Back in the old days, if you wanted to learn to build a website, you started with basics like HTML and CSS. They're still important today, but the world expects more from every web page and app, so only sticking to the meat-and-potatoes fundamentals isn't enough anymore. — Read the rest
From the publisher of Henry and Glenn Forever:
— Read the restTwo men.
Two myths.
One Legend.The greatest love story every told has finally been released in graphic novel form. This epic tome features twenty short stories about the domestic life of "Henry" and "Glenn" and sometimes their neighbors "Daryl" and "John."
From the Tampa Bay Times:
— Read the restHillsborough sheriff's deputies arrested [Ronnie] Oneal [III] the night of March 18, 2018, after a series of 911 calls brought them to a home on Pike Lake Drive in Riverview. In a neighbor's yard, they found Kenyatta Barron, who had been beaten and shot to death.
On Monday night, Tucker Carlson announced that the National Security Agency, under direction from President Biden, is spying on him. He says they have been "monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air." — Read the rest
A 62-year-old man contacted the Campbell County Sheriff's Office on June 24 to ask why he hadn't been arrested after deputies had apparently raided his house the previous day. He informed the dispatcher that he had been using meth, and he was surprised he hadn't been arrested. — Read the rest
Isabel Fall, a transwoman, wrote "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" to co-opt a transphobic meme and tell an unsettling tale of the military manipulating and literally weaponizing gender identity. After it was published in Clarkesworld to immediate acclaim, Twitter-brained paranoiacs turned on it, falsely accusing the mysterious Fall of being a transphobic provocateur and trying to expose her "real" identity. — Read the rest
TV Asahi's Zenryokuzaka ("Full Power Hill") has been a popular Japanese television show for 15 years. The premise is simple: a woman (often well-known) wearing a fashionable outfit is placed at the bottom of a steep road or path somewhere in Japan and filmed as she sprints up it. — Read the rest
Jeffrey Walter and Jonetta Nordberg-Walter are in trouble for digging up and burying three dozen Joshua trees, the iconic and protected plant native to the Southwestern United States. It's illegal to "disturb, move, replant, remove or kill" Western Joshua Trees. The couple uprooted the trees on their property—just a few miles from Joshua Tree National Park—in preparation to build a house. — Read the rest
"People Are Saying…" is a new Lincoln Project ad that gaslights Donald Trump in the most hilarious way. As a narrator questions Trump's standing with his base, suggesting he's losing control to Mitch McConnell, nightmarish whispers – or Trump's paranoid psyche – are injected throughout. — Read the rest
Mary McCarthy of New Zealand suffered a lifetime of pain and breathing problems. But after a nasal swab for COVID-19, her nostril hurt so much that she went to a doctor, who asked her if she'd ever gotten anything stuck in her nostril. — Read the rest
CNN interviewed Trump supporters at his recent rally. This gentleman said the US "military already knows that [the election] was a fraud, he won by over 80%," and said if Trump isn't declared President by mid-August, there will be a civil war "because the militia's gonna be taking over."
A video clip uploaded to Tik Tok shows a view—from a safe distance—of the basement garage under Champlain Towers in Surfside. Apparenty shot by an eyewitness shortly before the tower collapsed (it isn't clear how long before) it shows rubble on the ground and water gushing from broken piping. — Read the rest
Out of all of the snakes out there, one resident in a Raleigh, NC neighborhood decided to keep a highly venomous zebra cobra as a pet. And then it escaped on Monday, and it's still on the loose.
On Monday at 5:30 pm someone in the community spotted the snake on a porch and called 9-1-1. — Read the rest
Cliff Stoll makes glass Klein bottles, which are a nifty topological curiosity. He sells them on his website and also on Amazon. This month, a company gamed Amazon's rules about trademarks and took over Stoll's listing for Klein bottles and started selling a blackhead removal device. — Read the rest
As of today, it is legal to grow marijuana plants in your home or yard in New Mexico: up to six of them each, according to a law passed in a special session of the state legislature, with a cap of 12 plants per household. — Read the rest
TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out this November: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Please do reserve your copies by pre-ordering today! RIGHT HERE AND NOW. — Read the rest
Fox News will pay a $1m fine over claims of sexual harassment and discrimination that violated New York City's human rights laws, reports The Daily Beast. The charges stem from anchor Gretchen Carlson's claims against longtime Fox News Chairman and sex pest Roger Ailes. — Read the rest
In this footage, Chuck Grassley and Tom Cotton do what they must to impress Iowa Republicans: pushups. Though the whole scenario is self-defeating in the way that politician machismo always is, we must give Grassley, fully 87 years old, props for staying in shape. — Read the rest
Robert Golwitzer, Jr. takes his chicken McNuggets seriously. He will suffer no fools who do not provide him with the proper sauce that the succulent breaded chicken chunk or boot requires. So when Golwitzer, Jr., at 42 years of age, an adult, did not receive sauce from the Ankeny, Iowa McDonald's he called them with threats of blowing them up and punching them. — Read the rest
The spectator who caused the monumental pileup during the Tour de France seems to have fled the country. According to Ouest-France, the spectator, thought to be a German woman, has boarded a plane and is currently untraceable.
The deputy director of the Tour de France, Pierre-Yves Thouault, told AFP that they plan to sue the woman "so that the tiny minority of people who do this don't spoil the show for everyone." — Read the rest
Back in the early 1800s, Laotian blacksmiths settled in a Thai province, then helped their new neighbors fight off Burmese invaders by crafting exquisite swords for Thai resistance forces. Over the past 200 years, generations of those blacksmiths have refined that exacting skill even further, leading to Thai bladework today being acknowledged as some of the best in the world. — Read the rest
Reminiscent of Cocktail's showy bartender Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise's character), this sensational smoothie maker has made an art out of pouring drinks.
Holding the smoothie way above his head, he swivels his wrist and with a sweeping-arc motion practically throws the drink, which turns into a long waterfall that ends up in a cup without a spill. — Read the rest
A family of bears decided to make a surprise visit at a beach in South Lake Tahoe on Sunday, sharing the sand and water with beachgoers who were just yards away. The mother bear and her three cubs helped themselves to someone's unattended picnic lunch, took a dip in the water, and seemed to casually check things out. — Read the rest
Use code 604YBAP3 to get this Bebird ear wax remover for a lot less than I paid for mine. This earwax scraper has a built-in illuminated video camera that pairs to your smart phone so you can see inside your ear canal. — Read the rest
The Love Seats are a set of colorful couches from Ikea, created in celebration of this year's Pride Month. Alas, these are not going to be manufactured and sold in stores. My favorite is the bisexual couch with "Nobody Believes You" written on it. — Read the rest
In New South Wales, Australia, police have fined two men who broke COVID-19 lockdowns to sunbathe nude on a national park beach where a deer scared them, causing them to flee into the forest where they got lost and had to be rescued. — Read the rest
A 35-year-old man in China, who goes by Mr. Tiger, used to work in construction before packing it up and heading for the hills. Now he's digging into the side a mountain to create a fantastic-looking cave house, which is still a work in progress. — Read the rest
You would think Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), the new fresh face of the Republican Party, couldn't possibly do anything new that would reveal himself to be even more despicable than his brothers and sisters have been telling us for years. This time Gosar managed to burrow even deeper into the fetid swamp of racism by announcing that he's holding a fundraiser with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. — Read the rest
This is an image of the atoms in a praseodymium orthoscandate crystal, zoomed in 100 million times. It's the highest resolution image of atoms that humans have ever seen. Using an algorithm-powered technique called ptychography, the Cornell University researchers were able to achieve a resolution triple that of the latest generation of electron microscope. — Read the rest
Sam Burton King runs the Images Generated By AI Machines Twitter feed, which showcases art created using the Big Sleep AI system, which generates images from text prompts like "a monochromatic winter night."
Enya's Watermark (1988) drew from Celitic, New Age, and ambient styles resulting in a crossover commercial hit album for the former Clannad keyboardist/background vocalist. Now, composer Florian T M Zeisig has taken a cassette of the album, cut it up into tiny bits, looped and processed the parts, and recomposed it into a gorgeous new album that hints at the original but is simultaneously something quite new and fresh. — Read the rest
Benjamin Monk, 43, a British police officer with a history of misconduct, was today jailed for the manslaughter of Dalian Atkinson. Monk killed Atkinson by tasing him constantly until the device broke and kicking him in the head. Sentenced to 8 years imprisonment, Monk must serve at least 5 years and 4 months before he can be paroled. — Read the rest
Do you have 2-prong outlets in your house? We have a few and it's frustrating because many of the things we want to plug into them have 3 prongs. After reading this article on Lifehacker and watching the video above, I learned I could replace the old 2-prongers with Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) outlets. — Read the rest
There's only so many times a sore loser can lie about the validity of an election before it becomes stale. And during Donald Trump's large event in Ohio on Saturday – the first since his January 6 "Save America" rally – people got bored with the same ol' routine. — Read the rest
Near, the creator of groundbreaking bsnes and higan game emulators, took their own life Sunday. Near, who also posted as Byuu, was just 27 years old.
Bsnes, along with MAME and other 2000s-era apps, made emulation more accessible to gamers and other nontechnical users. — Read the rest
I usually do my reading on a Kindle, but for Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novelization, I bought the paperback. For one thing, it's cheaper than the Kindle edition, for another I like the retro cover.
In his review of the novel for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw says he finished the "entirely outrageous and addictively readable" novel in one sitting, including the "wildly prolix digressive sections and endless savant riffs about movies and TV":
— Read the restTarantino has turned his most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, into a novel: messing with the timeline, cranking up the backstories, mulching up reality and alt.reality
A hacker allegedly used LinkedIn's API to extract 700 million people's names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information, such as "inferred salary." They are offering to sell it and have made a sample of 1 million records available for inspection. — Read the rest
Michael Ray Townsend was shot and killed by Portland police officer Curtis Brown last week during a "welfare check". Townsend made the emergency call himself, telling responders that he was having suicidal thoughts and was armed. Security footage of the officers with Townsend shows them talking calmly, then back away from him suddenly and drawing their guns. — Read the rest
Postdates is the latest amazingly bad idea on the internet, "a fully operational parody of Postmates. It's a delivery service for getting stuff back from your ex." You send gig workers to the homes of freshly-ditched romantic partners to take things whose ownership they have no way of verifying. — Read the rest
Read Paige Williams' excellent profile of Kyle Rittenhouse, the cop-obsessed teenager who took his illegally-owned AR-15 to a protest and killed two people there during a scuffle. Without defending his behavior, it is made unambiguously clear that Rittenhouse has been grifted to the bone by the right-wing culture warriors who latched onto him, set up shady fundraisers in his name, and posed him with white supremacists and proud boys. — Read the rest
In 1918, German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen chased an inexperienced Canadian pilot out of a dogfight and up the Somme valley. It would be the last chase of his life. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the last moments of the Red Baron and the enduring controversy over who ended his career. — Read the rest
Patrick Doherty was a healthy, active 65-year-old living County Donegal, Ireland when he was diagnosed with transthyretin amyloidosis, the same rare genetic disease that killed his father. When he visited a doctor, he learned of a new experimental treatment for the condition—with an emphasis on the "experimental" side. — Read the rest
North Koreans are worried for leader Kim Jong-un, who seems to have lost a considerable amount of weight. State media quoted a resident who commented on Kim's "emaciated looks" in a rare acknowledgement of speculations about his weight loss. Some experts say that the comments are an attempt to boost support for Kim's efforts to remedy the economic hardships caused by the pandemic. — Read the rest
The DIY Building Block Drones are made for those super-analytical young aeronautics thinkers. Each of these kits includes an assortment of parts for building a flying or even driving machine. And while there's one assembly plan that constructs the "standard" drone configuration, the pieces can actually be put together with a handful of variations. — Read the rest
In a job that already faces major challenges in terms of both pay and respect, the past year has only amplified the tough career path for those in one of America's most vital professions: teaching.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a teacher that won't bend over backward for their students, but after a year of distance learning and other difficulties, many are being pushed to their breaking point. — Read the rest
Wearing a floral vacation shirt and the widest grin ever, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted "The future of New York City is so bright I gotta wear shades!" But if you look into the reflection of said shades, it's not actually New York he's smiling at, but rather a woman's generous set of bazooms. — Read the rest
Right Wing Watch archives notable statements and claims by conspiracy theorists, bigots and other right-wing outlets. Today YouTube banned its channel permanently, citing "repeated violations of our Community Guidelines". It subsequently denied an appeal.
The irony is that Right Wing Watch is being penalized for material it archives, but much of the material is from far-right YouTube accounts that are not penalized for it. — Read the rest
Fox "News" and the like chalked up Joe Biden's press conference whispers on Thursday as "creepy" and "bizarre." Although it was definitely an unusual way for a US president to deliver a press conference, I prefer the Daily Show's alternative description: a feel-good, spine-tingling ASMR trigger. — Read the rest
These foam clogs are supremely comfortable. They're easy to slip on and off and even without a heel, they stay secure on my feet as I walk around the house. They come in a variety of colors. I bought red, the most obnoxious color available.
When a woman in Baton Rouge checked her family's bank account, she was a bit surprised by the balance. The bank had accidentally deposited $50 billion into their account. Her husband called the bank to report the error but according to reports, it took them as long as four days to fix their error. — Read the rest
Yabba Dabba Do! Lift your mug of Cactus Coola in the air to congratulate Florence Fang, owner of the fabulous Flintstones house in Bedro… I mean, Hillsborough, California. After a lengthy court battle with town residents who disliked the sculptures of Fred, Wilma, Betty, Barney, Gazoo, and several prehistoric creatures in the yard, Fang prevailed and will get to keep them on display. — Read the rest
In 1836, animation pioneer and kinetic sculptor Len Lye created "Rainbow Dance," a beautiful and strange animated film. Watch excerpts below. To create the wonderfully vibrant and surreal color effects, Lye used then-state-of-the-art Gasparcolor film, developed in 1933 by Hungarian chemist Béla Gáspár who was working in Berlin at the time. — Read the rest
Druid outfits! Lava Lamps! Upside down camera shots. Did I just have some kind of mushroom?
Enjoy this 1967 episode of American Bandstand with The Jefferson Airplane performing "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love."
Don't miss the brief interview at the end where Clark, the eternal teenager, interviews the band:
— Read the restClark: OIder people worry.
In Terrytown, Louisiana, Yeimi Alcantara's heard a thunk on her roof yesterday afternoon.
"I heard a noise and went to the door only to see the USPS carrier leaving," Alcantara told WGNO. "I could not believe my eyes when I watched the video. — Read the rest
I think my heart would have burst. Only Tony Hawk could land that.
I really don't even understand how that person got the car turned around and going the right way.
I suspect that the transmission, suspension and driver's pants are all messed up. — Read the rest
Two gentlemen broke new lockdown restrictions in Sydney, Australia by spending time at a nude beach. While there, they spotted a deer, panicked, and staggered into a forest buck naked. The two unlucky John Does then got lost, prompting a helicopter search. — Read the rest