Brandon Harrison, an officer with the St. Joseph Police Department in Missouri, was assigned to administrative duties Monday after being filmed threatening a motorist. The video sailed to millions of… Read the rest of the article: Off-duty cop off the streets after threatening motorist
In a video posted to the internet by Karlos Dillard, an allegedly road-raging woman is challenged by him in the street and melts down, shouting "I have a black husband!"… Read the rest of the article: Area woman has black husband
Enjoy this surprisingly relaxing and accurate performance of game console startup chimes by Bored Piano. Below, all the MS Windows startup chimes and nightmare beats.
Apple took on the challenge of Isaac Asimov's magnificently boring masterpiece Foundation, which has managed to evade screen adaptation for fifty years. Here's the trailer. I'm looking forward to episode… Read the rest of the article: Teaser for Foundation TV series
A chart of newly-confirmed cases of Covid paints a grim picture of a suddenly-resurgent pandemic in the United States. Published by the Financial Times and based on data from the… Read the rest of the article: Covid cases soar in U.S.
Apple is to phase out Intel CPUs in favor of its own ARM-based chips, it announced yesterday at the WWDC trade show in California. ARM designs are more energy-efficient and… Read the rest of the article: Apple to switch Mac lineup to its own chips
View this post on Instagram A post shared by William Cobbing (@william.cobbing) In this footage, William Cobbing (instagram) wears a giant ball of clay on his head. He slices off… Read the rest of the article: Man removes wet clay blob on head slice by slice
Courtesy of Fox News blatherskite Kat Timpf, here's a lesson on the dangers of performing contempt for laughs. When your reptile brain feeds you something really nasty to say and… Read the rest of the article: The greatest moment in the history of conservative comedy
John Bolton, challenged as to why he reserved his claims about Trump's behavior for a book deal, has a grimly convincing excuse: revealing them during his former boss's impeachment trial… Read the rest of the article: John Bolton's book, packed with dirt on Trump, is out tomorrow
Tired, dejected, his collar smeared with orange makeup, Trump at least suffered no physical problems getting off Marine One and ambling home after this weekend's flop rally in Tulsa. Only… Read the rest of the article: Trump "furious" after sparsely-attended Tulsa rally
It's a beautiful spring morning in America and footage of an angry, unmasked woman coughing on people is going viral. It's hard to know where she lies on the spectra… Read the rest of the article: Unmasked woman filmed berating other shoppers and coughing on them
Tickets for Trump's forthcoming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, come with a liability waiver in which you could become infected with coronavirus there. “By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that… Read the rest of the article: Tickets for Trump rally come with Covid-19 liability waiver
In this scene from 2007's Bee Movie, police accost an old lady eating honey, one grabs her by the neck, and she gasps: "I can't breathe!" A throwaway line from… Read the rest of the article: Police brutality gag from Bee Movie: "I can't breathe!"
{Shan, Shui}* is art-generating code that produces traditional Chinese landscape paintings. It's running here and here and each time you load the page, you'll get a new landscape. {Shan, Shui}*… Read the rest of the article: Generative Shan Shui landscape paintings
Today, CNN launched its 2020 electoral college tracking map. It makes the race look very close, despite its own polling showing Biden 14% in the lead. That's because the map… Read the rest of the article: Don't trust electoral college tracking maps based on whim and prayer
"This took an embarassing amount of time to do," writes Yusi-D-Jordan.
This video, posted Feb 18, 2020, depicts a black motorist, Ace Perry, being pulled over by a white police officer. The officer says he was suspicious because Perry was traveling… Read the rest of the article: Cop pulls over, warns black man for driving 65 mph in a 70 mph zone
The video embedded below shows the Hisense Q5, a new tablet that's reportedly coming out in China this week. It has a reflective LCD display, similar to e-ink (in that… Read the rest of the article: Tablet with high refresh-rate paperlike display
I know it's summer, but this is getting odd.
Robert Baden-Powell founded scouting, the worldwide organization cultivating youngsters' abilities and teamwork that's now open to all "without distinction of gender, origin, race or creed". But that was not quite… Read the rest of the article: Statue of scouting founder and Nazi sympathizer Robert Baden-Powell to be removed
