TL;DR: Create all the books you can dream up with this lifetime subscription to the EbookMagic Starter Plan, on sale now for just $39.99 (MSRP $149). Got tons of ideas for… Read the rest of the article: Bring all your book ideas to life with this $40 tool
TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows is on sale for $32.97 (reg. $219.99), offering lifetime access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, OneNote, and Teams without a Microsoft 365 subscription.… Read the rest of the article: Skip the Microsoft 365 subscription—Office 2021 is down to $33 right now
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
Kevin Kelly wrote Out of Control in 1994, a sprawling study of emergence, hive minds, and bottom-up systems that arrived before the web and got mostly ignored in the US.… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Kelly rereads his big weird book from 1994 and mostly stands by it
After we posted about Pawmometer, the free site that reads live weather to flag pavement hot enough to burn a dog's paws, reader Chris Fiegel wrote in to say he'd… Read the rest of the article: A reader built a breed-aware app for hot-pavement dog safety
Ethan Mollick got early access to Anthropic's new Fable model and came away unsettled — not by what it couldn't do, but by how little he had to. He gave… Read the rest of the article: Working with Anthropic's new model feels like being a patron, not a wizard
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
Allen Ginsberg would have turned 100 this month, and his own voice reading "Howl" is coming back to vinyl. Craft Recordings is reissuing Howl and Other Poems — the spoken-word… Read the rest of the article: Ginsberg's 1959 Howl album returns for his 100th birthday
English Heritage is hiring a Head of Stonehenge. The salary starts at £64,189, the listing throws in 25 days' holiday and "free access to all English Heritage sites for you… Read the rest of the article: You can apply to be the Head of Stonehenge
The burner phone could soon be a thing of the past in the US. The FCC has proposed forcing every telecom to collect and store a "government issued identification number"… Read the rest of the article: The FCC wants to make burner phones illegal
News media typically omit links to the lawsuits they're reporting on. The reasons range from the practical (they've been given early access by litigators) to cynical (they want readers to… Read the rest of the article: Browser plugin adds link to the actual lawsuits news media report on
A Nantucket resident presented the town's School Committee with laxative-laced brownies at its meeting last week, prompting school officials to file a police report. No-one appears to have suffered from… Read the rest of the article: "Laxative" brownies turn Nantucket School Committee meeting into Schrodinger's shitshow
Anthropic released its most capable model yet today, and it ships with a downgrade switch pointed at the user. Claude Fable 5 is "state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks," but… Read the rest of the article: Anthropic's most powerful model comes with a kill switch aimed at you
An Iowa man faces up to 10 years in prison after he allegedly threw a ninja star at a woman in Independence, writes Michael Hohenbrink at the Oelwein Daily Register.… Read the rest of the article: Man jailed after throwing ninja star at woman
Repair Geek did the useful thing and stabbed a bunch of tires, so the rest of us do not have to discover which can of roadside optimism works after we… Read the rest of the article: Repair Geek tests tire sealants so you don't have to spray hope into a flat
Before refrigeration, keeping things cold meant waiting for winter, cutting up a frozen lake, packing it in sawdust, and hoping a lot of it survived the boat ride. Veritasium has… Read the rest of the article: Before refrigeration, one obsessive Boston guy sold winter to the tropics
Diaper Don went to Madison Square Garden expecting New York to love him, got booed on the Jumbotron, and then appeared to take the most expensive little courtside nap in… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains snoozes while New York boos and boos
Gregory Bovino, the trench-coated immigration goon whose public image already looks like authoritarian cosplay with a federal expense account, apparently thinks America needs more of him. Daily Kos reports that… Read the rest of the article: Noted Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino thinks he should be president
Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted fraudster who made billions disappear in a crypto fog machine, would now like Donald Trump to help him launder the consequences. Bankman-Fried is serving 25 years… Read the rest of the article: Sam Bankman-Fried has found one more scam: clemency
Finally, the day has come when we can stop seeing Persona 5 cross over with every game under the sun. It's hard to pin down the identity of the Persona… Read the rest of the article: Persona 6 officially revealed
