The Tower of Baa-Goat is a 31-foot brick tower in Windsor, Illinois, with a ramp spiraling up the outside of it, and goats live in it. Dave and Marcia Johnson built it in the late 1990s, Marcia told the Atlas Obscura podcast, after Dave saw a photograph of the goat tower at South Africa's Fairview winery in a British wine magazine. — Read the rest

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With president Donald Trump's war with Iran quagmired (media lost count weeks ago of the number of times we've won or that a deal is near; he's called off "major" new strikes 7 times in as many weeks by one count), military brass are out of ideas for making progress. — Read the rest

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A congressional candidate in Tennessee shot at four Flock cameras there, say authorities, and got four charges of felony vandalism in return.

Adam Lee Heimerman, 37, of Lenoir City, shot out the cameras between in July and June while campaigning as an Independent in Tennessee's 2nd Congressional District. — Read the rest

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When Los Angeles Police Department officer Daniel Flores recorded his colleagues making racist, sexist and homophobic remarks, the only thing he used it for was an official complaint to LAPD's internal affairs department. For his trouble he now faces 16 felony charges of eavesdropping and recording confidential police communications. — Read the rest

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A Jenny Haniver is a dried ray or skate reshaped by hand until it looks like a small dragon or a demon. They go back to the sixteenth century, when sailors and collectors bought them as curiosities. The name may come from jeune d'Anvers, "youth of Antwerp" which British sailors turned into a woman's name. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a 1-year Autodesk AutoCAD subscription for $399 instead of $2,095, with professional 2D drafting, 3D modeling, automation tools, and access across desktop, web, and mobile.

Precision typically comes with a precise and mildly terrifying price. AutoCAD, the professional design software used to draft everything from floor plans to mechanical components, normally costs $2,095 for a one-year subscription. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro comes with BitLocker, Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox, Azure AD, and Copilot, and it is on sale for $11.23, down from $199.

There is a certain kind of person who upgrades their operating system the way other people change their oil, only when absolutely necessary and with mild resentment the whole time. — Read the rest

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Lokesh Dhakar's ASCII Today renders your text as big block letters made out of slashes, pipes, and underscores — the kind that head old README files and source-code comments. When you type a word at ascii.today, all 50 fonts appear at once in a grid, redrawing character by character.  — Read the rest

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Thornwell Jacobs, the president of Oglethorpe University in Georgia, worked out that 6,177 years had passed since the start of the Egyptian calendar, and decided to aim the same distance forward. In 1940 he welded shut a converted swimming pool packed with 1930s objects, with instructions not to open it until noon on May 28, 8113. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Enjoy 8TB of secure cloud storage with this Drime Secure Cloud Storage Advanced Plan Lifetime Subscription for just $279.97 (reg. $899).

If you're tired of paying monthly fees to essentially rent cloud storage, Drime Secure Cloud Storage offers a solution. — Read the rest

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Conspiracy theorist and roadkill enthusiast RFK Jr. told CNN's Dana Bash she probably could not understand his argument because she was not a scientist. "Well, you're not either," she replied.

Kennedy had already accused Bash of talking nonsense, being fooled and repeating information "like a parrot." — Read the rest

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On June 12, 2009, a man checked into a hotel in Sligo, Ireland under the name Peter Bergmann and a nonexistent Austrian address. He paid cash every night. Over the next three days, cameras around town filmed him leaving the hotel with a purple plastic bag of belongings and coming back without it, using the blind spots between cameras to dispose of whatever was inside. — Read the rest

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The Sonoran Desert toad is the only animal known to make a psychedelic. Its glands secrete 5-MeO-DMT, the compound users call the God molecule. The toad exists only in Sonora, Mexico — so every gram of "toad medicine" sold comes from there. — Read the rest

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Citing many imagined achievements, the Orange Menace insists he is the most loved, most worshipped person ever.

The available numbers are less celebratory. AP-NORC found 33% approval, while CNN found 34%, matching his career low in CNN polling. Trump countered with claims about taxes, employment, the border and foreign policy as proof that better polling must exist. — Read the rest

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A 5-milliliter ampoule of the world's most precise water sells for $159 — about $120,000 a gallon, Signore Galilei writes. It is Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (VSMOW), and labs buy it because water's freezing point varies based on its elemental isotopes. — Read the rest

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United States Senator for the state of Ohio Bernie Moreno says he lived in fear for his granddaughter's safety whenever Rep. Max Miller had custody of her. Moreno spent those same two years not telling the public that Miller was unfit for Congress. — Read the rest

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Trump's family business sued Capital One for allegedly closing its accounts over "woke" politics. Capital One responded by telling the court about its anti-money-laundering team's findings.

Capital One has not accused the Trump Organization of committing money laundering. It says the accounts were closed after months of analysis by its anti-money-laundering team, which identified transaction patterns among those flagged by federal banking guidance. — Read the rest

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Inshoku Yojo Kagami, or "Mirror of the Physiology of Drinking and Eating," is a nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock print of a man eating fish and drinking sake, with his torso cut away to show the crew of tiny workers keeping him going. — Read the rest

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This is the cutest bedtime routine I've seen in a long time! Sit back and enjoy watching all of the sweet beasts who live at Alyssa's Animal Sanctuary tuck themselves in for the night! In the video, you first see Alyssa, owner and operator of the sanctuary, ringing a triangle to alert the animals that it's bedtime. — Read the rest

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It's been a while since I added a furry musician to my dream animal supergroup, which includes Lulu the Lab mix, an amazing guitarist; this Dachshund percussionist, with a mean tail-on-trash-can; and Yupia, a horse who plays guitar with his muzzle. — Read the rest

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If you have functioning eyes and you've been on the Internet lately, you've no doubt stumbled across Jimothy, the pride of Seattle. It is a truth universally acknowledged that raccoons are cute as hell, but Jimothy — or so this feral Seattle raccoon has been dubbed — has managed to take a step beyond and go ultra-mega-viral thanks to his short spine syndrome, which is basically exactly what it sounds like. — Read the rest

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A former National Park Service ranger is touring visitor centers with flyers containing the history the Trump administration removed from the walls.

Melissa Dalley quit the National Park Service in April. Now she visits Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier as a civilian, telling strangers about exhibits, signs and brochures that have disappeared while the Trump administration reviews park history for material that "inappropriately disparage[s] Americans." — Read the rest

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The conspiracy theorist overseeing U.S. health policy wants to rehabilitate nicotine.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called nicotine pouches "probably the safest way to consume nicotine," while wellness influencers promote the addictive drug for focus, energy, and relaxation. — Read the rest

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Pushball is a sport that uses a ball six feet three inches across. The Massachusetts inventor Moses G. Crane came up with it in the 1890s because he couldn't follow American football, a small brown ball moving across a mostly brown field. — Read the rest

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Sand men were buskers who sculpted the beach just off the Atlantic City boardwalk and worked for tips. They built in high relief out of saltwater-soaked sand, life-size and bigger: a slain soldier beside his fallen horse, Christ on the cross, lions and snakes, a mermaid. — Read the rest

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The computer component price crisis, driven by AI datacenters snapping it all up for the slop trade, has crushed few so hard as the gamers. The laptop I bought my son for $600 last year is currently $955 at the same shop. — Read the rest

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The renaissance of pocket point-and-shoot cameras proceeds apace with Kodak's EC35, inexpensive at $35 and good enough to take to the party. If the Charmera and its blind-box business model represents a digital extravagance, and the $100 Snapic was simply too cool for school, the EC35 is the real deal shoved back in your pocket. — Read the rest

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You may be aware that cops have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, and that you have a constitutional right to record what they do. Cellphone video proved that police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck for nearly 10 minutes, and the right to record it is why the footage helped convict him of his murder. — Read the rest

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Anime User Interfaces collects depictions of computer screens, keyboards, dashboards and other gadgets depicted in Japanese animation (and a few others, such as Wargames' NORAD big boards, as a treat.) Spotted via Hacker News, which links to an interesting article explaining why glowing lights in analog animation and film SFX have such a weird magic. — Read the rest

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The Marnameh is a short Persian book, written in the late fifteenth century, that explains the meaning of seeing a snake. It runs through the thirty days of the Zoroastrian calendar, most of them named for a divinity or figure, and gives the omen attached to a snake sighting on each one. — Read the rest

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