In the early 1990s, I was an editor at Wired. It was an exciting time because the internet was new to most people. My colleagues were young, creative, curious, and smart, but two of them stood out: Gary Wolf and June Cohen. — Read the rest

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The Spalax and Nannospalax are two types of blind mole-rats that Mother Nature clearly made when she was having an off-day. She must have been very overstimulated when she decided to stick a gaping mouth, large flaring nose, and absolutely no other facial features onto this hairy, sausage-shaped critter. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Play podcasts, white noise, or audiobooks from under your pillow with this ultra-thin Bluetooth speaker, now $14.99 (reg. $79.95).

Falling asleep to a podcast gets complicated when the person next to you wants total silence. Earbuds work until you roll onto your side and one of them digs into your ear. — Read the rest

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The Turnagain Arm is a long body of water near Anchorage, Alaska. It is famous for its bore tides. A bore tide happens when a narrow body of water is met with a tide. Waves that travel as fast as 15 mph and reach up to 10 feet can happen. — Read the rest

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Watch one very happy dog sit in a grass field, surrounded by pigeons. The dog has one very gentle temperament and sits there blissfully well. The pigeons climb all over him, flapping around and squawking. The dog just looks happy to have made some new friends. — Read the rest

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Here is a close-up and personal video of a snail laying her eggs. I am not quite sure if I feel disgusted or struck by this video. The snail's eggs look like little pink pieces of candy, and it is not what I expected. — Read the rest

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There is a sourdough library in Belgium. Karl De Smedt takes us on a tour of the library in this video. He shows us the special refrigerator where starters from over 100 different bakeries around the world are safely stored. — Read the rest

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Behold, the snake-necked turtle. The Turtle Survival Center shared this video of this unique turtle species, who stand out amongst other turtles due to their long, flexible necks. When threatened, this species folds their long neck beneath the edge of their shells. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a refurbished 2018 MacBook Air with a 13.3-inch Retina display for $234.97 (reg. $1,199).

Tech prices have made it so much harder to find a good computer for a good price. That's why more people are switching to refurbished gear. — Read the rest

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Beneath the Church of All Saints in the Czech Republic is this magnificent chapel that is decorated entirely with human bones. It even features an ornate chandelier made out of bones. It looks like something from a fantasy movie, but it is entirely real. — Read the rest

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This 30-foot-tall crash test dummy stands on the side of the road outside the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration office to remind folks about seatbelt safety. It's impossible not to notice this giant, bright yellow sculpture, and that is for a good reason. — Read the rest

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We visited the Nanzoin Temple in the mountainous region of Sasaguri, near Fukuoka, on our last trip to Japan. It's a short train ride from Hakata Station in Fukuoka, and it transports you to a different world.

Built on a gently sloping hillside, the Nanzoin Temple is a sprawling Buddhist center that boasts the largest bronze reclining Buddha statue in the world. — Read the rest

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It's been 16 years since Chris Ware published an issue of the Acme Novelty Library, his incredible comic book art project. This is issue number 21. It comes out on November 10th, and I just received an advance copy. Like his recent issues, it's more than a single publication. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with a lifetime Microsoft Office Pro 2021 license and a training bundle, now $29.97 (reg. $239.99).

A Microsoft 365 subscription bills you every single year, whether you opened Excel twice or two hundred times. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a 12-in-1 USB-C hub with a built-in laptop stand for $54.97 (reg. $99.99) plus free shipping.

Thin laptops usually come with a couple of USB-C ports, and every monitor, drive, and memory card after that needs its own adapter. — Read the rest

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The Checkmate Retro Styled IPS Upgradeable Display is a flat-screen monitor that looks and works like a 1980s computer monitor. It's a Kickstarter project for people who want to play retro games on their old consoles and computers.

If you've ever tried to connect your old console to a modern TV, you might have learned that the picture is less than perfect. — Read the rest

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I bought Charles Burns' Big Baby in 1986. RAW Books (run by Maus creator Art Spiegelman and New Yorker cover editor Françoise Mouly) published it as a hardbound book that resembles a kids' picture book. The interior pages are black-and-white comic book panels telling the story of a normal boy named Big Baby, who solves a neighborhood mystery. — Read the rest

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While convicted felon and repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct Donald J. Trump was happily admiring other men's posteriors, bragging about pools, arches, and ballrooms, the GOP could not get him to say anything that would help their cause. He did apparently pause to shelve Stephen Miller, however, at Melania's request. — Read the rest

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Soon-to-be former Senator from Maine, Susan Collins got one thing right: voters are the reason she won't be in office anymore.

A scandal alleging Collins was on the take, a terrible record of standing against human rights and voting for terrible justices on invented premises are among the many, many reasons Maine voters walked away from Susan Collins. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 license for $29.97 (reg. $499.99), paid once.

Visual Studio Professional is typically a paid Microsoft subscription that incurs a recurring fee. To keep the IDE without the renewals, consider a Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 license for $29.97 (reg. — Read the rest

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During the final weeks of the campaign, convicted felon and oft-accused of sexual misconduct, Donald Trump kept talking about Jon Husted's butt.

After repeatedly describing Husted's backside as a "pile of muscle," Dementia Don claimed the Ohio senator had jumped 12 points in the polls because "the audience loved" his anatomical review. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Turn one USB-C port into 13 with this docking station, now $34.97 (reg. $70).

A laptop bag full of single-purpose adapters gets heavy, and you usually leave the one you need at home. If you want one small gadget to replace them all, try the 13-in-1 Docking Station with Dual HDMI. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Dementia Donnie bottoms out!

-Americans, patriots, and friends: 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 your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere, plus exclusive commentary, content, contests, giveaways, other stuff, and other other stuff! — Read the rest

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Toys "R" Us and Halloween went hand-in-hand back in the day. It's impossible not to feel nostalgic when thinking about it if you lived through that era as a kid. Luckily we have old commercials like this one from 1983 to remember how much fun the store was. — Read the rest

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This video made me laugh especially hard because I recently had a very similar experience in my own garden. If you've ever been gardening only to see some of your plants disappearing under the ground, as if they had decided to hide away, then you might know what I'm talking about. — Read the rest

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Here is a baby flamingo compilation from the San Antonio Zoo. Baby flamingos don't have their iconic pink feathers yet. What makes them especially cute is the way that they look a bit awkward trying to figure out how to walk. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Check hotel rooms, rentals, and cars for hidden cameras, audio bugs, and GPS trackers with this pocket-size detector, now $39.99 (reg. $59.99).

In The Conversation, Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who hunts for a bug by ripping his apartment apart, floorboards and all. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Use more than 50 AI models and send a prompt to six models at once with a lifetime subscription to AskAnyModel AI Pro Plan for $39.99, normally $499.

Stop paying every month for multiple AIs when you can get the leading models together in one user-friendly interface. — Read the rest

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When I was in Japan last month, we went to an okonomiyaki restaurant in Fukuoka, Japan. It was called Denko Sekka, in Canal City Hakata, a shopping center. (Denko Sekka means "lightning fast.")

Okonomiyaki is basically a kind of pancake or crepe cooked on a griddle. — Read the rest

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The money incinerator is just getting up to speed. Anthropic's amended IPO filing says the company now has $895.4 billion in purchase commitments and lease agreements; almost all of it is for compute and infrastructure. AI datacenter builders rejoice!

Anthropic hopes to hold 3.5GW of capacity by the end of the year and double that volume next year, the report added, citing sources with knowledge of the situation.

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