My family and I have been playing more games lately, and one of our favories is Zombie Dice, a "press your luck" game in which you play a zombie who… Read the rest of the article: Zombie Dice expansion pack improves this quick press-your-luck game

America's ultrarich recently trotted out talking puppet Chris Christie to make the case that allowing as many people to die from coronavirus every day as were killed in the 9/11… Read the rest of the article: Chris Christie says losing 3,000 humans lives every day to Covid-19 is a fair price to protect the economy

On Sunday night Fox News interview Trump standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Trump pointed at the statue of President Lincoln and said, "I am greeted with a hostile… Read the rest of the article: Stephen Colbert explains why Trump actually isn't like President Lincoln

A 43-year-old store security guard was fatally shot in the back of his head after he told a 45-year-old woman that her daughter could not enter the store without a… Read the rest of the article: Michigan family charged with murdering security guard who said daughter had to wear a mask

According to CNN 18% of Wendy's restaurants in the United States are no longer able to sell hamburgers or other meat-based items because of the national meat shortage. The restaurant… Read the rest of the article: Where's the beef? Wendy's running low on hamburger meat

 When asked to wear a facemask, this customer at a Dollar Tree Store in Michigan responded by saying “Here, I will use this as a mask” before wiping his… Read the rest of the article: Michigan man wipes his nose on store employee's shirt after being told to wear mask at store

From Paul Romer's website: Imagine a world in which the only way to get a soda is to get your doctor to write a prescription. It costs $20 per can.… Read the rest of the article: A thought experiment: If Virus Tests Were Sodas

austin texas everybody 😬 pic.twitter.com/MXTzvtexeN — julia (@lost808s) May 1, 2020 The gentleman in the mug shot above seems to be pleased with himself for allegedly pushing a Texas park… Read the rest of the article: Man arrested on felony charges for pushing Texas park ranger into a lake

On Saturday a giant crane mounted on a ship collapsed. Constructed to build wind farms at sea, the crane crumpled while lifting a 2,000 ton barge during a test in… Read the rest of the article: Giant crane collapses

The LockPickingLawyer has no trouble picking the lock on this AmazonBasics folding bike lock. He says, "the core is, without question, the worst I have ever seen in a bike… Read the rest of the article: AmazonBasics bike lock picked in the blink of an eye

The Saudi sovereign wealth fund bought a $500 million stake in Ticketmaster, the much revilved ticket service with a long history of being terrible to venues, performer, and fans. On… Read the rest of the article: Ticketmaster gets $500 million from Mohammad bin Salman

I was invited to participate in the Face Shield Art project and draw illustrations on a face shield. The one I scribbled on, along with other face shield art, is… Read the rest of the article: I doodled on a face shield — for a good cause

No one really knows where Kim Jong-un is right now, but the New York Post and The Sun speculate that the supreme ruler of North Korea is at his seaside… Read the rest of the article: Kim Jong-un's not dead, he's at his seaside palace relaxing with his 2,000 sex slaves, say papers

This is my ex-husband, Alex Jones, graphically describing how he'll kill his neighbor to f e e d my kids: Homicidal. Terrifying. I lost my kids for tweeting about injustice.… Read the rest of the article: Alex Jones says he's ready to "gut his neighbors, skin them, and chop them up" for food

If you are looking for a way to quickly remove corn from corn cobs, grab yourself an old office chair and a drill and go to work. [via Core77]

From the Moving Beyond Earth exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC: a Pepsi can designed for astronauts! In 1984, researchers for Coca Cola had an… Read the rest of the article: 1985 design for Pepsi Cola can made for astronauts

オンライン飲み会から緊急脱出できるマシーンを作りました pic.twitter.com/gB2Ur6f21i — 藤原 麻里菜 | Marina Fujiwara (@togenkyoo) April 29, 2020 Marina Fujiwara created this useful little gadget to trick zoomers into thinking your Internet connection is buggy so… Read the rest of the article: Inventor makes device to escape from Zoom meetings

OpenAI · Rock, in the style of Elvis Presley – OpenAI Jukebox Open AI, the same organization that created the GPT-2 language model (try it here) which generates coherent stories… Read the rest of the article: This neural net generates bizarre music with vocals of famous singers

Jeremy Barnes is a former police officer. He moved his family to rural Idaho, a half mile away from the Utah border. He set up a private investigator practice in… Read the rest of the article: Utah banned a man from job because he lives 3 minutes away from Utah border

On his blog, Cory Doctorow alerted me to the news that science fiction author Marc Laidlaw has started a YouTube channel and is re-reading his short fiction. He does an… Read the rest of the article: Science fiction author Marc Laidlaw is reading his work on YouTube