We know your job may be pretty rough and has very little room for any artistic license, and that's something you miss about having free time. College was a great place to get in some creative writing classes and put the strange world into words, but those days are long gone and the novel you dreamed of penning is still sitting rent-free in your head. Put virtual pen to virtual paper and get back into the writing game when you freshen up those skills with a lifetime subscription to a Daily Prompt Premium Plan.
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Jigsaw puzzles have been around forever and serve us in a variety of ways. From providing us a unique form of artistic entertainment to helping us keep our minds sharp, they serve as a multi-function intellectual and artistic tool. There never seems to be an end to their allure as we can tear them down to be built up again, or solidify the final product as a reminder of what we've accomplished.
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My Mother is a breathtaking Butoh style dance by Kazuo Ono from 1998. You can watch the 45-minute performance here on youtube: Kazuo Ohno – My mother.
Ono was one of the founders of Butoh, which is a form of dance theatre which arose in 1959 during post-war Japan. The name Butoh means "darkness dance." My Mother truly conveys a spirit of darkness and intense emotion, and I can only imagine how fascinating it must have been to watch in real life.
Butoh encompasses playful and grotesque imagery, taboo subject matter, and extreme or absurd environments. The performers traditionally wear white body makeup and move in a slow and hyper-controlled way.
Tubifex worms are related to the earthworms you can find in your yard. They are commonly found near bodies of water, sewers, and other waterways. They eat detritus and are known as sludge worms or sewage worms.
When a large number of these worms become intertwined, they look like one giant fleshy mass. When one of the worms decides to wiggle around, they all begin moving, causing the blob to look like it's writhing around and pulsating.
Next time I go frolicking around inside of my local sewer, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for one of these delightful worm-blobs.
The turn signals on the Mini are confusing. The left signal blinks an arrow pointing to the right, and the right signal blinks an arrow pointing to the left.
Did not a single person at Mini notice this? It's baffling.
Drivers who are behind a Mini with this "Split Union Jack" design will be especially confused if the can see only one of the lights.
Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik called Mini to get their thoughts:
A Mini representative spoke to me on the phone, and this was the gist of our conversation:
Mini has chosen the Union Jack lights to highlight Mini's British heritage, and has been using them for a while. With regard to the turn indicator light pattern, there should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand, when seeing the full rear of the car, which direction is being indicated.
Mini has not heard any concerns from customers regarding the rear turn indicators, and has in fact received positive feedback about the taillight design.
According to TeleGeography, there are 426 active submarine cables in the world. The cables are mostly the diameter of a garden hose and filled with filaments the width of a human hair.
The cables lie on the ocean floor and are believed to span more than 807,000 miles. Some are very short, linking islands across a few miles like the one that runs between Ireland and the United Kingdom. Others, like one of the cables connecting Asia to the United States, are more than 10,000 miles long.
Messes happen and they happen often both in life and in the home. And, while we can't help you with your personal problems, those floors look like they could use some TLC, and we can offer just the thing. Grab the Orfeld H01 Cordless Stick Vacuum and make your home look brand new.
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From September 29th to October 5th, Katmai National Park in Alaska conducts a competition to determine the fattest bear in the park, relying on voters like you to judge the fattest of the fat.
What originally began in 2014 as a one-day event (Fat Bear Tuesday) has since grown into a much-anticipated international event. About 55,000 voters participated in Fat Bear Week 2018. In 2019, that number grew to 250,000, and in 2020 it ballooned to 650,000.
According to the Fat Bear Week website, there's a fun twist this year. A new category has been announced: fattest bear cub! I absolutely love the lineup of chubby cubs, which include both photos and backstories.
Katmai National Park's media ranger Naomi Boak spends months preparing for the competition.
"I start as soon as I get [to the park] in May taking pictures of skinny bears," she says. "Because in Fat Bear Week, we juxtapose a skinny picture with the fattest picture we can get at the end of the season, so people can see really what a great accomplishment it is for the bears to get fat to survive six months of famine."
While you wait for voting, check out the park's livestreams to watch the park's bears catch salmon in preparation for the competition (and hibernation, of course). Here's a striking scene I witnessed on the livestream this morning.
It's been 10 years since then-SNL castmember Fred Armisen went on Conan O'Brien's show and debuted his impression of a dead fox decomposing in a time-lapse film. So much else has also decomposed since then!
Pitchfork recently reported a game-changing accounting revolution in the music industry:
Under SoundCloud's "fan-powered" royalty model, unveiled in March, a listener's subscription or advertising revenue goes directly to the artists to whom they listen in a given period of time; that's instead of the "pro-rata" model typically used by Spotify and other streaming services where money is pooled and divvied up to rights holders based on their market share.
Put another way: you pay $10 a month for Spotify. Under a "user-centric" or "fan-powered" accounting system, your $10 would get divvied up between all the things you actually listen to. Let's say you really, really love my band, and one month you use Spotify to exclusively listen to the Roland High Life (which would be pretty cool of you). We would get your full $10. If you listened to some other stuff, too, those artists would get a proportional cut of that money, and we'd make a little less. That sounds fair, right?
Under the "pro-rata" system used by most music streaming platforms, however, your $10 goes into a large pot. And even though you, personally, listened to our new single 100 times this month, everyone else listened to Taylor Swift's new version of "Wildest Dreams" (and nothing else) 15 million times. In this accounting system, we would get paid 0.000006667% of the total money in the pool for that month relative to our proportion of all streaming activity. Taylor Swift would get the rest.
Working-class musicians have been advocating for this kind "user-centric" approach to accounting for a long time, as studies have shown it to be more equitable to than the "pro-rata" system, which tends to only benefit artists who already massively successful.
Case-in-point: when SoundCloud made this switch with royalty payments, the trip-hop group Portishead ended up making 500 percent more money for the same number of plays.
I know what you're thinking: what the ever-loving fuck?!
As Dada Drummer explains, the pro-rata accounting system actually rewards the use of bots:
If you google "Buy Spotify plays," you'll find any number of offers that are variations of this one:
"Starting at 1,000 plays for $4 and going up to 500,000 plays for $745, you can take a pick according to your budget and needs."
I have no idea which if any of these offers are real and which are scams, but the going rate does seem logical, at least as a come-on. At the lower end, you lose money ($4 for 1,000 streams on Spotify will earn back about $3 in royalties). And at the higher end, you double your money ($745 for 500,000 streams will earn back about $1500). Does it really work? I'm not going to spend any cash to find out.
But let's say it does – and some variation of click farms is what Van Vugt successfully uses to boost his playlists of rain to rival even Spotify's most popular ones like Rap Caviar. Wouldn't that explain the difference between what Portishead's song earned from user-centric accounting, which registered actual listeners to the track, vs pro-rata, which credited the band with a proportional share of all streams, including any fraudulent ones?
Dada Drummer also points out, that curiously, when pressed on the possibility of enacting user-centric accounting, Spotify says:
A shift to user-centric payments would not benefit artists as much as many may have originally hoped… the change would result in 'at most a few euros per year on average' for artists outside the top 10,000.
Curiously, artists outside the top 10,000 are explicitly left out consideration here. Convenient, that! And that's because — as WIRED recently explained — the three major music labels essentially share monopoly power over the whole damn industry, and this payment system works for them:
Three major record labels produce two-thirds of all music consumed in America. They are the most powerful buyer of music and talent, and they use that power to prioritize a handful of mega-stars and pop hits. They pitch music into massive radio conglomerates and streaming platforms that control how music is consumed, and they collect an ever-growing share of industry revenue.
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As streaming rose to prominence, so too did the outsize corporate power that has come to control nearly all music distribution and revenue. Spotify and Google's YouTube account for three-quarters of all streams globally. Along with streaming services of tech monopolists Apple and Amazon, four companies have a near-total stranglehold on the market. "The level of control in those few large companies is very dangerous," says Louis Posen, head of legendary punk label Hopeless Records. To him it's no different than elsewhere in an increasingly monopolized economy, and no different than a century ago, when monopolies in railroads, oil, steel, and other essential goods controlled American commerce. "When just a few companies control the power, bad things happen."
If we can't enforce anti-trust for the music industry, then at least the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers has a streaming committee dedicated to trying to bring more equity to royalty payments, through methods like user-centric accounting. Because it makes a huge difference.
During the early weeks of quarantine, Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin gripped the nation. Netflix said that it "attracted 64 million households in the first four weeks after its March 2020 premiere," lightening-in-the-bottle popularity. Cooped-up families found an escape in the wild world of exotic animals as the rest of the world seemed to slow to a stop. The show, with its odd cast of characters and relentless drama (murder rumors, animal abuse, polygamy, etc), clawed its way into the March 2020 zeitgeist.
A year and a half later, as the pandemic dredges on, Tiger King 2 promises "just as much mayhem and madness as Season 1." But does anyone want Tiger King anymore? Wired ran a column titled "Please, no more Tiger King."
The series will premiere on November 17th, joining other recently-announced Netflix programming that seems to ride on the coattails of Tiger King's popularity: many new releases feature stories about con artists, hunts, and true crime.
Tiger King is coming back this year — and Season 2 promises just as much mayhem and madness as Season 1! pic.twitter.com/mFBUxtAl6i
Lots of social scientists use Prolific.co to conduct massive surveys, by paying randos — Amazon-Turk-style — to give their responses to prompts.
But this summer, they started to notice something was weird — they were suddenly getting a wildly disproportionate amount of responses from young women. (This researcher found 91% were women.) What was going on?
Welp, on July 23 a teenager named Sarah Frank had posted a TikTok video telling her viewers how they could make some extra dough by doing Prolific.co surveys — and it went viral, racking up 4.1 million views, mostly with young women.
Boom: They all headed over to Prolific.co, suddenly and decisively tipping the demographics of who was answering questions.
According to Bradley, about 4,600 studies were disrupted by Frank's TikTok, around a third of the total that were active on the platform during the surge. Of those, he said, the vast majority should be salvageable.
Prolific has refunded researchers whose studies were significantly impacted by the surge in women survey takers and introduced a new suite of demographic screening tools. The company announced these steps a month after Frank posted her video. The company has now re-organized, putting a team in charge of demographic balancing in order to more quickly recognize and respond to this sort of problem in the future.
"Honestly, we were somewhat caught by surprise, and we didn't predict how large the impact was going to be," Bradley said.
Frank's influence has some upsides, as some researchers note: The surge of TikTok young women is beginning to fade, but some will stick around in a way that might help diversify and invigorate the population of folks who tend to answer surveys online.
With all the gizmos and gadgets you have around these days, your home is looking more like a wire jungle than a stylish abode. But if you want to live amongst some of the best technology todays' world has to offer, like stellar TV reception as you watch your favorite channels, wires are simply a part of the deal — or are they?
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If you could make an adult wish-list, you'd probably burn your way through two or three notepads. While everything you need these days may not be within your budget, we have deals on 25 must-have gizmos and gadgets that definitely won't break the bank, giving you an excuse to treat yourself.
Thanks to this charger's 1,300mAh battery capacity, you can give your phone more than three hours of power when there's no outlet in sight. You can fit it right into your pocket or hang it on your keys.
Deemed the world's smallest and most versatile bone conduction speaker, you can create a unique listening experience no matter where you are. And at a price like this, you can easily use two of them to create real surround sound, and they'll last up to three hours per charge.
At just three inches tall, this little speaker packs a powerful punch, providing you with 10 hours of continuous play that you can connect to any device via Bluetooth. You can even use it to take calls, hands-free, thanks to its built-in microphone.
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An award-winning electric toothbrush, this gizmo has been proven to effectively remove plaque and prevent gingivitis, complete with whitening care brush heads with unique diamond-shaped bristles that buff your teeth to shiny, white perfection.
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Whether it's an at-home movie night or a birthday party, this moon lamp lets you illuminate the room in any of its 16 programmed colors, even allowing you to dim it, all with the touch of a button. It's even safe to use in kids' rooms.
Take pride in your cannabis with a set that you can easily display around your home, just as you would a wine or figurine collection. It features air-tight containers and vials and uses a color-coded system along with an accompanying app to help you stay organized as ever.
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This award-winning software designed just for Windows lets you download content from YouTube, Vimeo, Flicker, Twitch, or any of the 10,000+ video hosting sites in 4K and 8K ultra-high definition. The program also lets you sync footage, schedule downloads, add watermarks, and so much more.
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You can't live forever, but this service collects and stores your DNA in a time capsule, ensuring your story lives on as humanity speeds into the future. You can even watch it launch into space, where it will be sent to the moon on a lunar lander!
This award-winning educational toy takes your child on a journey around the world, learning about different animals, cultures, music, and more, complete with fun quizzes, games, and even a pretend passport.
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There's no more helpless feeling than the moment you realize you've been robbed. The mix of anger, fear, and a sense of violation are enough to turn your stomach. And in addition to stolen items, there's usually clean-up and repair needed since 95 percent of burglaries involve a forced entry.
As horrible as it feels, it's even worse when you consider that it likely didn't need to happen. Crooks say only about 1 in 10 burglaries are pre-planned. Most are just spur of the moment crimes of opportunity.
Of course, that also means you can take some simple steps that can quickly and effectively deter a criminal from deciding your house is an easy score. We recommend these five steps for securing your most valuable possession.
1. Update locks and reinforce doors and windows
It's simple … Solid doors, well-secured windows, and thick, sturdy locks can often be more than enough to send lazy crooks in the other direction. Do a quick survey around your house, checking for any signs of vulnerability. Take note of all damaged or easily jimmied locks, doors that don't shut securely, unprotected windows — if you see 'em, fix 'em. Upgrade to some staunch deadbolts where you can. And if extra keys are floating around with too many friends, neighbors, exes, and more, it may be time to rekey too.
2. Don't hide a key under the plant
We aren't saying don't leave a key somewhere near your door in case of emergency lockouts. We're just saying be smart about it. Sliding a key under the doormat or lodging it about your door frame is practically the same as leaving your door wide open. Crooks are lazy, but they usually aren't stupid (unlike this fellow). Rotate your hiding places in unconventional places or even install a combination lockbox for some added security.
3. Get to know your neighbors
You may not be home at all times, but if you're on good terms with your neighbors, you've got a 24/7/365 security force helping watch your place and valuables. Neighbor watches are great, but simply knowing other residents near you, getting friendly, and letting them know you can pay big dividends. And if you keep an eye out for your neighbor's homes and let 'em know about it, they'll likely return the favor.
4. Get a home security system
Look, those other measures are definitely critical cautionary steps, but in the event of a thief deciding your place is their target, you need defenses. Strong defenses. A security system like a Vivint Smart Home System can instantly make your house a very formidable opponent to any criminal.
Their smart-enabled system is packed with Smart Deter, a web of doorbells, remote cameras, and sensors that intelligently spot potential intruders around your home, scares them away, or contacts Vivint's 24/7 monitoring support staff if they persist.
And be sure to post those Vivint Smart Home Security stickers outside your place too. Just seeing and knowing your house is protected is a strong deterrent for opportunistic crooks.
5. No seriously. Get a home security system with a brain.
Vivint's home protection array extends well beyond the perimeter of your home as well. The Vivint system is entirely controllable through your web-enabled smartphone or tablet, allowing users to check the cameras, lock doors, activate lights, and more, all from anywhere at any time.
And while money should never be the biggest consideration in protecting your castle, it doesn't hurt that a Vivint system can result in lower home insurance rates. And since it can also control your home temperature, it can even shrink your energy bills as well.
That said, we probably should instead just try a whole new approach to cooking. How about a fun Mexican-themed night? Try this XL Aluminum Tortilla Press and start the healing process between you and all of your buds who got food poisoning the last time they were fed by you.
Featuring a Verve Culture flare and colored with FDA-friendly, lead-free paint that prevents rust, here's the rundown on the XL Aluminum Tortilla Press. Long gone are the days of buying store bough tortillas or using smushed bread as an alternative (admit it, you've been that desperate before), because now tortillas are fresh and ready for your next big meal straight from home.
Because this is an extra-large tortilla maker, you can use it for everything from taco night to burrito bowls and everything in between. Kids only eat cheese quesadillas? No sweat, these are the perfect tortillas for that as well. Need some inspo? This maker also comes with a list of recipes for tortillas and the ways you can use them, in case you want to break out of the mold and do something crazy for dinner (or have just run out of ideas, we get it).
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Lately, people walking around in Chicago have been getting hit with raw eggs from an anonymous egg thrower. There is a distinctive mark of graffiti at the scene of each egg crime, which makes the situation even weirder. This podcast episode reveals how an online community can track down information together to solve a mystery.
From the episode webpage:"Somebody has been hurling raw eggs at people in Chicago. On today's episode, Rachelle and Madison try to crack the case of these egg attacks, and speak to the man who created the Chicago Egg Hunters Facebook group that has been on the hunt for the culprit ever since.
We as humans run the gamut in super weird food allergies, from gluten to seafood (and, consequentially, cicadas apparently), but your precious pet may also be allergic to a host of other foods you're unknowingly feeding them. Everything from proteins to wheat could be causing your critter distress unbeknownst to you, and that's pretty scary. It's not your fault Spot can't give you the rundown on everything that makes his tummy rumbly, but this 5Strands Pet Food Intolerance Test sure can.
If your good boy or girl has terrible allergies and you can't pinpoint why, you're going to want to give this kit a try. Using this food intolerance test, you'll collect a tiny sample of fur to send to 5Strands' high-tech lab using the included postage. In just about 7-10 days after the processing center receives the hair sample, you'll get a good look at what your fluffy friend can and can't withstand, including proteins, grains, vegetables, fruits, fats, seafood, additives, and preservatives (sorry Fido, your fast food leftover days may be over, but it's for your own good.)
The test uses bio-resonance technology to scope out temporary imbalances in the body that may be causing symptoms like upset stomach, constant scratching, hair loss, hot spots, and paw biting. Utilizing a three-level intolerance response test to figure just what the heck is giving Fluffy the fits, the test creates a comprehensive report of over 250 items to check out if there's something sketchy going on in the food you're providing to your pet. If there's something out of sorts, the kit will suggest a 6-8 week elimination guideline after you get the results. Check out the kit in action here:
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