McDonald's is about to roll out three different versions of a fried chicken sandwitch in the United States, taking on chains like KFC and Popeye's for a growing share of the crispy chicken market. The new Deluxe Crispy Chicken Sandwiches launch on Febr... ...

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." – Richard Bach Without drive, you'll never reach the top rung of any profession. That truth stretches from concrete pourers and bartenders, to athletes and artists. Talent is unquestionabl... ...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone – Welcome back to the show. Bit of a fun one to begin the New Year. — Read... ...

UC San Diego has installed vending machines containing free COVID-19 tests. From KTLA: When students and staff return for winter quarter Jan. 4, they'll be expected to conduct daily symptom and exposure screenings and participate in no-cost weekly t... ...

I enjoyed Clay Hickson's thumbprint illustrations (which remind me of Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book) as much as the 74 facts that The New York Times collected from its stories during 2020. Here are a few: Japan's legal system has a ... ...

MusicTech reports that an image of a "5G Chip" being circulated by Covid conspiracy theorists is in fact the schematic of the Boss Metal Zone guitar pedal. Daniel Seah: Another user lauded the analogue design of the alleged "COVID-19 5G Chip", tweet... ...

Patrick Cage used the betting market PredictIt to bet against Qanon adherents who believe that predictions made by an anonymous person or persons on 8kun calling themselves Q will come true. Cage is winning. From The Atlantic: That's when Cage s... ...

As of January 1, 2021, works published in the U.S. in 1925 are now in the public domain, most notably F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (I checked Gutenberg.org but it's not there yet). Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has a list ... ...

Is the human gaze a physical force? It sure feels like it sometimes. Princeton University researchers scanned subjects' brains to gain insight into why we subconsciously interpret "other people's visual attention as an invisible, force-carrying beam pr... ...

This is the best. Montreal-based artist/producer Lubalin takes "random internet drama" and re-enacts it hilariously in song. He's only made two videos so far but they've gone viral, so I'm guessing more are on the way (crossing fingers).  BuzzFeed... ...