I'd been storing my comics in my parents' attic for the last 40+ years and I just got them all and have been putting them into new plastic bags. I… Read the rest of the article: Blue painter's tape good for more than masking

"Reckless Ben" (no relation to Wreckless Eric, as far as I know) and his pal made a 10-part documentary about how they infiltrated the Church of Scientology, started a religion… Read the rest of the article: These guys projected "Sucks" on LA's Scientology headquarters

There is no treatment for the coronavirus, states the World Health Organization. That hasn't stopped televangelist and felon Jim Bakker from selling a purported cure to the pitiful people who… Read the rest of the article: NY attorney general tells convicted fraudster Jim Bakker to stop peddling alleged coronavirus cure

I posted about Reuleaux Triangles in 2017, and here's another video about them. Like a circle, a Reuleaux Triangle is a shape with constant width. In other words, you can… Read the rest of the article: These triangular blobs roll like wheels

Oogpister beetles are able to shoot formic acid into the eyes and mouth of would-be predators. In this BBC video you can see an oogpister teach a mongoose a painful… Read the rest of the article: Video about the amazing beetles that shoot blinding acid from their butt

Here's a good video that shows how the increase in the number of Covid-19 follows an exponential growth curve. Each day, says 3Blue1Brown, the number of coronavirus cases is "between… Read the rest of the article: Explainer video – this is a good time to understand what exponential growth means

SXSW, Austin's annual festival for music, tech, business, art, and culture was canceled by the mayor because of the spreading coronavirus.  By the festival producers' own calculation, SXSW pumped $350… Read the rest of the article: Austin mayor cancels SXSW, city says goodbye to $350 million

I bought this Inateck Laptop Sleeve Case for my 13-inch MacBook Pro. I wanted something well-padded, with a handle and a separate pouch to store the charger. This one fit… Read the rest of the article: Nice laptop sleeve case with handle

Nina Kollars is a professor at the Naval War College inside the Strategic and Operational Research Department. Here she is at DEF CON 27 explaining how she learned about triangulation… Read the rest of the article: This researcher learned how "triangulation fraud" works when she bought a used Nespresso machine

My guest this week on the Cool Tools podcast is Amber Mac. Amber is the co-host of the award-winning podcast series, The AI Effect, the author of two bestselling business… Read the rest of the article: Amber Mac is my guest this week on the Cool Tools podcast

Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Jimei Yang, and Feng Liu developed software that gives a 3D Ken Burns effect to still images. From their paper: Experiments with a wide variety of… Read the rest of the article: Neural network makes 3D images from still pictures

it's a spaceship until you see the picture upside down. This is cool – someone took a photo of UFO hovering over the scene of an accident. If you rotate… Read the rest of the article: If you rotate this photo of a spaceship, it looks like a car in the water

What is wrong with these people? This would be right here if there were 327 people in the US. And this reflects horribly on the NY Times too. Can someone… Read the rest of the article: Look at this colossal math blunder on MSNBC

This is absolutely horrifying. Rick Santelli on @CNBC says we should consider giving coronavirus to everybody to just get it over with. That way it won’t wreak so much havoc… Read the rest of the article: CNBC analyst Rick Santelli wants entire world to be infected with coronavirus to help Wall Street

Last week I posted about a Anker PowerCore Slim 10000 portable charger, which can be recharged with a USB-C or Micro USB cable. I included a promo code but some… Read the rest of the article: Good deal on Anker PowerCore Lite 10000 portable charger

If you're interested in "Adorable Deplorable" T-shirts, coffee mugs commemorating the USA-Mexico border wall, and "No More Bullshit" Trump campaign posters, then head over to Bensalem, Pennsylvania, home of the… Read the rest of the article: If you love Donald Trump, the Trump Store in Pennsylvania will leave you spellbound

You've probably seen this triangle before: Fast, Cheap, Good — Pick Two. Here's a new bridge-building technique from Austria that seems to allow the customer to get a bridge that's… Read the rest of the article: New way of building bridges could be faster, cheaper, better

By not touching your face, you reduce the chances of getting sick from a virus or bacteria. This website, called Do Not Touch Your Face, uses your webcam to analyze… Read the rest of the article: This website uses machine learning and your webcam to train you not to touch your face

When you go to Radiooooo you see a map of the world. You click on any country on the map, and select a decade beginning with 1900. It will start… Read the rest of the article: This cool online radio station lets you listen to popular songs from any decade and country from 1900 to now

In the late 1960 NASA engineers were tasked with developing a digital flight computer that took up just one cubic foot of  space on the Apollo 11 capsule and the… Read the rest of the article: Explainer video about the digital computer onboard Apollo 11