- Over 50 episodes of MTV Unplugged, many unavailable for over two decades, are now streaming on Paramount+ – via @consequence.bsky.social
- If you need an AT&T BGW210 802.11b/g/n/ac 400mW Bonded VDSL2 Wireless Voice Gateway with 4 Gigabit Ports, let me know. I have a spare.
Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.- “DOGE” is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency. – via @tiffanyclay.dev
- Brilliant Wyoming Rebel Purposely Misgenders Senator to Prove a Point – via @stardustbluepr.com
- Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn’t allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity-preventing mineral.
Posts tagged “MTV”
- You can now play the classic 1982 Atari 2600 game Pitfall! in your browser.
- I’ve been using FontAwesome in web projects since late 2012 and they are still the best.
- Scaling Our Rate Limits to Prepare for a Billion Active Certificates – Let’s Encrypt protects a vast portion of the Web by providing TLS certificates to over 550 million websites. They currently issue over 340,000 certificates per hour.
- The parents of a 22-yo Wisconsin man who died after an asthma attack have filed a lawsuit against Walgreens and UnitedHealth Group after they said the price for his medication suddenly rose from $66 to $539.
- Just dropping this here for no particular reason: Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition
- Aides to [the man] charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees.
- “The impotence [of the left] is as staggering as the abdication is sickening. But the current message from elected Democrats is loud and clear: You’re on your own. And the message from the … administration is even clearer: You’re next.” – via Marisa Kabas
Apparently federal employees are using Milton’s red stapler from Office Space as a symbol of resistance, which is awesome on so many levels.- An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to health officials. (Be alarmed.)
- Newly-appointed U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signed a memorandum which directs the NHTSA to immediately initiate, “a rulemaking to rescind or replace all existing CAFE standards.” I just can’t get over the fact that this guy got his start on MTV’s Real World: Boston.
Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie
I stopped watching MTV and paying attention to music videos around 1993, so I’m not really current with the state of the art. But I have got to tell you that the video for “Her Morning Elegance” by Oren Lavie is just about the most brilliant one I’ve ever seen. You can see it on
We Got to Install Microwave Ovens
Y‘know what song holds up well? Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing. You realize the song is frickin’ 22 years old? We got to move these refrigerators. We got to move these color TVs.
Casino Royale with Cheese
A week or two ago I linked to a video clip my friend made: Casino Royale with Cheese, a seriously funny film about how James Bond would handle being paired with a really annoying partner. It’s a great little piece of web satire that’s now been nominated at the MTV Movie Awards! Go vote for
How old were you when …
A web gizmo to place yourself in history
The Real World – Boston
The Real World – Boston This show sounds fascinating. Maybe I’ll actually start watching it. Read the sneak preview!