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Saturday 29 January 2022

The Offensive Joke In 'Air Bud' That Nobody Noticed

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Perfectly Imperfect And The Growing Currency Of The Personal Recommendation, The Wildly Offensive Joke That's Gone Unnoticed In 'Air Bud' For 25 Years
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Perfectly Imperfect And The Growing Currency Of The Personal Recommendation
vanityfair.com
In an era when micro-targeting and algorithms dominate personal tastes, the upstart newsletter's real-time catalog of New York cool-kid sensibility is a terrifically unserious delight.
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The Wildly Offensive Joke That's Gone Unnoticed In 'Air Bud' For 25 Years
melmagazine.com
How did a stunning bit of Islamophobia end up in a Disney movie for kids about a dog that plays basketball — and then somehow make its way into the sequel, too?
THE ANGRY SUN LEVEL IN 'SUPER MARIO BROS. 3'
America's Hottest City Is Nearly Unlivable In Summer. Can Cooling Technologies Save It?
theguardian.com
Phoenix's new 'heat tsar' is betting on less asphalt, more green canopy and reflective surfaces to cool the sprawling heat island.
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Inflation And Market Volatility. Two Things Farmland Might Be Able To Help With
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Over the last 30 years, farmland has offered positive annual returns and helped investors hedge against inflation. However, investing was difficult for most until AcreTrader. Here's how it works.
WHAT TO WATCH
Ten Films To Watch This February
bbc.com
Jennifer Lopez stars in a romcom, the Jackass crew are back and Joanna Hogg's sequel to "The Souvenir" is released.
EDITOR'S PICK
COZY UP
The Best Comfort Shows To Watch When You're Feeling Bad, According To Reddit
digg.com
Whether you're sick, feeling sad or in lockdown during a global pandemic, you can always turn to TV to cheer you up. In response to an AskReddit thread, here are some Redditors' favorite comfort shows.
BREAKUP BOX
IT AIN'T OVER 'TIL IT'S OVER
Yes, Omicron Is Loosening Its Hold. But The Pandemic Has Not Ended
nytimes.com
With spotty immunity in the population and a churn of new variants, the coronavirus is likely to become a persistent but hopefully manageable threat.
*SAD TROMBONE*
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Break Up
brooklynvegan.com
Other than a brief three-year hiatus in the mid 2000s, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have been consistently around since forming in 1983. They're probably the longest-running band in American ska-punk, and they're fresh off releasing a rejuvenated new album, but this week we learned the genuinely shocking news that they've broken up.
'THE ROOT IS OVER'
What Happened At The Root?
gawker.com
Since April, 15 of the site's 16 staffers have quit, following a trend of mass resignations at the websites owned by G/O Media
VIDEO OF THE DAY
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
Take The Plunge Into This Deep Sea Visualization And See What It Looks Like 36,000 Feet Below Sea Level
youtube.com
Here's what you would see if you made it to the deepest part of the Earth's ocean.
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This Impressive 5K OLED VR Headset Has Raised Over $800K On Kickstarter
kickstarter.com
Made with an extremely dense "micro-OLED" display, this Qualcomm XR2-based headset is priced surprisingly modestly.
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THIS SONG KNOCKS… ON WOOD
'The Impression That I Get' Played In A Dozen Different Genres
youtube.com
Ska Tune Network reverse engineered a ska classic with this one, and we couldn't be more grateful for getting to hear R&B *and* Midwest Emo versions of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' hit back-to-back. (From 2018)
I've never had to knock on wood, but I know someone who has.

Friday 28 January 2022

Air Stewardess Fell 33,000 Feet Lives To Tell The Tale

An Air Stewardess Fell 33,000 Feet And Lived To Tell The Tale 50 Years Ago; A Guy Who Made Larry David Trend On Twitter For All The Wrong Reasons, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character',
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A Guy Who Made Larry David Trend On Twitter For All The Wrong Reasons, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
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This weeks characters also include a rocker best known for a song primarily comprised of the lyric "woo-hoo" accusing Taylor Swift of not writing her songs, an editor-in-chief soliciting journalist salaries but refusing to divulge his own and a conservative pundit upset at a cartoon wearing something she wears all the time.
FREE FALLIN'
An Air Stewardess Fell 33,000 Feet And Lived To Tell The Tale 50 Years Ago
thedrive.com
The story of Vesna Vulovic's survival after a DC-9 airliner exploded in mid-air is a miraculous one.
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The Biting Lip Emoji Coming In iOS 15.4 Will Instantly Make Conversations Awkward
theverge.com
There are 36 other emoji to enjoy, though.
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HOW 'BOUT IT?
WHERE DO YOU SLOT IN?
How Much Americans Make
flowingdata.com
Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting.
SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME
How To Block Email Tracking And Disable Hidden Read Receipts
inputmag.com
Your inbox is being spied on more often than you think by tiny, hidden tracking pixels. Take back control of your email by blocking them.
MAJOR KEYS
How I Got Smart
defector.com
The fact is, I know how I got so smart and I know how you can, too. The real answer to "How did you get so smart?" is simply this: I wanted to. And you can, too!
VIDEO OF THE DAY
FOR CRYING OUT CLOUD
Art Spiegelman Rips Tennessee School Board For Banning 'Maus,' Then Takes A Quick Rip On His Vape Live On CNN
youtube.com
"I've moved past total bafflement to trying to be tolerant of people who may possibly not be Nazis? Maybe? Because having read the transcript of the school board meeting, the problem is sort of bigger and stupider than that," he quipped, then took a big puff on his vape.
IN THE NEWS
Russia Says It Won't Start A War As Ukraine Tensions Mount
A Federal Judge Canceled Major Oil And Gas Leases Over Climate Change
Snow-Covered Bridge In Pittsburgh Collapses Ahead Of Biden's Visit To Talk Infrastructure
Family Who Died In Freezing Cold By US-Canada Border Identified
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The Highlands Collection Has Some Of The Best Winter Wear
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ONOMATOPOEIA
Have Your Mind Blown By The Way Disney Made Sound Effects In Its Old Movies
youtube.com
Once you see this, you can't unsee it, or unhear it, to be more exact.
Happy Friday!