It's Monday again, and I am here to provide the content you crave. WHO WILL WIN? Best of Trucks vs Stumps. Toughest Dodge, Ford, Chevy Trucks and more pulling out… Read the rest of the article: Trucks vs. Tree stumps

Jason Bailey is curating a show of generative art, among the first major retrospectives of computer-mediated work. It comes at an important time, too, as the art business's Morf Vandewalts… Read the rest of the article: Generative Art gets its due

How does the amazingly concise 1-kilobyte chess program that came with 1981's Sinclair ZX81 fare against a modern PC armed with the powerful StockFish chess engine? Ha ha, it gets… Read the rest of the article: 1981's 1K Sinclair Chess vs a modern PC running StockFish

Rossi Lorathio Adams II, a social media "influencer", built a brand around "State Snaps." Telling people to "Do it for State" became a catchphrase in the comments. The owner of… Read the rest of the article: Social media "influencer" sent gunman to steal domain name

GB Studio is a "free and easy to use retro adventure game creator for your favourite handheld video game system." Use a modern visual scripting interface to create Zelda-style 2D… Read the rest of the article: Make and share your own GameBoy adventures without learning to code

Samsung's folding phone, which will ding buyers about two grand after tax, is already in deep trouble: the review units sent to journalists are dying after hours of use. CNBC's… Read the rest of the article: Review units of Samsung's $2000 folding phone are failing after hours of use

The Google Cemetery is an online collection of the useful stuff Google has made (or replicated) and then destroyed. An elegy to things we should never have given over to… Read the rest of the article: The Google Cemetery

MandalaGaba is a drawing board that specializes in mandalas and other artistic mathematical magic. Click and drag and watch what happens! You can save and share your work; the creators… Read the rest of the article: MandalaGaba, a drawing board for creating recursive, symmetrical, tessellating art

Now that's my kind of pyramid. FAITHLESS / Operators Released April 5th, 2019 produced by Napster Vertigo and Arlen Thompson Visuals by Caleb Bardgett and Johnny Dunn Operators is on… Read the rest of the article: Faithless, by Operators

A pixel-perfect implementation of Super Mario Bros.

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Once in 468 packs, found Eric Farmer. So, on 12 January of this year, I started buying boxes of packs of Skittles. This past week, “only” 82 days, 13 boxes,… Read the rest of the article: How frequently do Skittles packs contain an identical payload?

Growing up in Britain, one of my favorite folk fascinations/media obsessions was the alleged presence of big cats in the countryside. Fueled by blurry photos and living at the margins… Read the rest of the article: The mysterious wild cats of Britain

At The New Yorker, Mike Spies writes that the NRA is not quite the vigorous pressure group under regulatory siege that it portrays itself as. It is a fundraising scheme… Read the rest of the article: NRA reportedly looted by its famous faces and in deep financial trouble

Leaked internal Facebook documents show that Facebook not only planned to sell user data, but that it ultimately "doled it out to app developers who were considered personal “friends” of… Read the rest of the article: NBC News: Access to Facebook user data given to Zuckerberg's "friends"

A few weeks ago, we learned that Facebook asked for the personal email passwords of some users logging in. Today, it admits that it used the passwords to harvest 1.5m… Read the rest of the article: Facebook admits harvesting contacts of the 1.5m email passwords it asked for

The metric is dubious — traffic to Know Your Meme entries normalized by Google Trends — but what a journey it's been. Jessi Slaughter (previously) — then a child reportedly… Read the rest of the article: Visualization of the most popular memes in the last 15 years

They pressed on through the blasted heath, as burnt to ash as the nights were long and dark and cold enough to crack the life out of stone. Walked past… Read the rest of the article: Already regretting assigning Cormac McCarthy to report on the video of an entire pack of Boston Dynamics robot dogs

Amazon's search results for basic consumer electronics are dominated by no-name brands with hundreds of obviously-fake 5-star reviews. The company claims to put a lot of effort into stopping this,… Read the rest of the article: The people who write fake Amazon reviews

Check out this video of artist TerraTerrific using the miniature 8bitdo Zero game controller as a bluetooth hotkey gadget on the iPad, executing commands like "undo" and switching tools without… Read the rest of the article: You can use a mini bluetooth game controller as an iPad hotkey gadget