This one's good not only because it's simple yet interactive, but because it shows the receipts and the spending. There are various others on the site for different tendrils of… Read the rest of the article: Visualization of the United Kingdom's budget
A forthcoming book by two New York Times journalists reveals that Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs, to slow them down. The remark was uttered in a White… Read the rest of the article: Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs
Peter Sissons, who died today at 77, is well known to British news junkies for his decades anchoring daily bulletins on ITV and the BBC. Though not well-known abroad, he… Read the rest of the article: British broadcaster Peter Sissons dies at 77. Here's his most famous moment.
Parliament repetedly shot down former Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan, fatally compromised by its complicated arrangements for keeping Ireland free of border controls. Parliament also has passed a law… Read the rest of the article: UK Prime Minister proposes one last Brexit deal to Europe
Rural Britons of the beekeeping set traditionally keep the bees up to date on family births, deaths, marriages and important world events. Perhaps we should all adopt this charming custom… Read the rest of the article: Don't forget to inform your bees of all important happenings
YouTube denies that it punishes users simply for being queer or using queer terms. But users of the platform are putting it to the test and finding many such phrases… Read the rest of the article: YouTube demonetizing videos where LGBTQ keywords are said
An off-duty Dallas cop who killed a man in his own home was convicted today of murder. Amber Guyger, armed with a gun, claimed she thought she was in her… Read the rest of the article: Killer cop Amber Guyger convicted of murder
We are to understand that "both the body and head of the costume show substantial breakdown to the foam latex elements." Leonardo's (Mark Caso) costume from Stuart Gilard's family adventure… Read the rest of the article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle suit from 1993 movie hits the auction block
Lospec offers various tools and tutorials for creating "digitally restrictive art", typically pixel art that restricts the pallette and resolution in honor (or explicit imitation) of retro computer hardware. The… Read the rest of the article: Lospec, a resource site for "digitally restrictive art"
I can't rightly say I know what's going on in Mushroom Délicieux!, a demented glitchy Pico-8 game by Rémy Devaux. But I had plenty of fun racing around the woods… Read the rest of the article: Mushroom Délicieux! is a demented glitchy Pico-8 game
Bandai Namco owns the trademark and copyright in classic arcade game Ms. Pac Man, but a retro hardware company named AtGames has acquired rights to collect royalty payments on it.
In this amusing and rather frightening footage, a runaway utility cart turns in circles on the asphalt at Chicago's O'Hare airport, slowly making its way toward a plane at the… Read the rest of the article: Airport worker intercepts runaway cart in nick of time to save plane
The Gate is a short creature feature with some sharp creepy moments, the docu-footage look, and a self-subverting lesson about drugs and faith in government. It slips perfectly into a… Read the rest of the article: The Gate, a creepy biohorror short
I stared at this a while in Target and a staff member eventually asked if I needed help and I slowly turned to them and whispered "kratom ranch." Kranch Saucy… Read the rest of the article: Kranch dressing is a real product you can buy
Castle-generator is, as you can probably already guess, a generator of castles—gorgeous, two-dimensional pixel art fortresses to die for over and over and over again. It's by _unsettled_; all sorts… Read the rest of the article: Pixel art castle generator
Silver maples are evil, obviously, but I was enchanted by one root's complete embrace of a brick in my back yard. Liberating the brick meant liberating the root first, and… Read the rest of the article: Tree root completely surrounded a brick
Described by their finder as "Yoopalite" rocks, a cache of fluorescent sodalite-laced stones was found on a Michigan beach. The apparently bland, well-weathered pebbles light up under 365nm; agate-hunter Erik… Read the rest of the article: Behold the glowing Yooperlite rocks of Lake Superior
Nothing worth saying about this man can safely be said—at least on Twitter.
RELAY is a free browser game by Yahia Zakaria, Sameh Khater, and Yassin Zakaria. You control a robot trapped in a series of two-dimensional levels filled with electronic gates, hatches,… Read the rest of the article: Tranceive a way out of RELAY's electronic dungeon
Void Golf is a free browser game by Cactusmancer. You fire rocks into black holes on a 2D starfield—think Asteroids meets Desert Golf— contending with (and exploiting) the gravitational attraction… Read the rest of the article: Void Golf, an unexpectedly atmospheric physics game
