car seat belt so he wouldn't miss his kid's birthday
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Mark Frauenfelder On Memorial Day in Harrisburg PA, an army soldier spotted 75-year-old Robert Ford wearing a Marine uniform as he walked down the street. The soldier suspected the uniform was phony… Read the rest of the article: Harrisburg PA Mayor says it was appropriate for a cop to wrongly accuse Marine veteran of being a fraud
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Mark Frauenfelder Claw machines can be programmed to automatically reduce their grip strength to maximize profits, while allowing an infrequent full-strength grip to entice suckers. From the instruction manual for a claw… Read the rest of the article: As you suspected: claw machines are rigged
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Mark Frauenfelder "Coffee is for viral content creators."
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Mark Frauenfelder Over at Make, Gareth Branwyn has written a terrific introduction to the "mutant urban marvel that is Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city that's become not only a global mass market… Read the rest of the article: Shenzhen – where tiny startups flock to incubate their products
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Mark Frauenfelder PayPal is splitting away from eBay on July 1. When that happens, PayPal users will be pleased to know that they've agreed to allow PayPal to robotext and robocall the… Read the rest of the article: PayPal gave itself the right to robocall you for any damn reason it pleases
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Mark Frauenfelder I use my $(removed) kitchen shears to chop lettuce. I put lettuce in a salad bowl, stick in the shears, and make a bunch of random cuts until the volume… Read the rest of the article: Kitchen shears are often better than a knife
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Mark Frauenfelder Mexican weed production is no longer profitable. That's because US growers have greatly increased the quality and quantity of their product, now that there's less risk of getting busted by… Read the rest of the article: Quasi-legality of US weed is reversing its flow back to Mexico
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Mark Frauenfelder Most materials cannot withstand the intensity of the red hot ball of nickel (RHNB). It has laid waste to a giant jawbreaker, a watermelon, a cube of ballistic gelatin, and… Read the rest of the article: The red hot ball of nickel has met its match
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Mark Frauenfelder Fudo no Yu, a famous hot spring (or, onsen) was closed after it was discovered that patrons were "indulging in group sex acts, filming adult footage and taking voyeuristic photographs… Read the rest of the article: Japan closes famous hot spring due to orgies
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Mark Frauenfelder Just 30 miles south of the Grand Canyon there's an even grander wonder of the world: Bedrock City. Established in 1972, this Flintstones-themed compound occupies 30 acres and has a… Read the rest of the article: Buy this Flintstones-themed campground and theme park for $2 million
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Mark Frauenfelder Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer is on the rise, due in part to the increased popularity of indoor tanning beds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and… Read the rest of the article: Indoor tanning contributes to doubling of melanoma rate in 30 years
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Mark Frauenfelder A 28-year-old Iranian artist and activist has been sentenced to 12 years and nine in prison for making monkeys out of Iranian leaders. Tehran's Revolutionary Court (which doesn't use juries)… Read the rest of the article: Draw a picture of parliament members as animals, go to prison for 13 years: Iran