H.P. Lovecraft's only good short story is now a movie starring Nicolas Cage. Here's the trailer; it's out January 24, 2020. They've updated the setting to the present day and… Read the rest of the article: Trailer for The Color Out Of Space

Two then-employees of Twitter used their position to provide the Saudi government with information about its critics on the platform, say prosecutors, who have charged them with espionage. The men… Read the rest of the article: Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudis

Tyler Russo: "Let's eat raw chicken now/Drown me in chicken now/Please eat raw chicken with me." Previously: Keep fucking that chicken.

His first mistake was driving his front-wheel-drive compact onto the loose sands of Tynemouth, England. His second mistake was calling the police instead of a tow truck. Northumbria Police: "At… Read the rest of the article: Man immediately regrets driving onto sandy beach

This video, apparently depicting teens driving around and yelling mostly non-problematic compliments at pedestrians through a bullhorn, recalls the halcyon days of 2014.

This video shows a firefighting helicopter pilot refilling its bucket in a backyard swimming pool in Portugal, to tackle a nearby blaze. João Guimarães, the next-door neighbor, writes that the… Read the rest of the article: Video shows daring helicopter pilot refilling bucket in swimming pool

A remarkably effective example of the "minor key" genre, where software is used to shift the chords and notes of an uplifting song to give it it a downcast mood… Read the rest of the article: John Denver's "Country Roads" in minor key

I so enjoyed the poodle in a box that Xeni posted that I decided to add some more dog gifs, and also a cat, for a full minute of House… Read the rest of the article: Jump Around starring dogs and one special guest cat

No-one ever seems to live in a dream house won in a raffle, so CBS News began to wonder if there was ever really a dream house at all. It… Read the rest of the article: Dream House Raffle people never awarded anyone a house, CBS News reports

Brendan is a 34-year-old investor building an empire of rentals and seemingly random retail operations. He decided to buy a run-down old-timey laundromat. It's clean and there's a lot of… Read the rest of the article: How much money does a laundromat make in 2019?

George Carlin, of the so-called "silent generation" that preceded the boomers: "I'm getting tired of hearing about…whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "GIMME IT, IT'S MINE!" "GIMME THAT,… Read the rest of the article: George Carlin explains why Boomers are terrible

Driver Andy Edmonds spotted the police and film crew at the side of the road, but not the enormous pile of rocks they were dealing with. "I didn't even see… Read the rest of the article: Driver somehow unaware of rocky landslide he's about to drive into

SinGAN is a generative AI that can, among other things, create random variations of an image (or animate it) without knowing what it is an image of. The official implementation… Read the rest of the article: AI randomizes and animates scenes from a single image

The UK-based game developer Rockstar North hasn't paid corporation tax in a decade despite scoring billions in revenue. A report from the investigative thinktank TaxWatch UK estimates Rockstar Games’ operating… Read the rest of the article: Grand Theft Auto maker hasn't paid corporation tax in 10 years

A teacher, mercifully left anonymous, was filmed rapping in blackface on Halloween. Chris Norwood, the MUSD school board president, called the teacher's actions "inappropriate, unprofessional and insensitive," according to an… Read the rest of the article: Teacher suspended after Halloween blackface rap

The Verge's Dieter Bohn reviews Microsoft's Surface Pro X laptop. It's pretty and it's small, but it's slow. … the core of Windows 10 runs just fine for me [but]… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft's ARM laptop is slim but not so fast

Facebook would like to be addressed henceforth as FACEBOOK. NBC News: Facebook introduced a new brand Monday: FACEBOOK. The company announced in a blog post that the new brand, which… Read the rest of the article: Facebook rebrands as FACEBOOK

Francesca O'Brien, the Conservative candidate for the Gower constituency in the forthcoming UK elections, said that people appearing on the TV show "Benefits Steet" needed "putting down". In the posts… Read the rest of the article: Conservative politician apologizes for saying people on welfare "needed putting down".

Richard Spencer sought to cast his brand of clean-cut ethnic nationalism as a respectable conservative alternative to nazism, coining the term "alt-right" to refer to it and successfully attracting mainstream… Read the rest of the article: Leaked audio allegedly captures racist tirade by Nazi media darling Richard Spencer

Brass dodecahedrons keep turning up in the European soil. They're of Roman antiquity, but no-one knows for sure what they were for. Thankfully, "mundane ornamentation or maybe a childrens' toy"… Read the rest of the article: The mystery of brass Roman dodecahedrons