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The What?

from KCET The 5, the 101, the 405: Why Southern Californians Love Saying ‘the’ Before Freeway Numbers by Nathan Masters This 1939 plan, developed by the city of Los Angeles, refers to its proposed freeways by name rather than number. Priority parkways are highlighted in color in this 1943 reprinting of the plan from “Freeways for […]

Puppies Or Kitties?

Creepy.

from The Telegraph ‘Inspirational’ robots to begin replacing teachers within 10 years by Henry Bodkin Robots will begin replacing teachers in the classroom within the next ten years as part of a revolution in one-to-one learning, a leading educationalist has predicted. Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said intelligent machines that adapt to […]

Still Unbelievable To Know This Day Actually Happened

Don Ohlmeyer Gone

from DEADLINE Don Ohlmeyer Dies: ‘Monday Night Football’ Producer, Former NBC West Coast President Was 72 by Dino-Ray Ramos Don Ohlmeyer, former NBC West Coast president and the man who transformed Monday Night Football into a pop culture phenomenon, died today at age 72. Sportscaster Al Michaels announced the news during the telecast of the Giants-Cowboys game on […]

Despicable.

from The New York Times ‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Reported Killed in Brazil By SHASTA DARLINGTON Members of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil in 2008. Indigenous groups in the Amazon are under increasing threat. CreditFunai/Associated Press SÃO PAULO, Brazil — They were members of an uncontacted tribe gathering eggs along the river in a remote […]

Pierre Bergé Gone

from Architectural Digest Remembering Pierre Bergé The multitalented creative died today at age 86 BY MITCHELL OWENS Pierre Bergé at his retreat in Normandy. / Photo: Pascal Chevalier Pierre Bergé had no nickname that I know of, but the pugnacious industrialist—a cofounder and longtime pilot, professional and personal, of fashion god Yves Saint Laurent—could have been dubbed […]

Don’t Mess With The Bell

from CBS Pittsburgh Police: Taco Bell Employees Fatally Shoot Armed Robber Stock image (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) CLEVELAND (AP) – Police say three employees of a Cleveland Taco Bell opened fire on two armed robbers, killing one. Police have said two masked robbers entered the restaurant early Wednesday and ordered three employees to lie on […]

Oral Marley

from the Los Angeles Post-Examiner Safeguarding Bob Marley with “So Much Things to Say” BY STEPHEN COOPER In reviewing Roger Steffens’s latest book, So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley, Hua Hsu asserts in The New Yorker that Steffens’s contribution to the Marley canon is his “nerdish monomania.” But Steffens, who […]