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• Relive the glory days of Windows 2000 in the comfort of a browser window

  Back in the year 2000 (can you believe that was 18 years ago?), there were two big versions of Windows to choose from. While Microsoft built the disastrous Window ME for consumers - which was arguably even worse than Vista - all the cool kids knew Windows 2000 was what you really ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Foreign artist reimagines US currency

  In terms of design, paper currency in the United States hasn't changed much in the past hundred years. There have been updates and additional flourishes -- not to mention security measures -- but overall, it's essentially the same set of bills circulated since 1913. 1913 was a ...

  • Bryan Clark

• There's zero chance Elon Musk tricks me into covering the Tesla surfboard

  Elon Musk is at it again. For a very limited time today Tesla listed a "Limited Edition Tesla Surfboard" at its online shop. It would have set you back a cool $1,500 if you were able to snag one before the limited run of 200 sold out. Now they're going for up to $5,000 on eBay. But ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Teen burglar wakes up California couple, asks to use their Wi-Fi

  A couple of 60-somethings in Palo Alto awoke to quite a surprise on Sunday night: a masked intruder standing in their bedroom. While any number of things could have gone wrong at this point, the intruder actually turned out to be rather chill, as masked bandits go, and just asked ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Fans pay homage to Drake by hurling themselves from moving cars

  Remember the cinnamon challenge? Unknowing people on YouTube grabbed a teaspoonful of cinnamon and chugged it down before coughing up clouds of dust. It was stupid, but sometimes chuckle-worthy. Those were simpler times. But as things often do, they escalated from there. There ...

  • Bryan Clark

• When life gives you lemons, make a video of it rolling down a hill and get 4M views on Twitter

  When life handed Mike Saskasegawa a lemon, he did what anyone would do: made a video of it rolling down a hill. For context, Mike was walking home from after a run and saw a lemon rolling down a hill. He grabbed his smartphone and began to film it as it continued its journey down ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Teen requires surgery to remove knotted USB cable from penis

  I think it's fair to say that few of us have made decisions we didn't later come to regret. But personally, I can proudly say that inserting a USB cable into my urethra was never one of them. An unnamed (thankfully for him) 13-year-old from China's Heilongjiang province was hospitalized ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Digital Artist painstakingly recreates Childish Gambino's 'This is America' on an ancient Macintosh SE

  As music videos go, Childish Gambino's "This is America" is an instant classic. The retired alter ego of actor Donald Glover really nailed the finer points of American social commentary, offering an behind-the-curtain view of what it's like to live in the United States more than ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Watch: Apple Store heist nets thieves over $27k in MacBooks and iPhones

  A group of four seemingly unarmed bandits made off with more than $27,000 worth of Apple merchandise in just seconds. After ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Video

  Nostalgiasm: YouTuber reimagines Windows 95 as a mobile OS

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Crack this 200-year-old cipher and claim your $60M reward

  Think you can solve a mystery that's been baffling researchers and treasure hunters for over two hundred years? If you do ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Sega wants to crowdfund a Sonic the Hedgehog toaster

  I don't remember ever stumbling down the stairs for breakfast and thinking, "this toast could really use a burned-in representation ...

  • Bryan Clark