In 1959, Westinghouse imagined the TOTAL ELECTRIC HOME, a life filled with electrical appliances. The company was slowly devoured from the inside out by the media entities it bought, and… Read the rest of the article: Westinghouse's 1959 house of the future

Jesselyn Cook noticed that a site called NewsBuzzr had ripped off one of her stories at Huffington Post. It turned out to be some kind of awful plagiarism bot that… Read the rest of the article: News plagiarism sites run real stories through thesaurus to avoid detection, to hilarious effect

Circuitbeard created this adorable and pixel-perfect miniature OutRun cabinet to sit atop their bar, complete with not-a-Ferrari dashboard and original cabinet decal art. Check out Picade for a primer on… Read the rest of the article: Custom-made bartop OutRun cabinet

My "bee"-obsessed young son will not be delighted to see the addition of bees to Minecraft, as he is still too young to have played Minecraft or, indeed, to have… Read the rest of the article: Bees added to Minecraft, finally

There's an unlimited wealth of useless USB gadgetry to be acquired, obviously, but something about the USB half-golfball with one USB port [Amazon] posted to Twitter by @foone (whose epic… Read the rest of the article: USB half-golfball with one USB port

What just happened? asks the Los Angeles Times, concerning the sale of "the Mountain", a large undeveloped plot of land overlooking Los Angeles that was listed for $1bn but nabbed… Read the rest of the article: Plot of land listed for $1bn, sells for $100k

Air Canada flight 759's captain and co-pilot had been awake all day and were coming into San Francisco in the early hours of the morning, at the lowest point of… Read the rest of the article: How flight crew exhaustion almost led to America's worst airline disaster

As long ago as 1966, Batman knew how to correctly dispose of a explosive device without endangering the public or property. To think that all the shenanigans of the last… Read the rest of the article: How to dispose of a bomb

When someone punches you so hard your brain flies out the orifices of your face, how exactly does that sound? Foley artists know how that sounds, and they use a… Read the rest of the article: How they make the gross sound effects for Mortal Kombat games

Skeleton Lake is so named for the hundreds of skeletons found there, a spooky tableux high in a Himalayan pass. It was believed that the 500 or so dead were… Read the rest of the article: Mystery deepens: dead of Skeleton Lake weren't killed by a hailstorm, say scientists

Furry fans sometimes use cooling vests to make hot fursuits comfortable to wear. Soldiers also have need for such garments. And now a Dutch fursuit maker has improved the state… Read the rest of the article: Semper Fur: fursuit technician improves military cooling vest and troops are into it

OpenAI has released a more extensive version of its generative language model. We’re releasing the 774 million parameter GPT-2 language model after the release of our small 124M model in… Read the rest of the article: OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 dataset. Can it write fake news better than a human?

An alligator scaled a fence "effortlessly" at Air Station Jacksonville in Florida, and it was all caught on video. Christina Stewart stopped to film the gator claw its way up… Read the rest of the article: Alligator scales fence

Ellie Pell is the first woman to win the 50k Ultra outright, blasting past runner-up Richard Ellsworth in the four-hour endurance race. Pell took home both the 1st place trophy… Read the rest of the article: Organizers unprepared as woman wins ultra marathon outright

Iskhur's guide to electronic music is a true classic of the web, now freshly updated for a new generation of fabulously obscure and ephemeral subgenres. [via Metafilter] See also Every… Read the rest of the article: Ishkur's legendary guide to electronic music updated

The BBC reports that Canada's election watchdog claims that advertisements saying climate change is real may break the law, because it is a political opinion and "issue" advertising is partisan… Read the rest of the article: Canada's election watchdog: ads saying climate change is real may break law

The DIY, duct-taped motorcycle was described as the "most unusual vehicle" Sgt. Stephen Andrews had ever seen in 26 tears of pulling over motorists. But he found that it was… Read the rest of the article: Nothing wrong with duct-taped contraption stopped by cops on motorway

The Daily Beast reports that a water polo team from a California high school sang Nazi songs during an awards ceremony.

UK media moderated its coverage of the country's post-Savile sex abuse scandal, perhaps to maintain cosy establishment relationships and certainly due to Britain's menacing libel laws. American media has few… Read the rest of the article: Video of Prince Andrew lurking in Epstein's mansion after financier's 2008 conviction

A judge says that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo should be fired for his “reckless” use of a banned chokehold—and for lying about it after his victim Eric Garner, an unarmed… Read the rest of the article: NYPD cop who choked Eric Garner lied about it to investigators, says judge