December 11, 2020
The only antidote? Yentl and The Chosen on VHS.
A great Hanukkah movie would be a miracle: Will Feinstein of The A.V. Club asks "What does it look like when Hanukkah has the rare chance to take center stage in holiday films? And why don’t we see more Hanukkah movies?" [more inside]
C is for печенье, that's good enough for me
Impersonating a Property Owner, a Man Paid an Artist to Paint a Cookie Monster Mural in Peoria. The Town—and the Internet—Have Questions
The case of the mystery mural commission has gone viral.
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LinkedIn is the fucking worst
Fadeke Adegbuyi on LinkedIn’s alternate universe and how it makes professional networking weird with its bizarre inspirational copypasta, never-ending InMail, copycat features (stories! audio messages!), and rockstar recruiters.
And Now, a Sinkhole Full of Rats
Time of the Signs
It appears that cipher Z340 of the cryptograms sent by the so-called Zodiac Killer in 1969 has finally been solved.
Put a scale symmetry exactly on top of a rotational symmetry. Enjoy.
SuperSym: A symmetry-based doodling toy. Draw symmetrical things. Feel soothed by them. [via mefi projects]
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