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What an awful story but I’m glad Griffiths wrote it up. I saw his tweets yesterday and I wondered what was going on. This is a great reminder that any of us can be scammed, no matter how technically proficient or “smart” we think we are.

Well, I must be a right dummy because I have no idea. I mean, how do you film a car going from 0-249 mph and back to 0 mph?

This is happening around the world.

We can all use some good news right now.

Some of these are a bit old but still good info. Some are also available outside the US.

Sweet, touching, funny, British. What more could you want?

It would be better if this data collection were more out in the open and less murky. We have to be wary of giving up liberties in search of security.

When I first saw the story, I thought they must have missed the “un” in “copyrighted.” But the Archive has lots of books that are still in print and copyrighted. So it’s probably not legal but no one wants to get into the fight.

There are few shows I look forward to more than Killing Eve. I can’t wait for April 12th. If you haven’t seen the first two seasons, you’re in for a binge-watching treat.

IEEE Spectrum: Rather than fight to repair my wounded device, I did what Big Tech and other manufacturers increasingly want owners to do. I threw it away. Today repair remains an option, one that makers want to monopolize or eliminate. … Continued

This has been around a while but I’m not a fan of Jimmy Fallon so I hadn’t seen it until it popped up on my Facebook feed. First of all, it’s an amazing editing job. Secondly, watching Brian Williams, in all his dead seriousness “rapping” is equally amazing.

I interviewed Murch many years ago at a Macworld Expo and he was a fascinating guy to talk to.

There’s just something about the British accent that makes curse words so much more enjoyable. Plus, they have words we don’t use in most of the English speaking world like “wanker” and “knob end” that just sound great.

Very kind move by the developers. Great game.

The company that posted the information, Tectonix GEO, seems to think this demonstration was a good thing. But it shows just how much information can be gleaned from our phones. It also points out just how dangerously irresponsible it was to keep the beaches open for Spring Break.

I only really started to care about the wallpapers in Mavericks. Nowadays, I don’t even see them, preferring to use the Irvue app for multiple, changing desktop wallpapers.

The site will also have an app to download. There’s not a lot here that isn’t already known but it might be a good resource to have some of this information handy.

For Canadians, this is actually a big deal. According to Wikipedia, 7 million boxes of Kraft Dinner are sold each week around the world. Canadians consume 1.7 million of those. For a population of only 37 million people, that’s a lot of KD.

Sure they missed some – why isn’t the Pontiac Aztek on this list!? – but overall, it’s fun to look at some of these truly unsightly automobiles.

While you’re stuck at home this weekend, watch this fun video and learn from a professional bartender how to make classic cocktails.

Be forewarned – FCP X is not an easy program to wrap your head around. But with so much information on Apple’s website and the internet in general, you can get up to speed fairly quickly.

This is one of the silliest, most delightful things I’ve seen on Twitter.

There are a lot of reasons to not use Amazon and these sites might help.

It’s like the people at Zoom just can’t help shooting themselves in the feet.

Our local grocery store hasn’t had yeast on hand for 10 days. Luckily, we have lots and my wife loves making “Italian Bread” and I make a delicious “Japanese Milk Bread.” We’re also going to get into making sourdough bread because it doesn’t require store bought yeast.

I’ll take fellow Canadian Hadfield’s critiques over deGrasse Tyson’s any day of the week.

This stuff is ridiculously funny.

Many years ago, I would have been in San Francisco this time of year to attend Macworld Expo so I know what it’s supposed to look like. Seeing the city empty is eerie.

Apple stepping up.

There are nine episodes from the show’s first season available now, and the season finale drops on Thursday.