5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (190+ words) More about Dolly Parton lookalikes: Boing Boing covered a much larger version of the same event in 2023, when more than 1,100 people gathered in Listowel, Ireland, to dress as Dolly Parton. Guinness World Records credited 959 of them toward the official record…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (298+ words) A former Air Force engineer named John Draper used the whistle to make free phone calls and was the subject of a 1971 article in Esquire magazine. He was subsequently caught and arrested based on the publicity from the article and…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (350+ words) Years of sunlight can do more than fade a sign. Ultraviolet radiation breaks down pigments and the materials that hold paint together, causing colors to fade, crack, and peel away. When that happens unevenly, parts of the lettering can survive…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (445+ words) Officials have shared an image demonstrating what the threatening reel could look like. [Assumption Parish] Sheriff [Leland] Falcon stresses that this attached image was created by the sheriff's office strictly as an example and is not an actual threat that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (274+ words) Today in "things I never thought I would type:" Refrigeration units in multiple military commissaries across the United States may have been hacked. A Defense Department official told Military Times that there was "a possible refrigeration disruption at some Defense…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (466+ words) Florida's Department of Transportation has revoked permits for Flock surveillance cameras installed on state roads, effectively ordering local law enforcement to remove those in their jurisdictions within 30 days. In a memo sent to agencies statewide, FDOT cited widespread reports of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (392+ words) Open Waters is a game in development designed to induce thalassophobia: the intense and supposedly irrational fear of large bodies of water. The teaser trailer had me clenched within seconds and that was before that thing even showed up. You…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (417+ words) A Star Wars: The Phantom Menace-cobranded Pepsi vending machine somehow survived decades outside a Pittsburgh fire station to become an ironic tourist attraction. Pepsi, alert to its growing fame, donated $10,000 to the firefighters who kept it stocked. But it disappeared…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (423+ words) A Baltimore woman says that her father's nurse took the deed to his home before his death and only told her he had died after she drove to South Carolina to find out why he wasn't responding to calls. Robert…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (329+ words) MIT's building that houses its Department of Chemistry was shut down on August 27 after a grad student "self-reported to a local emergency room and claimed to have synthesized dimethyl mercury," according to MIT Emergency Management. MIT says the building has…...