What makes Venus tick

NASA's Hubble telescope just captured a breathtakingly vivid photo of Jupiter

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Disturbingly spooky

As summer camps turn on facial recognition, parents demand: More smiles, please - The Washington Post

"His phone rings 10 times a day with notifications from the summer camp's facial-recognition service, which alerts him whenever one of his girls is photographed enjoying their newfound independence, going water-skiing or making a new friend."

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Thanks, internet.

Subject line in an email I just got from Walgreens

Flu, sleep, germs and more– all in one email!

Imagine my delight.

The Year of the Giant Baloons

Born in Chicago, Scabby the giant inflatable protest rat may be banned from picket lines by national labor board - Chicago Tribune

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First the Big Orange Baby and now…

The steps are for stepping, turista

Sitting on Rome's Spanish Steps can now cost you a large fine - The Washington Post

The rule serves as an attempt to curb unwanted tourist behavior, from jumping into fountains to walking around Rome shirtless.

https://wapo.st/2MOfwiI

There is no pie in the sky, but there might be an eye

The Pentagon Is Testing Mass Surveillance Balloons Over the U.S.

http://bit.ly/2Yrn3Lf

On the wisdom of reading just a little Shakespeare somewhere along the way

Here's an internet opinion page that describes itself as a "daily dose of outrage" and names itself the Daily Sound and Fury.

The title is from a speech in Shakespeare's Scottish play that describes life as, among other things, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Oh oh.

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Just when you thought it couldn't get much worse

El Paso and Dayton Tragedy-Related Scams and Malware Campaigns | CISA

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This kind of thing is becoming an expected aftershock of just about any kind of outrageous news,. 

August morning walk

Get your season on

There are only two of the original NFL teams still playing in the league. One is the now Arizona Cardinals which were, long ago, before they were the St. Louis Cardinals, the Chicago Cardinals.

The other is da Bears.

This book, Monsters, being about da Bears and their 1985 Super Bowl season, is also about the League and the Game itself.

And about that old zipperoo.