On the website stubbornly known as Twitter, there are still wonders to behold. For example, a MAGA man in Mississippi realized that Apple-A-Day Horse Electrolytes contains ingredients similar to Gatorade,… Read the rest of the article: Is it safe to horsemaxx with horse electrolytes?
Tim Walz, running mate of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, has been added as a playable character to Sega classic Crazy Taxi. Walz turned out to be an aficionado of… Read the rest of the article: Dreamcast aficionado Tim Walz added as playable character to Sega classic Crazy Taxi
After pop star Taylor Swift announced her endorsement of Democrat Kamala Harris for president, 405,999 visitors hit the official voter registration site she linked to within 24 hours, it reports.… Read the rest of the article: Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala sent 400k people to vote.gov
Annapurna Interactive is a game publisher noted for its excellent taste in cultivating offbeat but highly-polished indie games. Or it was: the entire staff quit en-masse yesterday, about two dozen… Read the rest of the article: Annapurna Interactive's entire staff quits after talks with owners break down
IFixit announced a USB-C "smart" soldering iron for precision work away from the mains, and a cellphone-sized 100W battery/control box to go with it. Together, they're the Fixhub, but the… Read the rest of the article: Fixhub is IFixit's USB-C smart soldering kit
Bathyphysa conifera is a species of colonial organism found thousands of feet underwater off the coast of Chile. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is real, and Falkor found it. Scientists captured… Read the rest of the article: The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bathyphysa conifera, is for real
An 11-year-old boy who reported a classmate for bringing a bullet to St. John the Apostle School in Virginia Beach was given a two-day suspension because he waited until the… Read the rest of the article: Boy reporting classmate with bullet gets same punishment
Max Headroom, the deranged 1980s faux-CGI, faux-AI TV presenter, was and is often mistaken as a true computer graphic creation. At Cartoon Brew (more than a decade ago!), Neil Emmet… Read the rest of the article: In 1985 the BBC inteviewed pseudo-CGI entity Max Headroom in real-time
New York Police Department officers give away and sell so-called "courtesy cards" that can be flashed to other cops like them to get out of traffic stops, arrests and other… Read the rest of the article: Cop who refused to honor the "get out of jail" cards that NYPD officers sell wins $175k settlement after retaliation
He helped railroad company Norfolk Southern avoid significant consequences for a derailment, but now his career is off the tracks: CEO Alan Shaw was fired this week over a relationship… Read the rest of the article: CEO of Norfolk Southern fired over "consensual" relationship with subordinate
Though there's no chance of Republicans changing their ticket before November's election, the former president faces a worse fate than the current one's impending retirement: hundreds of millions of dollars… Read the rest of the article: DJT shares sink after debate disaster
Sony has announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, the latest model of its gaming and home entertainment platform. Get ready to fork out for it, too: it'll be $700 when it… Read the rest of the article: Playstation 5 Pro will be $700
Chinese manufacturer Huawei is first to market with a trifold phone, the Mate XT. With two folds, it transforms from a smartphone into a 10.2-inch tablet. The pricing is stiff… Read the rest of the article: Trifold phone announced by Huawei
Two supermassive black holes spotted by NASA telescopes are only 300 light years apart—unnervingly close in galactic terms. The celestial drainholes registered as spikes of bright light and were then… Read the rest of the article: Supermassive black holes only 300 light years apart
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivered the strong performance that Democrats had hoped to see at last night's ABC News presidential debate, leaving her opponent angry, defensive and unable to resist… Read the rest of the article: Commanding debate performance hands Kamala Harris the club
Signing her post as "Childless Cat Lady," pop star Taylor Swift last night endorsed Democrats Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for president and vice president in November's general election. I… Read the rest of the article: Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president
After a childhood spent in arcades or bouncing off complicated text-heavy 8-bit games at home, I was amazed by The Lost Patrol on my new 16-bit machine. A simple yet… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic cover of the theme from 16-bit classic The Lost Patrol
He's disliked in the business, especially by conservatives. Everyone's doing the best they can, working to well-established norms and against growing headwinds. We stage our minds, our means and the… Read the rest of the article: With apologies, it is overwhelmingly in the media's interest that Trump wins
I dare you to turn up to a job interview, church, sentencing, etc., in this. When they say something, feign ignorance and say, defensively, that it's just a playful design… Read the rest of the article: Sonic the Hedgehog suit, pants and tie
Multispectral imaging (previously at Boing Boing) exposes paintings and other artifacts to specific wavelengths of radiation in hopes of revealing secrets—hidden paintings under finished works, for example, or the ghosts… Read the rest of the article: Multispectral imaging of the Voynich Manuscript
