January 2016 – World News Center

Stuff You Didn’t Know

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016

There are some odd perks to doing this blog. While I’ve mentioned our fans in India and Japan a few times, mostly because that’s so random it deserves note, we also pick up other stragglers from around the globe who keep things interesting. They send me emails (yes, that’s my email at the bottom of this post), links, pictures, and all sorts of fun stuff. While I don’t share their personal info or pics, mostly because I think it vacillates between rude and pandering (HEY LOOK! I know a ____insert…

Change Your Damn Password!

January 22, 2016January 22, 2016

One of the beautiful things about the humans who inhabit this world is how they prize their individuality. I got bad news for you Sunshine, you’re special all right, just like everyone else. While society does require a certain level of conformity, there are risks with fitting in too well. If you’re not careful you can end up a cliche. Or worse, you can end up with all your personal data, including finances and porn, splashed all over that new-fangled World Wide Web thingy. Yes, it’s catching on and you…

Strange Days Indeed

January 21, 2016

People have asked me why I quit writing about Florida, specifically, and stupid things people do in red states in general. Most seem to assume that the idiocy has been tamped down to levels seen everywhere else. Most would be horribly wrong. In Florida, alone, the amount of people doing stupid things has risen to such epic levels that the South Central Sun-Sentinel has been forced to hire staff just to keep tabs on them and, for a while, even offered the content as pay-per-view. Oddly enough people weren’t stupid…

INVENTIONS!

January 15, 2016

Oddly enough today I am not going to be writing about the joys of sexbots. Not that I have anything against them, other than the fact that they are the first step is allowing our cybernetic overlords to enslave us. Instead I’m going to talk about stuff that has actual human benefits. The kind of stuff that can help you live longer, healthier, more productive lives. Even better, not one word of this blog will involve the consumption of kale. Nor will it involve you taking a survey of any…

Water, Water, Everywhere

January 4, 2016January 4, 2016

People rarely stop to think about water. And that’s a shame. Because we end up doing lots of bad things to it and all it really exists for is to help us. Humans are the abusive partner in this relationship. However, as it turns out, not all humans are assholes. Some have started trying to do good things to, and with, our pal water. I’ve already written about The Ocean Cleanup, currently based near Tsushima, an island between Japan and South Korea. It’s taking on the daunting task of removing…