5+ day, 13+ 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, 16+ 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…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (380+ words) Texas health officials set a schedule, then realized when the election was. The state's maternal mortality committee documented that its next biennial report would be published by September 1, 2026. They've moved that date, without giving a reason, to December. The new…...

6+ day, 23+ 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, 2+ day ago   (487+ words) I've painted rocks for years, off and on. It's less intimidating to paint on a rock than on a canvas, and it is easier to display rocks than canvases. You can just set the rock on a desk, table, or…...

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   (330+ words) LightInk is an e-ink wristwatch (compare to Watchy) that can run exclusively on solar power. A tribute to the solar watches of yore, the inexpensive ESP32-based design brings WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa and GPS to a tiny wearable device with a…...

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…...