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• JK Rowling releases free story The Ickabog to help kids in lockdown

  Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling has released a new story, a fairy tale called The Ickabog. To help kids survive the pandemic, ...

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• Just putting it out there: It's embarrassing to exist on LinkedIn

  I've never been big on social media, but there's one platform I absolutely can't stomach the courage to exist on: LinkedIn. ...

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• YouTube weather reports by David Lynch is the coronavirus surrealism we need

  Noted American filmmaker and surrealist David Lynch has resumed his weather forecast reports from a 10-year break. Thank ...

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  X Æ A-12 is already taken, but you can still ruin your child's life. This tool helps you figure out what your name would've ...

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• Relive every episode of 'The Office' — only recreated in Slack

  Can you imagine what it would've been if Dunder Mifflin had Slack? If Michael Scott was to fake-fire you in a public channel? If Jim was to impersonate Dwight by stealing his profile pic and handle? If this maggot Toby was to passive-aggressively warn you about PDA over DM? It ...

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• Japanese aquarium asks you to FaceTime its frightened eels

  A Tokyo aquarium has noticed the coronavirus is making its spotted garden eels more shy. It's asking for people to call the ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This surreal AR hologram of Israel's president is a meme in the making

  Unable to open his home to the people of Israel, President Rivlin wants to make an appearance at every household instead... ...

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• Coronavirus means no new emoji in 2021

  Thanks coronavirus: the Unicode Consortium revealed it's pushing its release of Unicode 14.0 -- and the emoji it would include ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This school teacher is using VR to teach maths in Half Life: Alyx

  Who said school has to suck? Meeet Charles Coomber — the teacher fighting coronavirus boredom by using VR to teach angle ...

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• This coronavirus toilet paper calculator knows if you'll survive the quarantine

  Thanks to the internet, there's a tool that will help you forecast the amount of toilet paper you'll need to last through ...

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• Porn sites have turned coronavirus into a viral marketing scheme — and it's working

  The coronavirus pandemic has put entire countries on lockdown — and porn companies are trying to turn this situation into ...

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• Pornhub is handing out free premium subscriptions to help Italy fight coronavirus

  The coronavirus hit Italy so hard, Pornhub wants to encourage citizens to stick to the quarantine... so it's giving them ...

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