Have you heard of Kristi Noem? She's the governor or some Dakota or other and she desperately wants to be Trump's VP. So she's publishing a book to show what a true believer MAGA fan she is. The book sounds like standard right wing fare until shit gets weird. — Read the rest

Want to watch a movie? Want to watch one on a 1977 game console? The Atari 2600 is now a movie player, thanks to moviecart, by Lodef Mode.

This revolutionary new product will allow for the first time ever, anyone to experience the joy of the silver screen directly from the comfort of their own home, in stunning digital accuracy.

Kansas City cop Aaron McKie, 46, was charged Friday with wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly using $300,000 in donations from an anti-crime group for his own expenses. A cop for 24 years and long-involved in a "Crime Free" local nonprofit, he appears to have used it as a personal piggy bank. — Read the rest

Step aside, color red, there's a new, scariest hue in town. This Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control announced a new, color-coded heat risk system. And the worst case scenario is represented by magenta.

The AP reports that this terrifying rainbow begins with green (little to no risk) up through yellow, orange, red and now, the new Big Bad, magenta. — Read the rest

After a building exploded in Detroit, killing a man, a quest for answers began. A great place to start will be the building's owner, Noor Noel Kestou, arrested yesterday while trying to leave the country on a one-way flight to Hong Kong. — Read the rest

Mad inventor and artist Tim Hunkin's latest YouTube video is a fun walk through his process for creating a mechanical coin-op game. Hunkin is the long-time explainer of mechanisms in his "The Secret Life Of _____'" BBC series and one of the original creators featured in London's Cabaret Mechanical Theater. — Read the rest

These frogs are White's tree frogs, also known as Australian green tree frogs or dumpy tree frogs (rude), and are absolutely characters from a Studio Ghibli film. They don't seem to be very good at distinguishing food from a person's finger, but apparently, frog bites are slimy but not painful.  — Read the rest

Watch a 2-story houseboat drift across the San Francisco Bay.

The boat was being towed to its new home after a legal battle that forced many houseboats to relocate. 

Out of context, this looks like a house that slid off the side of a cliff and got lost at sea. — Read the rest

Enjoy this video from 1957 made to show students examples of outfits deemed as proper—and improper—by the school's dress code. 

The "bad taste" outfits include jeans, open leather jackets, and skirts that were too tight in the eyes of the school. — Read the rest

The iconic windmill that decorates the Moulin Rouge Cabaret in Paris has collapsed like a dying diva in the third act. The New York Times reports that the blades fell off, probably around midnight Wednesday. 

No one was hurt in the accident, except for perhaps civic pride. — Read the rest

A Utah cat named Galena was playing in a large box, when suddenly things got dark.

Meanwhile, Galena's human parents didn't know where she was, and grew frantic as they looked everywhere for their pet. They even put up "missing" flyers and recruited their friends and family to help search the neighborhood for their lost kitty. — Read the rest

If you're tossing and turning at night due to heartburn, sleep apnea, or other health issues, your sleeping position could be the culprit – or the solution.

According to Lifehacker, for heartburn sufferers, "lying on your left side means that food and digestive juices have an easier time staying inside the stomach where they're supposed to be. — Read the rest

Another week, another busted Boeing plane that lost a part mid-flight.

This time, it was a Delta Air Lines flight headed to LAX from JFK Airport this morning, when, about an hour into the flight, the crew and passengers could feel a vibration. — Read the rest

Three people died too young and broke my heart: Jim Henson, Douglas Adams, and Carrie Fisher. Of those, at least Jim Henson's legacy continues through the characters — and entire worlds — he created. I am old enough that Sesame Street has been around my whole life and was an essential part of my childhood. — Read the rest

TL;DR: Clean, sleek shaving! This Gillette Body Razor comes with nine refill blade cartridges, an anti-slip handle, and Powerglide® blades for just $14.99 (reg. $24).

You're hairy, we're hairy, and the world is all just a little bit fluffier than we'd like to be as summer approaches. Though — Read the rest

YouTuber Marques Brownlee got to try Disney's nearly-ready for VR 360° treadmill.

The problem with VR remains that no one wants to suit up and walk to Amazon to buy a book to download to their Kindle. It has been a solution for problems already solved better in almost all instances. — Read the rest

Kevin Kelly is my friend and a co-author of our weekly Recomendo newsletter ("6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff" – subscribe for free here!). He was a co-founder of Wired magazine (he hired me to work there in 1993) and was the editor of The Whole Earth Review. — Read the rest

Maryland High school athletic director Dazhon "DJ" Darien is accused of using AI to fake a racist rant in the voice of his school's principal Eric Eiswert, reports CBS News. The recording infuriated Baltimore and forced Eiswert to stay home for weeks while authorities unraveled the truth. — Read the rest

Incel influencer Andrew Tate (37) and his brother Tristan (35) will be tried in Romania on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, reports The Guardian. The Tates were indicted 10 months ago, spending several months under house arrest while authorities investigated the allegations,

Unsurprisingly, Tate is wailing about the "unlawful" decision to proceed to trial. — Read the rest

Video shows an Oklahoma gentleman violently attacking a bus driver while they were zipping through traffic, causing the bus to swerve and crash into a business.

The fight began, according to KFOR, when the 23-year-old passenger asked to be let off at an intersection that wasn't a designated bus stop. — Read the rest