With a couple of family members going on a long plane flight soon, I bought a couple of these wireless active-noise canceling headphones on sale for a really low price… Read the rest of the article: Great deal on noise canceling headphones

In this experiment, aluminum foil is spread out on the floor of a hallway. The only way for this cat to walk down the hallway is by walking on top… Read the rest of the article: Will a cat walk on aluminum foil?

Stephen Colbert is my favorite Trump impressionist. He captures Trump's ever-present pouty whine perfectly Here he is giving a dramatic reading of Trump's six-page temper tantrum about his impeachment.

Casey Neistat rode on the Etihad A380 The Residence, and made a video about it. The $27,000 ticket (which was comped) is basically a small apartment, which a private bathroom… Read the rest of the article: This $27,000 airplane "seat" is actually a shower, bedroom, and living room

This is very sad. Kalley Heiligenthal is a popular worship singer who has over 200,000 followers on Instagram, according to the Daily Dot. She and her husband recently and tragically… Read the rest of the article: Christian influencer couple asks for prayers from global church to resurrect young daughter who died

A large tractor trailer dangles precipitously over a steep embankment. A crane to the rescue! Things are looking good. But then the system's center of gravity moves in an undesirable… Read the rest of the article: Large truck rescue goes badly. Really, really badly

A Staffordshire company called StandardToilet has designed a toilet with a seat that tilts downward, making it painful to sit on for more than a few minutes. From StandardToilet's website:… Read the rest of the article: Toilet designed to be uncomfortable to sit on, aimed at boosting employee productivity

For a variety of reasons, most hotels don’t supply toothpaste in rooms. (Here’s an article from Slate that explains why.) And you can’t take a standard-sized tube in carry-on luggage… Read the rest of the article: Get a 12-pack of small tubes of toothpaste for air travel

When Gerry Cotten, founder of the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange, died mysteriously in India at the age of 30 he left behind an encrypted laptop with up to $250 million of… Read the rest of the article: Creditors of dead cryptocurrency exec want to exhume his body

AI Dungeon, a vastly open text adventure that used artificial intelligence to generate responses to your commands, is now available as an easy-to-use smartphone app (the web version was clunky).… Read the rest of the article: AI Dungeon, the "infinite" text adventure is available as a smartphone app

A customer who chose the no-payment option for a store item was pursued out the door by a relentless employee who apparently holds the quaint notion that transactions involving the… Read the rest of the article: Employee deprives gentleman from liberating merchandise from department store

Over at Cool Tools (a site I co-operate) Rusty Blazenhoff talks to Donald Bell about her favorite ice cream scoop: the Thrifty “square” ice cream scoop.

This episode of TED-Ed is about Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, Dune, and why you should read it. A mother and son trek across an endless desert. Wearing special… Read the rest of the article: Why should you read Dune?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed $100 billion in tax-free funds that should have gone to charitable causes, according to a whistleblower who alerted the IRS,… Read the rest of the article: Whistleblower reports Mormon Church has amassed a $100 billion tax-free fund

Gabriella Paiella of GQ presents this excellent oral history of what has come to be known as the Folgers Incest Commercial of 2009. Folgers should remake the commercial and hire… Read the rest of the article: An oral history of the 2009 Folgers Incest Ad

One Million Moms is an anti-LGBTQ division of the American Family Association, listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. According to its website One Million Moms… Read the rest of the article: Hallmark channel flips, then flops on hate group's pressure over lesbian kiss commercial

Mark Robler made a new version of his glitter/stink bomb to give package thieves a joyous surprise. This one's full of interesting bells and whistles, like an audio recording that… Read the rest of the article: Man makes improved glitter/stink bomb package to delight porch pirate

SpotHero is an app that lets you reserve parking in advance. It seemed like a cool idea, so I installed it and gave it a try when I had a… Read the rest of the article: Review: SpotHero should be called SpotZero

For years we’ve had silverfish darting around our guest bathroom floor. I bought some silverfish traps (little cardboard boxes with sticky goo to ensnare them) and they helped, but didn’t… Read the rest of the article: Getting rid of silverfish with lavender oil

This adorable puma is willing to play a game with its human, as long as it receives the prize, win or lose. Puma reasoning skills on display, 3 cup shuffle… Read the rest of the article: Puma loses 3 cup shuffle game, but it turns out fine in the end