A manager at the Arbys in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, spat in a customers food, say police, an act that allegedly resulted in the victim contracting oral herpes. The Smoking Gun… Read the rest of the article: We Have The Herpes: Arby's worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food
Kodak's Charmera, the keychain-sized digital camera that became a minor cultural phenomenon last year, is back with a new look. Reto, the company that makes the camera and licenses the… Read the rest of the article: Kodak's new Charmeras have Y2K vibes
Joseph McGrail-Bateup, a 58-year-old air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier from Canberra, Australia, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's loudest person. McGrail-Bateup yelled the word… Read the rest of the article: Canberra's town crier recognized as world's loudest person with 122.4dB yell
A cyberdeck is a homemade portable computer in the cyberpunk mold (utilitarian, DIY) and NickZero's Ultra Minimal Cyberdeck [instructables.com] is exemplary: just a single-board computer, a tiny keyboard (cf. my… Read the rest of the article: Cyberdeck with punishingly minimal 30% keyboard
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields [airfields-freeman.com] collects America's half-forgotten strips and reconstructs each one's history from old aeronautical charts, topographic maps, aerial photographs, and tips from readers who flew or lived… Read the rest of the article: The obscure airfields of America
The Old English Wordhord unlocks one medieval word a day, pairing each term with its definition, pronunciation and, often, a manuscript illustration. The site's creator (or should it be wordwyrm?)… Read the rest of the article: Old English word of the day
The lining of the Reflecting Pool at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial was painted blue to please Trump: a no-bid $14.7m contract that went to a company that had worked on… Read the rest of the article: New blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling
The HP 16c Collector's Edition [HP via Adafruit] revives a mundane but well-loved tool. In 1982, the original 16c was designed specifically for programmers and engineers; after three decades, only… Read the rest of the article: HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form
CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that… Read the rest of the article: CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse
A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation over claims they used artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence. The BBC's Samantha Noble reports that it's thought to be the first case… Read the rest of the article: British police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence
When President Trump first showed reporters a model of the proposed United States Triumphal Arch, CBS News's Ed O'Keefe asked who it was for. "Me," said Trump. "It's going to… Read the rest of the article: Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden
The sprawling Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh is most famous as the setting for George A. Romero's 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead: the shambling zombies return out of… Read the rest of the article: Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour
Lowtein is a simple website that geolocates you and tells you about the cheapest proteins available in your location. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, it informs me that Giant Eagle… Read the rest of the article: Website tracks protein meal deals for 171 cities in U.S. and Canada
The Information reports that Microsoft is considering several ways to set loose its XBox gaming division, including spinning it out as a separate company, restructuring it as a subsidiary, or… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft may spin off struggling XBox division
An early, sticker-sealed copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. sold for $3m at auction today, stomping the record set in 2021. Chris Kohler writes on Bluesky that it's the first… Read the rest of the article: Sealed 1985 Super Mario Bros game fetches record $3m at auction
The president of Taipei's Shih Hsin University told graduates to end their own lives if they couldn't handle the workforce, remarks that led to widespread anger. Yang Mien-chieh and Jake… Read the rest of the article: College president suggests graduates "put a quick end" to themselves in commencement speech
That One Matt Bors Comic is a book entirely about how a single-panel drawing "conquered the discourse" in the mid 2010s. You know the one! Bors' strip perfectly captured the… Read the rest of the article: A whole book about That One Matt Bors Comic
The Social Reckoning is Aaron Sorkin's sequel to The Social Network, his 2010 drama about the founding of Facebook. The original starred Jesse Eisenberg as petulant boy genius Mark Zuckerberg.… Read the rest of the article: The Social Reckoning trailer
Francis Cadell was one of the four Scottish Colourists, a painter of Edinburgh interiors, Iona shorelines and poised women in black hats. When art teacher Helene Plotkin spotted an eyecatching… Read the rest of the article: Francis Cadell painting bought for $100 in thrift store fetches more than $250,000 at auction
Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., removed a prominent priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he claimed that most UFO sightings are the work of… Read the rest of the article: Catholic church fires exorcist who said UFO sightings mostly the work of demons
