Friday Links!
From John D., and it's a terrific headline: Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist.
From Wally, and it's a meandering rumination on LOTR and pipes: Today is Hobbit Day!—Tolkien & Peterson. It wouldn't hurt to have this happen much more often: Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce. This is solid advice: Playtesting Card Games.
From C. Lee, and this is brutal: Some baby boomers are burning through their retirement savings to pay for cancer treatments. Then they have to go back to work. A serious problem: The music industry's latest problem: Archive hard drives from the 90s are failing. A bizarre story: Poisoned trees gave a wealthy couple in Maine a killer ocean view. Residents wonder, at what cost? Completely off the deep end: A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis. This is terrifying (and like the last link, billionaires are a policy mistake): Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison. Flailing: Exclusive: How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business. An excellent read: Cheap money and bad bets: How the games industry turned pandemic success into disaster. Fascinating research: For aging Japan, a troubling link between heat and dementia. These are beautiful: Dedicated artists are keeping Japan’s ancient craft of temari alive.
From Ken P., and it's for you coffee fiends: How pour-over coffee got good. An idiot's disaster: Uwe Boll's $2.5 million Postal movie crowdfunder is a trainwreck, forced to abort after raising $850 and the game's devs say they 'have no f***** idea' who the people behind it are. This seems quite unnecessary: Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing. Bizarre: 'What a sad existence': The first cheaters in Deadlock have been spotted, giving players some pretty bad flashbacks to TF2 and CS. Nothing is private anymore: Mystery database containing sensitive info on 762,000 car-owners discovered by researchers. A nice payday: Man wins $1.6 million for 'hidden' invention from the 1980s. Not the brightest: Ford Truck 30,000 Pounds Over Weight Limit Smashes Through Historic Bridge. Ugh: How $20 and a lapsed domain allowed security pros to undermine internet integrity.
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