Justin Vernon celebrates the breaded treats of Minnesota’s Howard’s Bar in a terrifically, terrifyingly jaunty tune
Absolutely incredible.
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KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.
Absolutely incredible stuff. This is exactly the fun and weird stuff the world needs right now. Stop the boring sanitization of everything and do stuff because it’s fun and because you can.
Trump Probably Won’t Give $5,000 to Every US Adult if Republicans Win the Midterms
But it was not clear whether it was a serious proposal or a feel-good attempt to galvanize his base to turn out on election day, after he also previously promised payouts like a $5,000 "DOGE dividend" or a $2,000-per-person tariff check — neither of which has happened.
I love that the US is making so much money that the debt keeps rising and we are going to add a couple trillion to the deficit to give everyone $12k. Can't wait to get my check and get out of jail free card. It's not like it's Americans that are paying the cost of the tariffs or anything like that—what with all the inflation and the high gas prices for a war that is only happening because a "previous administration" pulled us out of the Iran deal.
The Cubs are the best-hitting, best-fielding team in baseball. There's just one little problem ...
More importantly, there's really not a single trouble spot on the field, and the best way to show that is to take Crow-Armstrong out of the equation entirely. If we were to look at every team's defense this year excluding center field .. the Cubs would still be No. 1, narrowly over Toronto and St. Louis.
These stats are wild. A historically great defense and potentially the greatest hitting Cubs team in the history of the franchise??? And yet a league worst pitching staff... Imagine if the pitching staff could just be average, or even slightly below average, they'd be unstoppable. If Justin Steele can return and get himself back into the rotation, they'd at least have three reliable starters. It's too bad the two young guys with potential are both out for the year, but at least Swanson will be back soon.
16-year-old Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher that uses sound waves to put out fires in seconds
She assembled a device with a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator, and a speaker that emits 30 pulses per second. That vibration pushes oxygen away from the flames, and the fire simply goes out in five to eight seconds.
This is very, very cool. It sounds like it's something that could eventually replace home fire extinguishers as the technology develops, but I'm curious if it could ever be applied in a bigger way for fire departments fighting house fires or even forest fires in some way. Maybe wineries out here in Napa will start placing speakers around their vines to help keep flames at bay one day.
Sacha Baron Cohen to Star in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Popinjay Cavalier’ in London’s West End
Cohen will portray the title character. "The Popinjay Cavalier" is set to premiere in London's West End in spring 2027. It's being described as a "swashbuckling comedy" set in 1830s Europe — a British-style farce filled with slapstick chaos, awkward mishaps and characters constantly being mistaken for someone else.
I’m not sure if there will ever be a play that I want—need to—see. Sounds absolutely fascinating. The one thing I couldn’t figure out was whether or not Tarantino is going to direct too or just write and produce. I do kind of hope this doesn’t become his tenth movie though.
