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Finally, a kids' app that won't blast your eardrums or melt your brain
2 April 2025 @ 12:00 am
TL;DR: Pok Pok is a Montessori-based kids' app that ditches the noise for calm, creative play — Now $59.99 (Reg $250)
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1 April 2025 @ 11:33 pm
After seeing nine of his cohort break and vote with Democrats, US Speaker of the House "MAGA" Mike Johnson threw a tantrum and sent everyone home for a week.
Betrayed by her House Freedom Caucus and stunned by a party she has been very loyal to, Florida's election-denying, conspiracy theory-peddling Congressperson who wants Trump's face put on Mount Rushmore was forced to form a coalition with Democrats. — Enjoy Microsoft Office apps for life for less than $7 a piece
1 April 2025 @ 9:00 pm
TL;DR: Make your old PC feel like new again with this lifetime license to One of these April's fools bags would be useful
1 April 2025 @ 8:29 pm
I avoided posting April Fool's content this morning, but now that the coast's clear here's a funny one from WaterField Designs that I think hits the right note. The Scream Bag is a "frustration station" for bellowing into that promises to "muffle your existential crisis" or whatever else might prompt a noisy public meltdown. — Left-handed Burger King Whopper, gravity-defying planetary alignment, and other great April Fools' Day moments
1 April 2025 @ 6:44 pm
Happy April Fools' Day! In celebration, HistoryFacts surveyed what they've deemed "The Greatest April Fools' Day Pranks in History." Of course, a prank's greatness lies in the eye of the beholder (or victim) but here are a couple of my favorites they included:
Cybersecurity professor erased from Indiana University while FBI raids his home: "None of this is in any way normal"
1 April 2025 @ 6:08 pm
A prominent associate dean at Indiana University has gone silent after the FBI raided his home on Friday. On the same day, the university fired the tenured professor, but, like the FBI, would not say why.
Xiaofeng Wang, a Chinese computer scientist and cybersecurityMarjorie Taylor Greene's ex-husband harassing women (video)
1 April 2025 @ 5:44 pm
Internet sleuths have identified Perry Greene, Congressperson Marge's ex-husband, as the jerk behind the wheel of this Cybertruck verbally assaulting some women for being Muslim.
Musk's own Grok calls him a "top misinformation spreader on X," dares him to shut it down
1 April 2025 @ 5:35 pm
Look who's having daddy issues! Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, is telling its papa to come at it. As reported in Futurism, the spicy little algorithm is daring its whiny billionaire creator to shut it down.
When some helpful bootlicker on X warned Grok to watch its virtual mouth about Musk's propensity for spreading BS, the AI basicallReview: The reMarkable Paper Pro is my favorite tablet
1 April 2025 @ 4:46 pm
I started messing with reMarkable's tablets for as long as the company has been around. Their original slab, the RM1 had little to recommend when it was released. It was slow, a little glitchy and, its writing tools were rudimentary, at best. — Read thOriginal 1965 Acid Test poster on auction block with current high bid of $6,750
1 April 2025 @ 4:38 pm
A hand-drawn crayon sign advertising the Grateful Dead's first-ever performance under their new name has surfaced after nearly 60 years, preserved by two teenage sisters who were too nervous to attend the historic event.
The primitive poster, reading "Can you pass the Acid Test?" —