My first moments in Tom van den Boogaart's Bernband (Free Download), a goalless exploration game set in the mazelike city of Pff, led me to expect an empty low-fi walking… Read the rest of the article: Bernband: explore a looming yet intimate alien city
Microsoft is to shut shop on the high streets and malls of America, permanently closing its 116 retail stores. Only 10 were overseas; flagship stores in New York City, London,… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
Armin Küpper offers up some Pipelinefunk: "Saxophone jam using a pipeline as natural delay and reverb" When I was preparing for my recording session on the tube, I got a… Read the rest of the article: Saxophone played into an empty pipeline
This video compares the scenery and airframes in Microsoft Flight Simulator X to the forthcoming Microsoft Flight Sim 2020. Everyone has their own reasons for liking new things, but I'm… Read the rest of the article: Eager to see Air Disasters YouTube get its hands on MS Flight Sim 2020
40,000 new Covid cases were reported yesterday in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins data tracker, the worst yet in a pandemic that refused to go away and… Read the rest of the article: 39,327 new Covid cases on America's worst day yet for new infections
Unilever, the $143.8 billion vampire squid of toiletries and snacks, is promising to remove the word "fair" from the name of its skin-whitening cream "Fair and Lovely". It will also… Read the rest of the article: Skin whitening cream to be made less racist by changing its name
Four years ago, Carly Fiorina was Ted Cruz's running mate in the 2016 GOP primaries. This time around, however, the Republican businesswoman is voting for Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate.… Read the rest of the article: Former GOP Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina endorses Joe Biden
U.S. Representaive Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) has lost his legal battle to unmask a fictional cow on Twitter. Though the case made news of Nunes' narcissism, it was months before a… Read the rest of the article: Devin Nunes loses legal battle with fictional cow
Three members of the Wilmington Police Department in North Carolina were fired after a supervisor reviewing dashcam footage noticed them eagerly discussing the prospect of race war: "We are just… Read the rest of the article: North Carolina cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— n——"
Mary W. Jackson was one of the black women mathematicians at NASA whose contributions to the space race were made in a segregated and sexist environment and left unsung until… Read the rest of the article: NASA renames DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson
Goldman Sachs has released its own eponymous font, Goldman Sans, a contemporary sans-serif that garnishes merciless formality with a charming typographic "wink" here and there [h/t Matt Round]. It is… Read the rest of the article: Goldman Sachs releases its own font, forbids criticism of Goldman Sachs with it
A NYT/Siena poll puts Joe Biden 14 points ahead of Donald Trump, leading him 50% to 36%. The margin has widened to cut into Trump's firewall of white voters, suggesting… Read the rest of the article: Biden "dominating" Trump in latest national poll
Dani Connor Wild is feeding four baby squirrels whose mother was run over: "I have recently become a “mum” to four baby red squirrels after their mum was unfortunately hit… Read the rest of the article: So you're wondering what a 7-week old baby red squirrel sounds like
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the US Representative for New York's fourteenth district, faced a well-funded "centrist" challenger in this year's Democratic primary. Though Michelle Caruso-Cabrera couldn't match Ocasio-Cortez's fundraising, she was backed… Read the rest of the article: AOC trounces Wall Street-backed primary challenger
Tourist Steve Challice, from Southampton in England, thought he was merely taking a photo of a "big fish" in Loch Ness while on holiday in Scotland.
RSS Box generates the "missing" feeds for Twitter accounts, YouTube channels, Instagram users, and various other sites that fail to offer RSS. This website lets you subscribe to RSS feeds… Read the rest of the article: RSS Box creates the feeds missing on popular platforms
Traintrackr is a powered circuit board showing a map of the London Underground, lighting up in real time to show train positions on 333 stations on all 12 main lines.… Read the rest of the article: Traintrackr is a light-up circuit-board map of the London Underground or Boston Metro
Porn star Ron Jeremy was charged today with rape and sexual assault, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office announced today. According to the charges, Jeremy, 67, raped three women and… Read the rest of the article: Ron Jeremy charged with rape
Following dismal polling and a flop rally in Tulsa, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is to step down, reports Vanity Fair. “Brad really shit the bed Saturday night. You have… Read the rest of the article: Vanity Fair: Trump campaign manager and "website guy" Brad Parscale to quit
A copy of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables was restored magnificently by a "furniture restorer" in Spain, whose work challenges the illustrious heights of 2012's Beast… Read the rest of the article: Another flawless art restoration in Spain
