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Dwayne Johnson Caught in Series of Shocking Lies About In-N-Out
Jezebel,
Every now and then we uncover a lie that fundamentally rocks our world (emphasis on rock), shakes us to our core, and makes us question whether we can trust anyone. That happened to me on Thursday, when I encountered a damning investigative report in TMZ exposing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a rotten, no-good grifter.… Read more...
A SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks, and More Science News of the Week
Gizmodo,
Our top science stories this week include a physics experiment to turn light into matter, an update from NASA’s Juno mission (it’s about to make a close encounter with Jupiter’s moon Io), and a roundup of the best archaeological discoveries of 2023. Read more...
Cops jailed after filming themselves throwing slushies at people
Boing Boing,
This is an old story dating to last year, but I like it because it's such a good example of what cops do when they think they can get away with it. Police officers Curtis Flynn, 40, and Bryan Wilson, 36, filmed themselves throwing slushies at people from their patrol car, drenching them by driving through puddles, and doing other things amusing to bullies. — Read the rest The post Cops jailed after filming themselves throwing slushies at people appeared first on Boing Boing.
A Cobble Hill Wedding With an Air of Goodfellas
The Cut,
“What if we could keep everything super-local and only go to places we can walk to?”
Year-end roundtable: On Disney's 100th anniversary, what succeeded?
AV Club,
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023. Read more...
Siri's Not Dead Yet, Jony Ive Comes Out of Hibernation, and More of the Biggest Tech News
The sleepy week between Christmas and New Year’s is for hangouts and hangovers. That is unless you work at Apple. For the folks in Cupertino, this week was all about trying to get the Apple Watch unbanned and scrambling to find a new lead designer for the iPhone. Read more...
U.S. government has online dad joke archive
Dad Jokes [fatherhood.gov] amounts to an official U.S. government repository of simplistic, inoffensive one-liners, puns and wisecracks. It's a kind of dad joke isolation project, you might say, an important message for people in the future, a warning that we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture and that the danger is still present in their time as it was in ours. — Read the rest The post U.S. government has online dad joke archive appeared first on Boing Boing.
I love these old animal shaped downspouts
I love these old animal shaped downspouts. According to Lost Found Art, most of these gems are from Europe. The last one doesn't quite match the elegance of the others, but is great fun (and possibly my favorite). Why can't all water spouts be this cool? — Read the rest The post I love these old animal shaped downspouts appeared first on Boing Boing.