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
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Mark Frauenfelder Police in California are allowed to take your tablet or cell phone away from you and search it without a warrant. But yesterday the state Senate unanimously approved a bill… Read the rest of the article: Cops need warrants to search smartphones, laptops, tablets: California Senate
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Mark Frauenfelder If you accidentally install Troldash (via spam email) on your computer, it will encrypt your hard drive and lock up your files. Troldash will display an email address to contact… Read the rest of the article: A computer researcher haggled with a Russian ransomware criminal
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Mark Frauenfelder An easily spread strain of fungus is killing banana plants around the world. It's called Fusarium wilt and it attacks the top-selling banana breed, called the Cavendish.
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Mark Frauenfelder The US Senate voted 50-49 to reject "the scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change, days after NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared 2014 the hottest… Read the rest of the article: US Senate proves climate change is not humans' fault by voting on it
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Mark Frauenfelder Probably figuring a dead man wouldn't care about his credit card, NYPD Officer Ymmacula Pierre used it to buy a lovely diamond ring from Zales. Unfortunately for Officer Pierre, the… Read the rest of the article: NYPD cop enjoys using dead man's credit card to buy $3,282 diamond ring