- RIP Martin Milner. Famous for Adam 12, but once played an assassin on an episode of Route 66 that was supposed to air on November 22, 1963 but was pre-empted by the JFK assassination.
- Russian bears treat graveyards as ‘giant refrigerators’. Choice quote: “In Karelia one bear learned how to do it [open a coffin]. He then taught the others”
- HAARP resumes operations
- “there’s never been a worse time for someone who doesn’t care about computers to use a computer to automate a task.”
- Observational Signatures of Self-Destructive Civilisations
- Cubesat feared lost in Antares explosion last year washes up on a beach. Still works!
- Famous CIA spy ship Hughes Glomar Explorer heads for the scrapyard.
- The Real Reason Netflix Won’t Offer Offline Downloads. Choice quote: “One of the things I’ve learned is that every time you offer a choice, you paralyse some people who can’t decide if that’s what they want to do or not. Now, that sounds really stupid and self-serving, but it is in fact true”
- Southern California grocery store invader Haggen goes bankrupt so fast it might as well be corporate performance art.
- Mystery ice chunk plows through roof of Modesto home amid triple-digit heat.
- Amazon Web Services in plain English.
- Q & A with experimental geographer and artist Trevor Paglen. (his new exhibition is terrific!)
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by Chris Barrus