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Los Angeles Angels Double-A affiliate to rebrand as the Rocket City Trash Pandas

The internet is a mostly terrible place teeming with mostly terrible things. But every now and then it produces something of such lasting value that it single-handedly justifies its own existence for at least another couple of months. Enter the Rocket City Trash Pandas (formerly the Mobile BayBears), a Double-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels who, in advance of their upcoming relocation to Madison, Alabama, decided to turn to the worldwide web for help renaming their team. For once, it did not disappoint.
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“Trash Pandas”—a derogatory term for raccoons, in case you're wondering what the hell north Alabama and pandas have in common—beat out a host of other very minor league name options, including the Comet Jockeys, Space Chimps, Moon Possums, and ThunderSharks, with a whopping 44.75% percent of the 28,000-respondent vote. Rocket City was also selected as the regional identifier over a less competitive field including “North ..

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Xbox launches greaseproof controller, which humanity has somehow survived this long without

Golf courses are delivering cheeseburgers by drone. Sex bot uprisings are a genuine concern. You're reading this on a tiny flat planet in the palm of your hand. Humanity has ground many a technological milestone into dust over the course of the last decade, but none greater than this:
What you see before you is the world's first totally greaseproof Xbox controller—a triumph of ingenuity and literal elbow grease from humanity's preeminent maker of grown-up things for children and childish things for grown ups. Released by Xbox Australia in conjunction with the full console debut of PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds (or PUBG for the ITK), the “Greaseproof 1.0” sports PUBG's commando color scheme and is hand laminated with grease, scratch, and water resistant urethane. Each of the 200 editions in existence are personally numbered and celebrate PUBG's “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” slogan by being able to withstand an onslaught of KFC takeout.
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Xbox launches greaseproof controller, which humanity has somehow survived this long without

Golf courses are delivering cheeseburgers by drone. Sex bot uprisings are a genuine concern. You're reading this on a tiny flat planet in the palm of your hand. Humanity has ground many a technological milestone into dust over the course of the last decade, but none greater than this:
What you see before you is the world's first totally greaseproof Xbox controller—a triumph of ingenuity and literal elbow grease from humanity's preeminent maker of grown-up things for children and childish things for grown ups. Released by Xbox Australia in conjunction with the full console debut of PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds (or PUBG for the ITK), the “Greaseproof 1.0” sports PUBG's commando color scheme and is hand laminated with grease, scratch, and water resistant urethane. Each of the 200 editions in existence are personally numbered and celebrate PUBG's “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” slogan by being able to withstand an onslaught of KFC takeout.
If you want to claim ..

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Long drive champ Maurice Allen dusts off his Ric Flair impression for an encore

Last year, Maurice Allen almost literally exploded onto the long drive scene with a combination of dog-leg devouring power and a larger-than-life personality that just so happened to include a pretty spot-on Ric Flair impression. In what seemed like no time, Allen had racked up three wins and rocketed to the top of the men's World Long Drive rankings. All he was missing was that coveted Volvik World Long Drive belt, which he fianlly, triumphantly claimed on Wednesday night, toppling Justin Moose with a 393-yard planet destroyer in the finals.
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But you know what, we're burying the lead here. You came here to watch Allen go full Nature Boy and watch Allen go full Nature Boy you shall. SOUND UP:
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Amazing. Someone get this man a lozenge, please. As incredible as all of that is, however, it's also going to get played out pretty fast, especially if Allen keeps winning. Soon enough, Allen may need to update the ol' monologue,..

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Because we’re living in the future, you can now have food delivered by drone on a golf course

For all of the elements of the golf experience still leaving us wanting—long waits on tees, carts-only facilities, middle-aged men in flat-brim hats—we're not sure we considered the dire need for a cheeseburger in the middle of the fifth fairway. Someone apparently did, however, because a North Dakota golf course has introduced a system in which golfers can have food delivered to them on the golf course via drone.
According to a CNN report, golfers at King's Walk Golf Course in Grand Forks, N.D., will soon be able to have food delivered to them by drone for just $3, perhaps cutting down on awkward byplay with cart girls in the process. Here's a brief video overview of the experience.
This was perhaps an inevitability given that Amazon has already been dabbling in the delivery-by-drone business. And while North Dakota might seem like a random spot to introduce it in golf, it's actually an area well versed in drone technology thanks to a local Air Force base and the n..

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