The World Wide Web address turns 41 this year. DNS.pizza has analyzed 85,879 domains with verified registration dates and ranked the oldest active domains. The DNS "opened for business in 1985,"… Read the rest of the article: A tour of the oldest domains still on the internet
Before becoming a 1980s TV-dinner hall of famer, Salisbury steak was a 19th-century health fad. Dr. James Salisbury looked at chopped beef and somehow saw medicine; America looked at it… Read the rest of the article: Salisbury steak was health food before it became cafeteria nostalgia
TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows is $54.99 (reg. $249.99) with Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and OneNote for one Windows 10 or 11 PC. Somewhere between the ninth app… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft Office 2024 puts the old reliables back on your PC
The latest addition to LEGO's Ideas is a gorgeous dose of nostalgia. The upcoming X-Files set was introduced by none other than Gillian Anderson herself. When a mysterious black box… Read the rest of the article: Gillian Anderson reveals X-Files LEGO set
The Orange Menace puked out a Truth Social post that started whinging over how Iran's "Arrogance" and the Reflecting Pool are his "TOP Concerns," then somehow swerved into an ad… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains turns foreign policy into a crypto gold-card ad
Honest Trailers tackles Backrooms, the horror franchise where the monster is fear and the production designer apparently died in a 1990s office park. The creepiest place in America is not… Read the rest of the article: Honest Trailers gets lost in the beige hell of Backrooms
Asked why Democrats dumped Graham Platner after a sexual-assault allegation while Republicans keep Max Miller and Cory Mills in the conference despite domestic-violence allegations, "MAGA" Mike Johnson's offered the kind… Read the rest of the article: Mike Johnson discovers the word "allegation" only applies to Republicans
Light, maker of the stripped-down Light Phones (previously recommended), today announced the Light Flip, a clamshell model that swaps e-ink for matte OLED and gets a hinge, a keypad and… Read the rest of the article: Light Flip is a minimalist phone without the dumb
The lightsaber that Mark Hamill held and lost, along with the hand holding it, to the central reactor shaft of Bespin's Cloud City in "The Empire Strikes Back," which canonically… Read the rest of the article: Luke Skywalker's severed hand and lightsaber prop sold for $3.75M
TL;DR: Learn to speak one (or more!) new languages confidently and naturally with a one-year subscription to Rosetta Stone Sapphire for $127.20, a 20% savings on the $159 regular price. Learning a new… Read the rest of the article: Speak a new language confidently sooner than you dreamed with Rosetta Stone Sapphire for $127.20
From the South Korean side of the DMZ you can look through binoculars at a tidy North Korean town — bright blue roofs, multicolored walls, a childcare center, schools, a… Read the rest of the article: North Korea's fake village with painted-on windows
Fear of the number 13 has a proper name — triskaidekaphobia — and it's baked into the buildings around you. In 2002, an Otis Elevator executive estimated that among buildings… Read the rest of the article: Why 85% of tall buildings skip the 13th floor
Most attempts to hide a drone tinker with how it looks — camouflage, transparent shells, light-bending optics. Northwestern University engineers went the other way and changed how your eyes see… Read the rest of the article: Drone spins into a ghostly blur, making it almost invisible
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $27.97 instead of $219.99. The one-time purchase includes eight familiar productivity apps for one PC, with no recurring subscription fee. The deal ends July… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft Office is just $28, but only through July 26
China's humanoid robots continue to improve their kung fu and have expanded into MMA cage fighting. The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend tournament is a showcase for EngineAI's humanoid robot, the… Read the rest of the article: Humanoid robot keeps fighting, even after his block was knocked off!
Everyone in Seattle and beyond is obsessed with a raccoon with a spinal condition. Kiana Hall recorded a video of a ball-shaped creature with long legs, resembling a cryptid or… Read the rest of the article: Jimothy is the weird little raccoon we need in these dark times
Riot Fest has packed its lineup for 2026, with the Pixies, the Sex Pistols (sans Johnny Rotten), Patti Smith, and… William Shatner? The 95-year-old actor/space tourist/horse semen owner/singer and his… Read the rest of the article: William Shatner's metal band is playing Riot Fest
For the past decade and a half, one question has been at the forefront of gamers' minds: what the absolute hell is Bethesda Game Studios up to? Although no AAA… Read the rest of the article: Bethesda provides "studio update" on its franchises
I'm blown away by eleven-year-old Samuel Henderson, who has an amazing ability to mimic birds. Sam lives in Oklahoma, where he's become a bit of a local celebrity. He's also… Read the rest of the article: This Oklahoma boy is truly a "bird caller extraordinaire"
Tesla is finally selling a bicycle, something the company's fans have apparently been speculating about excitedly for years. This bike, however, is not an e-bike and is not for adults.… Read the rest of the article: Tesla's latest offering is a $225 bike for toddlers
