Two girls bravely crossed a river on a zipline while sitting on a scooter.

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/with-no-bridge-girls-zipline.html

Florida man, or in this case, Florida Sheriff Billy Woods announced a no-mask order to his staff on Tuesday. That's right  the deputies and staff of Marion County are forbidden to wear a mask on duty. If anyone complains, he told his staff to "politely and professionally tell them 'I am not required to [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/florida-sheriff-bans-police-an.html

After a successful round of funding on Kickstarter, Fluster: The Social Card Game is now ready to help turn a party or game night into the engaging, surprising, and enlightening social affair you always hoped it would be. A deck of 100 cards, Fluster is chock full of unusual, funny, and thought-provoking questions inspired to [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/fluster-is-the-social-card-gam.html

Quintin Smith explores Entropia Universe, the world's only cash-based MMO, still entertaining tens of thousands of players 17 years after its launch. No online game has bigger whales—players genuinely invested in playing the game in the hope of getting rich—even as you can play it for free by collecting in-game poop: "We set out to [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/getting-rich-or-not-in-entro.html

Apparently a man is duct-taped to a billboard in Hollywood, California, because I received a notification a few minutes ago on my phone that said: "Man Duct Taped to Billboard." Live video: Man Duct Taped to Billboard @CitizenApp 1747 N Cahuenga Blvd 9:12:38 AM PDT

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/breaking-news-on-citizen.html

Yesterday Kamala Harris made her first speech since becoming the 2020 vice presidential nominee, and in the blink of an eye came "Prosecute Trump," another delightful anti-Trump video by the progressive group Meidas Touch. Using parts of Harris's speech as the narration, the video presents an "open and shut" case as to why Trump is [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/watch-yesterdays-kamala-har.html

"We are experiencing a crisis that we evaluate to be even worse than the Great Depression" of 1929, Thibaut Le Mailloux of the Champagne Committee, told AP. French wine producers in the Champagne region estimate they've lost $2 billion in reduced sales so far this year. To manage the loss the Champagne Committee plants to [&]

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I was invited to participate in a cool international art project benefiting mental health. It's called Decameron Row, and it's a website depicting buildings along a city street. Each building has windows occupied by a different artist, writer, or other creative person. When you click on one of the windows you can see a 1-minute [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/heres-my-keto-bread-baking-v.html

Run away!

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/the-covid-pandemic-in-the-us.html

If you’re out of work...well, first, you have our sympathies. Right now, about 31 million Americans are drawing some form of unemployment benefits, which makes competition for virtually any job savagely fierce.

But since nobody wants to wallow in the miseries of unemployment, the only legitimate course left open is to scrap like crazy to make sure you’re the one who gets the next job you really want.

With so many vying for precious few job openings right now, that means your resume needs to be absolutely perfect. No bad formatting. No spelling errors. No grammar slip-ups. Nothing. In fact, your entire presentation, including your cover letter and even a portfolio of your work, needs to be spotless.

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As a Resoume member, users have access to an entire suite of powerful creation tools to craft everything you need to get noticed, from eye-catching resumes to rock-solid cover letters and pleasing portfolios.

If you have an up to date LinkedIn page, you’re already 90 percent of the way done. With a click, Resoume imports all your pertinent information and job history right into the resume template of your choice. Of course, if there’s anything you want to amend about that template, it’s all fully customizable, allowing you to change colors, fonts and more.

And a Resoume resume is fully optimized for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), which employers use to weed out resumes that don’t meet their standards or contain errors. Resoume resumes are ATS-aligned, so you’ll never get rejected over a spelling mistake or other clumsy error. Read the rest

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and 174 other House Democrats are demanding that Donald Trump's new Postmaster General reverse all of the operational changes they say could harm mail-in voting for the November election.

Read the entire document here.

The smooth functioning of the @USPS during the COVID-19 pandemic is a matter of life-or-death, and is critical for protecting lives, livelihoods and the life of our democracy. Postmaster General DeJoy must reverse new policies which accelerate the crisis at the Postal Service.

 Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) August 12, 2020

Read my letter with @RepMaloney and 173 other Representatives: https://t.co/uiXnSMdPUj

 Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) August 12, 2020

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President Brain Worms is on his bullshit again.

During a weird press conference today, he -- again! -- went on for a while talking about mail-in ballots being sent to dogs and cats.

"Many were sent to dead people...I guess 2,3,4 were sent to dogs. One was sent to a cat. They are sent all over the place," Trump says of voting ballot applications sent by mail.

He is, of course, lying his damn fool ass off.

Again, @POTUS talking about mail-in ballots being sent to dogs and cats. pic.twitter.com/AR4vUTAWR4

 Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 12, 2020

.@realDonaldTrump now talking about ballots being sent to dogs (I have no problem with this) and a cat (this is not good).

 Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) August 12, 2020

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'We're doing incredibly well' with coronavirus, lied Trump

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This seal played with its meal while waddling in the Maribyrnong River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on August 10.

“This isn’t the first time a seal has made an appearance in Melbourne’s rivers, but it’s certainly the first time I’ve seen a seal in this river, which I have been frequenting daily for the past two years,” local woman Alicia Pavlis who filmed footage of the event, wrote in a blog post.

“The cute critter splashed around and smacked it’s catch against the water’s surface over and over again,” she said.

VIDEO: Alicia Pavlis via Storyful Read the rest

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A baby boy born on an airplane that was taking mom to a hospital in Anchorage was named 'Sky' by mom.

Chrystal Hicks was 35 weeks pregnant when she gave birth to Sky Airon Hicks on August 5 around 1 AM after mom boarded a plane to take her from the small community of Glennallen, Alaska to an Anchorage hospital, KTUU-TV reported.

“It was shocking, it was really weird at first, I didn’t know what to think,” Hicks told a reporter. “But everybody kept talking about the baby on the plane.”

Hicks and her son made it safely to the hospital. Sky was placed on a breathing machine when he arrived because he was born a month premature. The baby is expected to be discharged from the hospital next week.

Hicks said filing out the birth certificate information was difficult because they were about 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) in the air.

“I just put Anchorage,” Hicks said. “I didn’t want to put on a plane or in the sky.”

Hicks has three other children — ages 3, 9 and 11.

Read more at KTUU-TV. Read the rest

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Jade Dodd of Tennessee renewed her license online, and when she received it last week, was surprised to discover that the photo wasn’t her, but rather an image of an empty chair.

“The lady at the DMV did not really believe me when I was like ‘hey, I need my license fixed,’” Dodd told local news WKRN. “Then, she looked it up in the system and goes, ‘oh, I need my manager for this.’”

Here's what authorities say happened:

“When the customer visited the Driver Services Center a few years ago, during the transaction, an examiner made an error by capturing and saving the wrong photo (of an empty chair) to the customer’s profile. When the customer recently renewed her driver license online, she received an image of a chair because that was the last picture taken on file. When the Department was made aware of her situation, we immediately made things right with the customer and provided her with a license with her actual photo and have addressed this situation internally.”

—- Wes Moster, Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security.

More at WKRN. Read the rest

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Biden: The choice we make this November will decide the future of America for a very long time.

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/12/biden-and-harris-wear-face-mas.html

It's been six years since comic legend Robin Williams died. Robin's Wish is a new documentary that looks at his final days and the degenerative disease (Lewy Body Dementia) that is attributed to him ending his own life on August 11, 2014.

An intimate portrait of Robin Williams and his invulnerable spirit, Robin's Wish is the story of what really happened to one of the greatest entertainers of all time - and what his mind was fighting.

screengrab via Robin's Wish/YouTube

(The Awesomer) Read the rest

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The LA Prop Store is holding an auction of real Hollywood memorabilia at the end of the month:

An incredible 870 lots of rare props, costumes and production material from over 350 titles will be going up for auction, with bidding available online, by phone or in absentee.

If you have lots and lots of disposable income and would like to spend, say, $30,000 on an OG bust of Admiral Ackbar, this could be your chance! You'll also found some original props from Army of Darkness, Alien and Aliens (the original Xenomorph Queen puppet is expected to go for $50-70K), Ghostbusters, A New Hope, Back To The Future, plus a really, really depressing (and even more depressingly affordable) Michelangelo costume from Ninja Turtles III in case your childhood wasn't traumatizing enough.

Can you use my HSA to pay for this, and use it as a healthcare write-off on my taxes to help cure my PTSD from childhood? pic.twitter.com/V9oqooMJd6

 Listen to the Roland High Life on Spotify (@thomdunn) August 12, 2020

The eyes of Jabba the Hutt are also available for the low, low price of $2,500, which seems fairly low for a body part once belonging to a notorious intergalactic mob boss. I imagine there are some parents who'd be willing to spend $8K on that full-size velociraptor cage from Jurassic Park though.

You can view the whole 250-page auction brochure online. If you're the kind of person who can afford any of this ridiculous memorabilia, and you're feeling particularly generous with your money, please hit me up for a list of completely unnecessary things that I would happily display in my home. Read the rest

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/12/theres-a-huge-auction-coming.html

I don't fully understand how the Steamed Hams Meme began, but this is delightful, so I'll take it. Read the rest

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