I'm thinking the solution to global warming…

…is football.

Have you noticed this? Whenever people start playing football it gets cooler. Pretty soon it gets so cold they have to stop. 

How can we not work with that?

I saw this excellent sepia-toned picture…

…with fantastic, magical things in its shadows, and I was just about to download it for a wallpaper or a screensaver or a lock screen when I realized I was seeing it in a dream.

Florida candidate says alien abduction doesn't define her

Another Earthling heard from.

https://apnews.com/5adaacef468642c4930d1ad76ff09b69

So stay dumb?

Smart meters could let government peek into your home, court warns - CNET

That court recognized that smart meters are different from analog meters, noting in its decision that: "Using traditional energy meters, utilities typically collect monthly energy consumption in a single lump figure once per month. By contrast, smart meters record consumption much more frequently, often collecting thousands of readings every month. Due to this frequency, smart meters show both the amount of electricity being used inside a home and when that energy is used."

http://own.li/mZxc

The Feds have a pot law

The State has an anti pot law law.

Could this be the first anti anti pot law law?

Duh

Verizon says it shouldn't have throttled California firefighters during wildfire emergency - The Washington Post

"Verizon said it made a mistake."

http://own.li/drOc

Passwords down under

This morning's Washington Post reports:

A security audit of the Western Australian government released by the state’s auditor general this week found that 26 percent of its officials had weak, common passwords -- including more than 5,000 including the word “password" out of 234,000 in 17 government agencies.

Ouch.

But, as countless reports verify, things here up over aren't better. "Password" is not a password; don't use it. Nor "Password123." Passwords should be easy to remember and hard to guess and above all, long. Long, long, long. Here's some more detailed advice.

Or better yet, use a password manager that will generate strong passwords and then remember them for you. Among the most frequently recommended are 1Password, LastPass, and Dashlane.

Sometimes reaching for a clever lead is just not worth the effort

Animal crackers have been caged for 116 years. Pressure on Nabisco helped free them. - The Washington Post

After more than a century of imprisonment, Barnum's cracker creatures are roaming free — until they meet their mushy demise in the mouths of children, anyway.

http://own.li/nLLP

It's the Kgs that get me every time

Under-frosted? Really?

Are Frosted Mini-Wheats less frosted than their generic competitors? An investigation. - The Washington Post

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Maybe it's not plastic straws after all; maybe it's…

Don't flush your contact lenses. Here's why — Quartz

Flushing contact lenses, as many of the approximately 45 million Americans who wear them do, risks hurting fish and ocean life.

http://own.li/Icyu

(Or maybe just everything.)

Finally we get down to it

'Truth isn't truth': Rudy Giuliani

https://nypost.com/2018/08/19/giuliani-truth-isnt-truth/

Get your slice early because by the end of the month…

Yikes! What's going on with my leg?

What else is new?