It's polar night in the Arctic, and temperatures ought to be plunging. But the opposite is happening. Meanwhile, sea ice in the Arctic is at a record low.From Washington Post:“Despite onset of #PolarNight, temperatures near #NorthPole increasing. Extraordinary situation right now in #Arctic, w/record low #seaice,” added Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.This is the second year in a row that temperatures near the North Pole have risen to freakishly warm levels. During 2015’s final days, the temperature near the Pole spiked to the melting point thanks to a massive storm that pumped warm air into the region.So what’s going on here?“It’s about 20C [36 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over north-central Asia,” Jennifer Francis, an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University, said by email Wednesday.

A puzzled thief had trouble understanding why he couldn't pull a cash drawer through a hole that was too small.

The N’Djili district of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo is home to an enormous market of scrap auto-parts, carefully salvaged from Japan's waste-stream and meticulously arrayed on blankets by merchants eking out a marginal existence. (more…)

The JetJat Ultra Nano Drone claims to be unlike the average nano drone, and I thought it was worth trying out. These days, many nano drones tend to be too beginner friendly and offer little opportunity to evolve your flying skills. At first glance, the biggest difference between JetJat and most drones of this size is the quality camera. I can actually live stream what's below, while flying this little guy inside and outside.It's really easy to get in the air: just click a button to take off, maintain altitude, and land with the auto-land feature. The controller attaches to your smartphone, and lets you steer the drone using a live streaming view. But once the JetJat is in the air, it has a 4-channel control of direction, and can perform flips and tricks. It's a small, nimble drone with the technology I usually see in larger, more expensive options.The good news is that it's much more affordable than the larger and more pricey drones out there. Plus, today only , you can get the JetJat for just $92.99. This drone retails at $129.99 and is usually on sale for $99.99 in the Boing Boing Store. Don't miss this special price, ending tomorrow.Also explore Boing Boing's other 24-hour sales during Deals Week:Complete Game Design Bundle ($59 lowered to $39)

Tim Maughan writes, "Thanks to all the Boing Boing crew that checked out the trailer for our Detroit LIDAR film, it'll be out soon - in the meantime our film IN THE ROBOT SKIES is now up to stream. The first narrative film shot entirely by semi-autonomous drones, it's a love story set on a highly surveilled housing estate in London. Written by me, directed by Liam Young, with music by Forest Swords."

Obamacare has some significant structural problems, all stemming from the way it gives the whip-hand to insurance companies, who get to demand ever-larger sums from both the government and Obamacare users; nevertheless, the ability to get insurance makes an enormous difference for people contemplating starting innovative businesses and stepping away from big, lumbering corporations that are big enough to extend coverage to their employees. (more…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSbT0RCuto8Trossen Robotics challenged the roboticists whom it serves to make junkbots out of grab-bags of surplus parts they had lying around. The three winners are extremely impressive! (more…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euQvtep54E8&feature=youtu.beBeck Stern writes, "In 2008 I knitted a woolen cozy for my computer, and now it belongs to the internet. This new video is its story." Beck Stern is a national treasure.

https://youtu.be/N6x_AdyFeqk?t=20m40sThis week on the Tax Justice Network's podcast (previously), they profile (at 20:40) the OECD's Tax Inspectors Without Borders, through which poor countries loan each other their most effective tax collectors to help catch the tax-dodging multinational corporations who drain the countries' economies -- and the organization transfers tax enforcement expertise in the process. (more…)

Donald Trump has appointed Gen. Michael "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL" Flynn as his National Security Advisor and Jeff "be careful what you say to white folks" Sessions as his Attorney General. Along with white nationalist hero Steve Bannon's job as Strategic Advisor, that's three strikes for the "give him a chance" crowd from the first three pitches. Japanese-Americans old enough to remember the prison camps know where this is going. (more…)

The uploader of this video doesn't know much about it — "probably it's Tokyu Ikegami Line" — but they know it's the world's shortest train. In honor of the widespread "reporting" of president-elect Donald Trump saving a Ford factory from being moved to Mexico (he didn't), I hereby honor, in search engines and Facebook, the obviously factual fact that this is the world's shortest train.

Joseph Kimble noticed this peculiarly-worded sign. I'm not sure of the jurisdiction but, to he honest, I would move elsewhere if I ran into a sign like this.https://twitter.com/ProfJoeKimble/status/799288576169168897

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The United States of America interned citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. The 1988 Civil Liberties Act signed by President Ronald Reagan issued a formal apology and $20,000 to each surviving victim of this racist program. It was a dark chapter in American history. Trump surrogate Carl Higbie believes that bringing back internment camps for Muslim citizens would Make America Great Again. (more…)

Slow coffee service at a Miami Starbucks launched this gentleman into a racially based tirade. Apparently this is now America's answer to everything.Via @jbdclWe already understand you prefer horizontally recorded video of racists. Thanks!

https://youtu.be/NvDvESEXcgEErik Singer, a dialect coach, was shown clips from 32 famous actors playing roles that required them to adopt an accent. He critiqued each one. As you might expect, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day Lewis, and Philip Seymour Hoffman get top marks. Tom Cruise and Kevin Costner, not so much. The worst? Not Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent in Mary Poppins. It's Mickey Rooney's ridiculous Japanese accent in Breakfast at Tiffany's. This video was directed and edited by our friend, Joe Sabia.

Google's neural net is amazingly good at figuring out what you draw. In this game, it correctly guessed five out of six doodles I drew: cookie, saw, scissors, beach, grass. It missed watermelon.

In 1977 Richard Posner (then a prof at the University of Chicago's notorious ultra-libertarian school; now a federal judge) teamed up with an economist and law student to form Lexecon, which has since grown to a firm worth more than $130,000,000, whose major business is to serve as intellectual guns-for-hire who will produce plausible-seeming economic models defending giant corporate mergers against anti-trust regulators. (more…)

White supremacist media baron Steve Bannon ran Donald Trump's campaign; now he is Trump's presidential Chief Strategist. Last year, he did an interview in which he declared his belief that people from Asia who attend top US universities and found and run successful US firms should be kicked out of the country because they represented a threat to "civil society." (more…)

Research suggests that people who do nice things for others, often at a cost for themselves, are more sexually attractive. From an evolutionary perspective, this might be because altruism indicates that a potential mate is more cooperative and caring. Evolutionary psychologists Steven Arnocky, at Nipissing University, and Pat Barclay, at the University of Guelph, conducted a fascinating study to explore whether altruistic people really do have more sexual partners. From Scientific American: This theory suggests that altruism may serve, in part, to convey one’s value as a mating partner, including one’s concern for others and likelihood of cooperating with future mates. Research has shown that we prefer altruistic partners, all else being equal; especially for long-term mating (the evidence for altruism being preferred in short-term mates is mixed). Not surprisingly, then, the pull to demonstrate one’s altruism can be strong. Some research has shown that men will actively compete with one another (termed competitive altruism) by making charitable donations to women. Interestingly, these charitable donations increase when the target of one’s altruism is physically attractive...Previous findings from hunter-gatherer populations have shown that men who hunt and share meat often enjoy greater reproductive access to women. But do these links hold up in other cultural and contextual arenas, such as in contemporary North American society? To find out, we conducted a set of two studies. In our first study, undergraduate men and women completed an altruism questionnaire (involving questions like “I have donated blood”), along with a sexual history survey. Participants also completed a personality inventory, given the possibility that those with certain personality characteristics (such as being extroverted) might happen to engage in both more altruism and more sexual activity. We found that people who scored higher on altruism also reported they were more desirable to the opposite sex, had more sex partners, more casual sex partners, and had sex more often within relationships (although this latter finding was not statistically-significant after controlling for personality variables). The statistical models (including covariates) explained between 13 and 26% of variance in the sexual behavior variables. Moreover, altruism mattered more for men’s number of lifetime and casual sex partners than for women’s."Altruistic People Have More Sexual Partners" (Scientific American)

Apple has acknowledged that its Icloud service is a weak link in its security model, because by design Apple can gain access to encrypted data stored in its customers' accounts, which means that the company can be hacked, coerced or tricked into revealing otherwise secure customer data to law enforcement, spies and criminals. (more…)

Now that Boars, Gore, and Swords has switched to full coverage of HBO's Westworld, they've returned to their schedule of posting episodes following that night's airing. For this week's "Contrapasso," Ivan and Red are joined by comedian Allison Mick to discuss ever-expanding fan theories, dude robot full frontal, and Ed Harris's frontier medicine. They've also concluded their Patreon-exclusive coverage of the Great British Bake Off finale, so kick in a buck for some high-class cake talk. To catch up on previous episodes of Westworld, previous seasons of Game of Thrones, the A Song of Ice And Fire books, and other TV and movies, check out the BGaS archive. You can find them on Twitter @boarsgoreswords, like their Facebook fanpage, and email them. If you want access to extra episodes and content, you can donate to the Patreon.

This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network:Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography -- vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in fact, that millions, maybe billions of them survive. A conversation with midcentury pop culture expert Charles Phoenix: What can we learn from the vast shadow world of abandoned slides about the way we used to live in our homes?If you like what you hear, please drop by the iTunes Store and leave the show a rating and/or review. And don't forget to subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS

Via a Freedom of Information Act request, Yellowstone National Park recently reported the tragic details of an accident last summer, where a 23 year old man dissolved after an illegal attempt to bathe in Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. He had gone 200 yards past the legal tourism area with his sister, who was recording on her cell phone when the incident happened. Luckily, that video has not been released.Though search and rescue was attempted, Deputy Chief Ranger Lorant Veress remarked, "in a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving" due to the churning, acidic water. The man was reaching down to test the temperature, with the intent to "hot pot," aka bathe in the steaming water, when he slipped and fell in. Reports Wyoming's KURL news:Search and rescue rangers who arrived later did find the victim's body in the pool, along with his wallet, and flip flops. But, a lightning storm stopped the recovery efforts. The next day, workers could not find any remains. Veress says the water was churning, and acidic.He remarked, "In a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving"Veress said the park posts warning signs for important reasons, "… because it is wild and it hasn't been overly altered by people to make things a whole lot safer, it's got dangers. And a place like Yellowstone which is set aside because of the incredible geothermal resources that are here, all the more so."Yellowstone is meant to be wild and preserved as such, so the park posts warning signs for this very reason. Despite the signs and the accident, a week later, a Chinese tourist also left the visitors boardwalk and illegally tried to collect water from the same spring to use for its "medicinal purposes." Collecting any of the park's resources, including water from hot springs, is a federal violation and the man was heavily fined. Walking on the fragile crust of the thermal springs causes irreversible environmental damage.How the hot springs were formed, from the Yellowstone website: At Yellowstone each year, the rain and melted snow seeps into the earth. Cold to begin with, the water is quickly warmed by heat radiating from a partially molten magma chamber deep underground, the remnant of a cataclysmic volcanic explosion that occurred 600,000 years ago.After moving throughout this underwater "plumbing" system, the now hot water rises up through a system of small fissures. Here it also interacts with hot gases charged with carbon dioxide rising up from the magma chamber. As some of the carbon dioxide is dissolved in the hot water, a weak, carbonic acid solution is formed. In the Mammoth area, the hot, acidic solution dissolves large quantities of limestone on its way up through the rock layers to the hot springs on the surface. It is not known why the FOIA report was requested, but the incident does provide an option out for those unable to tolerate living under a Trump presidency. https://youtu.be/ggNIDrtiEJI?list=PLcXJBBXzyHHEKeuwewjc1rbecE4-bNa4W

James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, has tendered his resignation. He says he will serve through the handover to the new administration, whereupon Donald Trump will inherit an arsenal of cyberweapons and a $52B/year army of 107,000 secret, unaccountable spies that Clapper has strengthened and emboldened in one of the most sustained and successful exercises in empire-building in US governmental history. (more…)

Samuraiguitarist Steve Onotera created this fantastic cover of the Super Mario World music including sound effects made on his guitar. (via Laughing Squid)

Boing Boing pal Adam Savage (MythBusters, Tested) tours the incredible prop collection of Peter Jackson, producer of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, District 9, and the forthcoming The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun. One of his favorite pieces? An original Hal 9000 faceplate! That is quite the wunderkammer, Mr. Jackson! (Tested)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CNWbqmhDw&feature=youtu.beWe interrupt your growing anxiety at America's emergent cyberpunk dystopia for a tense missive from the Syrian War. In this video, an explosive-laden suicide truck bears down on a position held (reportedly by French special forces with the SDF) near Raqqa. The perspective on the video makes it hard to tell, but the vehicle is well-armored and only seconds from putting the defenders in serious trouble. Bullets ricochet off; a missile sails past its target. It is not long before everyone is becoming quite alarmed at the driver's progress. What happens next, though, will probably not surprise you. (more…)

In a Subway eatery, a displeased customer. (more…)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Digital Security Tips for Protesters builds on its indispensable Surveillance Self Defense guide for protesters with legal and technical suggestions to protect your rights, your data, and your identity when protesting. (more…)

In Carrie Fisher's new memoir The Princess Diarist, she writes that she had an affair with Harrison Ford while they were filming Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). From CNN:"It was so intense," Fisher told People magazine. "It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend..."Fisher was 19 when she landed the breakthrough role of Princess Leia for the 1976 filming. Ford, then 33, was married to Mary Marquardt, with whom he had two children.Fisher writes that she and Ford spent their first night together after a birthday party for director George Lucas."I looked over at Harrison. A hero's face -- a few strands of hair fell over his noble, slightly furrowed brow," she wrote. "How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes of me?""I was so inexperienced, but I trusted something about him," she added. "He was kind."The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Amazon)

https://youtu.be/ELjEM4C2QSQIn 1959 Disney released a 30-minute educational featurette called "Donald in Mathmagic Land." Everything about it is superb - the design, the animation, the music, the narration, and the presentation of the material. I remember watching this in school and realizing how interesting math could be.From Wikipedia:Donald in Mathmagic Land is a 27-minute Donald Duck educational featurette released on June 26, 1959.It was directed by Hamilton Luske. Contributors included Disney artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent Paul Frees, and scientific expert Heinz Haber, who had worked on the Disney space shows. It was released on a bill with Darby O'Gill and the Little People. In 1959, it was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Documentary - Short Subjects). In 1961, two years after its release, it was shown as part of the first program of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color with an introduction by Ludwig Von Drake. The film was made available to schools and became one of the most popular educational films ever made by Disney. As Walt Disney explained, "The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest. We have recently explained mathematics in a film and in that way excited public interest in this very important subject."

The windowless, 550'-tall AT&T tower at 33 Thomas Street in lower Manhattan is the building referred to as TITANPOINTE in the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, and was likely the staging point for the NSA's BLARNEY operation, which illegally spied upon communications to and from "International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank of Japan, the European Union, the United Nations, and at least 38 different countries, including U.S. allies such as Italy, Japan, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Mexico, and Cyprus." (more…)

Days after Mark Zuckerberg called the idea that Facebook -- and specifically, the fake news circulated on Facebook -- had influenced the US election as "a pretty crazy idea," a group of "renegade" Facebook employees have formed themselves into a "task force" to tackle the issue, and have been warned by their managers that they may not speak to the press about this on pain on termination. (more…)

A wonderful collection of images that prove cats are magic, found on IMGUR. (more…)

Prolific and dramatic security researcher Samy Kamkar (previously) has unveiled a terrifying device that reveals the devastating vulnerabilities of computers, even when in sleep mode. (more…)

For the last six weeks, residents of El Segundo, California have been startled from sleep in the early hours of the morning by the ear-splitting blast of an air horn. On Sunday morning at 4 am, police officers caught the gentleman who was blowing the horn. His name is John W. Nuggent and he admitted doing it because he wanted to annoy a specific person.From The El Segundo Police Department Facebook page:On November 13, 2016 at around 4:00 AM, El Segundo Officers heard an extremely loud air-horn being actuated (similar to a train horn) on the west side of town. There have been numerous reports of similar occurrences over the past several weeks involving a blue 4-door compact vehicle driven by a male white adult (see attached picture captured from a residential surveillance video). Shortly after hearing the loud horn, El Segundo Officers initiated a traffic-stop in the area of Grand Avenue and Main Street on a 4-door blue 2006 Chevrolet Aveo. The vehicle was driven by John W. Nuggent and officers found air-horn equipment inside his vehicle. Several El Segundo residents, who were alleged victims of the air horn noise, responded to the scene and initiated a citizen’s arrest on Nuggent. He was subsequently transported to El Segundo jail for booking and his vehicle was impounded.

New Yorkers renting in the Trump Place buildings on the upper west side have forced the building's owner to take Trump's name off their homes. (more…)

Synesthesia is the fascinating neurological phenomenon whereby stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another sensory pathway. A synesthete might taste sounds or hear colors. Now, leading synesthesia researcher VS Rakmachandran at the University of California, San Diego is studying "calendar synesthetes" who see very clear images of calendars in their mind's eye when they think about months that have passed or are in the future. For example, according to New Scientist, one participant in the research "sees her months as occupying an asymmetrical “V” shape. Along this V, she sees each month written in Helvetica font." From New Scientist:The idea that calendars are literally laid out in space for some people suggests that we are all hardwired to some extent to map time in space.The concepts of time and numbers are something we acquired relatively recently in our evolutionary history, says Ramachandran, but the brain wouldn’t have had time to evolve a specific area to deal with it.“Given the opportunistic nature of evolution, perhaps the most convenient way to represent the abstract idea of sequences of numbers and time might have been to map them onto a preexisting map of visual space, already present in the brain,” he says.Indeed, imaging scans show connections between areas of the brain involved in numbers and those involved with mapping the world, memories and our sense of self. The team suggest that when these areas act together, they enable us to navigate mentally through space and time, while being firmly anchored in the present.Ramachandran suggests that for calendar synaesthetes, altered groups of genes may prevent pruning of connections between these areas during development, making the more abstract concept of a calendar mapped in space, for some, a real perception.

https://youtu.be/9oZ-zmPGTGETwo birds in flight? Windows Movie Maker skills? Balloons? Satellite? Black Knight companion? Here's what people on Reddit think.

I know what my kids will be doing after school today. (Handimania)

As an iPhone owner, I'm pretty much always in need of a Lightning cable. This 3-Pack of 6.5 ft Apple MFi-Certified Lightning Cables is the best deal I've found for stocking up. These cables are MFi-certified, meaning they’re approved by Apple and will keep your devices safe from getting fried. I really enjoy the 6.5 ft length, which allows me to be extra lazy and use my phone while it’s charging across the room. The reversible design of the cables is also super convenient as it allows for either end to be plugged into your phone.Lightning cables also make super practical yet amazing stocking stuffers for the holidays - like socks to millennials. For a limited time, these 6.5 ft Apple MFi-Certified Lightning Cables are on sale—50% off—and will only set you back $21.99, less than a single cable at the Apple Store.Explore other Best-Sellers on our network right now:CodingLearn to Code 2016 Bundle (Pay What You Want)Music + EntertainmentBrain.fm: 3-Year Subscription ($29)Cord-CuttingGhost Indoor HDTV Antenna (57% off)

Drew Friedman is one of the best illustrators alive today. His work has appeared on the cover of MAD, Spy, and The New Yorker and his recent books about comic book heroes and Jewish comedians will go down in history as masterpieces.I'm glad someone is making a documentary about Drew, called "Vermeer of the Borscht Belt." Kevin Dougherty is asking for $50k on Kickstarter.

Artist extraordinaire Mitch O'Connell has a new book out, called Tattoos Volume Two: 251 Designs, Bigger and Better! Mitch and I've known each other since we were both 16 years old at Boulder High School. (He was in marching band. Here's his photo.) He was a terrific artist then and I hated him for it. Decades later, my hate has mellowed to mere jealously and bitterness.You can get a copy on Amazon, or buy a signed/inscribed copy direct from the Mitch (with extra surprises).Previously: Dirty Needle tattoo art show opens tonight in DetroitTemporary zombie tattoos by Mitch O'ConnellMitch O'Connell at Tattoo Factory in ChicagoGweek podcast 129: Bondage Britney!Gweek 082: Mitch O'Connell, the World's Best ArtistMitch O'Connell the World's Best Artist by Mitch O'Connell - exclusive preview of his new art book

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.AND NOW, MORE THAN EVER, join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and oh, so much more. GET Ruben Bolling’s book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. (”A book for the curious and adventurous!” -Cory Doctorow) Book One here. Book Two here. More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

No matter what apologists who would normalize the threat a Trump Administration represents may tell you, no one incidentally voted for the KKK's Presidential candidate because of his attractive economic policy. That story sounds good and helps quiet the fears of Americans who are suddenly discovering that we live in a racist, sexist, fundamentalist Christian cesspool, but T.R. Ramachandran washes the fiction away by simply showing us the data.This tweet storm is quite long, but one of the best analysis I've seen of how we got here. The following is an excerpt, I recommend starting at the beginning.8E) Recall that Gallup found that among top things Americans had heard about Trump were “immigration” and “Mexico” https://t.co/qhXmRR7Use pic.twitter.com/i9J8EJZzFh— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 8F) You’ll have to squint VERY HARD to find ANYTHING to do w/ economics or trade in what most Americans heard from media abt Trump pic.twitter.com/oFahMQfazV— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 8G) Which is why the impact of racial & gender views on WWC support for HRC/DJT must be seriously considered https://t.co/r1WcHkrGcK— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 9A) 5th, independent analysis shows most voters heard LITTLE about POLICY from the media in 2016 https://t.co/j2Wc1DUfGy— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 9B) Take another look at the Gallup charts – good luck finding anything (much) on Trade or Wall Street among what voters heard from media pic.twitter.com/5eDHE3V0Dw— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 9C) So, notion that WWC voters picked DJT over HRC primarily for his POLICY positions on trade/Wall Street etc. is NOT credible— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 9D) Moreover, do you really think HRC DID NOT talk about real issues (when in fact she did) & instead was talking to voters abt her emails??— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 9E) REALITY: Voters were FLOODED with false/deceptive claims on HRC’s emails & “scandals”, overwhelming her message https://t.co/cOCfTIioLp— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 9F) Deceptive claims came not just from cons media/MSM; some pro-Sanders media outlets were gleeful participants https://t.co/HYSJY4jySR— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 10A) 6th, the 3rd pty vote, esp. for Gary Johnson was often more than Trump’s winning margin over HRC in Rust Belt https://t.co/LZiClGFADg— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 10B) Recall Johnson said he was drawing ~half of his support from HRC, many were Sanders supporters pic.twitter.com/jnpfYV0hoZ— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 10C) GJ was PRO trade/TPP/globalization/Citizens U/Keystone XL/fracking, ANTI min wage/tax increases for wealthy https://t.co/bP4Xl7wWBC— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 10D) If some Dem-leaning WWC/Sanders supporters REALLY picked Gary Johnson for his POLICY positions, maybe I’ll meet you in Earth 2 someday— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 15, 2016 2016 Election: White Working Class and Trump Support by T.R. Ramachandran

I thought it was crazy that Dell dethroned Apple as the maker of America's most spectacular laptops, but look at this from HP, putting the Mac Mini on notice: the HP Z2 Mini Workstation.HP's little desktop isn't quite as small, at 8.5" wide, and prices start at $690. With Xeon and Nvidia Quadra video card options on offer, it'll soar much higher if you load it. No detailed specs were announced, though Engadget reports you can get up to a 1.5TB SSD and Intel Core CPUs will also be on offer. It lacks Thunderbolt and more game-friendly video card options. Is it weird that the natural point of comparison, the Mac Pro, doesn't even come to mind? The Z2 Mini may well overpower it in pricier configurations. What happened to that, anyway?