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“Knockoff” browser add-on filters junk brands from Amazon results
Knockoff is “Amazon, without the knockoffs”: a browser extension for Chrome that filters out the gibberish factory brands that are typically favoried…
 • Rob Beschizza
In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high
According to Bart Huges, the Dutch librarian attended medical school in Amsterdam “but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use.” In…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon
According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres
By 1987, Kowloon Walled City held an estimated 33,000 residents on 2.6 hectares — “approximately 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometer (3 million…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The mountain where climbers stop short of the summit on purpose
Kangchenjunga does not need your boot print.
 • Jason Weisberger
Mike Ehrmantraut gets his moment in the newest Saul4Democracy PSA
Another week, another Saul4Democracy video.
 • Grant St. Clair
LEGO horror trailer Yellow looks ready for A24
If you’ve ever stepped on a LEGO piece, you already know they have the ability to strike fear into anyone’s heart.
 • Grant St. Clair
Teens discover their robot taxi is a narc
A Waymo in San Mateo reportedly ratted out two teenagers for drinking and shooting Orbeez from the back seat, proving the driverless future still has a…
 • Jason Weisberger
ICE buys the cages, private prison company keeps the keys
The people inside remain the only part of the deal without disclosed upside.
 • Jason Weisberger
Tradd Moore’s first creator-owned comic is coming from Oni Press
Tradd Moore is one of those cartoonists whose pages, filled with riotous color and ridiculously-cool eyeball kicks, can genuinely drop your jaw.
 • Gareth Branwyn
Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history
English spelling did not standardize. It fossilized with the confidence of a middle-aged suburban parent at their child's soccer game.
 • Jason Weisberger
California makes food labels less stupid
Use your nose, not the haunted retail code on the carton.
 • Jason Weisberger
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