Quote

"The perfect search engine would be like the mind of God." - Sergey Brin

RIP and Infected

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Guinness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Robinson_(educationalist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_Feeling "An American Cherokee linguist who wrote the first Cherokee–English dictionary. He is considered the most important modern contributor to the preservation of the endangered Cherokee language."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Singer "The last surviving male survivor of the Tulsa race massacre."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Christie "Aged 18, Christie was arrested while carrying explosives to assassinate the Spanish caudillo, General Francisco Franco."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Redstone "Redstone was formerly the executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/22/unofficial-worlds-oldest-man-dies-aged-116-in-south-africa

Wibbly is now the world's unofficial oldest man. He's 969 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia

Follow-Up

Belarus https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/belarus-protesters-demand-president-lukashenko-resignation-200823123554079.html http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1597789267&fbclid=fuckyou

Syria https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/syria-blackout-suspected-pipeline-attack-200824070256527.html

Lebanon

Mali https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/21/coup-mali-ominous-francophone-west-africa-ibrahim-boubacar-keita-ibk

Sudan/Ethiopia/Egypt

Libya https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/rival-libya-parliament-backs-un-supported-government-ceasefire https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/haftar-rejects-gna-call-libya-ceasefire-200823173428282.html

Ivory Coast: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/20/will-ivory-coasts-president-for-life-unleash-chaos

Navalny

What is happening with Thailand protests? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/we-want-a-true-democracy-students-lead-thailands-protest-movement https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/five-arrested-the-hunger-games-three-finger-salute-thailand/383020/

Things

Germany-Israel military exercises https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/20/israel-germany-hold-first-joint-air-force-drills-german-skies/

The old Spanish king https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53642283

German dogs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/19/germans-must-walk-their-dogs-twice-a-day-new-law-will-say https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/21/important-dog-stories-from-around-the-world-justice-for-german-canines

Floods, fires, dust storms and snow. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/23/earth-lost-28-trillion-tonnes-ice-30-years-global-warming https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/climate/death-valley-hottest-temperature-on-earth.html

International Foot vs US Survey Foot https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html?searchResultPosition=3 https://www.pobonline.com/articles/98788-us-survey-feet-versus-international-feet https://www.northamptonma.gov/740/US-Survey-Foot-vs-Meter

Stacks

Apple and Epic ...

and Google

and Facebook

and Tik Tok

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Not chess, really https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/16/chess-players-cash-online-put-fortnite-call-duty-counterparts/

Giant monoliths and other artefacts of MS Flight Simulator https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395084/microsoft-flight-simulator-melbourne-obelish-openstreetmap-bing-maps-data-glitch

Cloud gaming on Chromebooks https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-geforce-now-game-streaming-chromebooks-beta-launch-130054250.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3571789/geforce-now-on-chromebooks-how-it-works-and-system-requirements.html

Triangles baby! https://www.wired.com/2010/06/smoothing-square-pixels/ https://petapixel.com/2020/08/13/russell-kirsch-inventor-of-the-pixel-passed-away-this-week/

Robbie Muir https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-23/persecution-of-robert-muir-story-football-doesnt-want-to-hear/12553554 https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/st-kilda-apologise-for-grave-errors-after-muir-tells-story-of-horror-20200823-p55ohi.html https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/st-kilda/afl-2020-st-kilda-apology-after-robert-muir-racism-bombshell-report/news-story/b40831074a635d2155b9682555aad60a

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