Eat The Reich is a new tabletop roleplaying game from Grant Howitt and Will Kirkby that skips all the respectability nonsense around punching Nazis and gets to the heart of… Read the rest of the article: EAT THE REICH is a new RPG where vampires get to suck Nazi blood
The acclaimed hip-hop group Outkast once famously sang: I know you'd like to think your shit don't stank, butLean a little bit closer, seeRoses really smell like boo-boo-ooh But what… Read the rest of the article: DUMPkin Spice Wet Wipes will make your butt smell like a Pumpkin Spice Latte, if that's a thing you want
Reuters reports that part of the latest US military aid package being sent to Ukraine will include armor-piercing munitions made from surplus uranium, whose radioactivity has (mostly) depleted. These weapons… Read the rest of the article: US to send bullets laced with depleted uranium to Ukraine
I've been listening to the music of Jeff Rosenstock for at least 20 years now, and have always appreciated not only his poetically brazen songwriting, but also his fervent DIY… Read the rest of the article: How music venues rip off bands for merch sales
Back in 1987, composer Tod Machover devised a full-length opera based on VALIS, the infamously weird pseudo-autobiographical sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick. From The Boston Globe: Near the end… Read the rest of the article: Multimedia opera based on Philip K. Dick's VALIS coming to MIT
You may heard by now that Steve Harwell, best known as the lead singer of the band Smash Mouth, passed away this week from tragic complications caused by a disease called alcoholism.… Read the rest of the article: Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme
DSTLRY is a brand new creator-centered comic book publishing endeavor from David Steinberger and Chip Mosher, the founder and former head of content (respectively) of ComiXology. The company made waves… Read the rest of the article: Sneak peek of The Devil's Cut, the first book from the much-hyped new comic book publisher DLSTRY
In a 12-person clinical trial, a biotech company called BlueRock Therapeutics successfully implanted artificial cells into Parkinson's patients specifically designed to produce the very dopamine they lack. From MIT Technology… Read the rest of the article: Tech startup successfully implants dopamine into Parkinson's patients
Researchers at the University of Konstanz in Germany have been seeking the answer to the age-old question: Do spiders dream of webbed-up sheep? Or at least, do spiders dream in… Read the rest of the article: Do spiders dream? New study finds evidence of REM-like movement in arachnids
While I can't find the very original source and context for this, I know it originally came from a BBC Radio 2 segment. Whatever the story behind it, here it… Read the rest of the article: David Tennant performs Shania Twain's "Man I Feel Like a Woman" as a spoken word poem
Back in January 2023, a tech investor named Bryan Johnson — who made $800 million in cash when he sold his payment processing company to eBay a decade ago —… Read the rest of the article: Tech millionaire wants to restore his penis to its teenage virility with shockwave therapy
YouTube Mashup DJ Joseph James has a history of doing megamixes of popular artists that span their entire careers. For his latest, he decided to combine all 231 songs recorded… Read the rest of the article: Listen to a 13-minute-long mashup of every Taylor Swift song ever
YouTuber Chubs made this wonderfully weird fan trailer for a Breaking Bad sequel that somehow begins with the resurrection of FDA Agent / dutiful brother-in-law Hank Schroeder, and then goes… Read the rest of the article: Zombie Hank is the least weird part of this fan-made Breaking Bad 2 trailer
The US Department of the Treasury just released a comprehensive new report about labor relations and the middle class that affirms what the workers have been screaming out for at… Read the rest of the article: New US Treasury report confirms that unions are good for everybody
Text With Jesus is a new ChatGPT-based app that lets you shoot the shit with your favorite Biblical figures, including Jesus and his Holy Family as well as the Apostles.… Read the rest of the article: New AI Chatbot app finally answers the question "What would Jesus text?"
A new study from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) looks at the impact of air pollution on human life expectancies — and it turns out,… Read the rest of the article: New study: air pollution is deadlier than cigarette smoke or AIDS
In a recent court case, US military judge Col. Lanny Acosta Jr. ruled that confessions made by Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri, a detainee at Guantanamo, were not legally admissible, on the… Read the rest of the article: US military judge acknowledges that forcing Ensure up a detainee's anus is indeed torture
The ice cream machines at McDonald's restaurants are famously frustrating. At any given time, about 10% of them are broken. The damn things almost never work, for reasons that should… Read the rest of the article: Hacking McDonalds' ice cream machines to figure out why they're always broken
Since time immemorial, people have promised miracle cures to the unfortunate after-effects of en masse alcohol consumption. Zbiotics is the latest such scheme, a new product that describes itself as… Read the rest of the article: ZBiotics is a new "pre-alcohol" drink that claims to prevent hangovers
In space, no one can hear you scream. The same can't be said about Texas, as demonstrated in this local news report from 1979 about the premiere of the original… Read the rest of the article: Watch this 1979 Texas local news network report on the premiere of Alien
