If you are familiar with Auralnauts ' reimagining of the Star Wars prequel series, you'll love Larry, the tale of a burnt-out Jedi stepping back up to the plate.

Larry is a vastly improved Obi-Wan, with a drug problem and a love of dance fighting. — Read the rest

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Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, raped in a culvert then beaten to death by a mob at the culmination of Libya's 2011 civil war, is now immortalized in bas relief on 100,000 ecstacy pills. Ravers will not get to enjoy the pills, though, as they were seized by customs officers in Tripoli. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a lifetime subscription to LifetimeCloud with 1TB of encrypted cloud storage for a one-time price of $39.99 (reg. $199).

Most cloud storage apps will bill you monthly for as long as you remain subscribed, and the free tiers are already full by the time you upload the first round of photos from your vacation. — Read the rest

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A massive sinkhole opened under Nicolas Cage's house in Malibu, consuming the driveway and threatening to eat his garage next. Nearby residents were evacuated from 31 homes, according to news reports.

The house, built on and overhanging the waterfront, was undermined by Tropical Storm Marie, which hit California earlier this month. — Read the rest

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This scary video shows a mom saving her young daughter from a seemingly rabid raccoon. The whole thing was caught on a security camera in their yard. This mom is a true hero, risking her own life to get the raccoon away from her kid. — Read the rest

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This peaceful video shows the view out of an airplane window as someone flies over the Sahara Desert. The small ridges in the video are sand dunes. Watching these endless rows of sand dunes passing by makes my brain feel great. — Read the rest

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Sometimes nature is just as strange as surreal art. I can't get over how cool this bird's eyes are. A photographer named Juan Alonso Gutiérrez took these amazing photos of a white-tufted grebe.

The white-tufted grebe is a small diving bird that is native to South America and the Falkland Islands. — Read the rest

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With LLMs taking over the world, whether anyone wants them to or not, machine-made text has lost its charm even as it has become vastly more expressive. Clear your generative palate with the Random Insult Generator, made in 1999—27 years ago!—and — Read the rest

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I had reason to search for the nearest penny press and found to my delight that there exist several websites dedicated to mapping the locations of these fabulous machines. The Pressed Penny Machine Map works exactly as you'd expect it to, and sells a handy printed map so that you are never in any doubt as to the whereabouts of a device that can turn a penny into a charming souvenir. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: New U.S. users can get lifetime access to 14 Babbel languages and 10,000+ hours of education for $159 with StackSocial code LEARN.

This is a universal truth: Trips just feel different when you can actually chat in the language. Ordering dinner, asking for directions, shopping, or simply talking to someone you meet along the way gets a lot easier when your vocabulary extends beyond "hello" and some enthusiastic pointing. — Read the rest

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In 1974, the North American Wildlife Research Team identified the obvious problem with Bigfoot research: nobody had caught one. So they built a trap.

They caught some bears and then locked the trap open. Bigfoot is far too smart for this stuff. — Read the rest

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RFK Jr discovered the easiest way to not have measles deaths is to refuse to record them, rather than vaccinate people.

Pennsylvania's measles outbreak has reached 676 confirmed cases and 124 hospitalizations. Only four of those cases were in appropriately vaccinated persons. — Read the rest

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Relativity Park is a 3D environment to wander around, with a Ferris wheel, a roundabout, and various sculptures to be enjoyed amid lowpoly pillars and primitive shapes. The catch is that the speed of light is only 5 kilometers per hour, meaning that the world appears to stretch and warp as you move around. — Read the rest

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"Vermin infestation" is awfully rough for an act nobody got to see. The mythical Hollywood bikini bar reopened Aug. 31. Despite social posts confidently promoting the culprits as "rats," SFGate reports that health officials did not specify whether the offending vermin had fur or considerably more legs to show off. — Read the rest

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In 1943, the OSS, the predecessor to the CIA, hired Ernest Crocker, a chemical engineer with an expertise in smell.

They hired him to build a stink bomb. The code name was "Who, Me?" They wanted to create a spray that the French resistance could use against German officers that made them smell so much like feces that they became humiliated and the target of contempt by fellow officers. — Read the rest

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In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, a Scottish writer and translator, published a book called Logopandecteision, an introduction to an artificial language that he had created.

The end of the book had two lines with 32 numbers on each line. People assumed it was some kind of a cipher and have been trying to crack it ever since. — Read the rest

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This is my last Charlie Kirk post for a while, I promise. It's not my fault that it's been, in the words of a friend, a Kirked-up weekend!

Upon hearing the news that the newly unveiled eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Charlie Kirk was vandalized last night at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters, I once again decided I needed to see for myself. — Read the rest

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It only took a couple of days for vandals to target a newly unveiled eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Charlie Kirk. The statue was on display over the weekend at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters, after its debut on September 10, 2026, the one-year anniversary of Kirk's assassination. — Read the rest

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Ikea is coming to the rescue of overencumbered Skyrim players, with a sentient Kallax shelving unit.

All video games with an inventory eventually become inventory management games. With the rare exception of Backpack Hero, which manages to turn it into a solid game, inventory management is generally tedious and can kill the fun in an otherwise enjoyable game. — Read the rest

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A year ago, conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking to students at Utah Valley University, during a Q&A session that was part of "The American Comeback Tour," hosted by Utah Valley's TPUSA chapter. Just last week, Tyler Robinson, the man accused of Kirk's murder, appeared at a Provo, Utah court and pled not guilty to aggravated murder. — Read the rest

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There are now so many quirky daily challenges out there it might take you your entire day to do them. Daily word-guessing game Wordle was one thing, but the wave of imitators and inspired projects it's left behind is another entirely. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get five years of flowkey for $79.99 (MSRP $899), with guided piano lessons, real-time feedback, sheet music practice, and a huge library of songs to learn at your own pace.

Learning piano doesn't have to mean committing to weekly lessons or working through a rigid practice routine. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get professional-looking results sans the steep learning curve with lifetime access to this Luminar Neo Bundle for just $69.97 (reg. $332).

These days, taking your own pictures is easy enough. Mobile cameras are almost as good as normal cameras; but we all know that making "simple edits" can easily turn into days trying to figure out how to use complicated software. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Manage, edit, sign, and organize your PDFs from a single workspace with this lifetime subscription to PDF Expert Premium Plan for just $79.99 (reg. $139.99).

Instead of collecting multiple subscriptions to manage your PDFs, why not invest in a single, all-in-one PDF editor? — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Turn complex processes, data, and workflows into professional diagrams with this lifetime license to Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 for Windows for just $48.97 (reg. $579.99).

While well-made diagrams are an easy way to represent complex datasets, outline business processes, and visualize projects, crafting them can take time. — Read the rest

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This clip is from a Japanese TV show called Masquerade, a variety show that first aired in 1979. The premise of the show was that people would turn themselves into everyday objects without any use of special effects. Forget CGI or AI: these folks used art and optical illusions to make people question their own eyeballs. — Read the rest

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This ethereal clip shared by AccuWeather shows thousands of birds swarming around a church steeple at dusk. The birds put on quite a show, circling around and around like a scene from a scary movie, until they finally decided to settle down for the night inside the chimney. — Read the rest

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I've seen lots of amazing photos of people doing funny or interesting things inside art museums over the years, but this one takes the cake. Herb Slodounik took this photo in 1963. The photo shows a fancy art museum filled with paintings, but two children are captivated by something most adults would overlook: an air vent in the wall. — Read the rest

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Shiladitya Banerjee, a computational biophysicist at Georgia Tech's School of Physics, ran an experiment with thousands of individual E. coli cells. He varied their food supply and noticed that the bacteria behaved differently depending on the previous food scenario they had experienced. — Read the rest

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Grumpy and tired, as he was not invited to speak at the Ground Zero ceremony, Grandpa Pudding Brains decided to nap at the Pentagon remembrance event instead.

The Pentagon began its 9/11 ceremony by reading the names of all 184 people killed there, tolling a bell for each. — Read the rest

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