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Uncovered: read book samples without knowing who wrote it, what the title is, or looking at the cover
“Don’t judge a book by its cover,” they say, but how can one not?
 • Rob Beschizza
Bag labeled “deffntely not a bag full full of drugs” was full of drugs
Two Kentucky residents were arrested last week after a detecive looked in a bag labeled “deffntely not a bag full of drugs” and found it to contain…
 • Rob Beschizza
Gallery of images with one pixel for each RGB value
AllRGB is an old-fashioned image gallery on the web.
 • Rob Beschizza
IP Crawl exposes that insecure web camera you never locked down
IP Crawl is a browseable library of camera systems exposed to the internet.
 • Rob Beschizza
Australia’s social media ban not working, study finds
Australia’s ban on social media accounts for children has failed to produce an immediate drop in use among adolescents, according to an analysis…
 • Rob Beschizza
SpaceX stock took a predictable trajectory
SpaceX stock soared to $251 after its launch then came back to Earth.
 • Rob Beschizza
Suspected brain cancer turns out to be pork tapeworm infestation
Doctors in Spain suspected that a man suffering from chronic headaches had brain cancer.
 • Rob Beschizza
Sony deleting 551 movies from own customers’ accounts
Sony unceremoniously announced that it would be deleting 551 movies from PlayStation customers’ accounts in the U.K.: no apologies, no refunds, just a…
 • Rob Beschizza
The BBC ends longwave radio service today
As a child, I used to be fascinated by the indicators on old radios for faraway cities: magic places such as Warsaw, Nador, Ulaanbatar… and Droitwich.
 • Rob Beschizza
FEMA official who teleported to Waffle House teleports out of agency
When the White House appointed conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips (previously) to a top job in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, that was not his…
 • Rob Beschizza
Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg
Apple sharply raising the prices of laptops and other gear brought home that the datacenter-driven computer parts shortage is only getting worse.
 • Rob Beschizza
Hitler baby photo in school yearbook
Administrators at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, announced that “we immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain…
 • Rob Beschizza
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