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Ella Langley let her band and crew vote on a group costume...and they chose 'Toy Story'! Continue reading…

It's normal to dress your children up as monsters and the like at Halloween. What is not normal is to dress them up in the costumes of the enemy of one of your supposed allies, just to curry favour with your boss, who seemingly has a thing for Russia. And dressing your kid ...

Above, The Stiletto Band covers, Sugar Sugar. I'm sugar crashed and dreading the time change hangover effect sure to kick in soon. I hope everyone had a safe and sane Halloween!

The Message Box answers readers questions, and says: Polls can underestimate Democrats too.

Lawyers, Guns and Money enters the great impeachment debate.

Platypus Economics presents our Jekyll-and-Hyde Economy.

The Fine Print found an unintended consequence of embracing AI.

Bonus Track: Miss Cellania found a deal! The pine freshener makes this art.

This week has been a treat, my fellow Crooks and Liars tricksters! But it's showtime on Tuesday, so grab a pal and head to the polls, make it a hang. Thank you for voting!

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Five years ago, I did something that seemed pretty ridiculous at the time. I bought a $2,000 electric mini-truck from China, had it shipped across the oceans to the US, and put it to work on my parents’ property in Florida.

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Promises made, promises betrayed

Carnival of Mexican Life. Dictatorship, 1936 #muralism #diegorivera

This episode is the first of a two-parter on “Space Oddity”, and the early career of David Bowie. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a two-hour and twenty-minute bonus episode availab...

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You may not have noticed everything Google’s free software suite offers—especially a web app called Google Vids.

The Chromagraph Camera app costs $13 dollars and processes iPhone photos with the same color math Rian Johnson’s cinematographer, Steve Yedlin, uses for film.

As prices escalate on gaming laptops, there’s really only one affordable option still around: the Lenovo LOQ 15, which offers a better performance and display than its competitors.

With a number of anti-data-center candidates poised to win on Tuesday, New York provides a glimpse at the tensions around actually having to do something about the digital infrastructure.

These top picks from brands like Ember, Owala, and Hydro Flask are built to last, keeping your drinks hot and your mornings smooth.

Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.

Donald J. Trump's political honeymoon with Latino voters in Texas' Rio Grande Valley appears to be over, and the buyer's remorse is getting harder to ignore. In 2024, voters in this heavily Latino region helped Trump break through decades of Democratic dominance. They were ...

Let's hope he falls in the abyss.

Only two more days until the election. And then there will be madness, but I am cautiously optimistic. I've voted and gotten confirmation that my vote has been received and will be counted. I'm currently in Michigan where the ads are just vile against Abdul El Sayed. I never felt such hatred as I do for Mike Rogers and his coterie of Republican ratfckers. Still, I feel like a lot of people have already voted and Election Day might have some surprises.

What is your spidey sense telling you?

-Karoli

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Amazon has withdrawn its controversial bid to introduce a drone delivery program in Westborough. There has been intense pushback to the retail giant's proposal to deliver Prime Air packages weighing less than 5 pounds by unmanned aircraft within a 7.5-mile radius of its Westborough fulfillment center.

The reason we train is to get better. Every successful product goes from version 1.0 to 2.0, eventually. Very few people still drive a Model T. It’s not perfect, not yet. But we ship the work because it’s on the way to the next step. Perfect isn’t possible. Better always is.