"The United States has never faced an institutional crisis quite like the one it is facing now," writes Stephen Marche in The Guardian. The political system is broken. The legal… Read the rest of the article: "The next US civil war is already here" says Stephen Marche of The Guardian
Kelly Ernby, a popular Orange County deputy DA with her sights on the state Assembly in 2022, died after contracting Covid-19. Ernby had been a passionate foe of vaccine mandates.… Read the rest of the article: California deputy DA who opposed vaccine mandate dies from Covid at age 46
Mochi is a cake made by pounding (or agitating, as seen in this video) cooked rice. In Japan, it's a tradition to eat mochi as a way to ring in… Read the rest of the article: Two people in Japan choked to death eating New Year's rice cakes, four others hospitalized
How'd that get in there? A mayor in northern Niger scratched his head in bafflement when authorities searched his official truck and found $9 million worth of cocaine and cannabis… Read the rest of the article: Mayor is shocked — shocked, I tell you — to learn his truck had over 440 pounds of cocaine in it
Twelve people in France have tested postive for a Covid variant with the rolls-off-your-tongue name of B.1.640.2. From MSN: It comes after 12 patients tested positive in the same region,… Read the rest of the article: New Covid variant with 46 mutations infects 12 in France
In 1945 Nazis burned a warehouse of paintings in Vienna because they didn't want the Russians to get them. Among the lost paintings were Guztav Klimpt's Philosphy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence.… Read the rest of the article: Using A.I. to colorize a black and white photo of a destroyed Klimt painting
One of the reasons I bought an Apple ][e was to write programs using the built-in BASIC interpretor. I spent countless enjoyable hours writing programs and typing in programs, line-by-line,… Read the rest of the article: Here's a project to update classic BASIC games using modern scripting languages
Austin Kleon, author of the inspiring best-selling book, Steal Like an Artist, posted a list of 100 things that ennriched his life this year. Here are a few excerpts: Starting a… Read the rest of the article: Artist/writer Austin Kleon's "100 things that made my year" for 2021
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who viewed the source HTML of a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website is now likely to be prosecuted for computer tampering, says… Read the rest of the article: Reporter likely to be charged for using "view source" feature on web browser
You've probably seen videos of the Queen's Guard dealing harshly with hecklers who think the guardsmen are theme park characters. In this case the victim is a kid who happened… Read the rest of the article: Watch: kid gets trampled by the Queen's Guard at the Tower of London
A pair of cops in Texas demand to see a Black man's identfication and threaten to arrest him for "failure to identify," but the man cites the law that states… Read the rest of the article: Cops harass Black man who knows his legal rights
In the 1990s Nick at Nite produced some excellent promo clips for the old TV series it ran. Here's one for I Love Lucy called "The Pants That Ate Fred… Read the rest of the article: Watch "The Pants That Ate Fred Mertz"
Please refer to my dispatch from Monday before reading the following. "Are you telling me this is the beard of the man I had lunch with in Płock? What happened to the… Read the rest of the article: The man who loves junk mail recommends Tschai, by Jack Vance
A 10-year-old girl asked Alexa for a "challenge to do." The voice assistant replied: "Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to… Read the rest of the article: Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to electrocute herself
Extraodinary Twitter exchange with a deaf customer who booked a flight on Lufthansa and Lufthansa's social media team who told him that flight changes could only be made by phone.… Read the rest of the article: Lufthansa to deaf customer: "please keep trying" to speak with us on the phone
CNN interviewed political analyst Arieh Kovler, who predicted the January 6 Capitol riot two weeks before it happened. On December 21, Kovler tweeted: "On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will… Read the rest of the article: This analyst predicted the January 6 Trump coup riot
Please refer to my dispatch from Thursday before reading the following. "You are?" I asked, stunned. "Yes. I am the man who had Piotr evicted from his apartment after he caused me… Read the rest of the article: How can a Flat Plug Indoor Extension Cord become an instrument of revenge?
This list of most-reviled books is from 2003, but nevertheless entertains. JG Ballard: Author Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Joyce's incomprehensible novel, which has provided a living for generations of English Literature… Read the rest of the article: Famous Brits pick their most-hated books
This video shows how a team of movers dealt with the logistical challenges of moving a 50-foot magnet from Long Island in New York to Fermilab outside of Chicago in… Read the rest of the article: How to transport a 17-ton, 50-foot wide magnet halfway across the country?
Trump's army of worshippers, who have relied on livestock medicine, bleach, and televangelist blessings to survive the hoax plandemic, are now suffering severe psychological distress over the fact that their… Read the rest of the article: Alex Jones warns Trump: "You are either completely ignorant" or "one of the most evil men who has ever lived"
