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In spite of hundreds of childhood admonitions not to play with their food, some American servicemembers in Vietnam found it hard to resist when their still-gobbling Thanksgiving main course arrived in November, 1967.

A butcher demonstrates how to carve a turkey.

The franchise on the previous generation of consoles felt like an '80s Hollywood action movie, riddled with poor special effects. The PS4 and its hardware help the franchise enter into the modern era of moviemaking with realistic explosions, stunning lighting, richer textures, higher frames rate and better set staging. The game isn't challenging because of the lack of great puzzles. Because it's free with your PlayStation Plus membership, "Contrast" is worth a quick look until you open your holiday presents. Читать дальше...

A terrifying fight video and a particularly unique name = memes for days, apparently. The internet is a dark place.

The latest bombshell leak from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reveals that the NSA has been "gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches." The top-secret document says that evidence of "viewing sexually explicit material online" and "using explicit persuasive language when communicating... Читать дальше...

The Cincinnati Saints and the River City Legends, two soccer powerhouses in their own right, have formed a groundbreaking partnership to form the River City Saints as part of a combined mission to elevate their status even further toward the elite.  Read more here…

Take a moment away from your computer screen, and give some props to Alan Turing, the code-breaking badass who helped make all this possible. Turing has captured our imagination several times, in books and movies. Here's our potted history of the Father of Computer Science in pop culture.

Each fall, the final out is recorded, a new World Series winner is crowned, and baseball fans around the country come to grips with the fact that they won’t watch a professional game again for many months. Some can manage … Continue reading →