Maybe plan to finally read Moby Dick?

	Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi)
10/20/18, 10:42 AM I expect the 2020 presidential race to be a monument to human ugliness - it will make 2016 seem like a church bake sale. twitter.com/russellhuegel/…

An all-Big Ten day

Michigan plays Michigan State in the early game and then both States descend on Indiana, Penn to play the Hoosiers and Ohio the Boilermakers, don't hardly seem fair.

Still, what am I going to do with all these potato chips if I don't watch?

This is the most fun thing I've read all day and it isn't even morning yet

What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet's New Favorite Insult? - The New York Times

"Understanding how things can escape the internet's seedy underbelly and morph into actual tools of influence is part of understanding the mechanics of modern politics.'

https://nyti.ms/2NQLCa5

[Trigger warning: Link to a paywalled site.]

Seedy underbelly! Gotta find me some of that.

This is a very, very New York thing

New Yorkers unfazed as man lugs palm tree off subway

https://nyp.st/2OApqq4

I once lugged a full-length mirror from one end of 14th Street to the other on the Canarsie line without significant catastrophe—but a palm tree, now, that's class.

Sage advice

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

John Kenneth Galbraith,

economist

[H/T Shawn]

PS. Try not to be yourself the person who already did them.

Maybe a good old-fashioned concussion is the better way to go

Everything parents need to know about esports - The Washington Post

The eight to 12 hours that many top esports athletes say they train per day has led to an increase in computer-related injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome, repetitive strain injury and back pain. And after several competitors suffered collapsed lungs, players are being warned not to hold their breath during intense moments.

https://wapo.st/2OpMBn9

The ghost in the gourd

OK, this might seem like a silly question but, ahem…

…what happens when you install your internet-connected doorbells, air conditioners, thermostats, furnaces, built-in kitchen appliances, door locks, garage door openers, sprinkler systems, baby monitors, and who knows what not yet invented things (as in Internet of) and then sell your house? Are you going to go through all that stuff and delete any personal information they may have accumulated?

Or worse, what if you buy the house? I guess you'd have to at least change all the passwords on all that stuff, and verify that none of the software's been hacked.

Or even worse yet, what if you don't know?

And you were thinking…

'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used by Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything
Gizmodo

When you go into the privacy settings on your browser, there's a little option there to turn on the "Do Not Track" function… Read the full story

Shared from Apple News

Genius abides

Website charges 99 cents to see who paid 99 cents to see who paid 99 cents...
Boing Boing

I paid 99 cents so I could show you what the Who Paid 99 Cents? website looks like when you pay 99 cents. It reveals a list of people who paid 99 cents to see who else did. I'm the 334th person to pay 99 cents. Some enterprising people are entering ads instead of their... Read the full story