Gentleman ticketed for driving in carpool lane with plastic skeleton in passenger seat Mark Frauenfelder/boingboing.net
Totally should be allowed.
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We’re All in the Bathroom Filming Ourselves
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. “It’s like a stand-up learning to work a microphone, it’s part of the craft.”
The case for replacing air travel with high-speed sleeper trains
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.