Cash Cars in Kansas City will take very little cash for very crappy vehicles. They are sold AS-IS, and yet Desmound Logan here must still explain to customers that when… Read the rest of the article: America's most honest used car salesman explains AS-IS
It's a very expensive wee gadget, the Teenage Engineering OP-1 [Amazon link; a used one from eBay is much cheaper]! Yuri Wong is an expert with its sampling and sequencing… Read the rest of the article: Making a song from the Tropic Thunder "I'm a Dude" quote with Teenage Engineering's amazing OP-1
Watched and filmed by the other drivers he has delayed, a man in East London slowly, laboriously, loudly removes and steals the catalytic converter from another vehicle. If you have… Read the rest of the article: Man stops in traffic to steal parked car's catalytic converter
A man in Ireland repeatedly injected semen into his arm in the hopes that it would cure his back pain. He instead got a subcutaneous abcess and had to get… Read the rest of the article: Turns out that injecting semen into your arm doesn't cure back pain after all
Interviewed by CNN's Chris Cuomo, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani all but admits what everyone assumes: that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election. Rudolph… Read the rest of the article: Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani insists they never denied collusion with Russia
Behold the Brostika! Like the hidden arrow in the FedEx logo, Slack's new brand has a negative-space surprise in store. The bars point the "lucky" left way, at least, rather… Read the rest of the article: Slack's new logo is a penis swastika
Some unicorns chase; some are chased down. These splendid and totally real unicorn skulls [Amazon] are sourced from troll and ogre fairtrade collectives, are 8.5" long and 10.75" tall, and… Read the rest of the article: Decorative unicorn skull
A quiz from Mental Floss: Who Wrote It: Edgar Allan Poe or an Emo Band? [via MeFi] "I stand amid the roar of a surf-tormented shore"
Nationwide icy weather's coming, reports the Weather Channel, with Winter Storm Harper tumbling over the west coast and up east already covered in bullshit.
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan was not expected to pass, but it was brutally murdered in a far larger margin of defeat than was expected: 432 to 202. This… Read the rest of the article: Prime Minister's Brexit plan defeated by 230 votes
Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars rantathon channel have been turfed out of virtually every major platform due to his love of violent rhetoric, racial hatred and… Read the rest of the article: Roku welcomes conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars (Update: Jones removed)
Here's a White House photo of Donald Trump with 1000 hamburgers—or "hamberders", as he put it this morning— in the State Dining Room of the White House. God bless America!
A popular mobile game available on the Play store is an "ad fraud platform", say researchers at a media intelligence company. Word Link was approved by Google and had since… Read the rest of the article: Top Google Play game accused of ad fraud
I was surprised to learn today that I've never posted the video of a duck being gently vacuumed.
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal with the European Union finally comes before parliament for a vote today. The deal is expected to fall short, leaving Britain with several more… Read the rest of the article: Parliament to vote on Brexit today
Another World: Survival is a low-res adaptation of Eric Chahi's classic 16-bit game. Though it's broken down to the essentials to "fit" on the Pico-8 fantasy console, it so perfectly… Read the rest of the article: Another World: Survival turns an old game into a new challenge
The Solton Ketron Programmer 24 is a 1985 sample-based synthesizer described as "The Italo Disco machine". They used to be on eBay, but good luck finding one nowawadays for much… Read the rest of the article: Hungry Like The Wolf on a Solton Ketron Programmer 24
Old Digital Cameras is a collection of, well, old digital cameras. Models go back to 1996; pictured here is Leica's 2006 digital M3, which was obsolete within months and is… Read the rest of the article: Collection of old digital cameras
Following a publicity campaign to make it the most popular photo on Instagram, a photo of an egg became the most popular photo on Instagram. The campaign started off slowly,… Read the rest of the article: Photo of egg becomes Instagram's most-liked
"People complain a lot about the space that I take up", says Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny [Kenny] explains how and why the theorbo was developed in the 17th century, what it… Read the rest of the article: Behold the theorbo, an enormous baroque lute
