A Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) flight crashed shortly after it took off from Imam Khomeini International Airport near Tehran yesterday. All 176 people on the plane died. The first reports… Read the rest of the article: Aviation experts think the Iran plane crash may have been shot down
My 16-year-old daughter is fascinated by the Rasputin, the "Mad Monk," who was born into poverty in 1869 and became an influential and charismatic power player in Russian politics. Here's… Read the rest of the article: A short video history of Rasputin
If you like to repair your own electronics, this set of screwdrivers probably has what you need. It comes with the following drivers: Phillips (PH000, PH00, PH0, PH1), Torx (T5,… Read the rest of the article: Great price on a set of precision screwdrivers
Someone electrified a Trump/Pence sign and placed it in their yard. This video shows what happened when someone else tried to remove it. Image: YouTube
It seems like Tesla should have some kind of warning system that forces you to press an override icon if you really want to drive with the door open. Model… Read the rest of the article: Tesla driver who failed to close gullwing door makes a costly mistake
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, the GOP congressman who became famous when his six brothers and sisters appeared in campaign ads warning people not to vote for him, Tweeted a fake… Read the rest of the article: Rep. Paul Gosar defends use of fake photo depicting Obama shaking hands with Iranian president
Airbnb has a patent on software that analyzes social media accounts of potential guests and hosts and can supposedly flag people who show signs of “neuroticism and involvement in crimes,"… Read the rest of the article: Airbnb has software that searches social media to identify creeps and psychopaths
A couple of men in Columbus, Mississippi allegedly thought they could collect a $100,000 lottery prize using a ticket with glued-on winning numbers. Instead they were arrested. Didn't they know… Read the rest of the article: Two men arrested for pasting winning numbers onto a losing lottery ticket
Here are just a few of the fun facts that have appeared on Reddit and are confirmed as true by the editors of Lifehacker: “Sharks were on earth before trees.”… Read the rest of the article: Lifehacker fact-checked Reddit’s favorite mindblowing facts of all time, and most were correct
Design site Core 77 took a look at at video analytics company Briefcam's Rapid Recap system, which "simply condenses all footage of things that moved throughout the day, overlapping a… Read the rest of the article: This security cam technology compresses a day's of activity into a short video where everything happens at once
A 24-year-old New Jersey woman booked a camel ride in Morocco through TripAdvisor's Viator tour booking site. The camel she ended up riding was pregnant and it threw her off… Read the rest of the article: A woman is suing TripAdvisor after she fell off a camel
The LockPickingLawyer bought a SentrySafe at Home Depot and was able to easily and quickly unlock it by sticking a bent coat hanger through an LED hole and pushing down… Read the rest of the article: How to open a SentrySafe with a coat hanger
The infamous 11-f00t-8 bridge of Durham, North Carolina has damaged hundreds of trucks that are too tall to pass under it without getting their tops sheared off. Late last year,… Read the rest of the article: Even though they raised the canopener bridge, it's still claiming victims
Cartoonists Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg take a page-by-page look at the upcoming Fantagraphics book, Original Art: Daniel Clowes. It measures a whopping 17 x 24 inches and has photos… Read the rest of the article: A video review of the upcoming book — Original Art: Daniel Clowes
We live in an older house, and the plumbing gets clogged a lot. Whenever a sink, shower, or toilet backs up, I try to to unclog it myself before calling… Read the rest of the article: I am the master of my home plumbing
The German taxi association scored a major victory by convincing the court to ban Uber in the country. Well, I guess people can still take an Uber if they are… Read the rest of the article: Uber must pay €250,000 per ride, according to court ruling in Germany
If the forklift driver did something like this everyday, he could become a popular YouTuber. Image: YouTube
A new thing flat earth idiots are doing is posting a photo of a rock with the caption, "How can the moon reflect light if it is a rock?" Unfortunately,… Read the rest of the article: "How can the moon reflect light if it is a rock?" excellent self-own
Denver's 710 KNUS radio host Chuck Bonniwell is out of a job after he announced that he wished for a "nice school shooting" to provide respite from "never-ending impeachment of… Read the rest of the article: Colorado radio host fired after wishing for a "nice school shooting" to interrupt impeachment coverage
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office refused to comment on the news that surveillance camera video outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell suddenly went missing. From Radar Online: News of the missing surveillance… Read the rest of the article: Video of Epstein's first suicide attempt has gone missing
