6.18.2022

This is even more exciting than Dunkin-flavored lip balm!

Velveeta releases a cheese-scented nail polish in collaboration with Nails Inc.

The collaboration is a part of Velveeta's "La Dolce Velveeta," campaign, "which is all about stepping out in a confident, unapologetic way to show the world that you're living a life filled with outrageous pleasure," according to a press release from the Kraft Heinz Company, which owns Velveeta.

Fleeing the realverse

Metaverse Spending to Total $5 Trillion in 2030, McKinsey Predicts

Seventy-nine percent of survey respondents said they have already made a purchase in the metaverse

 In a real world where tens of millions of real people face real starvation and homelessness, bedeviled by real pandemic and real climate havoc…

And there's more

Business Is Going Swimmingly Again for Mermaids

Mermaid performers who struggled to stay afloat in the pandemic are riding a comeback wave. They are squeezing back into their silicone tails, diving into pools at birthday parties and performing underwater behind glass walls.

The more:

Coney Island USA Presents: The 40th Annual Mermaid Parade

 

Dept. of Official Truth* bites back

Now YouTube censors House Jan. 6 committee, citing ‘misinformation’


File under Tangled Web.

*There is no official department named the Department of Official Truth, officially. Yet.

6.16.2022

Wow

Bad news for cable: A major sports league will stream exclusively on Apple TV

Today, Apple and Major League Soccer (MLS) announced that the Apple TV app will offer streaming video of every MLS match for the next 10 years.

Soccer is that funny game where they bash a ball with their heads, right? 

6.15.2022

It's spider spit (and other stuff)

Tea and dried herb samples reveal large numbers of arthropod eDNA

More specifically, they found evidence of 3,264 arthropods such as predators, herbivores, detritivores and parasitoids. And they found that every sample contained eDNA from at least 200 creatures in it and that green tea had the most.

Me, I prefer gunpowder green on hot summer days but there's nothing like Scottish breakfast in the morning. 

In the Boston Globe this morning…

 …an article about Joe Biden topped by an ad for teleprompters.

Are they trying to tell us something?

Pox McSmileyface?

WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’

The scientists propose “a novel classification of MPXV that is non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing and aligned with best practices in naming of infectious diseases in a way that minimizes unnecessary negative impacts on nations, geographic regions, economies and people and that considers the evolution and spread of the virus.”
Are they going to have a contest for this, like for various ships and snow plows? Or maybe dust off a little-used label for some long-forgotten illness like "leprosy"? (Wait, is that still stigmatizing?) Or go with a more modern designation for terrifying plague and call it MPXV-22?

We can't wait to find out. 

6.14.2022

Dumb is forever

Democratic meddling in GOP primaries prompts concern over elevating election deniers

The apparent bet these organizations are placing is that such far-right candidates, who hold polarizing views on various issues, would be easier to defeat in the November midterms when a broader slice of the electorate will be casting ballots.

Civilization undeniably ends

Coca-Cola and Jack Daniel’s to Start Selling Jack and Coke Canned Cocktail

All the assorted terrors of the still-young 21st Century are eclipsed.

Alcoholic Mountain Dew or Fresca, even, are disgusting, sure. But Jack and Coke?

For shame.

6.13.2022

Get as close to the money as you can

Raytheon relocating headquarters from Waltham to just outside DC

With aerospace giant Boeing’s recently announced relocation to northern Virginia, Raytheon would have stuck out among the five biggest defense contractors if it kept its headquarters here. That said, Raytheon remains one of Massachusetts’ largest employers, with an estimated 15,000 workers across facilities in Andover, Tewksbury, and other suburban Boston locations. The company reported $64 billion in revenue last year, and a global workforce of 174,000 people.

[Boston Globe]

Spend a few minutes with the Smothers Brothers

 This morning I ran across this article…

Two people freed after being trapped in chocolate tank at Mars Wrigley factory in Elizabethtown [update]


6.12.2022

Any day now…

Sarah Palin leads in special primary for Alaska’s House seat in comeback bid

The early results showed Palin, endorsed by Donald Trump, with 29.8% of the votes counted so far…A candidate whose name is Santa Claus, a self-described “independent, progressive, democratic socialist”, had 4.5%.
…we might forget about SNL and just watch CSPAN instead.