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The Whippet is a newsletter from McKinley Valentine of Melbourne, Australia. Each issue is a collection of marvelous miscellany. The most recent issue has a section about people who found out they have large portions of their brains missing despite ...

I experimented with vibe coding a text game, just to see what would happen. The service I used vibe coded the initial screen and conditions of a text game with hundreds of lines and a javascript-based 3D engine. It met the initial specification posed ...

Does that headline make you feel old? I'm sorry. It is, however, an undeniable fact: this month in 1995, the original PlayStation was released around the world. The date in my region was September 9th, but given that each region had a different ...

TL;DR: Make handling your files easy with a lifetime subscription of PDF Expert Premium Plan for just $97.97 (Reg. $139.99). You know you're getting old when your interests change. In my early twenties, I would wake up early and wait in line for ...

Friendship was really, really good, but it also made me depressed that we have yet to hear any more news on season 4 of Tim Robinson's brilliant sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave. After picking up distribution rights for Friendship, HBO ...

Last week, I reported on an elaborate ARG that seemed to be teasing upcoming content for already massive, engrossing RPG Cyberpunk 2077. At the time, the trail ended at an unlisted video on the Cyberpunk 2077 YouTube channel, but in the week since, a ...

On September 9, 2025, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Ron Johnson (R-WI), met for a congressional hearing focused on vaccines and vaccine policy titled, "How the Corruption of Science Has Impacted Public Perception and ...

Psygnosis made amazing games for 16-bit computers in the U.K., many of them optimized for the Commodore Amiga's powerful hardware and illustrated by famed fantasy artist Roger Dean. How an Owl ruled the world covers their rise to prominence from the ...

We just brought you news of this awesome performance of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". It's unlike any rendition of the rock anthem I've seen, because it was performed flashmob-style by thirty musicians and vocalists on a street in Paris, much to the ...

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