A ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet in Izmir, Turkey, was nearing its tragic conclusion when an uninvited cast member wandered onstage and quietly took over the production. This mischievous… Read the rest of the article: Cat crashes Romeo and Juliet ballet in Turkey, bites Romeo mid-death scene, steals entire show
The massive consulting firm KPMG had to pull a lengthy report on the use of Agentic AI after it was found to be riddled with AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations.… Read the rest of the article: Report on AI use in business rife with AI hallucinations
I really, really loved Dragon's Dogma 2. Yes, even after its meme-filled moment in the sun was over. Yes, even in spite of the wholly unnecessary microtransactions that marred its… Read the rest of the article: One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free
Asked whether anyone would be held accountable for a strike on an elementary school that killed more than 100 children, Grandpa Pudding Brains said no, called it "a strange question,"… Read the rest of the article: "Mistakes are made": Grandpa Pudding Brains shrugs at school strike that killed over 100
TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $9.97 (reg. $199). Deal Days, Stack Social's Prime Day equivalent, is an excellent time to get the software you've always… Read the rest of the article: Get Windows 11 Pro for life for just $10 during Deal Days
It should come as no surprise by now that I enjoy a good scambait. Scambaiting, or the art of deliberately wasting scammers' time, has become a bit of a flourishing… Read the rest of the article: Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime
Well, this is a sweet bonus: if you own an Android foldable like a Samsung Z Series foldable, OnePlus Open or Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, you may soon have… Read the rest of the article: Android 17 brings a customizable virtual gamepad to foldables
Back when Shrek 5 was officially confirmed as a project that was, indeed, happening, I thought it was overdue. Now that an actual trailer has dropped, though, I think I'm… Read the rest of the article: Shrek 5 sure looks like another Shrek movie
In the department of Yoro, Honduras, fish turn up on the ground after large storms. The lluvia de peces — literally "rain of fish" — has been reported for over… Read the rest of the article: In a Honduran town, fish appear on the ground after every major rainstorm
A toast sandwich is exactly what it sounds like: a thin slice of toasted bread, placed between two slices of untoasted bread. Season with salt and pepper. The recipe appears… Read the rest of the article: The toast sandwich is a piece of toast between two slices of untoasted bread
TL;DR: A 1-year Rosetta Stone subscription is $127.20 (reg. $159) through June 28 as part of Deal Days — new users only. Google Translate will get you through a crisis. Rosetta Stone will get you through… Read the rest of the article: Stop relying on Google Translate — Rosseta Stone can help you learn for real
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Dementia Donnie TV Room -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: The Dementia Donnie Center for TV Watching
Apple added a feature called Vehicle Motion Cues in 2024 that places small dots around the edge of your screen. The dots move in sync with your car — sweeping… Read the rest of the article: The obscure iPhone setting that eliminates car sickness
When a former prosecutor got a new case, the first thing he asked was whether the suspect talked. "Nothing lights up a prosecutor's face when he is faced with a… Read the rest of the article: Former prosecutor says talking to police always hurts you
The UNSW team that used ultrasound to speed up cold brew to three minutes has pushed the technique further — producing espresso-strength shots with room-temperature water. A transducer pressed against… Read the rest of the article: Cold-water espresso cuts energy use 75% and tastes identical
Grandpa Pudding Brains wanted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted "American flag blue," and nature responded with algae bloom green. The newly refurbished Reflecting Pool was supposed to transform Washington's… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains pours peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm
TL;DR: One payment, no renewals, no subscription drama — this lifetime Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 license is just $19.97 (reg. $229) through June 28. There is a reality where Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft Office is somehow only $20 during Deal Days
Connect to an open WiFi network, and a captive portal opens a shelf of banned ebooks. The access point is a smart light bulb. Rick Osgood reflashed the ESP32 chip… Read the rest of the article: Screw this light bulb in and it serves banned books
In 1906, a U.S. plant pathologist named Franklin Sumner Earle collected a small brown mushroom in Cuba and shipped it to the New York Botanical Garden. He called it Stropharia… Read the rest of the article: The poster child for psychedelic mushrooms is named after a country that doesn't use it
In January 2020, a Finnish Reddit user posted a photo of curtains printed with eight celebrity faces and asked for help identifying them. Seven were quickly matched — Josh Holloway,… Read the rest of the article: It took Reddit four years to identify the sixth face on a set of curtains
