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There’s an Alternate Universe of Pre-MTV Music Videos You’ve Never Seen

February 27, 2021 No Comments

The birth of the music video is often credited to MTV. It was 1981 when the first 24-hour music channel launched on our screens with “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Oh the irony, right? Wrong. Video and the radio star actually go way back. Get comfortable, because we’re about to have some fun getting to […]

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I Just Want the Recipe Janet

February 26, 2021 No Comments

Ever wanted to skip the marital problems and jump straight to the cookie recipe on your favorite food blog? This Chrome extension detects recipes and will prompt you with a button which replaces everything on the page with just the recipe.

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Betavoltaic Batteries

February 19, 2021 No Comments

Imagine tiny little nuclear powered batteries, made from nuclear waste, capable of easily and safely providing nanowatt to microwatt power levels, with a 20 year lifespan, used to power tiny little microscopic machines. Via Wikipedia

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As if the week wasn’t long enough

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 No Comments

A pill box for when you find yourself somewhere that observes Xtraday, which is that day that occurs right between Saturday and Sunday. Three day weekends forever! Via Fasttech

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Citibank can’t get back $500 million it wired by mistake, judge rules

February 17, 2021February 19, 2021 No Comments

When you accidentally send a lender a LOT more money than you intended, and it just happens to be the exact amount that you owe them. Via CNN

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The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired.

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 No Comments

Ten doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would expire within hours, so a Houston doctor gave it to people with medical conditions, including his wife. What followed was “the lowest moment in my life,” Dr. Hasan Gokal said. Via NYT The charges were dismissed. Via CW39

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Brain Farts

Story idea: Abused child grows up and builds a time machine

February 16, 2021 No Comments

They use it to travel back in time and kidnap themself as an infant, then take the baby back to their present day to provide it with a better childhood. (yes, there’s all kinds of logic issues with this, but time travel itself is already a major logic issue)

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Inside London’s thinnest house

February 16, 2021 No Comments

This London home, currently on sale for £950k, was once a Victorian hat shop. Some parts of the house are no wider than a bathtub. Via My London

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The customer Q&A is hilarious

February 16, 2021 No Comments

The customer photos are amusing too. Via Amazon

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Brain Farts Short rants

Twitter has always felt like a bunch of people standing on both sides of the Grand Canyon

February 16, 2021 No Comments

yelling at each other with bullhorns, all at the same time.

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Invasive Species Turned into Sustainable Delicacies

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 No Comments

What other animals and plants are invasive to the point of being environmentally destructive–and can be pretty damned tasty if cooked up? Read on. Via PBS

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Inside the Covert World of Bootleg X-Ray Records

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 No Comments

For decades, Soviet Russia banned pop, jazz, and rock-and-roll. These music lovers devised a solution: music ‘on the bone. In 1946 two enterprising music lovers in Leningrad, Ruslan Bugaslovski and Boris Taigin, figured out a way to copy records. The original music was smuggled into the country, often by sailors. Because materials in the U.S.S.R. […]

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Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

February 16, 2021 No Comments

“Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the first major thematic exhibition to explore the artistic achievements of Native women.” Via The Smithsonian

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This laptop has seven times the average number of screens

February 16, 2021 No Comments

“A company called Expanscape has created the most Inspector Gadget-like device that I’ve ever seen. It’s a laptop prototype called the Aurora 7 (a working title), and attached to its humongous black box of a chassis are six extra displays that extend out in every direction away from the main screen, each showing its own […]

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Shitposts

What kind of name is Steve, for a dog?

February 16, 2021 No Comments

That’s like naming your child Rover or Spot.

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