That's no moon! (It's a quasi-moon.) From now until January 1, 2025, you can cast your vote to name earth’s quasi-moon, currently known as (164207) 2004 GU9. The 500 foot diameter rock will orbit the sun in the vicinity of Earth for the next 600 years or so before it wanders off again.
"Lee" starring Kate Winslet Last night we watched Kate Winslet's extraordinary performance in "Lee", the story of model turned war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. Director Ellen Kuras's film depicts Miller's harrowing journey from her idyllic pre-war days in France, as Hitler's rise begins
If you have one of these routers, you might want to consider not having one The US government is considering banning popular home and small-office routers made by TP-Link, which are increasingly being hijacked for botnet attacks linked to the Chinese government. The routers are alleged to have security flaws that are not being fixed when security researchers point them out to the company. My
I should just stop giving Trump ideas If Ted Kaczynski was still alive, Trump would appoint him ATF director. — Roger Goun (@roger.goun.co) November 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM Obviously I wrote this sarcastically. But it turns out that Blake Masters, Donald Trump's nominee to be the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Exeter exhibition photos These are the two photos I submitted to the New Hampshire Center for Photography's 2025 exhibition at Town Hall in Exeter. The opening reception is Saturday, 4 January from 12–4 PM. The show runs 12–4 PM on weekends until 26 January. This is always a great
Shining a light on history We were in Concord with friends last night for dinner and a concert. Since we were early, we stopped to pay our respects to the Christa McAuliffe statue on the grounds of the New Hampshire State House. It gets dark early in New England after Daylight Saving Time ends[1]
Martin O'Malley is running for DNC chair A black SUV pulls up to the curb at a home in Durham, New Hampshire and Martin O'Malley steps out. It's May, 2015 and Gov. O'Malley is running for president. He walks up a few steps and onto the lawn, where I've
We interrupt your post-election doomscrolling ...to point out that the Boston Red Sox are in the hunt to sign free agent Juan Soto for next season. The 26 year-old Soto is a generational talent who could be the cornerstone of the Red Sox offense for years to come. Soto's first meeting with Red
Haunting, heartbreaking essay by a 16 year-old girl We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven’t fully grown
Normally I love to say "I told you so," but... A Reuters article reports on Muslim Americans' disappointment that their support for Trump's election has not magically resulted in a change in his longstanding unconditional support for Israel. U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for
Ad astra, Tony Todd Farewell to Tony Todd, who guest starred in one of the greatest episodes of Star Trek ever filmed, "Deep Space Nine" season 4's "The Visitor". He had a lot of other wonderful TV, Broadway, and film roles, too, but this is the one I&
Early birthday gift I handed Jody an unopened Amazon box and told her it was an early birthday gift. But I was confused about which order it was—it turned out to be a bottle of Zout.
The Onion buys Infowars. What the hell is happening? We are truly living in the weirdest possible timeline. “We thought this would be a hilarious joke,” said Ben Collins. He is correct. I haven’t been so speechless since Matt Gaetz was nominated for attorney general.
Making history the hard way Trump makes history by selecting the first Secretary of State to have criticized his future boss for the size of his penis pic.twitter.com/hDPyuhda5a — Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) November 12, 2024 I was prepared to be horrified by President-Elect Trump's Cabinet picks, but I wasn't
Battery ubiquity, or how a battery change made my day Today I learned, to my great pleasure, that the MINI Cooper key fob remote control uses the same battery as the Apple AirTag. I only have two key fobs—an EDC and a spare—but I have So. Many. AirTags. Which is why I have a lot of CR 2032
news A tiny bit of progress on in-flight wheelchairs Passengers with disabilities have had to transfer from their mobility devices into regular airline seats since forever. The The Air Carrier Access Act (49 U.S.C. § 41705) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in air travel, but somehow it doesn't limit airlines' ability to damage
news It’s the misinformation (stupid) Joyce Vance points out the results of a Reuters/Ipsos poll on ‘the link between media consumption and public opinion’. It shows that voters who were misinformed about important issues were more likely to vote for Trump in the recent election, while those who had the facts were more likely
One hundred years of Robert Frank The Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank was born 100 years ago today. In 1955, Frank received a Guggenheim Fellowship and used the money to travel across the United States and photograph the people and places he found there. The book that resulted, The Americans, redefined what photography could be. Decades later,
