Gentleman ticketed for driving in carpool lane with plastic skeleton in passenger seat Mark Frauenfelder/boingboing.net
Totally should be allowed.
Laff-o-rama, 1964 via
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Adam overcoats. 1943. Via
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Lord Jim hairpiece ad [1970s] via
We’re All in the Bathroom Filming Ourselves
Friday, January 24, 2020
Taylor Lorenz/nytimes.com Bathrooms are “the perfect stage set” for TikTok videos. “Most home bathrooms are well lit and have nice, bright acoustics. Unlike the kitchen, living room or even bedroom, bathrooms are private spaces, where parents and siblings are trained to not barge in.” Also, that big mirror is great for filming selfies. “Spending a lot of time on TikTok, and it seems that knowing how to film yourself speaking with a cellphone in a bathroom mirror is a new skill to be mastered,” Jon-Stephen Stansel, a digital marketer, tweeted.
The case for replacing air travel with high-speed sleeper trains
Friday, January 24, 2020
Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing. Like Cory, I’ve taken the sleeper train from London to Edinburgh and found it was a great trip. I’ve often wished there was a sleeper train running between San Diego (where we live) and San Francisco (where I often travel for work). There’s a sleeper bus that runs between LA and SF but I don’t think that’ll work for me.
DirecTV Satellite at Risk of Exploding in Orbit — Jeff Baumgartner/Light Reading
AT&T and Boeing need to move the DirecTV Spaceway-1 satellite to a new orbit, over fears that a crippling battery malfunction could cause the bird to explode and threaten other satellites.
Podcast: Don’t Call Us an SD-WAN Provider – Cato Networks – Me/Light Reading
Cato Networks would rather you didn’t call them an SD-WAN provider anymore. Instead, Cato is delivering a new kind of service – Secure Access Service Edge – or SASE (pronounced “sassy”).
I talked with Cato’s David Greenfield about what the heck SASE is anyway, the shifting needs of the market formerly known as SD-WAN, and the relative virtues of gelato vs. Ben & Jerry’s on the Light Reading podcast.
Automating cross-posts to Tumblr, using duct tape and rubber cement
Thursday, January 23, 2020
I’ve been having a lot of trouble over the years posting to Tumblr. The native Tumblr apps and web page for creating new posts have gotten more and more difficult to use. I suspect the software has been redesigned over and over again by people who do not actually use Tumblr, and think Tumblr users are semi-literate idiots and perverts. We are not semi-literate idiots. There are several automated channels for posting to Tumblr, but they all result in ugly, ugly formatting errors, or duplicate posts.
I have seen this car parked at Lake Murray occasionally for years. It’s always been beat up and decaying, but I used to think it looked beautiful, like a well worn leather jacket. Now it looks like it wants to die.
On my walk today. Hello, Lake Murray, you’re looking fine.
An earlier product name, “Gee, Your Hair Smells Like a Cheesesteak,” was rejected by focus groups. 1982 ad via
Clocks change in six weeks in most of the US (March 3). Are you ready?
