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Monday June 24, 2019. 02:00 PM
If you haven't seen them already, do check out Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts. They're delightfully retro and great under-five-minute escapes. The latest one, Our Floating Dreams, has Mickey and Minnie speaking Thai! (Likecool)
Looking for a new tablet? If you haven't upgraded in a while, it might be time to check out the latest iPad Pro for two very good reasons. First, the 2018 model is a real workhorse. The 12X Bionic chip processor means it can handle any task you set out for it, and still have ...
One minute you're rowing, the next you stop and a humpback whale is breaching right in front of you! That's what happened off the coast of Rio de Janeiro last week. Anyone speak Portuguese? I think I heard a 'Ai meu Deus!' (Oh my God!) which sounds about right. (Geekologie)
On the whole, technology has been good to me. In the mid-1990s, I was able to connect with a music magazine in Ireland--my first paying writing gig--via Hotmail. Over two decades later, I'm still writing for them. in 2009, Twitter connected me with folks who became good...
The wonderful comedienne, Tig Notaro, doesn't watch a lot of TV or films and doesn't really keep up with popular culture. As a result, she doesn't recognize celebrities. She's turned this liability(?) into a fun show, called Under A Rock with Tig Notaro. Well-known celebs...
Sunday June 23, 2019. 05:22 PM
The Trump #taxscam was supposed to create jobs by handing $1 trillion in cuts to multinational corporations and one percenters, who, we were promised, would put that money into R&D, business development, and other job-creating initiatives. Instead, more than $800b of the...
Volume One of Man-Eaters, Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk's scathing, hilarious, brilliant comic about girls who turn into man-eating werepanthers when they get their periods, is the best comic I read in 2019, and Volume Two, just published by Image comics, continues the...
I was already a Terry Pratchett fan and a Neil Gaiman fan in 1990, when their comedic novel Good Omens showed up in the bookstore I worked at, and I dibsed it, took it home over the weekend, read it in huge gulps, and wrote an enthusiastic review on a 3x5 card that I tacked...
You want wireless earbuds to make an impact on your mood and workout, not the environment. If that's the case, we've got a new contender for AirPod market share: Brio Phantom X7 True Wireless Earbuds. The features on these tiny, comfortable buds are impressive even without...
Saturday June 22, 2019. 06:37 PM
In the New York Times, Kenneth Chang reports that NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has detected high amounts of methane, a gas that is commonly a signature of life. From the NYT: “Given this surprising result, we’ve reorganized the weekend to run a follow-up...
Last night, I went to see Public Domain: The Musical at the Actor's Company Theater in West Hollywood. I had no idea what to expect, but I was prepared for the worst (I've been to shows at fringe festivals where I would have walked out in the first five minutes, except I was ...
Oregon's legislature is about to vote on a piece of climate change cap-and-trade legislation that the Democratic majority are likely to win, so to avoid the vote, 12 Oregon state senators have gone into hiding, thus depriving the senate of the necessary quorum. Under state ...
We don't ask for much out of our charging cables: Juice up our phone, do it fast and don't break. It's supposed to be simple, but keeping your phone plugged in for the night - as most of us do - can actually degrade the life of your battery by overheating it. That's why one...
Friday June 21, 2019. 11:40 PM
My guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week is Stephen Wolfram. Stephen is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; he's the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades,...
The Raspberry Pi Zero W is an itty-bitty wireless Linux computer. This kit ($26.99 on Amazon) contains almost everything you need to run it, including a case, power supply, and adapter cables. You need to supply your own microSD card, HDMI monitor, keyboard and mouse. I'm...
“I spent the last few months completely renovating and overhauling a 1971 #boler,” says IMGURian bteliot. This is an amazing image thread that breaks it all down, and really makes me want to fix up one of these babies and get on the road myself. Here's the 'Before.' ...
Here are the 10 U.S. cities where ICE, CBP, DHS, and other agencies plan to execute mass raids. Immigration agents will target Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, and San Francisco this weekend, congressional and...
Another woman has come forward to say that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her before he became president of the United States. E. Jean Carroll's story broke today, Friday, June 21, 2019. She accuses Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s. Carroll is a writer and...
Holy chemtrails! Monsignor Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya, Catholic bishop of Buenaventura, Colombia, plans to drop holy water across the city to exorcise its demons. Apparently there have been 51 murders in just five months and the bishop wants to help the best way he...
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