This first-person action short Everywhere from Alex Schauer is all the more ominous because of the things it doesn't tell us. We don't know who is confronting our protagonist here, but she comes across as some kind of Terminator or something.

What is she, the mysterious woman in leather pants? A robot? A witch? A robot-witch? Is she even real or is this all just a dream? Am I dreaming?
These are all questions we have to answer for ourselves.

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Every state has numerous places that will give you bad vibes, whether from its sad history, gloomy looks, or scary legends. The creepiest have all three, plus the experiences of others who have visited and tell of supernatural observations. These places include houses, hotels, hospitals, prisons, bridges, toads, cemeteries, and even a tree. That would be the Devil's Tree in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Out of context, the tree’s silhouette alone is enough to inspire nightmares: a warped, half-dead oak looming in the middle of a lonely field, with dozens of ax marks lining its trunk. Then there’s the gruesome history. A purported meeting place for the KKK, notorious suicide site, and rumored gateway to the depths of hell, the Devil’s Tree is infamous among locals and has evolved into a chilling tourist attraction. Legend has it, anyone who harms the tree will suffer swift and violent retribution—so naturally, it has become a tradition for ballsy teens across the Garden State to pee on its trunk. But do so at your own risk—you might just lose your life (or your manhood) to the tree's sinister curse. Also, that's just unsanitary. —AS-N

Or consider the Wyoming Frontier Prison in Rawlins.

Wyoming’s first state penitentiary was about as miserable as you’d expect a stone prison on a cold, whistling prairie to be. It didn’t have hot water until 1978. It did have something called the “punishment pole,” to which prisoners were handcuffed, then whipped with rubber hoses. It’s been closed since 1981, but guided tours allow you to get up close and personal with the “death house” (which housed inmates on death row), the gas chamber, and offices left exactly as they were. October is the best time to visit, when the prison hosts midnight tours in the days leading up to Halloween. —MM

You may think you know the creepiest place in your own state, but reading through the list, I was surprised that Georgia's was not in Savannah, and Kentucky's was not Waverly Hills Sanatorium, so you are liable to read about places you haven't heard of before. And the list has bonus links to other notable haunted sites. Read up on a possible future road trip to some really creepy places at Thrillist. -via Digg

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For one, you can help the people in need. In a new research from Canada, researchers discovered that simply giving money to people in need made them spend fewer nights at a shelter, experienced fewer days without enough food, and secured stable housing quicker than those who weren’t given anything more than a workshop. The research was a year-long project, as Gizmodo details:

Beginning in spring 2018, the project recruited 115 individuals who had recently experienced homelessness (an average six months spent homeless). Of these, 50 people received the cash payment as well as training from a workshop on goal setting and personal planning; half were also offered additional life skills coaching. The no-cash group was split into two, with one group receiving the workshop and coaching and the other none. All participants, however, were given access to a savings account if they didn’t have one already. They were also all given questionnaires to fill out one, three, six and 12 months later, and completed an open-ended interview six and 12 months in.

In the first month alone, according to the report, people given the cash were able to cut their days living unhoused from 77 percent to 49 percent, compared to their recent baseline; while those without the payment actually increased their days of homelessness in the first month. On average, it took about three months for cash recipients to find stable housing, compared to the average 5 months it took everyone else.

Moreover, the cash group cut down their level of food insecurity—defined as having trouble eating three meals a day–from 70% to 33% in the first month, and were able to avoid food insecurity more than the control group throughout the year. On average, the group also saved $1,000 of the original payment by the end of the 12 month period, and there was an 39% decrease in the reported use of alcohol, cigarettes, and other drugs in the cash group as well.

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Brands go the extra mile to send invitations for their runway shows. It’s no longer just a beautiful enveloped invitation; some brands include other goodies. Take for example, Gucci. For its July presentation, the luxury brand sent out boxes of organic, locally sourced fruits and vegetables to a select number of fashion-industry professionals and people who would see the collection in person. This instance was an early example of brands finding wild and creative ways to send show invites. The Cut lists the best (and frankly, the wildest) show invites brands have sent for its latest fashion shows: 

When New York Fashion Week began in March, more packages started going out. In addition to images and information about the collection, some of them included fabric swatches and hardware, which was helpful in bringing the clothes to life while looking at two-dimensional images.

During Paris Fashion Week, brands got a little more intellectual, a little more high-concept. Thom Browne sent a puzzle, for example, which instantly stumped me. Miu Miu sent a notepad and pencil. MM6 Maison Margiela sent — I’m not even kidding — a box with an empty tin can and string in it, with instructions like: “Hold the tin can to your ear and listen to the sea … Put the can on your head. Make it a cute hat … Name it.” My roommate, not a fashion person, was especially perplexed by this one.

The invite you’ve probably seen the most on social media is the Loewe “show on the wall.” It followed the brand’s “show in a box,” which was sent out for its men’s collection over the summer, and included paper dolls, plus a vinyl record that played the sounds of the brand’s Spanish factory. The “show on the wall,” meanwhile, came with a roll of wallpaper designed by Anthea Hamilton; a Loewe-branded paintbrush, scissors, and tool bag; and some scented ceramic, in case you actually wanted to plaster it all over your home. (Some people actually did.)

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Don’t worry, it’s not a newly-found cult or something. Dark academia is a trend that lets Internet users post photos and videos that romanticise passion for art and knowledge. It’s an aesthetic, so to speak. Some who love the dark academia aesthetic posts photos of themselves in corduroy, plaids, tweeds (the peak academic fashion, alright), as Refinery 29 details: 

Although the origins of dark academia remain unclear, its genesis appears to be a heady mixture of a few key cultural works. Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History is the trend’s foundational text but films like Dead Poets Society (1989) and Kill Your Darlings (2013) also serve as essential influences. Like the books and films that inspired it, dark academia draws an idealised version of campus life, typically at a hallowed and historic university.

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For the music video for "Who Dat" by Emmit Fenn, Patrick Jean created a dancing pigeon who struts through the streets like the proudest peacock. His footwork gets pretty fancy after the two minute mark! -via Everlasting Blort

It's a story we've all read in the news at one time or another: an unmarried young woman, not knowing she was pregnant, went to the toilet and gave birth. Frightened, she hid the baby and went about her business. The body was found, and the young woman was arrested. This was the story of Anna Greene of Oxfordshire in the year 1650. Despite testimony from midwives that the infant was premature and stillborn, Anne was convicted of infanticide. She was hanged on December 14.

At her own request, several of her friends pulled Anne’s legs as she hung to hasten her death. A soldier assisted by hitting her several times with the butt of his musket. After thirty minutes or so, the Sheriff pronounced her dead and her body was cut down, placed in a coffin, and taken to a local house to await dissection.

In this period, local by-laws stipulated that the body of any person executed within twenty-one miles of Oxford became the property of the University’s Reader in Anatomy. When, however, the University physicians turned up to prepare the body for dissection (this too was to be done in front of a crowd, albeit a smaller one, that included Anne’s family and friends), someone heard a sound in Anne’s throat. Her pulse was checked and she was found to be alive, just.

While others took pains to avoid being the subject of an anatomy class, it saved Anne's life. But what about her conviction? Read the story of Anne Greene at These Islands.  -via Strange Company

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There are plenty of fossil footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico, human and animal alike. What is astonishing is how scientists have identified one individual's path and what happened along the way, all from the footprints left behind.  

The footprints were spotted in a dried-up lakebed known as a playa, which contains literally hundreds of thousands of footprints dating from the end of the last ice age (about 11,550 years ago) to sometime before about 13,000 years ago.

Unlike many other known footprint trackways, this one is remarkable for its length – over at least 1.5km – and straightness. This individual did not deviate from their course. But what is even more remarkable is that they followed their own trackway home again a few hours later.

Each track tells a story: a slip here, a stretch there to avoid a puddle. The ground was wet and slick with mud and they were walking at speed, which would have been exhausting. We estimate that they were walking at over 1.7 metres per second – a comfortable walking speed is about 1.2 to 1.5 metres per second on a flat dry surface. The tracks are quite small and were most likely made by a woman, or possibly an adolescent male.

But that's just the beginning. This person was carrying a child, probably around three years old, who was set down occasionally and then picked back up. A sloth and a mammoth came by, but only the sloth noticed a human had been there. We don't know the whole story, but what scientists have found is quite amazing, and you can read about it at The Conversation. -via Damn Interesting

We all know the pain of breaking your earphones. We miss the tranquility that music brings us when we lack earphones. Imagine losing the more expensive version of regular earphones, though. With how easy AirPods can fall off our ears, London-based jewelry designer Suhani Parekh has created earrings that are designed to attach to AirPods to stop them falling out of wearers’ ears, as Cult Of Mac details: 

“The earrings fit on as regular earrings do, with a back and post,” Parekh told Cult of Mac. “They’ve been designed so you can slip your AirPods in and out as you use them through the day without the need to take the earrings off.”

Parekh said that the concept was to create earrings that would solve a real problem (stop AirPods falling out), but also look stylish without the need for AirPods. They come in three different styles: Pebble Pods, Minimal/Active Tall Pods and Minimal/Active Tiny Pods. Prices range from $40 to $100, depending on the style you choose.

“The Pebble Pods are handcrafted in sterling silver and plated in 22k gold,” Parekh said. “There’s one for every occasion — from the sculptural Pebble Pods that make a serious style statement to the minimal Active wear options perfect for a busy day at work, a long run or an intense workout at the gym.”

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Tom BetGeorge (previously at Neatorama) has unveiled his Halloween light show for 2020. It's set to the song "Enter Sandman" from Metallica. This is for BetGeorge's own home; he also does light shows for hire through his company Magical Light Shows. His personal show is a fundraiser for McHenry House, his local homeless shelter. -via Laughing Squid

Sometimes a little censorship can do wonders. The Seed Company by EW Gaze put a post about their sweet Walla Walla onions seeds on Facebook, and a week later found the ad flagged for products with "overtly sexualized positioning." Store manager Jackson McLean could hardly believe it, and finally decided that someone somewhere might have thought the onions were too round or something. He contacted Facebook and found it was no "someone," it was just an algorithm that was overstimulated by the onions.  

"We use automated technology to keep nudity off our apps, but sometimes it doesn't know a Walla Walla onion from a, well, you know," Facebook Canada's head of communications, Meg Sinclair, told BBC.

"We restored the ad and are sorry for the business's trouble."

The sexy onions are not only back on Facebook, but they've made the company go viral. Read more about the incident at BBC News. -via Digg 

Almost 22 years after the release of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, a new game has been added to the numbered Crash games — Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. But what about the other Crash games? Are they non-canon? Canadian Guy Eh discusses this matter in this video. Although I guess this won’t matter if you enjoyed all Crash games.

Well, what do you think?

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You have probably seen pictures or videos of the PS5 in news sites and on video-sharing platforms. But what is usually shown in these videos is the PS5’s front, and you might be wondering how the video game console looks from the back. If you still are reading up to this point, then I think that you really are interested in looking at the PS5’s butt. So, what does it look like? Well, it looks like the butt that you’d expect from an electronic gadget.

What do you want me to say about it? It's the back of a console. It has two USB ports, an HDMI port, an Ethernet port, and a power connector. It also looks like there's plenty of ventilation so that the PS5 can run quietly, something that a number of recent previews have already confirmed to be the case.

Viewing the console from the back also gives us an entirely new perspective on the console's unusual shape...

And to that, I agree.

Well, what do you think?

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This may look like a Halloween fright wig, but it's really a caterpillar called a puss caterpillar. If you see one, don't touch it! That fur is nothing to trifle with. And they are surprisingly common in Virginia this year.

Puss caterpillars’ fuzz hides spines filled with poison. It’s the most poisonous caterpillar found in the U.S., and its sting can cause nausea, vomiting, swelling and itching, and feelings of anxiety. Not pleasant, to say the least. In recent weeks, Virginia residents have unfortunately had a chance to experience this. A woman in the Richmond area touched one and said it felt like a “scorching-hot knife passing through the outside of my calf.” She was admitted to the emergency room to treat the sting. This is Virginia’s second outbreak of weird bugs this year. Cicadas overran the state this summer, buzzing up a storm.

Read more about the puss caterpillar at Gizmodo.

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Do you want to spice up your daily routine? Try eating some glass shards! Okay, not actual glass shards (I mean, eating actual glass shards would spice up your life, but that’ll be the last moment of your life); edible glass shards. Watch BORE.D’s RPG-esque tutorial on how to cook some edible glass shards.