A black woman was shot dead by a white police officer early Saturday in her own home. The officer, responding to a call from a neighbor concerned about an open… Read the rest of the article: Texas cop shoots black woman dead in her own home, through her window
Rock Paper Shotgun lists the fifty best role-playing games you can play on PC right now. I recommend approaching it with an attitude of "curious about fun-packed easily-missed classics", lest… Read the rest of the article: The best PC role-playing games in 2019
A huge trove of ancient MS-DOS games are now available at the Internet Archive, with in-browser DOSbox emulation and metadata.
Adobe Flash, the clunky and unsearchable interactive plugin tech, was always bad. Its presence on a website guaranteed a user interface disaster, an unblockable ad, or general bloated shonkiness. But… Read the rest of the article: Adobe Flash was good, actually
The New York Times reported today that a video mashup depicting Trump slaughtering a church packed with his "fake news" enemies, from Barack Obama to the BBC, was shown last… Read the rest of the article: Here's the mashup video of Trump mass-murdering his enemies, shown at his resort to supporters
Bullshit.js is a javascript bookmarklet that replaces all the managerial and marketing jargon and other buzzwords on the page with the word "bullshit." For example, if I were to write… Read the rest of the article: Bookmarket reveals marketing jargon and other BS on the current page
The White House Counsel's "crazy, ranty" legal nastygram to House Leader Nancy Pelosi over impeachment was, Noah Shachtman writes, crafted by Trump himself. Asawin Suebsaeng and Sam Stein, at the… Read the rest of the article: You Don't Se: Trump wrote much of own lawyer letter to Pelosi
After 23 years at Fox News, its chief news anchor Shep Smith is off to pastures new. "Recently I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News and… Read the rest of the article: Shepard Smith out at Fox News
At The Washington Post, Antonia Noori Farzan reports on an alleged zoophile who demanded farmers let him at the horses while conducting a terrifying stalking campaign against those who refused.… Read the rest of the article: Zoophile stalked farmers who denied him their mares
Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg is the world's most popular streamer, a goofy gamer whose reactionary tendencies were relentlessly encouraged by YouTube and its engagement machinery. Now he faces the consequences, rich… Read the rest of the article: PewDiePie goes on the record
Splinter was the news site at G/O Media (the successor to Gawker Media), housing left-leaning current affairs commentary and anchoring the groups' more advertiser-friendly tech, game and sports "verticals". The… Read the rest of the article: Splinter News shuttered, boss tells staff not to write about it
Mike Winkelmann (homepage, behance) animated a few illustrative seconds of the immediate future: "ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA" ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA #everydays pic.twitter.com/nPGlLkemie — beeple (@beeple) October 9, 2019 Here's… Read the rest of the article: Nice animation of Zuckerberg as giant cyborg spider enjoying Facebook's nipple-free techno-utopia
Behold the master in enunciation outclass the mediocrities that surround him. Previously in Diabeetus: Cat resembling Wilford Brimley skilled in art of playing "death by diabeetus"
An app used by Hong Kong protestors to track security forces there disappeared Wednesday from Apple's app store. Apple says it's being used by criminals to attack police, but given… Read the rest of the article: Apple removes Hong Kong protest app
After the rollout of its own game store, Epic (of Unreal and Fortnite fame) published a string of exclusives, most recently the all-conquering Untitled Goose Game. Today it launched Unreal… Read the rest of the article: Unreal Indies: game platform seeks more developers
Raytracing is a method for drawing scenes by modeling beams of light, illuminating and richocheting off objects. It's realistic but very slow, and only the newest and most expensive video… Read the rest of the article: Raytracing with MySQL
Ellen DeGeneres's friendship with ex-President George W. Bush became controversial this week, in light of the progressive values she claims and the 600,000 corpses left by his occupation of Iraq.… Read the rest of the article: Devastating remix of Ellen's lecture on befriending George W. Bush disappears after copyright takedown … then reappears in force
Oregon Zoo posted a collection of X-ray images of animals taken at its Veterinary Medical Center, reavealing "the inner gothy beauty of animals." [h/t Steven Glista] See if you can… Read the rest of the article: Oregon Zoo X-rays
Ronan Farrow reports in his forthcoming book Catch and Kill [Amazon] that TV host Matt Lauer is accused of raping a colleague at NBC News.
Natalie Martinez offers some good advice, which will not be taken, to Fox News: "Maybe read the screen name aloud before you broadcast it to the world." i'd like to… Read the rest of the article: Fox News reduced to segments quoting anti-Clinton Twitter bot named Hugh Janus
