It’s been said that truth is the first casualty of war, but it now appears to be the first casualty of peacetime too.

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The Black Cauldron nearly killed Disney animation, taking so long to make that its true budget is incalculable, appearing to startled reviews in 1985, and taking in only $21m at the box office. Drew Taylor charts how the disaster lumbered on for more than a decade, splitting the company generationally and coming to manifest its [&]

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This is one of these videos where it's cool, then kinda lulls in the center, but the pay-off at the end is totally worth it.

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Ever since Rosetta Stone kickstarted the online language learning craze, there are now almost as many language learning services out there as there are languages to learn. Yet while many of their methods vary, most of these programs come back to the tried and true online learning model: instruction through an app and YouTube videos.  [&]

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You've doubtless seen the tacky 3D house tours on real estate listings: crude, badly-coded gamelike experiences similar to Myst, garnished with bad user interfaces and enragingly inoffensive music. What if one of those house tours was of a bad house? Corpsepile's The Open House offers a 3D house tour of a perfectly normal suburban abode. [&]

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The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee just released their fifth and final report on Russian involvement in the 2016 US Presidential Election. The nearly-one-thousand-page tome is more damning than the Mueller Report was, on many fronts — and even more notable due to the fact that sitting Senators from both parties signed off on the content. [&]

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From The Independent: The Lindt & Spruengli company confirmed local reports on Tuesday that there was a minor defect in the cooling ventilation for a line for roasted "cocoa nibs" in its factory in Olten, between Zurich and Basel. […] Combined with strong winds on Friday morning, the powder spread around the immediate vicinity of the factory, [&]

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TMZ reports that a 3-foot-tall dildo, weighing in at 40 pounds, was stolen in the middle of the day from a sex shop in Las Vegas. The dildo, which is affectionately known as "The Moby," as in Dick, for reasons that I suppose are rather obvious, retails for $1250. However, it's also available on Amazon [&]

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SPOT (NYSE) Taking something boring and turning it into something beautiful is a real talent, and that's exactly what Gladys of Stoxart has done. She's turned stock charts into lovely illustrations of landscapes. It's easy to see why she calls herself a "data visual insights innovator." The stock market is a story worth telling so [&]

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"During 'unbearable' temperatures this bear took a dip the Liang Family pool on Aug. 18 in Arcadia, California." [source, image courtesy the Liang Family of Arcadia, CA]

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Impeached U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded a boycott of Goodyear, because the American tire and automotive gear company reportedly banned his red MAGA hats on factory floors. Don't buy GOODYEAR TIRES  They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. [&]

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As the name suggests, Kookslams is a curated collection of watersport noobs (aka kooks) getting slammed by waves, other kooks, immovable objects, and what-not. It may be the most apt metaphor for this year. Image: Instagram / Kookslams

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Apple today became the first 2-trillion dollar American company, after becoming the first trillion dollar US company just two years ago. Microsoft ($1.59T) and Amazon ($1.65T) are in second and third place, respectively. Breaking News: Apple is now worth $2 trillion. It doubled its value since the pandemic-induced recession, cementing its dominance in the global [&]

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It's been a year since the last season of Stranger Things and production of season four has obviously been held up by the pandemic. According to the show's creators Ross and Matt Duffer, season four, when it finally does happen, won't be the forever finale. From the Hollywood Reporter: What's the status of shooting season [&]

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Eddy Burback makes the compelling case that late night talk shows have actually improved during the pandemic. There's also a compelling case to be made that they could not have gotten much worse. His video is a follow-up from his widely-viewed pre-pandemic criticism of the genre. It had become clear that the best interviews were [&]

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In response to Goodyear Tires corporate policy that allows folks to wear items that display their support of racial justice and other issues of equity, but not racist red baseball caps, Orange Julius rages forth on Twitter! The sitting President of the United States is calling for a boycott of an American company. I run [&]

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on a live feed just before her Democratic National Convention speech: "It's Shark Week, motherfuckers." I love it when politicians break character.

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Data artist Nicholas Rougeux created a gorgeous collage of over 2,000 early 19th-century illustrations by James Sowerby. The public domain images were organized from over 700 color plates by color as a beautiful poster, but Rougeux also created a website where the work can be explored as a learning tool. For instance, here is his [&]

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After relentlessly roasting her for her rice cooking technique, Uncle Roger gives Hersha Patel a chance to redeem herself when he visits her kitchen. She promptly freaks Uncle Roger out again by having a kitchen that looks like a "medicine shop" and by making Asian fusion rice. Who else is shipping Uncle Roger and Auntie [&]

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Artist Yulia Brodskaya has achieved a striking effect by affixing brightly-colored folded and curled paper to dark canvasses. Her Instagram has more details on her intricate work: Image: YouTube / ArtYulia

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