Listed at $159,900 this 1,075 square-foot home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is bland on the outside but features rooms with outer space, submarine, tropical island, and moonbase motifs. The owners put… Read the rest of the article: This house for sale in Pittsburgh is filled with whimsical themed rooms
You've probably seen a biosphere ecosystem before. It's a glass orb filled with water, some aquatic plants, and some small animals like freshwater shrimp. The only input to the otherwise… Read the rest of the article: Play this fun web-based biosphere simulator
ETA Prime reviewed a Raspberry Pi retro gaming kit that contains a Raspberry Pi 3B+, a case for the Pi, USB gamepad, power supply, 32GB Micro SD with 100+ licensed… Read the rest of the article: This Raspberry Pi retro gaming kit comes with 100 licensed Atari games
People who came to Frankline Ndifor's church in hopes that he would make them immune to Covid-19 by the touch of his hands should be worried. The popular pastor died… Read the rest of the article: Popular pastor, who claimed he could cure Covid-19 by touch, dies of Covid-19
I like cooking and have always made most of the family's meals from scratch. Now I'm making even more meals from scratch and recipes sometimes call for ingredients by weight.… Read the rest of the article: Easy-to-clean minimalist kitchen scale, weighs up to 13 pounds
For the last 18 years Bruce Sterling has been writing an unpaid blog called "Beyond the Beyond" for Wired. But now, writes Cory Doctorow, "Beyond the Beyond is done. Wired… Read the rest of the article: Wired just canceled Bruce Sterling's long-running blog
In the latest edition of The Margins newsletter, Ranjan Roy tells the story of his friend who owns a pizzeria. He charges $24 for a deluxe pizza but, for one… Read the rest of the article: Doordash charges $16 for a $24 pizza, so the pizzeria bought its own pizzas and made money
iRaspian is a Linux OS for the Raspberry Pi that looks a lot like the Mac OS X operating system. It also comes with Mac OS 9.2 and Windows 95… Read the rest of the article: Raspberry Pi operating system looks like OS X
Kudos to Mike Upchurch for his latest YouTube video: Freeway to Hell. It's 22 minutes, with voiceovers by Mike Judge, and starring Chris Fairbanks, Jon Dore, Ron Lynch, and Emily… Read the rest of the article: Watch this great 60s biker movie with modern actors and effects digitally added
El truco fue realizado por el usuario de TikTok fckjoshy, cuya cuenta está llena de contenido similar para entretener a sus 3,3 millones de seguidores. https://t.co/wOlBEdve6B pic.twitter.com/nloSSeMsE8 — Vivian Ruiz… Read the rest of the article: TikToker decided it would be funny to "accidentally" dump huge bin of milk and cereal inside NYC subway during pandemic
If a website called Do Not Draw a Penis senses that you are trying to sketch a penis it will erase it. Otherwise, it attempts to describe what you are… Read the rest of the article: Web-based sketching app uses machine learning to detect penises
How to more cases than anybody in the world pic.twitter.com/VA9bPJiQ6i — Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) May 15, 2020 It's really amazing how Sarah Cooper is able to reveal the extreme idiocy… Read the rest of the article: Sarah Cooper is killing it with her Trump lip-syncs
A recent Rasmussen survey reveals that "nearly one-in-four GOP voters would prefer someone else" other than Trump to be the Republican presidential candidate this year. The survey also found that… Read the rest of the article: Almost a quarter of Republicans think Trump shouldn't be the GOP nominee
Cory Doctorow explained modern monetary theory to me last year while we were in my kitchen. It changed my attitude towards balanced budgets and national deficits. If you would like… Read the rest of the article: Cory Doctorow wrote a good explainer about modern monetary theory
The reason it's hard to open jar lids is that the vacuum seal is pulling the lid tightly against the jar. Once in a while, the vacuum seal is so… Read the rest of the article: World's best jar lid opener
A lot of people in Wisconsin are very happy that its Supreme Court invalidated the governor's stay at home order. CBS News reports that they flocked to bars and pubs… Read the rest of the article: Bars fill up with thirsty patrons after Wisconsin court strikes down stay-at-home order
In his excellent brief book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder writes, "Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of… Read the rest of the article: Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion
My kids and I loved playing Paper Mario on the Wii. Today, Nintendo announced a new Paper Mario title for the Switch, called Paper Mario: The Origami King. Release date… Read the rest of the article: Paper Mario is coming to the Switch
Thomas Dimson used the GPT-2 language model to make a website that creates a new word every time you refresh the page. Some of them are really good — I… Read the rest of the article: This algorithm coins new words every time you click
OMG coyote vs roadrunner is real and it’s happening right now y’all!!! #Tucson pic.twitter.com/a64qEbcCdv — Michael Thomas Bogan (@mtbogan) May 10, 2020 “There is literally a coyote chasing a roadrunner.… Read the rest of the article: Video: real life coyote chases roadrunner
