- newKurokawa Onsen has 25 hot springs, but I'd go back just for this cat
When I was in Japan earlier this month, we visited the village of Kurokawa Onsen, which has over 25 Japanese hot-spring bathhouses you can walk to. It was an incredible experience.You can read all about the spas at Kurokawa Onsen with a Google searc…
- 11 hours ago 23 Oct 26, 3:15pm -
- newLocal Wikipedia shows you articles about everything within a half-hour walk
Local Wikipedia shows you Wikipedia articles about things that are a half-hour or less walk from the address you enter in the search field. I entered Golden, Colorado, where I lived in my early years, and read an article about the Rocky Mountain Qu…
- 13 hours ago 23 Oct 26, 1:54pm -
- newGlasgow museum pulls its mummies, citing lack of consent from the dead
People hoping to see mummies at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, were instead treated to a small sign that said, "We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect."The museum had removed the remains of…
- 13 hours ago 23 Oct 26, 1:28pm -
- newThe Bird Reich: The new Atlanta Falcons logo is uncomfortably familiar
I promise I would never take time out of my day to write about something as mundane as a football team changing its logo unless it was whipping up a frenzy. Most NFL logos feature cool animals in profile, but the Falcons have taken theirs a step furt…
- 18 hours ago 23 Oct 26, 8:08am -
- Priceless Eisenhower globe broken after Hegseth orders it moved to his office
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wanted Dwight Eisenhower's 30-inch globe—a priceless World War II artifact—moved into his office. The recolation was botched, reports the Washingon Post, which received photos of the now-ruined antique. Hegseth's a…
- 1 day ago 22 Oct 26, 6:16pm -
- Don't let typing slow down your AI prompting — switch to voice dictation for $25 for life
TL;DR: With VoiceType, you can speak 9 times faster than you type. Get a lifetime subscription for $24.99 (MSRP $154).When efficiency is the goal, you want to speed up the most laborious part of AI prompting: typing. With VoiceType AI, you can dicta…
- 1 day ago 22 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
- Mass Effect 5 trailer leaks the day after studio closes
So. BioWare, the legendary RPG studio that created the Mass Effect series, was shut down just yesterday, taking with it an in-development Mass Effect 5. In my coverage of the initial event, I lamented that we'd never see the project again thanks to i…
- 1 day ago 22 Oct 26, 2:38pm -
- New Orleans artistic haunted house heralds horrors of the Deep South
Greetings, all. I'll be your psychopomp this evening, the keeper of the crypt, the mistress of the dank, the lightning rod of this sterling dungeon, if you will. I ask you now to picture something horrid, something ghastly, but all too real…Imagin…
- 1 day ago 22 Oct 26, 2:38pm -
- I couldn't stop eating these 16-yen corn puff sticks in Japan
When I was in Japan earlier this month, one of my travel companions introduced me to the wonderful world of Umaibo, a puffed corn snack that you can buy in all convenience stores throughout Japan.I wasn't expecting them to be so much fun to eat, but…
- 2 days ago 22 Oct 26, 2:20pm -
- The Underwater Cabaret, a magazine made by a poet hiding from Nazis
The most famous person who hid in an attic in the Netherlands from the Nazis during World War II is Anne Frank, whose diary became a posthumous literary sensation.But there was another Jewish author, also hiding in a Netherlands attic, who also foun…
- 2 days ago 22 Oct 26, 1:27pm -