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Rosalie gave birth to five babies on October 12, 2021. The babies don't have their adult fur pattern yet, but when I tuned in earlier today, some of them were toddling around. In the wild, Rosalie would be lucky if even half of her cubs survived to become adults. Here the most "dangerous"...

To get things started, here are a few of mine: M. Night Shaym-Aliens (season 1) – Scammer aliens place Rick inside nested giant simulations to try to scam him out of his spaceship fuel secrets. "What happened?" "Why don't you ask the smartest people in the universe? Oh you can't – they blew...

Hi, If the moderators don't mind, I would like to continue discussion of this topic here, separately from this fhread (which was mainly about arbitrary suspension of my FaceBook account). Premises: Pursing self-interest in intelligent, creative, flexible, truthful, country-above-party...

I used to think cat scratches would heal on their own. They usually did for me. But cats can carry nasty bacteria, and their claws work the bacteria into your skin, so scratches can sometimes be serious. About a month ago, my cat scratched my hand, and the whole hand became painful and red...

Hi, A couple of days ago, I created a FaceBook account. I put in my profile information, reposted an anti-bullying message from an old colleague/friend, and made a few positive, informative posts about the value of practicing enlightened (intelligent, creative, flexible, country-over-party...

Has anyone else discovered this show? The premise is that after yet more mistreatment by The Joker, Harley decides to dump the creep and to establish herself as the top supervillain in Gotham City to show up her "puddin'". Harley rooms with Poison Ivy, who advises her, but does not partner...

Highlights: A keyboard similar to the one in the 16" rMBP, with a change to the mechanism (hello scissor, bye bye butterfly) to greatly reduce the chances of dust and dirt taking out the operation of keys. CPUs now have up to double the performance (and up to four cores; before the limit was...

Just saw this, by chance, on Fandango: "The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration will combine digitally restored versions of six quintessential episodes with an all-new documentary short titled "Remembering Rod Serling" about the life, imagination and creativity of creator Serling...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/tech/macbook-keyboard/index.html

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/31/goodbye-itunes/ Supposedly Apple will be replacing iTunes by three applications.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/13/us/last-blockbuster-america-trnd/index.html From thousands upon thousands of locations down to one. Seems that streaming services, video-on-demand, and RedBox really did a number on them.

Saw this new collection in the store today, and picked it up. The five films in the set are Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. The packaging claims they are all "DIGITALLY RESTORED FROM HIGH RESOLUTION FILM ELEMENTS". I understand there's a larger collection...

Charlotte Observer - news item Biography, at his Web site

Here's a variation on the "finger in chili" scam. A woman and her grown son tried to get money for a supposed mouse in Mom's soup. It turns out that the mouse did not drown or cook to death in the soup, "but instead died of a fractured skull". Oops! :) Daily Press (Virginia) - Mother gets...

Saw a reference on Slashdot to the BBC story Konica Minolta quits photo market Together with Nikon UK's earlier announcement that they would get rid of a lot of their film equipment, it's a sad day.

BBC NEWS story A lesson in the dangers of electricity -- but kind of rough on the wife and kids.

CNET News - Mini Robot Mimics Cockroaches "Come roaches, step into the light. Your leader, Roach Vader, commands it." :D

Scarecrow and Falcone weren't Joker-caliber villains, but Ra's was. And a two-bit thug by the name of "Joe Chill" had more than a slight influence on the direction of the film. ;)

Yahoo! News - Rivals Hope to Sink iPod With Rented Music Some people will never learn. If magazine publishing worked this way, the day that you stopped subscribing, the publisher would send people to remove all of your back issues from your house. :D

Looks like the record companies are at it again: CNET - Labels, Microsoft in talks on CD copying The idea is to make PCs implement a music industry "wish list" of DRM features for "CDs". The article gives EMI Music Chairman Munns as the source for claims that the labels initiated the...

FYI: SFGate article -- Dolby makes bold anti-piracy bid... The idea being to distribute a bunch of players for discs that are not compatible with normal DVD players ... in hopes the studios will start adopting this format for all the screeners. And look who's back:

Looks like they're at it again. CNET - Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle?

CNN.com - Crow shows she's no bird-brain There is a major error towards the end of the article. It should read:

OK, now that "THEM!" is out, what other good "insect fear films" (to crib a phrase from a long-deleted university Web page describing the ant-themed version of an ANTual festival) are out there? I'll start the list with a few possibilities: CreepShow (last segment, with the cockroaches)...

You know how some people were saying a while back that the manufacturers might set up HDTV receivers so that they would not pass a HDTV-quality signal to HDTVs with analog inputs? Thus depriving the owners of the TVs of the benefits of their investment? I saw a box that was crippled in this...