- newA museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute
Louis Pope Gratacap was the curator of mineralogy at the American Museum of Natural History from 1880 until his death in 1917. He usually read during his three-hour round trip to the museum from Staten Island. He also wrote novels, and one of them, T…
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- newTaylor Farms recalls jalapeño products in 26 states over salmonella
What could possibly be worse than being sick with explosive diarrhea? Being sick with explosive, spicy diarrhea. Unfortunately, it sounds like the latter has been unleashed on America, as everyone's favorite source of cyclospora, Taylor Farms, has is…
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- newKevin Smith writes first Star Wars/Marvel comic crossover
Ten years after Star Wars joined Marvel at Disney, and just in time for the 50th anniversary of A New Hope, the two franchises will get their first-ever crossover, in comic form. Kevin Smith, who made us consider the fates of the independent contrac…
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- newAdam Savage is gobsmacked by this hand-drawn Enterprise cutaway
If you've ever been wowed by a cutaway illustration of a ship from your favorite sci-fi series or movie, there's a pretty good chance Matt Cushman had something to do with it. His visualizations of the guts of ships from Star Wars and Star Trek…
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- newFlorida police are using Meta's creepy smart glasses
Everyone's been so busy worrying and squawking about Flock that we completely missed the police discovering Meta's shifty-as-hell AI Smart glasses. However, thanks to Florida's Sunshine laws—which demand that everything the cops do on the record do…
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- newTom the Dancing Bug: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Super Pals, McSmelty's World starring Mickey Mouse, and MORE!
Tom the Dancing Bug 1797 sfpc180 – mank & mook-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on…
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- newA giant cloud storage upgrade works out to $36 per TB
TL;DR: Internxt gives you 10TB of encrypted cloud storage for a one-time $359.99 payment (reg. $2,900), with end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge privacy, and no recurring storage bill.Cloud storage is useful. Paying rent on your own files foreve…
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- newWhy hobby coders treat AI-written code as missing the point
A programmer named Fogus came across a GitHub argument about chess engine development and wrote about why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models. Hobbyists say is working code isn't the goal. They like to build operating s…
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- newTAC-2 is back: the new Commodore reissues an old joystick
The TAC-2 was a famous joystick offered for Commodore's C64, the 8-bit personal computer first sold in 1982, and compatible with the Atari and other systems using the classic 9-pin plug. And now you can buy it again. There are upgrades such as a stro…
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- newThe farthest you can get from a road in the San Gabriels is 2.7 miles
Dima Kogan hiked in the San Gabriel Mountains, and a friend wondered which point in the range sits farthest from any road or trail. Kogan went home and computed it, and his notes on the poles of inaccessibility above Los Angeles put the answer at 4,3…
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