There I Ruined It provides a fantastic mashup of John Denver singing a Country Roads/War Pigs rendition.

In the early days, the internet was a series of tubes used to sell t-shirts, online banking and spread porn to the masses. Now, we share videos of AI singing. — Read the rest

There I Ruined It takes two disparate sources and makes them harmonize like the Bene Gesserit power of "the Voice". When asked on earlier if There I Ruined It produced music professionally, the following answer was posted:

Elizabeth Holmes can't stop innovating, even in prison — just ask her about the lactation rooms she created at the Federal Prison Camp she's in. The convicted Theranos fraudster, speaking to People magazine, wants everyone to know she's a prison reform hero while simultaneously describing her incarceration as "hell and torture." — Read the rest

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You did it! You created a presentation for a client that your manager just gave you the day before, and it's time to turn it into a PDF so you can send it to them to review. — Read the rest

I was taken aback last week when Jerry Seinfeld, promoting his new movie "Unfrosted," said in an interview with The New Yorker's David Remnick that the leftist and P.C. culture has ruined comedy.

Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it.

A janitor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute became frustrated with the "annoying alarms" from a laboratory freezer so he reset the circuit breakers in an attempt to fix the issue. Unfortunately, he inadvertently turned the power off. The freezer thawed, ruining samples from 20 years of biochemical research. — Read the rest

The fly-on-the-wall details of Google allowing Pinterest to build a $75bn business parasitising Google Images is an untold story I'd love to hear. In the meantime, Chris Stokel-Walker's satisfying retelling of what happened will suffice: How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet. — Read the rest

Even if you hate the outcome, you have to appreciate the work that goes into There I Ruined It's mashup videos. Here we have Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" reimagined as a disco tune. It ain't right but it also ain't that bad. — Read the rest

YouTubers There I Ruined It have lived up to their name but making Survivor's Rocky III hit "Eye of the Tiger" a doo-wop song (cringe).

Here's the original to listen to as a palate cleanser:

(Born in Space, The Awesomer)

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Introverts were enjoying the lockdown. Suddenly they had no social obligations nor the social anxiety that goes along with declining invitations, canceling them, or attending them. Introverts were reading, gardening, baking, making things, learning languages, sharpening skills, and basking in quietude. — Read the rest

Comic book nerds are likely familiar with the work and controversies surrounding artist and inker, Vince Colletta. He is best known as an inker on Jack Kirby's The Mighty Thor, other Kirby titles, and other books at Marvel and DC. — Read the rest

The life of reviled Hollywood sex pest and alleged rapist Harvey Weinstein is "ruined".

An attorney for Harvey Weinstein lamented that "his whole life has been ruined" and defended the accused serial sexual abuser and disgraced movie mogul against the more than 70 women — including former employees and Hollywood stars — who have accused him of sexual assault by blaming them instead.

No need to lie to your kids about why Santa Claus didn't come this year since Turkish archeologists believe they know where his dead body lies.

Archeologists discovered a temple underneath Saint Nicholas Church in the Turkish province of Antalya and believe it may be the site where the 4th-century saint could have been buried, according to Hurriyet Daily News. — Read the rest

Roman Robroek takes beautiful photos at abandoned sites all over Europe, including the thousands of abandoned churches across the continent as much of Europe becomes more secular.

[Editor's note: Kater Cheek was one of my Clarion 2007 students, and has been vigorously writing and publishing ever since. She has graciously offered us the opportunity to publish the opening chapter of Parasitic Souls, her latest novel -Cory]

David Cameron appears to hum a song seconds after announcing he will step down as Prime Minister on Wednesday.https://t.co/FhhI1iL3Jx

— ITV News (@itvnews) July 11, 2016

Though he'd planned to stay on for two more months while his party chose a new leader, Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down Wednesday after opposition to Theresa May evaporated. — Read the rest

In his new book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson explains how we are destroying each other with good intentions

How do you imbue an empty mansion with the indefinable "energy" that comes from daily habitation? Find distressed rich people with nice furniture and precarious jobs at McDonald's to move in.

Here is some excellent news that I promise is excellent, just wait for the second part: M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and let's leave it there) is coming to television, developing a supernatural drama series for Syfy called Proof. — Read the rest

Here's a list of seven beautiful, ancient, rotting, abandoned breweries that have been successfully spelunked by intrepid urban explorers (photographic evidence of same is included). Certainly does fire the imagination!

Although we know the Brasserie Eylenbosch in Schepdaal, Belgium was built in 1851 and closed in 1989, there aren't too many other details floating around about the specifics of this building.