Year: 2019
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The week that was
Quirky stories from the week prior.
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The week that was
A rooster in France was hauled into court for crowing too loudly during the early morning hours. An Uber pulled up to a wildlife rehabilitation center in Utah with a single passenger, a baby Lesser Goldfinch bird. Tim Crowley came across the bird when he was drinking with his friends and was too drunk to…
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The week that was
In preparation for all-electric double-decker buses, Transport for London commissioned new sounds that will alert people when these new, much quieter, buses are approaching. Bubbling noises and intermittent bleeps were voted down as “too spaceshippy” in favor of a canned recording of the old Routemaster bus which could be heard “a mile off.” It was…
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The week that was
An outfit called BASE Hologram has put together a tour featuring Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison holograms touring with a live backup band. A bit more DIY, a zoo in Japan held a drill for a polar bear escape and dressed a zoo employee in a bear suit the make the exercise more realistic. He…
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Mueller Report : A 10-act play
An all-star cast of actors gathered together in New York to perform a dramatic reading of the Mueller Report.
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The week that was (longest day edition)
Fiction became fact when the Facebook livestream of a Pakistani politician’s face was adorned with kitten ears when someone inadvertently flipped on a video filter. This was the topic of a Saturday Night Live skit just a few months earlier. Finnish national broadcaster YLE discontinued its weekly Nuntii Latini, newscast spoken entirely in Latin. Not…
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SNL skit becomes reality
In May, there was a Saturday Night Live skit about what might happen if TV reporters started using Snapchat to stream live video. In today’s BBC, there was this story.
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The week that was
An oak sapling, planted jointly by Trump and Macron as a symbol of their countries’ friendship, has died. In an awkward bit of symbolism, the tree died in quarantine. In order to speed up turnaround times for its airplanes at the gate, United is sending its ground crew to NASCAR pit crew training camps. The…
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It can happen again
Don Tamaki and the flawed but still dormant law used to justify throwing 120,000 Japanese-American into concentration camps.