Everybody's got a story. Unfortunately, not everybody has the tools to tell that story the right way. That's especially true for someone looking to produce their first screenplay. Just as with any type of writing, penning a script for the screen has a set of rules all its own. Understanding that structure, as well as [&]

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Super weird. Sound up. Video and music by Ghoul Skool of Everything Is Terrible! Thank you, The Memory Hole.

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/creepy-furby-family-sound-up.html

In Georgia, the City of Stone Mountain is shutting down public transportation, closing a park, and urging everyone to avoid the area on Saturday, when a large number of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and militia members plan to gather. Why? Located in suburban Atlanta, Stone Mountain Park is home to a giant sculpture of Confederate heroes. [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/as-nazis-kkk-and-militia-des.html

CA grid operator calls on state’s utilities to begin cutting power to some customers

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/california-faces-rolling-black.html

Today, 236 employees at Pinterest virtually "walked out" to express solidarity with three former colleagues who said they experienced gender and race discrimination at the social media company. From the New York Times: Many of the employees also shared and signed an online petition calling on Ben Silbermann, Pinterest's chief executive and co-founder, to change [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/pinterest-200-employees-hold.html

Yep, that's it. The title of this announcement from the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas is "Drug-Dealing, White Supremacist Stripper Sentenced for Obstruction of Justice." Here is the entire perfect press release from the DoJ: TEXARKANA, Texas – A 28-year-old Dallas, Texas, man has been sentenced for federal [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/drug-dealing-white-supremacist.html

President orders China-based Tiktok owner ByteDance to sell Musical.ly

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/trump-orders-bytedance-to-dive.html

Today I chanced across a posting from someone who, in 2002, tracked down the maker of the unusual whiskey glass that the replicant-hunter Deckard drinks from in Blade Runner. They learned then that it had been in production for thirty years and was still available, and so it is today. Now, of course, you don't [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/deckards-whisky-glass.html

Pee-wee Park is a longer version of that great video by YouTuber Pixel Riot that mashes up Pee-wee Herman with Jurassic Park. I've always wanted to make a complete trailer based on my full Jeep Chase Scene. The hard part was figuring out at least a small narrative  enough for it to hold its [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/pee-wees-jurassic-adventure-2.html

Chad Wolf and top aide Ken Cuccinelli were improperly appointed to their leadership positions at the Department of Homeland Security, reports the Government Office of Accountability. The Government Accountability Office said Wolf and Cuccinelli assumed those jobs under an order of succession that was issued by an acting secretary who himself had no authority to [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/homeland-security-chief-appoin.html

In South Lake Tahoe, two bear cubs were found wrassling in someone's backyard kiddie pool. I put my money on the small brown one. "While I was laying in bed I heard some noises coming from my backyard. When I looked outside my window I saw two cubs playing in my daughter's pool." screengrab via [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/bear-cubs-found-goofing-around.html

Sure, the sound of the kid colliding into the trash bins is fake but it's still pretty funny! Previously: Deer performs classic drum fill from Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight" (Kottke) screengrab via YouTube

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/kid-on-bike-performs-classic-d.html

There's a lot to unpack and think about from this BBC article about the impact of solar panels on the heroin industry. The first report of an Afghan farmer using solar power came back in 2013. The following year traders were stocking a few solar panels in Lashkar Gah, the Helmandi capital. Since then growth [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/solar-power-is-revolutionizing.html

Sometimes, being trapped inside and distanced from the world, with all of the other worries you may have on your plate, leads you to wander back to darker times. I first heard this song back in 2001. I'd left the east coast in the early days of the year, to move back to Ontario. My [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/shut-in-sounds-mike-plume-ban.html

Even as the world takes tentative steps toward reopening against the ebbs and flows of  COVID-19, movie theaters remain in a netherworld limbo. High-profile film releases continue shuffling as theater chains, studios and filmgoers grapple with the fact that an enclosed theater may not be a safe place to be for some time to come.  [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/these-20-home-theater-must-hav.html

FiveThirtyEight made this useful guide on how to vote in each of the U.S. states. Click on your state in the map to see a lot of the information you need in order to cast a ballot this fall — by whatever method you choose. This page will be updated on a regular basis with [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/a-state-by-state-guide-to-voti.html

We live in an older house, and I've replaced a lot of sink and bath washers over the years. My supply was running low so I just ordered this inexpensive assortment of washers. I hope I don't have to use them soon, but it will be nice to have them the next time a faucet [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/this-cheap-grab-bag-o-faucet.html

From one of my favorite Twitter feeds, Bizzarro Bazar: these terrible magic trick. I doubt the 16th-century author tested out this trick to see if it would actually work. He probably just thought it seemed like a cool effect. Image: Twitter

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/an-incredibly-cruel-magic-tric.html

Financial services company Robinhood hired Collins to design its new brand identity. The illustrations Collins commissioned as part of its world-building exercises are beautiful and obviously heavily inspired by the late cartoonist Moebius. From Collins: [From] a visual design perspective, the illustration system really takes center stage. We settled on a vision of the future [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/check-out-this-moebius-style-i.html

Julian Boilen, a full stack software engineer in NYC, created this cool map that lets you see photos of New York City in the late 1930s and 1940s. "Zoom in!" he says. "Every dot is a photo." Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of every building [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/explore-nyc-in-the-1930s-and-1.html