Chelsea Manning was released from jail today after 62 days' refusing to testify to a grand jury in the Wikileaks case. Manning did not wish to provide secret testimony; the… Read the rest of the article: Chelsea Manning released from jail

"Might delete later," adds The Fakening, creator of the abomination. Previously: Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes.

I grew up in the UK and moved to the United States after college. Two decades on, it's disarming to be reminded of UK celebrities who were wildly successful there… Read the rest of the article: Racist DJ fired

Consider the place of knowledge and ideology in politics, how the open discussion of facts and ideas might throw light on complicated and difficult matters of policy and principle.

There's a certain satisfaction to lightly-clattering flip-disc signs, once found on destination boards and stock exchanges the world over, and now you can experience it again with Tetris. Sinowin on… Read the rest of the article: Tetris on a flip-disc display

David Klavens was told that pianos are made one way, all over the world, and that's that. But he wanted to make an enormously tall piano, "emanating the sound" to… Read the rest of the article: Man builds 15 ft-tall pianos

Functional yet curiously suspect

The end of my yard is anually infiltrated by Japanese knotweed, encroaching from the overrun lot behind it, and anually beaten back with machete and glyphosphate (dutifully applied into the… Read the rest of the article: What to do about Japanese knotweed?

Florence Fang recently bought and renovated a unique concrete-dome house in California so it resembled the Flintstones' residence even more than it already did, adding giant dinosaurs in the yard… Read the rest of the article: New owner of California's "Flintstones" house sued by city after adding dinosaurs

In this video from Brazil, a man orders an ice cream and quietly enjoys it as a brawl breaks out in the street behind him. BONUS CONTENT: Street brawl unfolds… Read the rest of the article: Man enjoys ice cream as street brawl unfolds

CSS-only-chat uses no javascript and doesn't reload the page. It's amazing—and terrible. How is it done? Background-images loaded via pseudoselectors + a forever-loading index page In laypersons' terms: cover the… Read the rest of the article: Chat client made entirely with CSS

Adobe's trailing price hikes for its now subscription-only Creative Suite applications. Comic artist Michael Sexton (Patreon) made this handy at-a-glance chart so you know what pay-once apps can replace each… Read the rest of the article: Replacements for Adobe apps

A 13-year-old boy is wrongly accused of sexual harassment, then railroaded by zealous school administrators. Abused by the system and shunned by real-life friends, he finds new ones—on Reddit and… Read the rest of the article: How a 13-year-old boy was radicalized by the alt-right, then figured out they were full of it

Included free of charge with Windows since 1990, Microsoft Solitaire has finally achieved immortality in the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Microsoft Solitaire meets all the criteria for the… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft Solitaire enters video game hall of fame

Behold the Drain Addict clear blocked stormwater drain #165. Of all the drains thusly unclogged, though, it is #73 that earned the greatest audience: How does the device he uses… Read the rest of the article: Video collection: drains unblocked

Medieval wood riving is a slow, methodical business. But it's amazing what you can get done with axes and hammers. The movie describes an attempt to split a thirteen meter… Read the rest of the article: How to turn a freshly-felled 200 year old pine tree into eight radial beams for your medieval church spire

Jim Browning got a look into a Kolkata call center via one of the scammers' insecure machines: "You're looking at the webcam of a scammer named Deva ██████. He's currently… Read the rest of the article: What it's like in a scam call center

The UK's governing Conservative Party lost 1330 council seats in local elections, but the opposition Labour party failed to make the expected gains, losing 84 of its own. The big… Read the rest of the article: Pro-Brexit parties punished in UK local elections

From last night's episode of Game of Thrones, as posted to Twitter. "He was no dragon. Coffee cannot stimulate a dragon."

An Aeroflot jet crash-landed while returning in flames to Moscow's Sheremtyevo airport Sunday, and only 37 of the 73 passengers and crew escaped with their lives. One took this video… Read the rest of the article: Footage from inside crash-landing Russian plane