Radiolab has a great episode about Stockholm Syndrome, and how what we think we know is wrong.

That’s still a pretty wild wealth gap, though. The difference between one million and one billion is about a billion.

The Old Reader is pretty close.

The tricks that he does are ever so clever.

Venture capital

I loved BoingBoing 20(ish) years ago. Several years ago I stopped visiting because SO MANY of their posts were just ads. I went to the site today because a friend linked to a story and just… Wow. The site is cancer now.

Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all. If they want to fight so badly, they can fight each other directly. Don’t get the rest of us involved.

I have a podcast that I create with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object—such as a ceiling fan, or a paper clip, or a toilet brush—and we create a movie plot based on that object. The show is called Almost Plausible, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.

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My grandmother used to give me Wheat Thins in these bowls. I miss her. I’m in my early 40s.

Not quite what you’re looking for, but I really enjoyed The Taste of Conquest by Michael Krondl.

Considering those are Spanish plates, I’d say you’re right!

When I first read your question, I thought it was a hypothetical situation. Like an improv exercise or something.

Anyway, I was bitten by a racoon once. Everything turned out alright in the end for both me and the racoon.

So here are some timely tips to help protect your location privacy.

The article explains each one in detail, but the list is:

• Disable Mobile Advertising Identifiers
• Audit Your Apps’ Trackers and Permissions
• Disable Real-Time Tracking with Airplane Mode
• Separate Devices for Separate Purposes

When Donald fingers the grill of the Citroën, I lost it.

The woman keeps saying “Bentley” and Donald keeps saying “Citroën.”

When he looks up at the car handle, I’m not entirely sure what he says. It’s sounds like it’s either “oh sheesh” or “oh shucks.”

Early in my career, a co-worker was fired for (among other things), frequently sleeping at his desk when he was supposed to be working. The entire company was half a dozen people in a single room. I have no idea what he was thinking.

Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.

Yep!

I grew up in Honolulu, and every once in a while there would be a tsunami warning. I don’t know how old I was—I would guess 6 years old, give or take a couple of years—but during one tsunami warning my parents drove up a ridge and parked on the side of the road to wait it out. We had a VW Vanagon, and I remember sitting in the van playing with toys to pass the time. At some point, a girl around my age joined me in the van. Her parents had the same idea as mine, and I guess they invited her to play with me while we all waited.

I’m in my 40s now. I still think about that girl from time to time.