Jaywick started life as a holiday camp for East London's working class families. It became permanently occupied after World War II and is now a cluster of rotting shotgun shacks… Read the rest of the article: Jaywick once again named Britain's poorest town
Twitter reports that email address and phone numbers added for security reasons such as two-factor authorization "may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes." When an advertiser uploaded their marketing… Read the rest of the article: Twitter admits two-factor login phone numbers were used for advertising
The reborn VCS looked like a thoroughbred among a field of retro nags, wedding Atari's classic pedigree to powerful modern hardware. But its designer has quit the project, according to… Read the rest of the article: Retro Atari console designer quits, says he hasn't been paid
PlayStation 5 is coming for winterval 2020, and will have … drum roll … USB-C.
Bloomberg News reports on the porcine powerhouses bred in the People's Republic. The 500 kilogram, or 1,102 pound, animal is part of a herd that’s being bred to become giant… Read the rest of the article: Chinese farmers breeding pigs as heavy as polar bears
Saturn "has overtaken" Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites, at least in our own system: 82 to the larger world's 79. A team "discovered a haul of 20… Read the rest of the article: 20 mini-moons spotted orbiting Saturn
Nick "Ulillillia" Smith is a game developer, writer and YouTuber who achieved recognition in the early 2010s due to his eccentricity, the shameless intensity of his outsider-art creations, and his… Read the rest of the article: The Story of Ulillillia
Serhii Londar (Patreon) maintains a list of open-source applications available for MacOS. Unlike some similar guides, it's exhaustive rather than curated, and easy to reference in a single, well-organized HTML… Read the rest of the article: Big list of open-source MacOS apps
After killing a man in a road accident, Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American diplomat, was interviewed by police and promised not to leave the country while the incident… Read the rest of the article: U.S. diplomat's wife flees Britain after killing man in road accident
All Medina Hall wanted was to be told if the brownie had nuts in it. But staff at a Burger King in Folkestone, England, refused to read the ingredients list… Read the rest of the article: Burger King staff refused to read menu for blind customer
In this video, bodycam footage shows a young man in jeans and a vaguely authoritarian shirt leaning into a driver's window. The bodycam wearer quietly approaches on foot, as if… Read the rest of the article: Man pretending to be cop arrested by actual cop
Meet Maria Elena Gimeno, facing felony charges after vandalizing a parked Tesla. Teslas have cameras on the wing mirrors (two of nine!) and Gimeno was filmed by them. She turned… Read the rest of the article: Woman keys a Tesla, but the Tesla's watching
Trumpetcake spotted a remarkable item on Amazon being sold as "The Goonies Sloth Mask", perfect for Halloween. The sole customer review awards it 5 stars, but people on Twitter seem… Read the rest of the article: Halloween mask of Sloth from The Goonies deemed inaccurate
In a late-night press release, the White House announced that Turkey "will soon be moving forward" with an invasion of northern Syria—areas currently occupied by Kurds. Mr. Trump’s decision goes… Read the rest of the article: Trump gives Turkey blessing to attack Kurds, U.S. allies in war on ISIS
John Brownlee traces the rise and fall of steampunk, a genre and aesthetic I know is close to many hearts 'round these parts. (Some of my own thoughts on the… Read the rest of the article: Steampunk nearly went mainstream, then nearly vanished
Deandre Somerville, 21, of West Palm Beach, overslept and missed jury duty. Florida judge John S. Kastrenekes threw him in jail for 10 days. "Now I have a record," he… Read the rest of the article: Florida judge jails man for missing jury duty
As AOL's anime-haired "Digital Prophet", David Shing was often portrayed as a blatant poser, a voltron of web 2.0 buzzwords with a tellingly quiet social media following. But he was… Read the rest of the article: Shingy talks about the real job behind the "Digital Prophet" bullshit
El Pais reports that a mother and her daughter were arrested after hiring a man to kill a swindler, then complaining to police when he failed to do the job.… Read the rest of the article: Women arrested after complaining to police that hitman ripped them off
Sadly, it appears that the decomposed latex Leonardo suit from 1993's TMNT III failed to sell at its auction earlier this week, despite the low low estimate of £10,000-£15,000.
"And there we go, we've created Minecraft."
