Three year-old Saylor Class complained that there was a monster in her room. Her parents thought it was a figment of her imagination. It wasn't. It was 60000 bees. "We… Read the rest of the article: Little girl's imaginary closet monster turns out to be 55,000-65,000 bees
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Rob Beschizza In this video, posted by Major Grin, our favorite android Starfleet officer's vaguely sadistic taste for visiting prisoners is explored. I was fascinated to see the relevant scene from the… Read the rest of the article: Star Trek's Data loves visiting prisoners
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Rob Beschizza Yamaha Black Boxes is a perfectly minimal database of classic Yamaha keyboards and synths of the 1980s, maintaned by Alberto Arlandi. I chanced across it looking for information on the… Read the rest of the article: Online museum of classic Yamaha keyboards
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Rob Beschizza You've seen motorized skates from 1952. How about motorized skates from 1962? This British Pathé film depicts inventor Tom Hancocks of Buckinghamshire and the wonderful ambulatory menace he created. I… Read the rest of the article: Motorized skates from 1962
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Rob Beschizza As part of a plea deal, a Louisiana man who groomed, raped and threatened a 14-year-old girl has agreed to serve a 50-year prison sentence and to be physically castrated.… Read the rest of the article: Louisiana rapist sentenced to 50 years imprisonment and physical castration
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Rob Beschizza Williams-Sonoma must pay a $3.18m fine for falsely labeling products as "Made in USA" when they were manufactured abroad, a penalty magnified by the fact that it's the second time… Read the rest of the article: Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18m for labeling foreign-made items "Made in USA"
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Rob Beschizza A vegan cheese was selected to be a finalist in the Good Food Awards, and, it turns out, was going to win in its cheesey category. But when the business… Read the rest of the article: A vegan cheese was selected to win an industry award. Then the industry found out.
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Rob Beschizza A new moon atlas is the most detailed ever produced, based on data from the Chang'e-1 mission and published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Geologic Atlas of the… Read the rest of the article: New moon atlas the most detailed ever
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Rob Beschizza So mad that that it cannot be approached except with skepticism, a viral image spreads on the right, attracting sentimentality and spiteful support. It can't be real. They can't be… Read the rest of the article: Viral MAGA image suggests withering of human sentience, impossibility of negotiation
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Rob Beschizza It's often remarked that UK conservatives are a step or three to the left of America's, that even the right wingers are as gay as maypoles and that its government… Read the rest of the article: UK conservative politicians and their staff in private Facebook groups full of racist, sexist, homophobic postings
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Rob Beschizza One of Ye's fixations is American Parochial, a churchy vibe lately illustrated with another brainfeel of his, tearing out the windows (Hypobrutalism? Construction Liminal? His best work lately is a… Read the rest of the article: Kanye West to open porn studio
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Rob Beschizza Want to watch a movie? Want to watch one on a 1977 game console? The Atari 2600 is now a movie player, thanks to moviecart, by Lodef Mode. This revolutionary… Read the rest of the article: Full length color movie cartridges for the original Atari 2600
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Rob Beschizza Kansas City cop Aaron McKie, 46, was charged Friday with wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly using $300,000 in donations from an anti-crime group for his own expenses. A… Read the rest of the article: Kansas City cop allegedly stole $320,000 from anti-crime charity
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Rob Beschizza After a building exploded in Detroit, killing a man, a quest for answers began. A great place to start will be the building's owner, Noor Noel Kestou, arrested yesterday while… Read the rest of the article: Owner of exploded building arrested getting ready to board one-way flight out the country
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Rob Beschizza Maryland High school athletic director Dazhon "DJ" Darien is accused of using AI to fake a racist rant in the voice of his school's principal Eric Eiswert, reports CBS News.… Read the rest of the article: Man charged with framing Maryland principal with AI-generated racist rant
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Rob Beschizza Masque of the Red Death as an LBGTQ+ feature-length science-fiction musical animatic? Count me in! Come for Edgar Allan Poe's gothic classic, stay for 21st-century gay revenge horror. It's by… Read the rest of the article: Masque of the Red Death, the feature-length musical SF horror animatic
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Rob Beschizza The superficially Earthlike appearance of Titan, as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope, is belied by its cold and inhospitable weirdness. Titan is a strange world — a little… Read the rest of the article: Saturn's moon Titan imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope
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Rob Beschizza Employers use non-compete agreements to prevent workers leaving: it's hard to quit when you can't get a new job in the same field. Cleaning up a patchwork of state-level regulations… Read the rest of the article: Federal Trade Commission bans non-compete agreements
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Rob Beschizza Summer Lee, the first black woman elected in Pennsylvania to the U.S House of Representatives and a strong progressive voice in Congress, handily defeated a centrist challenger in Tuesday's Democratic… Read the rest of the article: Progressive Democrat fends off Republican-backed centrist in Pennsylvania primary
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Rob Beschizza A sunshine law for the Sunshine State: Florida's police have no expectation of privacy when conducting official duties, meaning the public can record them without their consent, an appeals court… Read the rest of the article: Floridans can record conversations with cops without their consent