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FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and ‘It’ icon Tim Curry dead at 80. Hopefully this is the end of the trifecta, rounding out after Hayden and Dolly, and there isn’t one still outstanding.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Country Music Legend and Actress Dolly Parton Dead at 80.
DEREK SIVERS: Building without predicting. Probably works better climatologically where he lives in New Zealand than it does here in Western New York, but a good rule of thumb for building… things in general.
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS FINALLY OVER: Tap to Pay Is Coming to Walmart and Sam’s Club.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Actress Hayden Panettiere, known for roles in ‘Nashville,’ ‘Heroes,’ dies at 36. While she’d had issues with alcoholism over the years, releasing a memoir back in May about her struggles, no cause of death has been initially disclosed. I never got into Nashville, but Heroes was a favorite when it was airing.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Tommy John, whose surgery blazed a trail for countless players, died over the weekend at 83. The pitcher was the first to receive the procedure later named for him, replacing a torn elbow ligament and allowing him to return to baseball for an extended career.
BACK FOR MORE: Dystany Spurlock Returns to Richmond for NASCAR Homecoming Week. Dystany became the first Black female driver to compete in a NASCAR national series race earlier this year.
(Hat tip: Jayski)
DANIEL MIESSLER: “Nobody Asked for A.I.” Is a Stupid Argument.
JUST JIGGLE THE SWITCH A LITTLE: Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware. “In essence, the scheme makes a virtue of the fact that the Voyagers, both launched in the late summer of 1977, are relics (respectfully) of midcentury electronics.”
(Hat tip: 1440)
CHRIS TRAPASSO: First impressions of Buffalo Bills’ new Highmark Stadium | Buffalo Rumblings. I’m looking forward to catching a game this fall in the new digs; sounds like it’s setting up to be spectacular.
MOST ANYTHING HAS TO BE BETTER THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE: This Startup Wants to Build a Better Microwave Beep.
(Hat tip: Tech Brew)
WHOOPS: Apple’s iCloud Private Relay is Leaking Users’ Real IP Addresses - MacRumors. As it protects Safari, not the full communications from your device, other important parts of a web transaction can slip around iCloud Private Relay. Apple says they’re investigating.
SENSURROUND ON X: RADIATION AND YOU!
Hello there, boys and girls!
Today we’re going to learn about one of nature’s most fascinating phenomena!
Radiation!
I’m sorry. Several of you just started panicking.
Read the whole thing.
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER: Fitbit Data Can Finally Sync to Apple Health - MacRumors.
BUSY DAY IN THE JAYS FRONT OFFICE: Bluebird Banter has Blue Jays trade deadline quick-reaction grades from an active day for Toronto, with as much buying as selling, including acquisition of José Soriano and Spencer Arrighetti, while Dalton Varsho, Adam Macko, Jeff Hoffman, and prospect Arjun Nimmala join Kevin Gausman as notable Jays with new teams.
THE FIRST DOMINO FALLS: Kevin Gausman traded from Blue Jays to Cubs. One of the prospects received in return, Brett Bateman, is already in AAA, and could see MLB playing time sooner than later, particularly if the Jays move an outfielder today.
I MEAN, BESIDES THE WHOLE THERE’S-A-LOT-OF-MONEY-IN-IT THING: Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?
(Hat tip: TLDR)
LIBERTY VITTERT: Why we study UFOs (or UAPs, as it were). In short: just because it’s (probably) not aliens, doesn’t mean we don’t want to try and figure out what it actually is.
THE SLOWEST SPACE DOGFIGHT YOU’VE EVER SEEN: Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit.