Covered this week; One of the most offensive card games ever created… China and Europe dabble in quantum-encrypted keys… Michael Moore’s take on why Trump has no intention of winning… an interesting occurance of art imitating life… Trump, naked and exposed… 10 sports figures caught lying… why Michaelangelo’s David will fall… John Gruber’s thoughts on Trump’s end-game…
August 15, 2016
“One of the most offensive card games ever made is throwing its hat into one of the most contentious elections in United States history. Last week, the twisted geniuses behind Cards Against Humanity launched a fundraiser tied to the 2016 presidential election. They created two packs of cards, one with a drawing of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the other bearing the likeness of Republican nominee Donald Trump.”
The Chicago Cubs fire their dumbass DJ.
August 16, 2016
The Quantum Science Satellite is designed to distribute quantum-encrypted keys between relay stations in China and Europe. When working as planned, the result could enable unprecedented levels of security between parties on different continents.
August 17, 2016
Admittedly, Michael Moore is as far from a Republican as you can get… but his take here on how Donald Trump never intended to be President is hilarious… and I’ll be damned if it isn’t true.
August 18, 2016
An interesting example of art imitating life as street artist DS returns to the spot he previously applied a paste-up to a wall and replaced it with an image of the graffiti removal guy who took it down.
August 19, 2016
“We started thinking a lot about how dictators and tyrants, all though history, were memorialized through statues,” says the spokesperson, who asked not to be identified as to protect himself against potential legal action. “Go to any major park in America, you’ve got some rich white general with a sword. That guy was probably a complete piece of shit back in the day. All the way from Caligula to Lenin, it was always about the statue. And Trump just fit that perfectly.”
10 times sports figures were caught fibbing, just like Ryan Lochte…
August 20, 2016
“Modeling the Failure Mechanisms of Michelangelo’s David Through Small-Scale Centrifuge Experiments.” That dry title concealed a terrifying story. The paper describes an experiment designed to measure, in a novel way, the weakness in the David’s ankles: by creating a small army of tiny David replicas and spinning them in a centrifuge, at various angles, to simulate different levels of real-world stress. What the researchers found was grim. If the David were to be tilted 15 degrees, his ankles would fail.
August 21, 2016
“If Trump is trying to win the election, what he’s doing the last few weeks doesn’t make any sense. But if his goal is not to win, then maybe he’s crazy like a fox. A fox with no regard whatsoever for civil discourse, the stability of our republic, or the future of the Republican Party — but a fox nonetheless.” — John Gruber for Daring Fieball
