There is no denying the conflict between the cuteness and utter joy we get from our cats, and the utter foulness they leave for us later in their litter box.
Sifting through the litter box to uncover what they've left us and removing it before the entire house reeks is definitely not one of the upsides of cat ownership. — Read the rest
A naked man has been arrested in Montana after crashing his vehicle into a grocery store. No one was injured. Police say he showed signs of drug impairment at the time of his arrest.
Police say the man crashed his car into the store, fled the scene, and was later arrested after he ran nude through a nearby retirement home. — Read the rest
Dashcams help right so many wrongs that they're required equipment for many drivers. Need evidence in the event of an accident? Check. Want to protect yourself from theft or help nab a thief? Check. Want to lower your car insurance rates? — Read the rest
SpaceX is delaying its planned second astronaut flight by a day because of high wind and weather conditions that threaten recovery and recycling of the rocket booster. The launch has been pushed to Sunday night.
The news of a launch scrub came late Friday after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted he received mixed test results for COVID-19, and was waiting for more testing to confirm whether he had the disease caused by coronavirus, which he has spent months minimizing and once said would be gone from the USA by April. — Read the rest
• Widow, 94, reveals she cast one of the ballots that Trump claimed was submitted by a 'dead voter'
• Atlanta's 11Alive News confirmed that 2 of the 4 Georgia voters the Trump Campaign accused of fraudulently voting 'dead' are alive. — Read the rest
Now that bitcoin is bumping up against $16k, a few people have asked me how they can learn more about bitcoin. I've read about 10 books on Bitcoin (for my work as a researcher at Institute for the Future) and my favorite one is Bitcoin for the Befuddled. — Read the rest
The folks at Dissent & Company created a useful Coup-o-meter to let you know how close we are to a coup.
— Read the restNov 10: An update to the Coup-o-meter: the meter has not moved toward democracy or toward a coup. There continue to be very troubling developments, but taken as a whole, the danger of a coup has not increased since our last update.
If Qanon cultists and redhats who are handing over what little money they have to Trump's campaign bothered to read, they would find out that donations under $8,000 will go straight to Trump's political action committee and the RNC. — Read the rest
Outgoing impeached U.S. President Donald Trump is on a crazy "voter fraud" rampage, and his team is texting and emailing MAGA followers asking for money to ostensibly challenge the election result in court. One such text read, "The Left will try to STEAL this election!" — Read the rest
In early 2020, the Denver-based Extraction Oil & Gas company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, hoping to reorganize or otherwise free itself from $1.7 billion in debt. (Because making a billion dollars suddenly disappear is a privilege reserved for corporations, which are people, except when they're not.) — Read the rest
It's not just you, and it's not just your imagination. YouTube is reportedly experiencing video playback issues around the world, and the problems with playback also affect YouTube TV and Google TV.
They are working on a fix.
Jeffrey Toobin, the New Yorker writer who exposed his penis to colleagues on a videoconference call, was today fired by the magazine. Toobin's name quickly became synonymous with online genital exposure after the incident was publicized, and he was suspended shortly after the incident. — Read the rest
App development isn't easy. Even if you've got a great idea for an app, building it and getting it into the hands of users is another story entirely. For example, if you decide to build an app for the iPhone, does that mean it automatically works in other Apple devices, like on an iPad? — Read the rest
• In March, 'End Times' pastor Irvin Baxter said COVID-19 is a 'wake-up call' from God on the sin of fornication. Baxter died of complications from COVID-19 less than 8 months later.
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that a Pentecostal televangelist who falsely linked the pandemic to sinful premarital sex — the preacher himself has died of COVID-19. — Read the rest
As cold winter weather starts to settle in over much of the U.S., people are becoming less and less eager to leave the house. Add in the effects of a global pandemic and it's a safe bet to assume we'll all be spending many more hours indoors over the next few months. — Read the rest
"Mr. Barr's authorization prompted the Justice Department official who oversees investigations of voter fraud, Richard Pilger, to step down from the post within hours…"
Anyone else feel like this is a coup? Feeling a lot like a coup, now.
In response to Barr's memo, the top DOJ official overseeing voter fraud investigations just quit, report Mike Schmidt and others at the NYT tonight. — Read the rest
John Collins, better known as the Paper Airplane Guy, has been a professional paper plane folder more than 30 years—and a Guinness World Record champion for "Farthest Flight by a Paper Aircraft" (226' 10"). Although Wired covers him a lot, it's never boring. — Read the rest
I've put off buying a Switch controller because I don't want to spend $60. But if you use code 50VTY8Z5 at checkout you can get this highly-rated third-party wireless Switch controller for a great price.
Craig Mod is a writer and creative person who's lived in Japan for a long time. I subscribe to his excellent podcasts (On Margins, about making books, and SW945, 15 minutes of binaural audio recorded wherever Craig happens to be at 09:45am) and newsletters (Roden, about writing, photography, books, and travel, and Ridgeline, about walking, Japan, literature, and photography). — Read the rest
