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Death By Giant Vending Machine

from Inside Hook Death of a Car Salesman: How Soon Will We All Be Buying Our Cars Online? Carvana — one of the tech world’s biggest pandemic winners — is applying lessons from Tesla and Amazon in the used-car market BY ALEX LAUER You probably know Carvana for their car vending machines, but they’ve got much […]

It May Never End

from The Wall Street Journal A Year Into Remote Work, No One Knows When to Stop Working Anymore Workers are exhausted from nonstop working from home; many managers want to get everyone off the treadmill and breathing again By Chip Cutter The daily alarm Katie Lipp sets isn’t meant to wake her up. It reminds her […]

Warhol Loses

from AP US court sides with photographer in fight over Warhol art By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. appeals court sided with a photographer Friday in a copyright dispute over how a foundation has marketed a series of Andy Warhol works of art based on one of her pictures of Prince. The […]

Beverly Cleary Gone

from The Los Angeles Times Beverly Cleary, beloved and prolific author of children’s books, dies at 104 By VALERIE J. NELSON With witty yet economic prose and a gift for recalling the inner emotions of childhood, Beverly Cleary wove timeless tales that took young readers back to the Portland, Ore., of her youth. Her stories served […]

The Good Ol’ Days of Movies and Mosquitoes

from Architecture Digest The 25 Most Charming Drive-In Movie Theaters Left in America Forget Netflix, of the roughly 350 remaining drive-in theaters in the U.S., these establishments are quintessential Americana By Kristine Hansen When it comes to midcentury design, boomerang tables and walnut credenzas get all the love. But what about drive-in movie theaters? Although many […]

Just In Time Disaster

from AP Shipping losses mount from cargo vessel stuck in Suez Canal By JON GAMBRELL and SAMY MAGDY ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — Dredgers, tugboats and even a backhoe failed to free a giant cargo ship wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Thursday. More than 150 vessels are now backed up, with hundreds more headed to […]

Madnfts In The Housing Market

from CNN World’s first digital NFT house sells for $500,000 by Lianne Kolirin Having spent so much time at home over the last year, many people are craving a change in their surroundings. But if a coat of paint or some creative renovations fail to do the trick, there is now a more extreme alternative: The […]

1925

from The New York Times Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? By Ben Libman “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes Virginia Woolf’s well-known complaint about “Ulysses,” scribbled into […]

Mouse Plague in Oz

from The Guardian ‘You can’t escape the smell’: mouse plague grows to biblical proportions across eastern Australia Locals who have endured months of mice and rats getting into their houses, stores and cars are praying heavy rain will help wipe them outWarning: graphic images may disturb some readers by Matilda Boseley Drought, fire, the Covid-19 […]

The COVID Seas

from The Daily Beast via Yahoo! News Coronavirus Nightmare at Sea for the World’s Most Essential Workers by Charissa Isidro “We were out of sight and out of mind,” says Second Officer Jaisal Bhati. “Everybody forgot about us (and) everyone turned a blind eye.” Behind the scenes of the coronavirus pandemic, an invisible workforce of […]