On August 9th, 2025 with 56 comments
A professional trapper had one question about the wild pig he'd found in California. Why was its flesh blue?
The Los Angeles Times explains:
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On January 28th, 2024 with 120 comments
In Denver, Colorado, a pastor had a message for his congregation, reports CNN.
"After months of prayers and cues from God, he was going to start selling...
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On April 2nd, 2023 with 39 comments
Remember that entrepreneur planning an ostentatious NFT-based restaurant/members-only club in San Francisco? Seven months later it's still "an empty husk of...
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On October 30th, 2022 with 72 comments
Smartphones "have made it easier than ever to avoid interacting with the people in our immediate environment, writes New York City-based author Joe Keohane.
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On May 21st, 2022 with 58 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes:
Today sees an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of 1970s children's programming giants Sid & Marty...
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On May 7th, 2022 with 37 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: He was the co-publisher of the first popular digital culture magazine, MONDO 2000, from 1989–1993. Now as...
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On January 31st, 2022 with 110 comments
"The U.S. National Weather Service Miami-South Florida warned the public on Sunday that immobilised iguanas could fall out of trees," reports Reuters, "due to...
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On November 21st, 2021 with 30 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: This week Marvel released an epic three-minute trailer hyping December's releases of Spider-Man: No Way Home. ...
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On October 31st, 2021 with 72 comments
Today the iconic Bitcoin white paper "celebrates thirteen years of financial disruption," notes Cointelegraph, "after being first published on Oct. 31, 2008,...
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On September 26th, 2021 with 85 comments
"What if we told you there was a hamster who has been trading cryptocurrencies since June — and recently was doing better than Warren Buffett and the...
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On September 19th, 2021 with 130 comments
The 31st annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at a special ceremony on September 9th, announced the magazine responsible for the event, the Annals of Improbable...
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On May 1st, 2021 with 61 comments
"There are simply too many points of uncertainty for us to move forward with confidence right now," explains a FAQ addressing this year's cancellation for the...
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On April 18th, 2021 with 28 comments
Gizmodo reports:
The latest big name to get in on the NFT craze is former intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, who on Friday auctioned...
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On December 20th, 2020 with 43 comments
"Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money," Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday, and then followed it up with another tweet. "One Word: Doge."
"The tweet sent shares...
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On November 29th, 2020 with 73 comments
A Slashdot reader quotes CNN:
A tall, silver, shining metal monolith discovered in the desert in southeastern Utah — which prompted theories of alien...
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On November 1st, 2020 with 37 comments
Cointelegraph reports:
While many children dressed as ghosts, goblins, and witches last night may have been disappointed to find an inedible thin piece of...
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On August 22nd, 2020 with 55 comments
Slashdot reader #16,185 wrote regularly for the newsletter of a small-town computer users group. Now they've written an article for Ars Technica reminding...
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On August 9th, 2020 with 50 comments
"Computer user freedom is a matter of justice," argues a new video released Friday by the Free Software Foundation:
The University of Costumed Heroes is an...
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On March 8th, 2020 with 231 comments
"America is approaching one of its most contentious hours," writes the Phildadelphia Inquirer, "and officially, it's one that doesn't exist."
According to the...
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On December 8th, 2019 with 11 comments
The nonprofit Open Source Technology Improvement Fund connects open-source security projects with funding and logistical support. (Launched in 2015, the...
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On August 18th, 2019 with 87 comments
In just 16 days XKCD author Randall Munroe releases a new book titled How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. He's just released an...
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On July 22nd, 2019 with 189 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the New York Post:
The National Weather Service in Omaha, Nebraska, baked biscuits in a car Friday amid a major heat wave in the...
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On June 30th, 2019 with 80 comments
NPR notes today's "supercomputer-driven" weather modelling can crunch huge amounts of data to accurately forecast the weather a week in advance -- pointing out...
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On June 15th, 2019 with 61 comments
Since 2005 Randall Munroe has been the author/illustrator of the popular nerdy comic strip XKCD -- and he's now planning to publish "the world's least useful...
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On December 29th, 2018 with 62 comments
The CBC is marking the 20th anniversary of the notorious Hampsterdance web site with a 10,000-word oral history by arts reporter Leah Collins, promising "the...
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On October 13th, 2018 with 39 comments
There's now a giant, inflatable rat covered in crypto code across from the Federal Reserve. An anonymous reader quotes Fortune:
The bitcoin rat, first noted on...
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On December 16th, 2017 with 65 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes, "Some AI news items are amusing. This is one of those." ProKras reports:
What do you get when a predictive...
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On November 26th, 2017 with 189 comments
An anonymous reader quotes CryptoCoinsNews:
It should be no surprise that the elusive hunt for Satoshi, often referred to as the father of Bitcoin, has led to...
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On October 14th, 2017 with 205 comments
AmiMoJo writes: A startup in the Netherlands is developing the "Crowbar," a bird feeder that takes discarded cigarette butts as payment for dispensing food. A...
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On August 12th, 2017 with 35 comments
In 1989 Mondo 2000 magazine ran an editorial promising they'd cover "the leading edge in hyperculture...the latest in human/technological interactive...
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