On December 19th, 2020 with 50 comments
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: At a McDonald's restaurant in Georgia, an angry customer in the drive-through lane threw his drink at the pregnant fast-food...
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On December 13th, 2020 with 58 comments
Nathan Myhrvold is a former CTO of Microsoft, co-founder of the equity company Intellectual Ventures, and the founder of "food innovation lab" Modernist...
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On December 15th, 2011 with 292 comments
theodp writes "If you've procrastinated on your Xmas shopping this year, fear not: Gawker's just published its tongue-in-cheek 2011 Top Picks for Gifts That...
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On December 12th, 2011 with 441 comments
K7DAN writes "North Korea warned South Korea on Sunday of 'unexpected consequences' if Seoul displays Christmas lights near the tense border, and vowed to...
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On December 8th, 2011 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Buckminster Fuller eat your heart out — LA-based design firm Scout Regalia has created a mail-order template for a geodesic...
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On December 22nd, 2010 with 170 comments
Have you always wished that Christmas classics were written in Klingon? If so, then a theater in Chicago has just the thing for you, "A Christmas Carol" in...
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On December 22nd, 2010 with 1 comments
Brooklynoid writes "Who said Geeks don't like to have fun with their gingerbread houses. These unique Gingerbread creations could have only come from the mind...
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On December 15th, 2010 with 3 comments
It appears the mustelids have joined the war on Christmas. A skunk has ruined $16k worth of toys collected by the city of Purcell, Oklahoma. The toys were part...
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On December 8th, 2010 with 3 comments
Caffe Boa in Tempe, Arizona is offering an all reindeer menu just in time for Christmas. From the article: "The menu begins with caribou tartare gilded with...
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On December 7th, 2010 with 110 comments
To combat vandalism and theft of their holiday displays, many churches and cities are turning to a technological answer. After one of their cows was stolen,...
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On September 29th, 2010 with 0 comments
Daniel Martz learned the hard way how dangerous it is to get sentenced by a judge during an election year. District Court Judge Nels Swandal, who is running...
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On November 20th, 2009 with 6 comments
Since 1954, the US Postal Service, with the help volunteers from the small Alaskan town of North Pole, have responded to thousands of letters addressed to...
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"The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it." -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
