A school district in Tennessee says it will no longer accept doctors' notes to excuse absenses. Children in Lawrence County School System who are sick for more than a few… Read the rest of the article: No doctor notes: Tennessee school district wants sick children back at school
Time Flies, by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, is a "a little adventure about our limited time in this world." The website, timeflies.buzz, features some outstanding pixel-art minimalism and animation… Read the rest of the article: Time Flies is a game about our "limited time in this world"
Terry Bolea, also known as Hulk Hogan and famed for wrestling, racism, sex tapes, etc., is dead at 71. He suffered a heart attack this morning at his home in… Read the rest of the article: Hulk Hogan dead at 71
Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft launched last year and, despite a manufacturing hiccup, received good reviews. But one thing about it hasn't impressed readers—the high price tag, especially compared to its own… Read the rest of the article: Cheaper color Kindle on the way
The Lego Gameboy exists and is up for pre-order, complete with lenticular display inserts, matching cartridges and all sorts of custom pieces to dial in that authentic retrogaming look. It… Read the rest of the article: Official Lego Gameboy coming this fall
At the Gamebooks subreddit, duncan_chaos is reviewing the long and storied history of gamebooks in 31 days. Anyone familiar with the genre will surely know of Choose Your Own Adventure… Read the rest of the article: The history of gamebooks in 31 days
Suspected due to overwhelming circumstantial evidence and doomed by DNA evidence he left at the scene, Bryan Kohberger will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering four… Read the rest of the article: Idaho student murderer Bryan Kohberger imprisoned for life
Pixel Moondust contains an archive of background tiles as found on the old web: less civilized weapons from a more elegant age. The backgrounds are organized by color and about… Read the rest of the article: Collection of 1990s website background tiles from Geocities
Maingear's Retro95 PC looks like it was made in the nineties but packs a modern punch: it's offered with up to 95GB of RAM, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, an… Read the rest of the article: Retro95 PC puts today's tech in an old-fashioned case
What can be done with 1 kilobyte of javascript? Marvels of code efficiency await you at this year's golf tournament. Entries include graphical demos such as Quantum Worm, Metaballs, Creepy… Read the rest of the article: Javascript demos and games in less than 1 kilobyte
Black Sabbath frontman and TV star Ozzy Osbourne died Tuesday, his family announced. The famed singer of hits such as Paranoid and War Pigs was 76. "It is with more… Read the rest of the article: Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76
The makers of Sylvanian Families (AKA Calico Critters), the charming lineup of Moomin-like creatures living in a bourgeois forest fantasy land, is suing a parodist who poses the toys in… Read the rest of the article: Sylvanian Families, AKA Calico Critters, targets parody account
I tried to map Deathtrap Dungeon when I was a boy and I'm pretty sure I got everything wrong, not least because every turn I took seemed to result in… Read the rest of the article: Gorgeous maps of classic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
London is home to many foxes, and what better way to spend a lazy Tuesday than curled up in the stacks at Twickenham Library. There was an unexpected visitor to… Read the rest of the article: Fox makes itself at home in suburban London library
More than 1,000 people reportedly attended Swingathon, Britian's largest such event, over the weekend. In its fifth year, the festival has outgrown its original location and moved out of local… Read the rest of the article: Britain's Swingathon festival attracts thousands
Mike Lindell, the MyPillow entrepreneur who burned his empire down for Trump, repeatedly lied about voting machine workers and eventually lost a defamation lawsuit as a result. Today jurors handed… Read the rest of the article: Jury dings Mike Lindell $2.3m for defaming voting machine worker
Convicted of felling England's famed Sycamore Gap tree in a "malicious act of vandalism," Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were today sentenced to 4 years in jail for the crime.… Read the rest of the article: Price of Thieves: men who cut down Sycamore Gap tree jailed for 4 years
Morgan Geyser, then 12 and now 22, stabbed classmate Payton Leutner believing this would please Slender Man, a horrific entity conceived by Eric Knudson in 2009. After seven years in… Read the rest of the article: Release set for Slender Man-obsessed girl who stabbed classmate
A thread at r/MechanicalKeyboards marvels at the Incomm Scientology Keyboard, a custom-designed variant of the Cherry G80 made for the church to its requirements. The most obvious addition is an… Read the rest of the article: Scientology' s custom mechanical keyboard
The largest known piece of Mars on planet Earth sold today for $5.3m in an auction at Sotheby's in New York City. The meteorite, designated NWA 16788, weighs 54 pounds… Read the rest of the article: Meteorite from Mars fetches $5.3 million at auction
