On Saturday, Chantelle Doyle, 35, was surfing off the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia when a great white shark bit into her leg and wouldn't let go. Her husband, surfing nearby, punched out the shark and rescued his wife. According to the NSW Ambulance, it's the third shark attack in the area [&]

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Slow internet makes life in the simulation harder than it needs to be. (YouTube)

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On Sunday, the temperature in California's Death Valley National Park apparently hit 130F (54.4C), the hottest air temperature recorded on Earth in 89 years, and possibly ever. According to a statement from the National Weather Service, "As this is an extreme temperature event, the recorded temperature will need to undergo a formal review" by a [&]

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Rub Wrongways is a record label/songwriting collective based out of Northampton, MA. Every week, they curate a playlist of 25 songs to listen to — and this week, they asked me to put it together for them! Since my band's upcoming album is called "Songs About Comic Books & Mid-30s Malaise," I was originally going [&]

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Maker Allen Pan decided to "solve an American problem with an American solution." Guns! He created a gun that shoots a mask onto a person's face. OK, so there are still some bugs to work out. He only manages to land the mask on a dummy's face once, but as he says after it, "We're [&]

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Changsha, China's Chuiyan Fried Beef chain of restaurants apologized after launching a program in which diners would be weighed upon entering and then offered suggested menu choices. Last week, the country kicked off a campaign to reduce food waste and Chuiyan Fried Beef's gimmick was apparently a response to that. From CNN: For example, women [&]

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LastResort comes installed on all Macs, and as its name suggests is a special font the system uses whenever it can't figure out anything better to use. In the age of Unicode, it's not likely an everyday user would ever experience this problem: standard system fonts cover pretty much everything. LastResort sometimes shows itself, though, [&]

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Dying as he lived, obsessed with sex workers. Limbaugh used 600 radio stations licensed to operate in the public interest to tell 20 million Americans that Senator Kamala Harris is a whore and 'mattress' who slept her way up the political ladder. Limbaugh announced the Biden/Harris ticket has a nickname — "Joe and the Ho". He claims it's not [&]

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From sleek and shiny offerings like the Apple MacBook, the iMac, and the Mac Pro, we all know the Cupertino tech giant has spent four decades putting a premium on creating tech that looks as amazing as it works. When you need a replacement mouse or want to go wireless, don't go grab one of [&]

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Bad Lip Reading took on the daunting task of making Trump's bizarre and combative Axios interview even weirder, but they succeeded. The scary part is that some of Trump's dubbed answers make more sense that his actual ones. "Watch me go in circles, like I'm grooming your man beans." Image: YouTube / Bad Lip Reading

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Nosey Mungo, aka Helen Burgess, is a ceramic artist who has created a menagerie of delightful creatures, not least of which is this charming blobfish. It turns out that making ceramic blobfish is quite complicated and difficult. Check out all the other charming animals available on her website. Image: Instagram / noseymungo

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203 E. Morrison in Fayette, Missouri, is a sprawling and airy Victorian home with renovated kitchens and bathrooms; new electrics, HVAC and plumbing; and tasteful high-end updates throughout. If you're wondering why a 5,000 square foot building only has two bedrooms, though, you're in for a treat. AND THE BEST PART, connected to the home [&]

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I've been following along as Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer builds and documents his 1000 oscillator megadrone, aka the KiloDrone. Sam decided to take on this completely mad project as something suitably mind-numbing to do during the pandemic. In the end, he used 2400 nobs, 2400 potentiometers, 820 jacks, 220 jack cables, 8000 [&]

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The kids are all starting to go back to distance learning. So why shouldn't you?  With the world in upheaval, the job market in serious flux and you with time on your hands, learning a new skill could be the smartest move you could make for your future. To help jumpstart the process, we've assembled [&]

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If you haven't kept tabs on the advancements in smart glasses since the Google Glass project folded in 2015, we have some news  they're getting closer. Well, maybe not Google&but other manufacturers have continued to push forward the smart glasses concept. MAD Gaze has become one of the pioneers in smart glasses technology, producing [&]

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Ever since the great TP shortage of 2020, it's a thought that's been inching around in the back of your mind.  Should I become&a bidet person? The answer is a resounding yes. There's a reason much of the rest of the modern world embraced the bidet lifestyle decades ago. Americans use about 36.5 billion rolls [&]

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Batman never roars into the Gotham night without his utility belt. James Bond never embarks on a world-saving mission without stopping to see Q and picking up a few helpful gadgets.  The world can be a challenging, even occasionally dangerous place — and that's never been more apparent than in the past few months. So [&]

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Jim Kelly, he of The Tabletop Engineer and Bexim's Bazaar magazine, has launched another new monthly publication, The RPG and Wargame Supply Sourcebook. The idea is to create a one-stop resource guide to those largely small/indie companies making and selling miniatures, gaming terrain, RPG materials, modeling tools and supplies, and other gaming-related products and services. [&]

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The much-anticipated Ruth Asawa stamps are here! Buy several sheets and give one of the US's most beloved and relied-upon institutions a little infusion of scratch. Image: USPS

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Vacuum cleaners have come a long way since those giant bulky bag behemoths that used to take up most of the hall closet. Machines that handle that kind of cleanup now have to be more than just carpet sweepers. They need to be small, powerful, convenient, and capable of handling a variety of big and [&]

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