The literature promises "sick drifts and flips on the Island of Sodor" and that's exactly what you get.

An autonomous delivery van will be tested on the streets of Houston, Texas. It's the first driverless vehicle to win an exemption from requirements that a human operator be present.… Read the rest of the article: Driverless delivery van to be road-tested in Texas

Bernie Sanders today declared victory in Iowa's bungled headcount of Democratic voters, with the latest results putting him neck-and-neck with Pete Buttigieg. It was already clear he had the most… Read the rest of the article: Sanders declares victory in Iowa caucus as final results trail in

r/imsorryjon is inspired by the pioneering work of Will Burke, creator of a striking series of horrific Garfield drawings in 2018. (He wasn't the first, though.) The example shown here… Read the rest of the article: Collection of Garfield-based cosmic horror

The owner of two dogs installed a camera to keep an eye on their new companions. But it instead solved the mystery of why the Los Alamos-area home ended up… Read the rest of the article: Pup starts fire

I'm a big fan of videos of people arrested for pretending to be cops, especially the way real and fake cop-personas differ and interact. This one is a veritable antimatter… Read the rest of the article: Police impersonator arrested

Allegheny County Common Pleas judge Mark Tranquilli was reassigned this week after uttering what CBS euphemistically describes as "racially charged remarks": referring to a black juror as "Aunt Jemima" and… Read the rest of the article: Judge reassigned after complaint he called black juror "Aunt Jemima"

Detroit's Rob Wolchek (previously at Boing Boing) turns his ire on a local builder who has become notorious for shafting buyers of his superficially handsome disaster boxes. The scam works… Read the rest of the article: Shady home builder exposed

I recently needed to glue wood together in a real hurry and tried a product called RapidFuse that didn't do too well. Annoyed, I decided to look for tests of… Read the rest of the article: Wood glues tested

We may never know the truth about the border crisis, writes Matthew Connelly, because the National Archives is letting millions of documents be destroyed. President Trump has long made it… Read the rest of the article: National Archive to let ICE destroy documents

Ever wondered where tartan comes from? Now you know: the tartan sheep of Auchingarrich. Glenn Check: A Scottish farmer at Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre fools tourists into believing that her flock… Read the rest of the article: The tartan sheep of Auchingarrich

The Thin Blue Line Pint Glass [Benshot] and the .308 Authentic Solid Copper Projectile Whiskey Rocks Glass Engraved with Blue Line American Flag [Amazon] are items apparently intended to support… Read the rest of the article: What exactly is the Thin Blue Line bullet glass suggesting?

GANField is the result (nightmarish, grotesque, occasionally comical) of a generative adversarial network trying to find its way through a corpus of Garfield strips. Watch as an AI struggles to… Read the rest of the article: GANfield: ai-generated Garfield

"American Dirt is #1 on the New York Times bestseller list," writes Angeline Rodriguez, concerning the novel whose celebrity endorsements and success was brute-forced by a marketing campaign and completely… Read the rest of the article: American Dirt was too big to fail

"Rumors are rife", reports the Taiwan News, which writes that Chinese Premier Xi Jinping hasn't been seen in public for six days. The last time Xi made a public appearance… Read the rest of the article: Nothing to Xi here: Chinese premiere "disappears" during virus crisis

My masterpiece, a teapot, but each vertex is another teapot. If this isn't art then IDK what is. pic.twitter.com/44RXpEH2oT — Joseph Whittington (@the_whittington) January 27, 2020 Game developer Jospeh Whittington… Read the rest of the article: 3D teapot where each vertex is a 3D teapot

With only 62% of precincts reporting in, Bernie Sanders has 28,220 votes in the Iowa Democratic Party caucus, followed closely by Pete Buttigieg on 27,030 and then Elizabeth Warren with… Read the rest of the article: Buttigieg claims delegate lead in Iowa caucus, with Sanders leading vote, Warren close behind, and Biden in the dust

The Iowa caucuses are a mess, with no precinct results declared, Pete Buttigieg claiming victory despite being fourth in most polls, and conspiracy theories spreading online, especially about the app… Read the rest of the article: Iowa caucus-goer learns her candidate is gay

A Texas police officer convicted of rape was sentenced to 10 years probation by a jury, reports The El Paso Times. He will serve 0 days in prison. It was… Read the rest of the article: No jail time for cop convicted of rape

The 1896 film "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" was not shot in 4k at 60 frames per second, but it gets there in this remastering using neural networks.… Read the rest of the article: 1896's "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" upscaled and smoothed with AI