You can't solder a leak! "Take freash bread, take out the core, roll it into a tight ball, stuff it into the pipe, and it'll stop the leak long enough… Read the rest of the article: Old plumbing trick: stuff dripping pipes with bread to keep solder dry

Unusually for retro game consoles, Polymega includes an optical drive and they offer five custom controllers to make it more fun to play games from all the old systems. Polymega™… Read the rest of the article: Polymega, a retro game console for the CD-ROM generation

@BUGPOSTING discovered something funny and desperately sad at Target: "womens" laxatives in a special pink box at more than twice the price. The real difference appears to be that they… Read the rest of the article: Laxatives for ladies

The Universal Serial Bus first showed up in 1996, replacing SCSI and other interfaces—and the haphazard wizardry it took to get anything working with them. That's not to say, however,… Read the rest of the article: The oral history of USB

Douglas McLeod, (R-Lucedale), a Mississippi state representative accused of punching his wife in the face after she failed to quickly undress for sex, has released dual his-n-hers statements in which… Read the rest of the article: No apology from lawmaker charged with punching wife in face

Yennihlecm Montevideo plays another Song of Ice and Fire. This one's surpising and jaunty, at least until the end. Then, as with the TV series, we head into darker territory.

From its archives, RTÉ floats an Irishman with a motorized bar stool. It turns out that "I shall motorize this bar stool" is a frequent independent innovation, as many videos… Read the rest of the article: Welcome to Motorized Bar Stool YouTube

Christian Cawley listicled 10 old devices upcycled to house a Raspberry Pi (including the Tomy toy dashboard OutRun previously at BB). Embedded above is a Pi, with a wee LCD… Read the rest of the article: Life goals: stick a Raspberry Pi in an old TV, stereo or clock

2Doom is a 2D demake of the classic first-person shooter Doom, featuring faithfully-drawn sprites in a side-scrolling arcade adventure. [via Rob Sheridan] Despite its cute pixel art, prepare for an… Read the rest of the article: 2Doom: free 2D Doom demake

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a vast storm system visible on the gas giant since at least the 1830s and perhaps the 1660s, is reportedly "unraveling." “I haven’t seen this before… Read the rest of the article: Jupiter's great red spot "unraveling"

“Welly, welly, well, to what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this ganjy gadget? What’s it going to be then, eh? There was me, that is Lexa, and my… Read the rest of the article: Already regretting assigning Anthony Burgess to review the Samsung Galaxy Fold

It is, as they say, a running joke. One meticulously catalogued here by Noah Spongy and Jasbre.

Despite 15 years of legal action, jailed founders, and countless takedown demands, The Pirate Bay still remains live on the 'net. This is the story of a plain-looking website that… Read the rest of the article: The Pirate Bay still lives

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced she would stand down as the leader of the Conservative Party on June 7, triggering a party leadership race. She will remain Prime Minister… Read the rest of the article: British Prime Minister announces resignation

There's no sound in this video, posted by KARK 4 News, depicting two barges slurped inexorably into a dam on the Arkansas River. According to locals, the unmanned barges were… Read the rest of the article: Barges strike Arkansas River dam

Author Naomi Wolf has a new book coming out titled "Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love". It's about the emergence of homosexuality as a concept and its criminalization… Read the rest of the article: Listen to an author realize her forthcoming book contains a terrible mistake

An Orlando homeowner owned a second lot next to the house. He added a pool that straddled the property lines. Then, following foreclosure, the two lots were sold to different… Read the rest of the article: After double lot sold to separate owners, one of them erects fence through pool and garage

The U.S. Department of Justice today indicted Wikileaks' Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, the first time a publisher has been charged for revealing classified information. Kevin Poulsen and Betsy… Read the rest of the article: U.S. charges Julian Assange under Espionage Act

Playdate is a tiny yellow game console with a hand-crank (!) and a monochrome display. It's being made by Panic and Teenage Engineering, with a launch roster full of game… Read the rest of the article: Playdate, a tiny game console with a big pedigree

They're semi-rebooting The Terminator, marking the first two (three?) movies as canon and relegating all the others to the franchise's timey-wimey parallel universes. Linda Hamilton is back, and so, of… Read the rest of the article: Terminator: Dark Fate trailer