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Made in the late Qianlong Period [1736-1795], it will be sold at a Sotheby's Hong Kong auction on October 28, 2026.

This emergency supplies calculator has you enter your household size and its members' ages, dietary needs, and pets, then tells you what you need to have on hand while you ride out the Apocalypse.

Reaching nearly 10 feet in diameter, the waterlilies were discovered by chance deep in a remote Colombian rainforest.

Jeannie Lit invented it in 2006 and more than 40,000 have been sold since.

Centuries before Pantone, in over 900 pages of handwritten Dutch, the author — who identifies himself as A.

It's to be found outside the Little A'Le'Inn (pronounced Little Alien), a bar and restaurant in Rachel, Nevada, along State Route 375 (above and below), officially known since 1996 as the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Above, four buttons which I've had on my fridge since last century.

Remember those tiny shrimp or suchlike to which you added water and suddenly they expanded a billion or two times while you watched?

2.5 million views since it was uploaded to YouTube 2 days ago.

It cannot be overstated.

I've had these since forever: they're great for all sorts of things.

"Over 100,000,000,000 have ever lived — choose one."

In addition to its excellent AI capability, Perplexity Pro does an excellent job of presenting its results.

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Apply the McCluhan Test: Read page 69 and, if you like it, buy the book.

Photographed by Nicolas Reusens at the Hummingbird Sanctuary (Santuario de Colibríes) in Mexico City.

One thing I've always loved doing is passing on to others things I think might be of interest to them.

One of my favorite things about being an Apple fanboi from inception (I bought my first Mac in the early 1980s) is how much delight I still get uncovering an Easter egg.

I've loved this lamp ever since I first saw it around the turn of the century.

Forty-five years ago when I was a buyer in search of my first house, radon was a major consideration — many potential buyers insisted on a certified radon level test done inside the house before agreeing to sign a contract (I didn't ask for a test).

Way back in 2007 one of Mister Jalopy's "Blast From The Past" features in Make magazine was titled "Old-School Hand Tool Hacks: What I Learned From The 1963 Bureau of Naval Personnel Training Course."

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"The first time I saw a mausoleum, I felt like I was home free."

If you're losing sleep because your charging cords aren't overcrowding your USB hub, your ship has come in.

From the Guardian: "Coke Plus has 5 grams of indigestible dextrin fiber, which it says can 'suppress the absorption of fat from food.'"

Melamine board, twigs, woolen yarn, nylon string, clock mechanism; 20.5" x 14.5" x 1.4"; a 1986 design titled, dated, and signed by its creator.

Fair warning: there goes the day.

Long story short: We don't have one.

Is yours still there?

Just. wow.

In a fit of nostalgia a few months ago I took a flutter on a DAS Professional Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue Switches because I wanted to see if they still felt and sounded like the clackety-clack version I had ages ago.

Who'd a thunk?

ChipTycoon is a little chip factory where you watch a single wafer going through all twenty-two stages of chipmaking — sand to rough silicon to a flat mirrored disc, then coated, printed, etched, and wired layer by layer.

Above, one of my favorite actors, Ron Perlman, recently fantastic in the series "Cape Fear."

As soon as I finished reading Tim Carman's rave Washington Post review of Popeyes' newest offering (above), I got my car keys and headed straight to the location 3 miles from my house.

Above, Ed Ruscha's poster for Alejandro Iñárritu's new film "Digger" starring Tom Cruise.

Time to put all your words on the table.

The only comic strip I read daily is "Red and Rover."

Best named non-biker-related product of 2026.

It's Meta's new Muse charm, said to enable you to talk to your personal Muse AI agent whenever and wherever you want.

Bear witness.

Yes, it's a wonderful thing to know and use CPR in an emergency such that an individual who might have otherwise died survives.

Oooh, a name to conjure with.

Up top, Jean-Luc Godard's characterization of Robert Bresson's 1966 film starring a donkey named Balthazar.

Back in 1962, 44-year-old McDonald's franchisee Lou Groen (above, with a picture of his restaurant back in the day) was on the ropes financially.

In the year 2100, tightening fitted sheets won't be a thing: they'll long since have been tricked out with a self-adjusting "smart" band that draws them up snugly against the bottom of the mattress.