A dockside owl rescue turned into a successful wildlife handoff after several young barn owls were found nesting in a loft above the water. As they neared the age to leave the nest, there was concern they could fall into the water during their first attempts at flight and drown. — Read the rest

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In 1996, beverage maker Clearly Canadian introduced Orbitz, a clear soft drink filled with brightly colored edible spheres suspended throughout the bottle. The unusual appearance made it look more like a science experiment than a soda, and the company leaned into the comparison by marketing it as a drinkable lava lamp. — Read the rest

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A concrete playground slide in Bucharest, Romania, looks more like a piece of brutalist architecture than a place for children to play. Built in the late 1950s or 1960s in the Floreasca area, the towering structure has become an internet curiosity because of its unusual scale, sharp angles, and all-concrete design. — Read the rest

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Psyllium husk has been rebranded by the internet as "nature's Ozempic," which is unfair to nature, Ozempic, and this extremely beige powder that mostly wants you to drink more water.

The evidence is decent for digestion and modest for cholesterol and blood sugar. — Read the rest

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years in the United States, raised three sons, built houses, built his own home, and was shot by ICE before work.

His son Ronaldo said he did not learn about his father's final moments from the hospital or law enforcement. — Read the rest

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Just when we thought we were safe, Max Fosh returned. The only good YouTube prankster on the Internet (a title I have no authority to bestow) has made a career out of taking the most absurd ideas possible and making them a reality. — Read the rest

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Denis Villenueve's first two Dune (or DUNC depending on how badly you misread the poster) movies, with love to David Lynch, have been by far the best adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel. Evidently, Villeneuve has taken a little time before the next Bond film to hammer out a third Dune, this time adapting the original novel's sequel Dune Messiah and serving as a neat endpoint to his trilogy. — Read the rest

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Nothing says happy holidays like a new Robert Eggers film cast with his growing merry band of weirdos. With this in mind, it's gonna be a Christmas to remember as my favorite cinematic discomfort aficionado returns to theaters this December with Werwulf: a dread-filled imagining of a creature that has haunted the woods and dreams of European culture for hundreds if not thousands of years. — Read the rest

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As has been discussed to death both here and on the Internet at large, Fallout: New Vegas is one of the best RPGs ever made. Although it started life as a contracted-out amuse-bouche to keep Fallout fans happy while Bethesda was all hands on deck with Skyrim, Obsidian — an RPG studio formed from the same ex-Black Isle devs who created the series to begin with — knocked it out of the park nonetheless. — Read the rest

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Tale of Two Wastelands might just be the best Fallout mod of all time, and it's pretty inarguably the most influential. On its surface, the idea is simple: Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas both use the same iteration of the same engine, so why not combine them together into a single megagame you can play for 200 hours? — Read the rest

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In 1966, apprentice printers in Beccles, Suffolk revived a pub game for the town's summer fête, claiming its rules came from a 1585 manuscript rediscovered in an attic. The game was dwile flonking, and the manuscript never existed. According to Wikipedia, "the Suffolk county archivist was unable to find any evidence for the game before 1966, and the supposed 1585 rules are a hoax." — Read the rest

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On a single day in January 1982, a Cuban cow named Ubre Blanca ("White Udder") produced 109.5 liters of milk — "more than four times a typical cow's production," according to Wikipedia. Guinness World Records recognized that mark, along with her 24,268.9-liter output in a single lactation period. — Read the rest

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According to the Wikipedia entry for British Army officer Adrian Carton de Wiart, he "was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip, and ear" across the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was blinded in his left eye, survived two plane crashes, and "ripped off his own severely injured fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them." — Read the rest

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TL;DR: New Costco Gold Star Members who enroll in auto-renewal can receive a $50 Digital Costco Shop Card* at sign-up. This promotion is only available through 8/2 at 11:59 PM.

Costco offers members access to brand-name products across grocery, household, and seasonal categories, along with Kirkland Signature™ items, at more than 500 warehouses across the U.S. — Read the rest

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According to Action 52, the unlicensed 1992 cartridge crammed 52 original games onto one Nintendo chip and sold for US$199, becoming "one of the worst video games of all time." Businessman Vince Perri founded Active Enterprises after watching his son play a Taiwanese 40-game bootleg: "I figured I'd do it legally." — Read the rest

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According to Milbenkäse ("mite cheese"), the German specialty is made by flavoring balls of quark with caraway and salt, drying them, and leaving them "in a wooden box containing rye flour and cheese mites for about three months." "

An enzyme in the digestive juices excreted by the mites causes the cheese to ripen." — Read the rest

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According to the account of the 1947 crash of the airliner Star Dust, the British plane left Buenos Aires for Santiago on 2 August 1947 and vanished over the Andes. Four minutes before its planned landing, the radio operator tapped out a final Morse message ending in one word: "STENDEC." — Read the rest

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According to IP over Avian Carriers, the internet's standards body once published a straight-faced proposal "to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by birds such as homing pigeons." RFC 1149, written by David Waitzman and released on April 1, 1990, was one of several April Fools' Day standards. — Read the rest

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33 Thomas Street, a "550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper" in Tribeca, has no windows at all — its walls are "entirely covered with precast concrete panels clad with flame-treated textured Swedish granite," according to Wikipedia. One observer claims it "features the tallest blank wall in the world." — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug: A Busy, Busy Day at Washington DC's Freedom 250 Celebration

-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. — Read the rest

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Virgin Media was fined $28m by telecom regulators in the U.K. over its tactics to prevent customers canceling their service. The method was not especially sophisticated: its agents would simply hang up on customers or put them on hold until they hung up themselves. — Read the rest

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The Kennedy Center's argument was basically that removing Trump's name might hurt fundraising, because apparently donors were lining up to support the arts only after seeing the words "Donald J. Trump" bolted onto John F. Kennedy's memorial. The court asked for evidence. — Read the rest

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There's nothing new about hired mourners. The practice of paying folks to pretend to care about someone's passing goes back thousands of years, crossing cultural divides, from east to west. Moirologists, wailers, keeners—call them what you will. For the vain or the superstitious, there's comfort to be found in knowing that someone will be there to witness their remains ritualistically given to the dust. — Read the rest

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In a perfect world, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty would be honoured by every nuclear-armed nation in the world, allowing everyone to breath easy about the fact that, of all the ways we humans have sorted out how to kill one another, at least we can rule out atomic fire from beyond our planet's atmosphere (yeah, ballistic missiles get high up there, but work with me here). — Read the rest

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I mean, you could put a window in the wall?

United Airlines tried to argue that a "window seat" does not necessarily include a window, which is the kind of corporate reasoning that makes a person check whether "airplane" still means airplane. — Read the rest

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New York mayor Zohran Mamdani wears a classic and relatively inexpensive Casio A1000MA-7 [casio.com]. It's typical of the company's perfectly archaic digital watches; there's little need to significantly upgrade the design as it works well and we never stopped buying them, though the "Premium Vintage" edition he wears was made in 2022. — Read the rest

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Grandpa Pudding Brains' White House has opened 25 "Freedom Fuel" gas stations around Philadelphia, selling gas below the national average, because socialism becomes freedom when you slap a flag decal on the pump.

USA TODAY reports the stations are selling gas at $3.47 a gallon, below the $3.79 national average, and that the White House promoted the launch with a video of customers thanking Trump for cheaper gas. — Read the rest

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I have been sucked into Cabin in the Woods, a YouTube channel that presents Bigfoot videos with the tone and pacing of a serious documentary series, while frequently veering into the kind of paranormal speculation that makes me pause the video and stare at the wall. — Read the rest

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Solvej Balle's incredible story of a woman trapped in time continues in Book II of On the Calculation of Volume.

Book I introduces us to Tara Selter, an antiquarian bookseller who becomes trapped on November 18th. Every day she wakes up, it is once again November 18th. — Read the rest

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What did the sky look like yesterday? A web project called What Color Was The Sky answers that for any location, using real atmospheric conditions to build a written and visual portrait of the sky.

It draws on cloud cover, humidity, precipitation, air quality, and sunset timing to describe the sky over a place you choose. — Read the rest

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