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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta recently hired a team of professional pickpockets to take items from his players’ pockets during a team dinner to teach them “a valuable lesson about being alert and prepared at all times”.
If elected in November, Kamala Harris would be the first US president to have worked at McDonald’s. “She joins 41 million Americans, including Jeff Bezos, who worked at the Golden Arches.”
Scott Heiferman sold his dotcom company in 1999 and then went to work the counter at McDonald’s “to help get back in touch with the real world”. One takeaway: “most of my mcdonald’s co-workers did their jobs much better than i ever could.”
The free healthcare for athletes in the Olympic Village shines a bright light on one of America’s most shameful, uh, “features”. “The Olympic Village offers free healthcare. The United States, of course, does not.” God, this is just embarrassing.
Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, excoriates Walter Isaacson for his misrepresentation of her in his “puff-piece” Musk biography. “You portrayed me in a light that is genuinely defamatory and I’m not going to mince my words.”
Pete Wells’s last column for the NY Times as restaurant critic: I Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. They’ve Changed, and Not for the Better. “We feel increasingly alienated from the people who cook and serve our food.”
Is this a new streaming device for your TV or the bar of soap in the shower that’s been worn down to a sliver but your parents won’t throw it out because “there’s still a lot of soap there”?
The EP–1320 Medieval is, amazingly, a real gadget being sold by Teenage Engineering — it’s a “beat machine” (or “instrumentalis electronicum”) loaded with a bunch of musical phrases and instruments from the Dark Ages.
Hurdy gurdys, lutes, Gregorian chants, thundering drums and punishing percussive Foley FX. The EP-1320 is the first of its kind: featuring a large library of phrases, play ready instruments and one-shot samples from an age where darkness reigned supreme, the instrumentalis electronicum is the ultimate, and only, medieval beat machine.
This is ludicrous and I love it.
Tags: music · Teenage Engineering
The theme for the Cooper Hewitt’s upcoming Design Triennial (in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture) is Making Home.
