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Thursday, 5 November 2020

🤳 Scared Shirtless

10 Photos That You, A Man, Should Not Put In A Dating App Profile, Gmail's New Logo Is A Mess. This Amateur Designer Fixed It, Someone Just Emptied Out A Bitcoin Wallet With $964 Million In It
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST
THE MORNING AFTER
What It Looked Like One Day After The 2000 Election, Compared To Right Now
slate.com
A day after November 7, 2000, no one quite knew what was coming.
PAYDAY
Someone Just Emptied Out A Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It
vice.com
It's not yet clear if a hacker made off with a gigantic payday, or if the wallet's secretive and long-dormant owner just came out of retirement.
GRAPHIC DESIGN IS GOOGLE'S PASSION
Gmail's New Logo Is A Mess. This Amateur Designer Fixed It
fastcompany.com
Google's branding defies logic.
TO BE HONEST
How Many Of These Top 10 Pieces Of 'Word Trash' Are You Guilty Of Using?
fastcompany.com
You're sure to recognize these everyday words and phrases that clutter our texts, emails and chats. A communications consultant urges you to toss them out.
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SWIPE LEFT
WE'RE BEGGING YOU
10 Photos That You, A Man, Should Not Put In A Dating App Profile
insidehook.com
From selfies to shirtless pics and excessive group photos, these are the photos you shouldn't put in your dating app profile.
BUH-BYE
The Story Behind That GIF Of Bugs Bunny Sawing Off Florida
melmagazine.com
A tribute to the cartoon short "Rebel Rabbit" — a truly unhinged episode of "Looney Tunes."
WICKED GAME
I'm A Chess Expert. Here's What 'The Queen's Gambit' Gets Right
nytimes.com
The Netflix show about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and '60s is one of the best screen adaptations of the game yet. But there are a few wrong moves.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
DIET HARD
Dog Has Goofiest Reaction To Being On A Diet
youtube.com
Someone is not pleased that their dinner has been reduced.
IN THE NEWS
Biden Pushes Closer To Victory In Race For The White House
Several Post-Election Protests In Numerous Cities Get Heated
For The First Time, US Sees 100,000 New Coronavirus Cases In One Day
The UK Economy Is Heading Back Into Recession
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For about a hundred bucks, you can pair this sleep system to your phone and collect sleep data to discuss with your preferred medical professionals.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
POLISHING THE TURD
Bowel Movement: The Push To Change The Way You Poo (2018)
theguardian.com
Are you sitting comfortably? Many people are not — and they insist that the way we've been going to the toilet is all wrong.
STEAKOUT
At An Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms (2019)
wired.com
Fried onion meets 1984.
Only 1,461 days until the 2024 presidential election.

Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Too Close To Calm

How Newspapers Reacted To The Too-Close-To-Call Election, How Do You Know When Society Is About To Fall Apart?, How A Floating Hotel On The Great Barrier Reef Became A North Korean Ghost Ship
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Wed, Nov 04
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THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD
How Do You Know When Society Is About To Fall Apart?
nytimes.com
Meet the scholars who study civilizational collapse.
THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA
How Newspapers Reacted To The Too-Close-To-Call Election
digg.com
Overnight newspaper editors were presented with a a unique challenge to capture the unknown, without a clear winner or loser in Tuesday's US presidential election. Here is what newspapers across the country ran with on their front pages.
LIVE
The 2020 Presidential Election Electoral Map, Updated Live
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Here are the latest results from the 2020 Presidential, Senate, House and state governors races.
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WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT
SHIP OUT OF LUCK
How A Floating Hotel On The Great Barrier Reef Became A North Korean Ghost Ship
vice.com
What started its life as a five-star holiday hotspot now sits abandoned and rusting just north of the Korean demilitarized zone.
THE BEST DISTRACTION
The Best, Weirdest Dear Prudence Letters Of The Decade
slate.com
Here's a whole lot of The Slate's best Prudie columns to help you pass the time.
WITH MORE POWER COMES MORE RESISTANCE
The PS5's New Controller Is Amazing. Here's How It Works
theverge.com
Sony has added adaptive triggers to the new PS5 DualSense controller. These triggers and a greatly improved haptic feedback system create a new feel for next-gen games. A new teardown shows how it's possible.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
ROCK OUR WORLD
This Is Why You Watch Out For Rocks Falling From Cliffs
youtube.com
Just a normal day working at a stone quarry in Romania.
IN THE NEWS
Presidency Hinges On Tight Races In Battleground States
COVID Hospitalizations Surge As Pandemic Enters Alarming New Phase In US
Austrian Police Arrest 14 In Manhunt After Gunman's Deadly Rampage
Polish Government Delays Abortion Ban Due To Protests
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The 8 Best Kitchen Gifts
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We've collected eight of our top picks for the cooks in our lives. And if we play our cards right, our friends might just make us something delicious in 2021.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Writer Evan Ratliff Tried To Vanish: Here's What Happened (2009)
wired.com
It's one thing to report on the phenomenon of people disappearing. But to really understand it, I figured that I had to try it myself. So I decided to vanish. Wired readers, or whoever else happened upon the chase, would try to find me.
LIFE IN PLASTIC, IT'S… FORENSIC
Dollhouses Of Death That Trained America's Detectives (2017)
messynessychic.com
Around the very same time that the iconic American board game Clue was being developed in the 1940s, forensics detectives were being trained for real crime scene investigation in a similar, miniaturized fashion — with the help of a special collection of dollhouses.
Patience is a virtue.