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- Pesach sameach, friends. This year, frighten the denizens of your seder with hip modern plagues!
- Also in the spirit of the season, take a gander at some lovingly illuminated medieval haggadot.
- This Week in Wednesday Walk Parenting Top Tips: If you have any felicity with the photoshopping arts, consider giving your Facebook friends a little twinge with the pictures of your kid(s).
- This Week in Predictive Text: Feed recipes to a neural net and ask it to get creative and you get my diet for the past several years, essentially. I got a nice batch of Crockpot Cold Water going before I went to work, so I won’t be tempted to stop for anything on the way home.
- Also in neural net CPUs, learning computers, they’re also providing us with exciting new fruits — I’d love a nice shivercell pie right about now — as well as new Pokemon to find in your neighborhood.
- This Week in Maps: Ask people to draw a world map from memory, average the results, and what you get is some gloopy continents. And, once again, another map in which New Zealand doesn’t exist.
- So here’s a thing I learned this week: Adam Duritz had a band before Counting Crows, and their version of Around Here is a freakin’ experience.
- This Week in Covers: Give me all the anachronistic Aerosmith.
- This Week in Jobs That’ve Gone Away: May I interest you in a career as the king’s bathroom buddy? (Now known as Twitter.)
- Folks keep taking foods away from you. Eggs are healthy, eggs are unhealthy, that sort of thing. Now it seems that humans aren’t particularly nutritious.
- RIP Karen Smith. (Warning: autoplay video)
- In France, presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is busy denying French complicity in deporting Jews during the Holocaust. Once again, happy Passover!
- The Russian LGBT Network is working to help LGBTQIAP+ being murdered or rounded up in Chechnya. Reports are emerging about deplorable conditions for those who’ve been abducted.
- There’s some good news in the world, at least. Twitter Nazi Richard Spencer got punched again, with bonus glitter. Bless that cab driver.
- Curmudgeons is a short film by Danny DeVito about two old coots in love, and it’s just the sweetest thing.
- In Italy, divers are set to search Lake Nemi for one of Emperor Caligula’s pleasure barges.
- I know the pinball community is particularly passionate about collecting and restoring classic machines. They have their work cut out for them with Dr. Robotnik’s Dinner Blasterz; I can hardly imagine the cartriges of supplies you’d need to keep that thing running.
- We all need to save up for a rainy day. We could take some inspiration from the moxie of the badger who dug and dug and dug to bury a whole cow, then feasted on it for a couple of weeks. Well done, small furfriend.
- The feather star is a holy creature that will bring you important missions in the future.
