I tried to start Adobe Acrobat today, part of the Creative Cloud suite, and it wouldn't start unless I agreed to new Terms of Use. But to read the Terms… Read the rest of the article: Adobe: to read the Terms of Use, you must agree to the Terms of Use (Update: bug, fixed)
Trump complained about White House reporters Weijia Jiang and Paula Reid in a new interview, saying “It wasn’t Donna Reed, I can tell you that. … Paula Reid, she’s sitting… Read the rest of the article: It would please Trump if women reporters were more like Donna Reed
In 2015, Charlie Brooker deconstructed economics news reports in this grimly amusing pastiche — a sequel to his earlier boiling-down of feature news reports. I'd like to see Charlie and… Read the rest of the article: Every economics segment on the (British) news
A man in Florida was filmed headbutting a guest in a restaurant and subsequently being restrained by another, larger guest. The clip did the rounds but, in a world beset… Read the rest of the article: Video of restaurant headbutt removed with copyright claim, ensuring everyone sees it
This moment from Modern Family, which just wrapped after 11 years on air, illutstrates why you should never delay clowns.
19世紀に作られたマウストラップ、ヤバすぎでしょhttps://t.co/3nSlFJGmbu pic.twitter.com/yzM0KIsuRj — いけさん ィェィㇴ太郎 (@is_ikesan) May 4, 2020 Mouse trap expert Shawn Woods writes that this device is known as "the 1862 Mouse Killer". It is an uncompromising example… Read the rest of the article: 19th century mousetrap not messing around
Nicolas Cage is to star in a Netflix TV show as Joe "Exotic" Maldonado-Passage, a roadside zookeeper jailed for animal abuse and for trying to arrange the murder of a… Read the rest of the article: Nicolas Cage to star as celebrity animal abuser Joe Exotic
It's been 14 years since amateur radio operators were expected to be able to tap out five words a minute in morse code to qualify for an Extra Class license,… Read the rest of the article: High-speed morse code with a straight key
Clipped from his show last night, Don Lemon offers a class in how to get under Trump's skin. He does this by asking a simple and incisive question: what is… Read the rest of the article: How Don Lemon gets under Trump's skin
Billy Mitchell, the onetime Donkey Kong champion removed from the record book after evidence emerged that he used emulators to rack up his scores, is suing the website that bounced… Read the rest of the article: Former Donkey Kong champion sues scorekeeping website for removing his records
As parks in upscale areas were packed with sunbathing yuppies, NYPD spent the weekend arresting those who failed to social-distance on the streets. In this video, an unmasked plain-clothes officer… Read the rest of the article: Video shows plain-clothes NYPD officer attacking bystander during arrest
After admitting that the U.S. Covid-19 deaths could reach 90,000, Trump bemoaned critics and claimed that Abraham Lincoln got better press. "I am greeted with a hostile press the likes… Read the rest of the article: Trump admits Covid death toll will be higher, compares self to Abraham Lincoln
Conor Burns, Britain's trade minister, quit Monday after it was revealed he had used his position to threaten a member of public in a financial dispute with his father. The… Read the rest of the article: UK trade minister resigns after threatening member of public
The miniature model supercomputers that Cray salespeople carried sometimes hit eBay, and they're getting quite pricey. This 3.75" tall scale model of the Cray X-MP, once the world's fastest computer,… Read the rest of the article: Miniature model Cray X-MP supercomputer
David Icke, the longtime UK conspiracy theorist who finally became a social media star thanks to the the coronavirus pandemic, was banned today by YouTube. His sudden rise on the… Read the rest of the article: YouTube bans David Icke
The New York Times reports on a new pest from abroad, Vespa mandarinia, AKA the murder hornet or the yak-killer. With queens that can grow to two inches long, Asian… Read the rest of the article: "Murder hornets" invade America
"We've just come up a ridge here, and this whole little plateaux-ey thing is covered in Hecastocleis, and … while we're looking, there's a plane wreck over there"
Quibi is Hollywood's purest vision for how mobile entertainment should be consumed: short shows that "adapt" to the viewport, former Disney brass in charge, and a contempt for users that… Read the rest of the article: Quibi reportedly tanking within days of launch
David Icke is a UK conspiracy theorist who's been swimming at the reptile-illuminati deep end for a long time. After latching onto Covid-19, he finally found a truly explosive audience… Read the rest of the article: David Icke banned from Facebook
Bradford Pears look beautiful in spring, but have a unique odor described by one source as fish and semen. Southern Living is taking action against "the worst tree". For years,… Read the rest of the article: Southern Living magazine hates Bradford Pear trees
