Новости за 22.04.2024

A bipartisan pair of California lawmakers want to do away with the obnoxious CLEAR line-cutting racket that lets the wealthy buy their way to the front, reports Politico.

Surprise, surprise. After another long night of rage-posting, Donald Trump reportedly again nodded off this morning just one hour after entering the courtroom.

Lauren Witzke is a former drug runner for Mexican cartels turned beloved MAGA conspiracy theorist. Like Mike Lindell, Witzke traded her addiction to drugs for an addiction to conspiracy theories and hateful religious extremism, running as the Republican nominee for Senate in Delaware in 2020. — Read the rest

Marjorie Taylor Greene continues her fierce diatribe against Speaker Mike Johnson and hence her own party, telling Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast that Republican voters are "absolutely done" with the GOP.

I have been waiting for so many things in this movie, like the OG Wolverine costume and hair. And Madonna's Like a Prayer, for some reason. But no cocaine because that's the one thing [Kevin] Feige said they can't do. The R rating lets Wolverine really be Wolverine. — Read the rest

Judge Engoron closed the loopholes and removed opportunities that Donald Trump's folks built to disappear the collateral and approved the $175 million bond.

Anti-vax legislation by New Hampshire Republicans has cleared one house and appears headed for the governor's desk.

Aggressively incurious charlatan Tucker Carlson recently went on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast to hold forth on the topic of evolution.

Eighty-two years ago, Jane Moursund was given a signed Walt Disney copy of Snow White. Today, the book is estimated to be worth ten thousand dollars.

Donald Trump had a rough night, pity-posting about how life hasn't been fair for the corrupt billionaire.

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Hookup app Grindr is accused of revealing users' HIV status in a lawsuit filed in London's High Court. The lawsuit claims that user data was shared with Grindr's advertisers via "covert tracking technology," identifies more than 650 claimants, and claims thousands of users were affected. — Read the rest

Equinox is a perfectly-made free web game—a very short one, to show off Little Workshop's skills—made with three.js and a custom game engine.

Despite bribing San Francisco city officials for 18 years and being convicted of corruption, developer Sia Tahbazof, 73, was given only probation by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston. He was "fined" $75,000, though, a good example of the old adage that to the rich, the fine is a price. — Read the rest

The first model for the original Star Trek (1966-1969) spaceship, the Enterprise, had been missing since 1979, but recently appeared on an eBay listing. Fans and experts immediately noticed, and once it was authenticated as genuine, was returned to the son of the Gene Roddenberry, the show's creator. — Read the rest

Zilog's Z80 was a lynchpin of the home computer revolution. The first two 8-bit machines I owned, the ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC, both had one. The versatile chip was a regular co-processor in the 16-bit era, and enjoyed a long golden afternoon as a low-power CPU with an instruction set everyone and their gran knows by heart. — Read the rest

This father and son recreate Indiana Jones' iconic boulder chase scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I finally got my hands on the elusive Trader Joe's frozen kimbap that exploded in popularity last fall after folks couldn't stop praising it on social media. Apparently, the hype was so extreme that folks were stocking up and even causing a ruckus at some stores. — Read the rest

Say happy birthday to four-year-old miniature dachshund Willow! I've been watching the videos of Willow that her human, Tray, has been posting on social media, and I can't stop laughing. 

This clever bird doesn't play around when it comes to stirring coffee—or at least try to. Watch him grab a metal spoon in his beak and mix it up with great passion. 

It takes years and years of practice and refinement to really nail a simple brush drawing. The trick is in minimal, controlled marks and it's waaaay harder than it looks. Watercolor and ink paintings alike are dependent on confidence and fine motor control. — Read the rest

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