Last night, Game of Thrones' last episode played out. Without spoiling details, the fan consensus is that while the writing was as bad as the rest of the show's abrupt… Read the rest of the article: Game of Thrones ends

Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn noticed an unusual, mislabeled eBay listing for a rare beauty: an IBM System/360 in Nuremberg for peanuts. So they set out to do what any… Read the rest of the article: Ancient IBM mainframe rescued from abandoned building

P.S. Billy Joel is Jobriath for heterosexuals.

For years it was one of the most lighty-amusing running jokes in memedom: The Onion's ongoing series of stories about then-VP Joe Biden, portraying him as Diamond Joe, everyone's favorite… Read the rest of the article: Onion editor regrets portraying Joe Biden as skeevy yet loveable uncle

In 2017, an engineer and entrepreneur sued Techdirt for criticising his claim to have invented email. Though a district court soon dismissed the lawsuit on First Amendment grounds, appeals and… Read the rest of the article: Techdirt settles lawsuit with the "I invented email" guy

Two years ago, a Taiwan court ruled that its laws forbidding same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. Now legislators there voted to make it the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex… Read the rest of the article: Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriage

A Charleston man was charged with fraud this week [justice.gov] after investigators unraveled an elaborate scheme to take control of IP addresses. More than 750,000 were snagged, reports the BBC,… Read the rest of the article: Internet fraudster stole 750,000 IP addresses, say prosecutors

The Lake Dunlap spillway suffered a catastrophic failure earlier this week, and it was all caught on camera: an old dam gate keeling over and allowing water to surge into… Read the rest of the article: Video of dam gate collapsing

After suffering hydraulic problems, an F-16 fighter jet crashed into a California warehouse Thursday. The pilot ejected safely and no-one on the ground was seriously harmed; a nearby driver captured… Read the rest of the article: Video captures F-16 crashing into California warehouse

Tardar Sauce, a cat known to many as Grumpy Cat due to her distinctive facial expression and 2012 viral video success, died Tuesday due to complications of an infection. The… Read the rest of the article: Grumpy Cat dies

UPi is a full-size rack mount for the Raspberry Pi. Though it can apparently accomodate three Pis, it is clearly best if you just put one in, just as depicted… Read the rest of the article: Rackmount your lone Raspberry Pi

No acchiappaclick here: you're getting exactly what the headline promises. Weasels are a symbol of sexuality in portraiture and there are so very many to choose from.

Bitfont Maker 2 is a free online app that lets you design and save pixelated low-fi fonts. You can import TTFs too, if you just want to edit an existing… Read the rest of the article: Make your own bitfonts

https://youtu.be/–alGfsVbnw Behold "Karen of the Boreal Valley," whose adventures are made perfect by epic music played so loud it clips like a VHS sword-and-sandals movie at maximum volume on the… Read the rest of the article: Woman lopes on all fours

UPDATE: I missed that this video is 7 years old! On the internet, everything new is old again. Julian Bakery low-carb "bread" should not be judged on the basis of… Read the rest of the article: After new formula, low-carb bread is also a durable and effective sponge

Conrad Black is a former publishing mogul and convicted felon who recently penned an adoring biography of Donald Trump [Amazon], described therein as a personal friend. Trump pardoned him today,… Read the rest of the article: Trump pardons Conrad Black, convicted fraudster who wrote blowjob biography of him

Pappy van Poodle, a character in Nintendo's Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, was so obscure no-one ever uttered its name on the Internet record despite his having an extensive in-game backstory… Read the rest of the article: The most obscure Nintendo character

Police in London conducted a public street trial with facial recognition cameras. A man who covered his face as he walked by the cameras was stopped by officers, forced to… Read the rest of the article: London police arrest man who covered face during public facial recognition trials

Classic video-clip humor site YTMND ("You're the man now dog!") is gone. Hailing from an era before web video was commonplace, its distinctive juxtapositions of images, superimposed text and looping… Read the rest of the article: YTMND disappears

A man in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, was confused when the Tire Discounters next to Taco Bell refused to honor a quote, then bemused to learn that the place he'd called… Read the rest of the article: Man critical of decision to site two virtually identical tire shops next to same Taco Bell