The Dummyzine Instagram account posted a 1930s British catalog advertising Mickey Mouse novelty items. The page has masks, headbands, and mouse-shaped headpieces. Mickey's face changes from one mask to the next.

Disney had only begun licensing Mickey to outside manufacturers a few years earlier, starting with a 1929 deal to put his face on children's writing tablets.  — Read the rest

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The Japanese Instagram account Suzume Okyakusan posted a video on August 8, 2026, of six sparrows eating breakfast at a miniature picnic table set with small ceramic dishes of seeds and miniature cakes, along with a tiny teapot and cups. Each bird gets its own place setting. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This refurbished Lenovo 300e touchscreen Chromebook is on sale for $74.97 (reg. $284.99) through September 10, extended for Labor Day.

Most touchscreen laptops start well north of $300, and that's before you add a case or a mouse. Refurbished options rarely close that gap without cutting something important. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Luminar Neo, a beginner-friendly AI photo editor, plus a landscape photography course and eight creative add-ons for just $69.97 (reg. $332) with this bundle.

With Luminar Neo, you don't need to learn Photoshop inside and out to create stunning images. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Learn transferable AI skills you can apply across tools and professional settings with this 12-course ChatGPT & Automation E-Degree for $14.97 (reg. $790).

AI literacy is becoming less about knowing that tools like ChatGPT exist and more about understanding how to use them effectively. — Read the rest

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At the Created in LA conference, to be held in Los Angeles starting September 17, Disney is launching its first creator event, gathering some of the biggest social media creators in a celebration of self-made videos and stories. Among the content creators speaking will be Adrian Per, Dhar Mann, and Dude Perfect. — Read the rest

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Jan Vormann is a German artist who uses LEGO bricks in his artwork. He patches up broken sides of buildings and walls with legos in a beautiful way that turns the structures into art. This is one of my favorite uses of Legos that I've come across. — Read the rest

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Years of sunlight can do more than fade a sign. Ultraviolet radiation breaks down pigments and the materials that hold paint together, causing colors to fade, crack, and peel away. When that happens unevenly, parts of the lettering can survive while the surrounding color disappears. — Read the rest

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Japan has a museum dedicated to rocks that look like people, animals, and other things our brains have decided to see in random geology. The Chichibu Chinsekikan, or Hall of Curious Rocks, houses more than 1,700 of them, including stones resembling Elvis, ducks, sheep, and assorted mysterious faces. — Read the rest

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In recent months, we've seen the Trump administration grasp at every straw it can to appeal to youth who, by and large, think its figurehead is a spray-tanned monster concerned only with his own self-enrichment by any means necessary. Paying off TikTokers is one thing, but as an inveterate gamer, I've been simultaneously fascinated and appalled by the ways in which the White House has co-opted my beloved hobby as a vehicle for propaganda. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Koofr is a privacy-first cloud storage platform, and you can get a 1TB plan at one of its best-ever prices with code KOOFR: $129.97 (MSRP $810).

Most cloud storage plans want your money every single month. Google One's 2TB plan runs $9.99/month, and that meter never stops.  — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Coding is a whole lot easier with the right tools, and now Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 can help you tackle all your projects for just $49.99 (MSRP $499.99).

AI is changing virtually every part of your workflow, so instead of resisting, it might be time to incorporate tools that have this powerful technology already baked in. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional 2021 gives you Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher on one Windows PC for $29.97 (reg. $219.99).

If you've somehow survived this long without needing AI inside your spreadsheets (in that case, congratulations), Microsoft Office Professional 2021 still has plenty to offer. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Enjoy a PDF editor that prioritizes security with this $19.99 (reg. $49.99) lifetime subscription to IndyPDF Editor & Converter.

When it comes to using software of any kind in 2026, privacy can never be overstated. Not only is it ideal for handling sensitive documents, such as client records, contracts, and IDs, but it's also a necessity given the ongoing advances in cybercrime. — Read the rest

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In the late 1980s, gamers were spoiled for choice when two completely different versions of the Aliens computer game came out, one a series of movie-faithful minigames and the other a loosely-adapted dungeon crawl. And as dissimilar as they were, neither of these games were anything like the arcade game that appeared thereafter! — Read the rest

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If NUKEMAP is the web's classic demonstration of what a nuclear blast would do to your hometown or that of your enemy (don't forget to set the yield!) then Nuke Simulation is the modern novelty, depicting the explosion in handsome animated 3D over the community to be obliterated. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This Grade A refurbished 2018 MacBook Air is just $319.99 (MSRP $2,299) with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, a Retina display, an Intel Core i5, and support for macOS Sonoma.

You can spend a lot of money on a MacBook. — Read the rest

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Police in England have thirsty work ahead of them after thieves took off with two trailers loaded with Guinness Stout from an industrial park in Runcorn, near Liverpool.

"It is famously said that 'Guinness is good for you,' but that is only the case when it has been bought and paid for," Det.

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I've painted rocks for years, off and on. It's less intimidating to paint on a rock than on a canvas, and it is easier to display rocks than canvases. You can just set the rock on a desk, table, or any horizontal surface — no mounting hardware or holes in the wall required. — Read the rest

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In the emergency room at Salisbury District Hospital in England, no drip stands were available for incoming patients during a period of "exceptionally high demand." So emergency workers made use of what they could find, including picture hooks and a medical training skeleton. — Read the rest

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For all of Elon Musk's outrage that there are actors in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey who do not possess the racial characteristics of the ancient Greeks (he's not referring to Matt Damon's straight, light hair and non-Mediterranean Anglo/Germanic face), that is the least important of the changes Nolan made to the epic poem in making his movie. — Read the rest

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Southern California bird watcher Alexander DeBarros captured a photo of a coyote holding a roadrunner bird in its mouth. He was conducting a bird survey at the Chatsworth Nature Preserve on August 29 when he spotted the iconic sight.

In an incredible coincidence that is a movie publicist's dream, he snapped the rare, possibly unprecedented, photo on the opening weekend of the movie Acme vs. — Read the rest

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Few governments seem more enthusiastic about undermining private communications than those in Britain, where a total ban on encryption is often touted by non-technical minds and mass surveillance is openly dreamed by cabinet ministers. Apple withdrew its advanced data protection service in the UK to sidestep demands that it provide "backdoor" access to its users' data. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The $24.99 GoCable packs up to 100W charging, Lightning and USB-C connectors, an LED power display, data transfer, magnetic cable management, a bottle opener, a hidden cutter, and a carabiner into one compact EDC gadget.

Some charging cables know their place. — Read the rest

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The GOP's primary election for Missouri's 161st District State Representative was decided by just 32 votes, with Thomas Ross defeating Louise Secker with Republican voters in Joplin last month. But Ross is now incarcerated after authorities say he tried to have cocaine planted on Secker before the vote. — Read the rest

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The city of Dallas is using AI-powered cameras mounted on trash collection trucks to assign "blight scores" to homes there. The obvious intent is code enforcement, which implies issuing fines to people living in low-income neighborhoods. Unhappy locals made their thoughts clear at a city council meeting. — Read the rest

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Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK, was filmed celebrating secret foreign donations, alongside other senior members of his party. Farage believed he was talking to a wealthy foreign supporter funneling money through a British relative, but it was actually undercover journalists working with Channel 4 News. — Read the rest

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"Anger as human poo and maggot-infested food left behind at beauty spot," goes the headline at BBC News. If it had been any other species…

[The] National Park said there was "no justification" for fly-tipping after noticing a "change in attitude" among visitors to its beauty spots, leading to an increase in litter dumping.

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TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows lets you enjoy seven tools for a one-time low price, just $14.97 (MSRP $229) now through September 3.

When you think of Microsoft Office, you probably think of Word and Excel, but these days there's a whole lot more to this classic productivity suite. — Read the rest

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Trust AI to help fix your PC or make a funny image to tease your friends; don't use it to plan your ascent of a 14,000-foot volcano that regularly kills people.

Three college students used Google Gemini to plan their ascent of Mount Shasta. — Read the rest

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