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Not the first thing I'd think about when having access to a clearly well-built prosumer flight simulator, but sure, why not?

Put Nish Kumar on one of these interview shows and I'll watch it.

A government scheme is giving citizens cash for spending time with a good book.

“This passion for lions is in our blood.

Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

Gift cards are a scam.

Have you ever wondered how long those nice people were actually stranded on the Orient Express?

OM System has published a short teaser for a new camera coming on September 9, and given that it quickly goes through the heritage and evolution of the O-ho!

In this episode of under the influence, we are looking at one of my post viral posts, exploring the hate comments and figuring out why people took this post so personally Mine are still on my bags!

When it comes to crossing the Strait of Georgia, most people would choose to do so in a boat, a ship — any kind of a marine vessel, really.

Known for dark one-liners and ruthless humor, comedian Anthony Jeselnik is surprisingly earnest about the solitary magic of great books.

Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study.

In this episode of The Romesh Ranganathan Show, Romesh is joined by Diane Morgan to talk about her new hit BBC iPlayer sitcom, Ann Droid and her journey into comedy, from working with Charlie Brooker, developing the iconic Philomena Cunk, to working on Ri…

Air France has permanently closed its Terminal 2E Hall L lounge sauna after passengers used the private space for inappropriate activity.

A full text search engine with tokenization, stemming, typo tolerance, filters and geo support based on only PHP and SQLite. - loupe-php/loupe I had this in my local bookmarks for a while - it looks super interesting especially for small websites.

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The 26-year-old man was fined £200 by Llandudno magistrates I guess that's one way to pass the time #

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LinkedIn has added a 'seems like AI slop' button for users who suspect that what they're viewing was generated by a machine.

A concert featuring New Zealand band Devilskin was reportedly ruined by "a huge mess of shit, just completely spread all in the mosh pit."

Callum Turner stars in the cyberpunk series adapted from William Gi...

Welcome to a future we no longer control.

Gojira have announced that drummer Mario Duplantier will be unable to join them for their upcoming US tour due to “visa issues”, and that another drummer will be temporarily joining as a replacement.

Turns out: it's mostly SGI and Apple #

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Ze Frank invented vlogging according to Hank.

A mind-shattering concept from a first-year university class that upended how I think about humanity.

Get ready to ride the mountain with Dieter Rudolf in this full race...

How I found that anyone could register on FIFA's public Agent Platform, gain access to the Football Data Platform's Streaming Management panel, and get RTMP ingest URLs and stream keys for every live FIFA World Cup 2026 camera feed.

Burst is a bubble shooter game for iPhone with zero ads, no tracking, and no in-app purchases.

A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefox I have a whole bunch of PWAs installed on my computer.

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What will happen next?

European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software.

Ah, yes.

The remarkable story of Jerry Gretzinger and the map he's dedicated...

Disney World in Orlando has replaced the Aerosmith rollercoaster with a new ride centred around The Muppets – with a cover of a Blur song.

Roy Tang's blog.

The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is breaking containment and can no longer be ignored.

Once again: saved by procrastination.

Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.

What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains, and why the fare calculation line on your e-ticket is written in a currency that does not exist.

printMessageForCodingAgents() This is too good.

Perfect soundtrack to a hot Friday morning #

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Production of nylon has traditionally not been environmentally friendly.

Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company.

A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals they have been sending Wow.

The Problem : The top bunk is the worst bunk.

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.