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In 1973, a massive manhunt in New York's Adirondack Mountains ended when police captured a man named Robert Garrow. And that’s when this story really gets started. In this episode, that we first released in 2016, we consider a string of barbaric crimes by a hated man, and th...

After years in the making (or more accurately, years in the wanting), I finally figured out how I wanted to do search for KDO posts. I’ve been tinkering with this specific implementation since the beginning of the summer and it finally all came together. If you’re a member, ...

"Proponents of the peptide say it can treat gingivitis, runner’s knee, even dementia."

"The women taking over the funeral industry."

A DJ named Ralph Lawson, who hosted a radio show called Trans Europe Express, found an incredible time capsule in his collection: an hour-long mixtape sent to him by Daft Punk in 1997, shortly after the release of their debut album, Homework. The tape was badly damaged, but he worked with a specialist to restore it and has put the whole mix up on Soundcloud.

As I write this, the mix has been up for a little over a day and has just over 7000 plays. It’s unclear whether Lawson ever even played it on the show, so we could be among the first people, outside of Daft Punk themselves, to hear this mix in almost 30 years.

See also Daft Punk Live DJ Sets From the 90s.

Tags: Daft Punk · music · Ralph Lawson

This week we are showcasing stories on dark nutrition, Eurovision, Wikipeida, medjool dates, and the slappy man-hug.

At Denmark’s largest haunted house attraction, it’s not just about the screams. Researchers are studying the effects – good and bad – that fear has on humans 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-science-of-horror-fear

 

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Explanation: Spooky shapes seem to haunt this dusty expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood, they lurk above the plane of the Mil...

Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the up to $5.5 billion stolen. The rest may exceed Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.

Sir Patrick Stewart, best know for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died at the age of 86. He passed at home in Los Angeles from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. He was largely considered an unknown when the “Star Trek...

API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions

Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic API.

OpenAI have now launched pretty much exactly the same deal: if you have a $100, $200, or $500 subscription plan with them you now get that same quantity of credits to apply to one of your API organizations.

I maintain subscriptions with both companies, so this is great news for me! I may even ship some public-facing demos now that the credits are already covered by my existing subscriptions.

Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, llm-pricing

It's 2027 residency application season!

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Apple Developer News:

Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission.

As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Taiwan storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS. Currently, that rate is 30%.

Well there we go. The App Store in Taiwan — just like in Japan — is fixed.

Link: developer.apple.com/news/?id=w9mxlhek

An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found in his attic. Wheat with seven ears per stalk came up and the farmer found a reference to this type of nutritious, drought-resistant wheat in the Bible’s book of Genesis.

This is an update video for my tour in Australia, I'm currently on my way to Melbourne from Sydney, and then from there I'm headed to Brisbane.

The Halloween Bundle which has all 7 courses, is on sale for $109, but if you use the link below, it'll take an additional $10 off for you at checkout (85% off) → https://rickbeato.com/s/halloween-bundle

Also this is not a subscription. You buy it once and have lifetime access including the updates.

Here's are the courses you get:

1. The Beato Book Interactive
2. The Beato Ear Training Method
3. The Scale Matrix
4. Quick Lessons Pro
5. The Arpeggio Masterclass
6. Music Theory for Songwriters
7. Beato Beginner Guitar Course

That's a $733 value and it's yours for $99 until Halloween at midnight. And no, it's not coming back from the dead once it's gone.

Get it here → https://rickbeato.com/s/halloween-bundle

Somehow I’d never heard of this before: NPR produced and aired1 radio dramatizations of the films in the original Star Wars trilogy. The first program was particularly popular, garnering NPR hundreds of thousands of new listeners. The original versions are available in full ...

Craig Hockenberry:

If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It’s because I was kinda broken last week.

Now I’m finishing this post from a comfy chair on our deck. Typing into the latest version of WordPress and PHP. And I couldn’t be happier.

No, you teared up a little reading this.

Very good news from a very good friend.

Link: furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/

Rolfe Winkler, in a crackerjack story for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Blevins, who left Apple in 2022, sometimes set up back-to-back meetings with suppliers so that rival sales teams might run into each other, stoking competitive tension. Sales representatives l...

Just a lovely little movie. I always like their animations and stories. And it featured a few nice little references to other movies, which was extra fun. Recommended!

👍 Recommended!