TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $29.97 (reg. $219.99) during Deal Days — no subscription required. The easiest way to lower a software budget isn't… Read the rest of the article: Deal Days cuts Microsoft Office Professional 2021 from $220 to $30
Grandpa Pudding Brains tried to tell a story about a New York police officer "please, sir"ing him and somehow ended up admiring the man's muscles as if he had wandered… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains gets lost in a cop's muscles
Irish artist Niall de Buitléar's eight-minute found-footage piece Duplicate Content splices video art from the mid-1960s through mid-1970s together with recent social-media clips — most of them, in his words,… Read the rest of the article: Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today's TikToks
This structure called Expo Hall, or "Shining Hat", creates a stunning optical illusion in the sky. The top of the structure makes it look like a giant portal has opened… Read the rest of the article: Toyo Ito's Expo Hall "Shining Hat" looks like a portal opening in the sky
In this video, a cat makes it clear that there is no way in hell it will share a home with the owner's cat-slippers. The owner walks around the corner… Read the rest of the article: Cat goes full threat-mode over owner's cat-shaped slippers
This video shows a tame crow perched on a person's lap in a workshop, getting its feathers brushed. When the person puts the brush down, the crow calmly demands more… Read the rest of the article: Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming
The Playdate's hand crank was built for games, but it keeps luring developers to go weird. Ancient Loops, a free download from the two-person French team EVB Studio, isn't a… Read the rest of the article: Ancient Loops turns the Playdate's crank into a sound instrument
The creator, owner, and driver of the 23-foot-long Big Banana Car, Steve Braithwaite, gets to meet a lot of curious cops. "I would see a police car going the other… Read the rest of the article: Cops can't stop looking at this banana car
Stanley Kubrick is one of those directors: One with enough vision to change the course of any film genre he touches but, enough brains to know that art has to… Read the rest of the article: The Criterion Collection's Stanley Kubrick set is coming for your wallet
The campaign against the creative class has rustled up a surprising new foot soldier: A24 Films. It seems that the production house, known for artsy-fartsy (God, how I love them)… Read the rest of the article: A24 Films succumbs to the AI darkside
The Oregon Symphony performed Jaws live with the movie, and one bassist understood the assignment so completely that he played the entire thing dressed as a shark. A concertgoer praised… Read the rest of the article: Jaws in Concert gets the shark-costumed bassist it deserves
Don't you just love all the innovations that the advent of AI has allowed for? There's mass disinformation, the price of consumer computing going through the roof, poisoning groundwater for… Read the rest of the article: Don't be fooled by scammer deepfakes
A while ago, fans of Better Call Saul (it's me, I'm fans) were surprised by a new piece of official content dropped out nowhere on an unassuming YouTube channel. Bob… Read the rest of the article: So that Saul Goodman return video wasn't just a one-off
Loath as I am to admit it, I think we may all have seen this coming after Valve raised the price of their Steam Deck. Naturally, this raised questions about… Read the rest of the article: Valve's Steam Machine will run you at least a thousand dollars
Karoline Leavitt returned to Fox News and immediately tried to convince America that the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm is a campaign promise kept. On FOX, Leavitt called the algae-costumed protesters… Read the rest of the article: The Mouth of Moron returns to explain that pond scum is democracy
REI, the company that tells people to "Opt Outside," apparently opted out of looking at the AI bicycle before posting it. PetaPixel reports that REI shared an Instagram ad for… Read the rest of the article: REI tells people to Opt Outside, posts AI bike from nowhere on Earth
Tucker Carlson says he is done supporting the Republican Party, which is awkward because few living Americans have spent more time helping make it what it is. Longtime conservative commentator… Read the rest of the article: Tucker Carlson takes his tanned balls and goes home
A very connected 79-year-old chonker reportedly got access to Eli Lilly's experimental obesity drug retatrutide, and the White House will not directly say whether that man is McDonald's slurping Grandpa… Read the rest of the article: Is Grandpa Pudding Brains the mystery patient getting the super-Ozempic?
People waited in line outside Arizona's first Buc-ee's on Sunday, because America has reached the part of the simulation where a truck stop gets a rope line. The new Buc-ee's… Read the rest of the article: People line up to shop at Arizona's new gas-station cathedral
I saw a coyote drinking matcha at Gjusta. His man bun was perfect. Los Angeles' offbeat Venice has already adapted to skaters, tourists, tech money, RV fights, influencers, and the… Read the rest of the article: Venice residents add coyotes to the coexistence curriculum
