Stoner Cats, CryptoPunks and Bored Apes. Blockchains and metaverses. Non-fungible cryptocurrencies and tokens. Over the past 12 months, as the world has emerged from pandemic crisis mode, the pop culture verse and the Wall Street verse have been plagued by rhetoric and agreement around a belief in the potential breakthrough of mind-blowing complexity, new Internet-enabled … Read more
High Point, USA. August 15, 2022 – NorthState of North Carolina and Virginia Lumos Networks announce the launch of a new unified brand, Lumos, and the appointment of a new CEO, Brian Stading (formerly Ziply’s COO). The launch of the new Lumos brand underscores the company’s mission to provide accessible, uninterrupted 100% fiber Internet that … Read more
We used publicly available, anonymized, nationally aggregated data from Google’s Symptom Search Data (SSD), which reports the relative frequency of Internet searches for 420 signs, symptoms, and health conditions with well-documented privacy protections.31. For comparison, we used data from: (1) the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), … Read more
I chose a recipe more or less at random and I modified it according to my tastes and according to the ingredients I had on hand. Luckily I had a block of feta and our garden is just starting to produce a few cherry tomatoes, although I had to supplement them with tomatoes from the … Read more
The internet has backed a woman who secretly recorded her husband while he slept to capture his snoring. It is estimated that around 45% of adults snore occasionally, while 25% snore regularly while sleeping. The average snorer emits a sound between 50 and 65 decibels, a sound level often attributed to the pitch of normal … Read more
Netflix’s Carter is a South Korean extravaganza that, at its best, channels some of the classics of 21st century martial arts. Earlier this month, Netflix released the South Korean action thriller Carterrealized by Jung Byung-gil and starring Joo Won in the lead role. This is the story of an amnesiac Jason Bourne-style super-spy caught in … Read more
Morbius cannot be contained. The Jared Leto-directed vampire movie has infected various pockets of the internet all week, spreading from Discord to Twitch to Twitter. Now, with a rabid new audience calling themselves “Morbheads,” excited by the 24/7 streaming of the Marvel movie by rogue Twitch streamers, the fandom has reached its logical conclusion: memes. … Read more
Members of a popular internet forum have been appalled after a traveler detailed their recent run-in with an overzealous airline employee. In a virality Reddit post on r/MaliciousCompliance, Redditor u/EmperorButtman (otherwise known as the original poster, or OP) said he was accused of violating an unnamed airline’s baggage policy, but detailed his satisfaction proving that … Read more
Last year, Kayla Sims started raising her own cows and chickens. She traveled a bit, tasted dishes like bhel puri, tuna maki, beef yakisoba and Beans and pork for the first time. She even did some cooking; one day she made a crown roast and baked a hamburger-shaped birthday cake. But she didn’t need a … Read more
SSocial media is a big flipper, it’s all about us swinging wildly between anger, compassion and mockery. Meanwhile, twenty fidgety fingers are ready to explain why we are wrong every moment. An example: Ezra Miller. The beleaguered actor, who has been at the center of a Venn diagram of all online talk lately, has finally … Read more
