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  • A cult-favorite series returns after 14 years to Nintendo Switch
    The Katamari Damacy franchise is back with its first brand-new entry on consoles in 14 years. Once Upon A Katamari, announced Thursday during the latest Nintendo Direct, will send the Prince of Cosmos back to Earth for a new roll-’em-up action adve…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:44am -
  • Cronos: The New Dawn is brutal pandemic horror: ‘Hard mode, in the old-school way’
    The new gameplay trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn, out Wednesday from Bloober Team, debuts some tense gameplay featuring the protagonist — a time traveler with futuristic armor and an arsenal of weapons — facing off against misshapen, humanlike e…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:23am -
  • Square Enix announces new HD-2D action-JRPG
    During the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, a new Square Enix HD-2D action-JRPG game was announced, called The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. According to the trailer, the game takes place in a land called Philabieldia that’s overrun…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:08am -
  • A new Octopath Traveler game is coming December 4
    The Octopath franchise is getting a new title, Octopath Traveler 0, as announced in the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase this morning. Rather than playing as eight heroes who start their journeys in different places, you’ll be following the story o…
    - 31 Jul 25, 8:53am -
  • Everything announced at Nintendo’s new Nintendo Direct
    Nintendo didn’t have a lot to show at the latest Nintendo Direct, but its third-party partners sure did! During a new Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase broadcast on Thursday, major publishers and indie developers revealed what they’re bringing to…
    - 31 Jul 25, 8:52am -

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What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire SmokeWhat Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke
What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke
What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke
- 17 Jul 26, 2:17pm -
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across LondonThe Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
- 7 Jun 20, 9:00am -
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror FilmArtist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
- 1 Jun 20, 9:00am -
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains RunningThe Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
- 31 May 20, 9:00am -
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of DiscoverySpace Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
- 30 May 20, 9:00am -
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice MeltHigh in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
- 26 May 20, 9:00am -

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    Geekologie

    • A longboarder's closest calls over 10 years of filming
      Lonboarder Josh Neuman put together this compilation of his ten closest calls while filming his longboarding over ten years. What he says about his number one closest call:What Happened: While on a production shoot we had one of the crew members…
      - 25 Aug 21, 2:57am -
    • Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour
      This is incredible (chilling?) video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour.Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. In this video our humanoid robots demonstrate their whole-bo…
      - 19 Aug 21, 5:27am -
    • Absolutely stunning and hypnotic stop-motion animation using matches
      This is an incredibly well done and hypnotic stop-motion animation by Tomohiro Okazaki featuring every conceivable play on matches. And as if the creativity wasn't impressive enough on its own, it plays back at 60fps. The stop-motion video I made f…
      - 11 Aug 21, 2:22am -
    • This is a snownado
      Apparently snownados exist and if you guessed that they're dust devils but with snow you'd be correct. They're not nearly as interesting as Sharknados or firenados, but those are impossibly high bars for a 'nado. Keep going for another video of…
      - 10 Aug 21, 3:41am -
    • Surreal phone booth videos
      This is a series of surreal phone booth videos by TikToker solopsist. You may be wondering what a "surreal phone booth video" even is and I couldn't explain it to you if I tried, so I'll just let you experience them as I did. @solopsist There are…
      - 5 Aug 21, 2:59am -

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    • newNothing to See Here: Frank Drebin Takes Over Mass Effect
      Commander Shepard is humanity’s best hope against the Reapers: fearless, decisive, a born leader. Now replace him with Lt. Frank Drebin. Leslie Nielsen’s deadpan was built for a lot of things, but saving the galaxy was never supposed to be one of…
      - 20 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 9:00am -
    • newNext Trick [Comic]
      [Source: Toonhole | Like Toonhole on Facebook | Follow Toonhole on Twitter] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > Next Trick [Comic]
      - 20 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 8:50am -
    • newSmall Steps [Comic]
      Good enough! [Source: @exocomics] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > Small Steps [Comic]
      - 21 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 8:00am -
    • SIDE QUEST UPDATE: $600 Raised, $400 to Go, Three Days Left
      Friends, a quick word. A quick update on our fall SIDE QUEST, the little donation drive I launched last Friday to help keep Geeks Are Sexy (and one single dad of three) going. If you missed the original post, the full story is here: SIDE QUEST: Help…
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    • Happy Hallow-Birthday [Comic]
      [Source: @footshooters] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > Happy Hallow-Birthday [Comic]
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 12:43pm -
    • What If You Set Off a Nuke in the Mariana Trench? Mostly Nothing… Unless a Cat is Involved
      The Tsar Bomba was the biggest nuclear weapon ever detonated, 53 megatons. So what happens if you set one off at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 11 kilometers down? The latest video from xkcd’s What If? series runs the numbers, and the answer is…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 12:00pm -
    • Daily Deals Drop: Bambu Lab P1S Combo 3D Printer, D&D Core Rulebooks and Starter Set, 45W GaN USB-C Charger 2-Pack, and MORE!
      For today’s daily deals drop (October 28, 2026) here are some of the best deals we stumbled on while browsing the web this morning! Please note that Geeks are Sexy might get a small commission from qualifying purchases done through our posts. As an…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 7:25am -

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    • newThe Legend of the Witch Known as Black Annis May Have Roots in Reality
      Black Annis is an English witch who supposedly ate children, which is always a good story to keep your kids from wandering in the woods at night. A written account from 300 years ago said she lived in a cave, was raised by wolves, had sharp claws, an…
      - 11 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 5:35pm -
    • newOld Headlines That May Shock or Confuse You
      Annie Rauwerda has made a name for herself by digging for the funnies so you don't have to. She founded Depths of Wikipedia. Along the way, she's collected some wonderful old newspaper headlines. They feature celebrity names, but not the people you c…
      - 17 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 12:02pm -
    • newFor Your Buddy Who Doesn't Know How to Watch Movies
      Do you have a friend that you just hate to watch movies with because they are really bad at it? They have such a hard time focusing that you have to stop and explain it to them constantly. Maybe that's because they are on their phone, thinking that t…
      - 17 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 11:42am -
    • new<i>A Court of Thorns and Roses</i> Dress
      A Court of Thorns and Roses is the first novel of a romantasy novel series of the same name. There are now six books in this series by Sarah J. Maas with a seventh due in January. They are, to put it mildly, popular at my library.Megan of Forest & Fi…
      - 18 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 10:06am -
    • newThe McDonald's Mouse
      Design Boom tells us that the Chinese division of McDonald's is offering a computer mouse shaped like a carton of French fries and a paired mouse pad as a promotional item. The company claims that these computer peripherals are made from recycled par…
      - 19 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 9:52am -
    • newTexas Car Dealership Launches Anime-Inspired Ad
      I still cant believe this is a Houston car dealership ad. https://t.co/t4MsDxDSvK— ℝ𝕀ℤℤ ℂ𝕆𝕄𝔼𝕋 (@Shr00msy) October 28, 2026Is this video real? Yes, it is real. Bayway Kia in Houston is being lowkey about it, but it is listed o…
      - 19 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 9:38am -
    • newIt's a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead
      John and Dan Bell--the Bell Brothers--are emerging filmmakers who digitally splice together movies, television, and music to form amusing and terrifying takes on famous stories. For example, imagine Mrs. Doubtfire if Joker was in it or Alfred Hitchco…
      - 19 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 9:29am -
    • The Innovative Electric Automobile of 1888
      Look at that- that's a Flocken Elektrowagen! It was the first four-wheeled automobile powered by electricity, and it came by its name honestly, because it was developed by German machinist Andreas Flocken. Flocken was not an automotive engineer; he b…
      - 1 day ago 28 Oct 26, 7:16pm -
    • Pumpkins Should Have Gone Extinct Thousands of Years Ago
      Plants that produce fruit want to be eaten, because that's how they disperse their seeds. Long, long ago, the ancient ancestor of pumpkins evolved to be eaten by megafauna like mastodons. They were too bitter and toxic for creatures like humans. Besi…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 3:14pm -
    • An Economist Unpacks the "Who's on First?" Sketch
      Perhaps you enjoy the classic sketch "Who's on First?" made famous through performances by Louis Costello and Bud Abbott (though Shakespeare's version is funnier.) Perhaps you find it funny.You are wrong.Tyler Cowen is an economist who teaches at Geo…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 7:48am -
    • Animal Blood Comes in All Colors
      You may have heard about the blue blood of a horseshoe crab and its amazing ability to fight infections, but that's just the beginning of how varied blood is in the animal kingdom. Humans, and almost all vertebrates, have red blood because its cells…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 5:26am -
    • Imagine Setting Off a Nuclear Bomb in the Deepest Part of the Ocean
      We've done underground nuclear tests, and we've done underwater nuclear tests. We found out that they work, and they did some nasty environmental damage. But what if we were to take those tests to an even deeper, more remote location, like, say, the…
      - 2 days ago 27 Oct 26, 7:22pm -
    • Look Who Is the Real Center of Hollywood
      Here's something fun for both movie fans and data nerds. In the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, you try to connect any Hollywood actor to Kevin Bacon by listing the movies that two actors were in together until you reach Kevin Bacon.A data analysis…
      - 2 days ago 27 Oct 26, 6:49pm -
    • In Texas, You Can Vote from Space
      It's a lively election season here in Texas. Every vote counts, including those of all registered voters currently off-planet.Since many astronauts live in the Houston area, the Texas Election Code prudently allows for those who are voters to make th…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 3:41pm -
    • How One Man Survived Late-Stage Cancer and Gave Us Kurzgesagt
      Kurzgesagt doesn't usually tell personal stories, but this one is different, and it's full of science anyway. Philipp Dettmer, the founder and head writer of Kurzgesagt, went through chemotherapy treatment for cancer in 2018. Years later, he is ready…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 11:39am -

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    • Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan
      John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is the author of Pulphead and the forthcoming The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American Hi…
      - 26 Jun 24, 10:19am -
    • Longform Podcast #584: Ta-Nehisi Coates
      Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is The Message.“I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding thi…
      - 19 Jun 24, 6:53am -
    • Longform Podcast #583: Jay Caspian Kang
      Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a co-host of Time to Say Goodbye.“At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece. But it, in some ways, is m…
      - 12 Jun 24, 12:37pm -
    • Longform Podcast #582: Joseph Cox
      Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of 404 Media. His new book is Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.“In the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to…
      - 5 Jun 24, 7:10am -
    • Longform Podcast #581: Tavi Gevinson
      Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually un…
      - 29 May 24, 7:18am -
    • Longform Podcast #580: Rachel Khong
      Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so int…
      - 22 May 24, 8:45am -
    • Longform Podcast #579: Kelsey McKinney
      Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at Defector.com. She hosts the podcast Normal Gossip and is the author of the upcoming book You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.“I was always very interested in how you stra…
      - 15 May 24, 7:54am -
    • Longform Podcast #578: Lissa Soep
      Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End.“I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-pro…
      - 8 May 24, 6:29am -
    • Longform Podcast #577: PJ Vogt
      PJ Vogt is the host of Search Engine.“One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversatio…
      - 1 May 24, 7:57am -
    • Longform Podcast #576: Lindsay Peoples
      Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of The Cut.“You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I do think that I often feel like I have t…
      - 24 Apr 24, 7:25am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh
      Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of order in Hait…
      - 19 Apr 24, 7:00am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey
      Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a grad…
      - 18 Apr 24, 7:01am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Meribah Knight
      Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee c…
      - 17 Apr 24, 8:43am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn
      Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for temporary license plates.“You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s…
      - 16 Apr 24, 7:11am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers
      Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic. “One of the best ta…
      - 15 Apr 24, 9:20am -
    • Longform Podcast #575: Megan Kimble
      Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.“I have neve…
      - 3 Apr 24, 9:46am -
    • Longform Podcast #574: Zach Harris
      Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling."“I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up with something fun that you've never heard of that…
      - 27 Mar 24, 10:12am -
    • Longform Podcast #573: Rozina Ali
      Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.”“I think it’s very, very important to spea…
      - 20 Mar 24, 12:01pm -
    • Longform Podcast #572: Derek Thompson
      Derek Thompson is a staff writer for The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English.“I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all the time. Because what I find interesting about my job is the invitation to solve mysteries. A…
      - 13 Mar 24, 8:31am -
    • Longform Podcast #571: Tessa Hulls
      Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and The Capitol Hill Times. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is Feeding Ghosts.“This project is the thing I have spent my entire life running from. I wa…
      - 6 Mar 24, 6:44am -

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    • newBankrupting scammers is surprisingly easy
      It feels like AI is coming for everybody's jobs, but especially for phone scammers. Thanks to the availability of consumer AI, anyone in any call center anywhere can throw up a decently convincing-sounding AI agent to fleece people out of their money…
      - 16 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 12:27pm -
    • newSomehow, No Man's Sky is still getting updates
      Keep your Cyberpunks or your Fallout 76es: when it comes to launch disasters, No Man's Sky remains the undisputed champion, which I'm not sure is something to be proud of. Something Hello Games can be proud of, however, is its continued and intensive…
      - 16 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 12:26pm -
    • newBreaking into IT? Start with nine CompTIA exam prep courses for $24.99
      TL;DR: Prep for nine CompTIA exams with the 2026 CompTIA Certification Training Complete Exam Prep Bundle for $24.99 (reg. $269.91).Preparing for CompTIA exams usually means buying a separate prep course for each certification. If you'd rather get t…
      - 19 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 10:00am -
    • How to turn modern Linux into an old Mac
      Adam Lawson's Zac-OS-9 is a completist recreation of the classic Mac desktop experience for Debian Linux, "drawn pixel by pixel from scratch." Modeled on the last versions before the switch to Mac OS X (more than 25 years ago!) it's not just a skin:…
      - 1 day ago 28 Oct 26, 5:41pm -
    • Get lifetime of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini + more in a single workspace for $79
      TL;DR: Get ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Lifetime Plan for just $79 (MSRP $619), with side-by-side comparisons across 20-plus AI models and more.Asking three chatbots the same question shouldn't require three tabs and a spreadsheet. ChatPlayground A…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
    • How to make realistic fake blood for Halloween
      If you need a lot of fake blood for Halloween this year, this is the video for you. It's a tutorial that shows you how to make realistic fake blood.It starts with a base of corn syrup plus red food coloring. — Read the rest The post How to make r…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 1:04pm -
    • Grand Theft Auto 6 will take up 210 gigabytes of your hard drive
      Ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6's preload early next month, I and many others have been wondering how much space to clear before it smacks into our collective hard drives with the force of a thousand suns. Triple-A games have been steadily ballooning in…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 12:27pm -
    • This excellent little AI recorder makes me resent the App Store
      The Comu Action Pro is a surprisingly capable little recorder; the hoops Apple makes these developers jump through are dopey.I was excited to try the Comu TN20 Pro, as I wanted an AI transcription device. Recording oral stories and getting a quick t…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 11:56am -
    • Chrome extension lets weeds overgrow your neglected browser tabs
      Overgrown is a Chrome browser extension that plants seeds in neglected browser tabs, which slowly become overwhelmed by spreading foliage. Creator Charlie Gerard was inspired by a creative exercise around the word and decided to do something special.…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 11:10am -
    • Florida cop moved into dead man's house, renovated it and impersonated him
      After Florida cop Brian Louis Sguros performed a welfare check at Dennis West's home and found his dead body, he did what any reasonable law enforcement officer would do under the circumstances: he moved in, assumed West's identity, and renovated the…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 10:43am -
    • iPad Mini ad edited in Korea to remove gesture inadvertantly mocking your penis
      A long-awaited OLED upgrade to Apple's iPad Mini launched this week with an international marketing campaign. But a moment in one ad has drawn controversy in South Korea, as the pinch gesture in it means "you have a small penis" and carries popular c…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 10:16am -
    • Your piano-playing ambitions could use this $60 learning app
      TL;DR: Get five years of flowkey Classic for $59.97 (reg. $899), including interactive piano lessons, real-time note feedback, and more than 1,000 classical and public-domain songs.A piano teacher can tell you when you've hit the wrong note, but sch…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 10:00am -
    • Italian police use AI to identify stolen painting at antiquities fair
      A stolen painting was identified at Parma's annual antiquity fair by cops using AI software trained on photos of missing works. the police system flagged one of the snapshots with an alert signal: a painting of a young, fair-skinned woman wearing a…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 9:18am -
    • Map thief jailed after refusing to show the way
      Melvin West, 70, cut a rare map from a 17th-century atlas at the Caird Library in Greenwich, London, and was sentenced to three years in jail for the theft. But the 1684 map, cut out with a utility knife, has not been recovered, and the presiding jud…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 8:53am -
    • Photos show bedrooms in an Arctic Russian town filled with icicles
      The series of photos shows what a particularly cold district in Vorkuta, Russia looks like in the dead of winter. The images at the beginning of the series show a town covered in a heavy blanket of snow, with only slivers of cars and buildings visibl…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 7:00am -
    • A man built cozy squirrel boxes with cameras inside, and the squirrels love them
      A kind man named John wanted to help the squirrels in his neighborhood feel safe and comfortable. He built squirrel boxes around his neighborhood to serve as homes and shelters for local squirrels. The squirrel boxes are simple wood shelters that the…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 7:00am -
    • Hundreds of spiders turned a power line in Indonesia into a giant web wall
      Hundreds of spiders decided to hang out on a power line in Indonesia. They wove their webs around the power lines, creating a giant invisible wall where they all stand guard. This scene is an arachnophobe's nightmare.Seeing this in the daytime would…
      - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 7:00am -
    • Police and 911 staff have used Flock cameras to stalk their exes
      America is a politically polarized country. But one topic has both the left and the right in full agreement: Flock cameras suck. No one likes the government spying on them.To make matters worse, police and 911 staff enjoy using Flock cameras to stal…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 4:21pm -
    • A mama monkey picks a vacationing man as her safe place to rest with her baby
      A man and his wife were taking a relaxing poolside vacation when suddenly a monkey jumped into his lap. Instead of being afraid, the man decided to cuddle the monkey back. The monkey had already decided that this man was her new best friend, and what…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 4:02pm -
    • An artist sculpts magical cats and mice out of aluminum foil
      Often, the coolest art comes from simple, often unnoticed materials. When reimagined into a new context, everyday household materials can be the base for wonderful works of art. I've always loved watching people transform everyday materials into new…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 4:02pm -
    • In this 1963 stop-motion film, a destroyed room puts itself back together
      This fascinating animation clip is from a film called Renaissance, made in 1963 by Walerian Borowczyk. The stop-motion animation shows a destroyed room that slowly puts itself back together. It suggests that a ghost is moving everything around and re…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 4:01pm -
    • Settle the ChatGPT vs. Claude debate yourself for $70
      TL;DR: Use GPT-5.5 Pro, Claude 4.6 Sonnet, and Gemini 3.1 Pro in one app with a 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan for a one-time $69.97 (reg. $540).Every few months, a new chatbot is declared the winner in the ChatGPT versus Claude debate, and tes…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
    • RFK Jr. says Arabs don't win Nobel Prizes. Last year's chemistry winner was born in Jordan
      There are details, but the whole story is in the headline. Conspiracy theorist weirdo RFK Jr. says a racist thing and is immediately wrong. Campaigning in Michigan for Mike Rogers, the Secretary of Health and Human Services took a break from spreadi…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 3:32pm -
    • Don Jr. went sheep hunting with the Russian oligarch who bankrolled his wedding
      Thick as thieves, Don Jr. and his wedding-bankrolling Russian oligarch buddy went off to kill the threatened Mongolian Altai argali sheep. This is not the first time Don Jr. has killed an argali, or had a wedding.Kremlev put hundreds of thousands o…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 2:08pm -
    • "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!" Trump gets some architectural feedback
      Diaper Don's crowning achievement, the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom, seems less popular than expected.The Orange Menace likes to talk about his probably illegal ballroom. At Monday night's rally in Corinth, Mississippi, an attendee had apparent…
      - 3 days ago 27 Oct 26, 1:13pm -

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