Who wouldn't want to buy a telescreen from Facebook, the least-trusted privacy merchant on Earth, so that they may be placed around the house? The obviously despised Facebook Portal will… Read the rest of the article: Facebook slashes price of its creepy Portal home surveillance telescreen

Twitter is appalling, but I finally found an account I like: Can You Pet The Dog? A catalog of pettable and non-pettable dogs in video games. Manual input resulting in… Read the rest of the article: Games with dogs you can pet

Frank Sidebottom was a peculiar stage character defined by his enormous papier-mache mask, immortalized in countless UK TV appearances and a fictionalized biopic produced after the 2010 death of creator-performer… Read the rest of the article: Spooks crack Frank Sidebottom's code

This ain’t it, chief. Previously: Fire at Notre Dame cathedral UPDATE: Ryan Broderick points out the plain fact: YouTube's little truth widget is algorithmically-generated fake news. I'm not sure there's… Read the rest of the article: YouTube thinks Notre Dame burning down is footage of 9/11

Alistair Wooldrige's MacBook Air died after a drop. So he popped it in the oven.

Scammer software is usually quite crude and, as demonstrated here, vulnerable to clever victims aware of their shortcomings. Engineer Man: "Taking it to another scammer using some nmap analysis and… Read the rest of the article: Scammer asks for password, gets his database wiped by prospective victim

Jonathan Frakes, the actor and director associated most strongly with his Star Trek role as bearded lothario William Riker but with many other feathers in his cap, here informs you… Read the rest of the article: Jonathan Frakes telling you you're wrong for 47 seconds

Enjoy the sense of scale in this image, stitched together from 16 smaller images and 1060 hours of exposure. The image is a mosaic made of 16 smaller fields of… Read the rest of the article: 1060-hour exposure of the Large Magellenic Cloud

Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic candidate and a proponent of "democratically influenced capitalism", has his own campaign brand typography. Faces include Aktiv Grotesk ("sleek lines [that] feel equally… Read the rest of the article: Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg's brand typography

Bon appetit.

After earlier denying that it had considered dumping migrants in sanctuary cities to "punish" Trump's political enemies, the White House today confirmed that it is considering doing so. "Due to… Read the rest of the article: After denial, Trump says he's considering dumping migrants in sanctuary cities

Isaac Chotiner interviews Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and an evidently half-hearted believer in the idea that America has overreacted to Donald Trump's elevation to the presidency. [Chotiner]… Read the rest of the article: Bret Easton Ellis interviewed by Isaac Chotiner

From her clubbing-a-home-invader form to the way she glares off the bovine golf fans encroaching onto her fairway, after nailing them twice, this golfer knows exactly what she's doing.

I always find there's a surreal quality to footage of SpaceX's self-landing rockets. It's the "living in the future" moment for my reptile brain, irrespective of what it really means… Read the rest of the article: All three SpaceX Falcon Heavy Boosters landing

Previously: Already regretting assigning J.G. Ballard to cover the Fyre Festival Already regretting assigning the new MacBook Pro review to Borges Already regretting assigning the Chelsea Clinton story to Frank… Read the rest of the article: Already regretting hiring Cormac McCarthy to revise the script for Star Wars Ep. IX

Named the Can Opener due to its ravenous appetite for tall trucks, the 11' 8" bridge in Durham, N.C. has cameras trained on to capture incidents. This week, however, it… Read the rest of the article: Truck-eating bridge cam records nearby explosion

Chobani's new custom typeface heralded a headlong return to swirly 1970s type. It's not just nostalgia. Blame high DPI displays, too! Today’s movement toward fonts reminiscent of the ’70s is… Read the rest of the article: 70s fonts back in fashion

A man with a "long, long history" of wanking on horses was arrested, released, and then arrested again within hours after claiming his second alleged victim in a day. The… Read the rest of the article: Horse wanker arrested twice in a day

The 30-year rule of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is over after a military coup this morning toppled his government. Defense minister Awad Mohamed Auf announced Bashir's arrest on state TV… Read the rest of the article: Military coup ousts Sudan dictator

Banjo Guy Ollie's cover of the Shadow of the Beast theme tune is perfect. Composed by David Whittaker for the 1989 Commodore Amiga game, most covers of it are bad… Read the rest of the article: Banjo Guy Ollie covers the Shadow of the Beast exploration theme