Tesla cars have a "sentry mode" feature that amounts to dashcams pointed hither and yon: useful for video-recording accidents, road ragers, and vandals. Entire right side of car keyed and… Read the rest of the article: Tesla car captures the gentlemen vandalizing it
Microsoft celebrates 10 years of Minecraft by making one of the earliest functional versions available to play online in the form of classic.minecraft.net. Ten years of creating, exploring and surviving.… Read the rest of the article: Play an early version of Minecraft in your browser
Probably not a great material for anything that gets much use, but it's the prettiest knife handle I ever saw. angqvist: "Here I show how I made a colored pencil… Read the rest of the article: How to make a knife handle from colored pencils
I'd call it a spoiler, but you already know what's coming: "As Seen On TV" garden gadgets are not much good, however ingenious they seem to be. Household Hacker picked… Read the rest of the article: "As Seen On TV" garden gadgets tested, and they're not great
Vat19 took video of "weird stress balls" being destroyed, which is more satisfying than using them. You can skip all the bits with talking.
William Shakespeare authorship conspiracies are ten a penny, but this one's worth the price of entry: Was Shakespeare a Woman? Who was this woman writing “immortal work” in the same… Read the rest of the article: Claim: Shakespeare's work was by a woman
The Doris Day Foundation reports her death at 97. Doris Day passed away early this morning at her Carmel Valley home, having celebrated her 97th birthday on April 3 of… Read the rest of the article: Doris Day, 1922-2019
China is blocking Wikipedia in every language, reports the Tor Project, expanding its censorship to cover editions other than Chinese. measurements show that many of these Wikipedia domains were previously… Read the rest of the article: Report: China now blocks Wikipedia in all languages
Michael Friesen generated these abominable pokemon sprites. Be sure to see a similar set hand-drawn by iguanamouth. [via Janelle Shane] Here's a human illustrating some neural net-generated pokemon names and… Read the rest of the article: AI-generated pokemon that should not be
Julian Assange originally fled to Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden and may be headed there after all. Eva-Marie Persson, the director of public prosecutions in Stockholm, has… Read the rest of the article: Sweden reopens rape case, plans to request Assange extradition
"Best season ever!" I understand that the "looking up and to the right" marker for deception is a myth, but I also suspect that Peter Dinklage knows this. Previously: Stuff… Read the rest of the article: Game of Thrones castmembers laughing, smirking or gritting their teeth when asked if they like the final season
The New Yorker's Mia Mercado asks: What Is Writing and Does This Count as It? • Writing is when you sit—fingertips hovering over your keyboard, cursor blinking on a fresh… Read the rest of the article: How to spot a writer
Mark reported earlier this week that a Florida man was charged with a crime over the "I EAT ASS" window sticker on his truck, and with resisting arrest for refusing… Read the rest of the article: Police dashcam video of Florida driver cited for "I EAT ASS" window sticker
From the Palm Beach Post: "an unusual bolt of lightning up to 10 times stronger than a typical flash that was caught on video by Boynton Beach resident Erica Hite… Read the rest of the article: Rare "positive" lightning bolt caught on video
To improve the quality of the water, 96 million balls now float upon the Los Angeles reservoir. Here they are going in, like a deranged live-action performance of one of… Read the rest of the article: Watch 96 million 'shade balls' pour into LA reservoir
Uber's future prospects depend on doubling fares and halving drivers' pay, or replacing them all with self-driving cars that won't exist for years. What could go wrong? Experts are hitting… Read the rest of the article: Uber stock falters on first day
The Lockpicking Lawyer saw a report about an illegal car-booting outfit in Chicago (embedded below), and decided to see how hard it is to remove the Amazon-bought car boots that… Read the rest of the article: How to remove a common Amazon-bought car boot
Conservative thinkeur Ben Shapiro was interviewed by BBC host and UK conservative luminary Andrew Neil. It didn't go well for Ben at all. Facing straightforward questions about his beliefs, he… Read the rest of the article: British conservative DESTROYS Ben Shapiro
The chumbox — the weird clickbaity news "recommendations" hanging under blog posts and news stories across the web — so often cites a mysterious "gut doctor" that Vox's Kaitlyn Tiffany… Read the rest of the article: The chumbox's favorite vegetable-hating doctor tracked down
Freddie Starr, a stalwart of British light entertainment most famous for a fabricated news story alleging he ate a hamster and lately implicated in historical sexual abuse scandals, was reportedly… Read the rest of the article: British celebrity Freddie Starr "definitely dead"
