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Two social media influencers and a transgender woman emerged as three of the top vote-getters in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies elections. [...]
The merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed Tuesday, creating Skydance, which will be the new parent company. [...]
Police arrested a seventh person Tuesday in connection to an alleged terror attack attempt on the Fairford air force base in Britain. [...]
New Cuban customs rules will allow people who bring clothing, food, medicine and other goods that exceed limits to clear them as commercial imports. [...]
Members of Cornell University's faculty have introduced a resolution calling for a no-confidence vote over how the school handled rape allegations. [...]
This artist’s concept depicts a possible explanation for the unusual chemical abundances NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected in the HS 0209+0832 system: a second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf star. [...]
NASA astronaut and mission specialist of the agency's Artemis II mission, Christina Koch, led the fans in singing the Eagles Fight Song from the field at an NFL game between [...]
An engineering model of NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) descent probe passed a key test that ran from Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, [...]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, [...]
This long-duration image shows star trails above Earth and the blue lights of fishing boats and the yellow lights of Indonesian cities stretching below the International Space Station as it [...]
• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies [...]
The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. [...]
A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, [...]
Author Archives: Kip
And Jobs said, let there be the iPhone…
Ah. I received my big birthday present early this year. Now, just so y’all know I’m not spoiled silly, I kicked in $450 towards what I got — which is, obviously, if ya read the dang title, an iPhone. Here … Continue reading
Kip Lang in your attic, Kip Lang on your plate at dinner
A’ight. I gotta write this, just for the search engines, because so many people screw up my name. For the record, again, my name is Kip Lange, with an E, but a lot of people think there’s no E, so, … Continue reading
1080p versus 720p (again)
Okay, folks, even I get caught up in the 1080p hype these days. But, as always, don’t believe the hype. Here’s what I’ve learned in the seven months since I’ve owned my truly excellent 720p Panasonic. There’s no doubt that … Continue reading
Fuck You, David Chase
That’s all I really wanted to say. One more time: Fuck you, David Chase.Fucker.
Playstation Firmware 1.80 — upscaling DVDs and PS2 and PS1 games to HD
Well, I gotta say, Sony may have screwed some things up in terms of launching the PS3, but since it’s been out, they’ve been doing a breakneck job of getting up to speed. Most of the third party games have … Continue reading
Vonnegut’s dead, uh, yeah.
Someone wrote that Kurt Vonnegut is dead and I should write something. Okay. Here: Kurt Vonnegut is dead. I never cared for Vonnegut. I found his writing to be turgid, and even Slaughterhouse-Five bored the crap out of me. So … Continue reading
One cold frickin’ Easter Morning
Yeah. Right. I get this great idea, at 3:15 AM last Saturday night, that I’ll drive down to the house in Eastham (Cape Cod), open it up for the summer, air it out a little, maybe walk along the beach, … Continue reading
Playstation firmware updated to 1.60
Just a quick note/reminder to PS3 owners — plug that ethernet cable in, because Sony has just released version 1.60 of the PS3 firmware. If you’re having troubles connecting to the network with your PS3, you can always get the … Continue reading
Perhaps all women aren’t insane…
Well, I do have to report good news. I got in touch with an old friend whom I parted with on less than great terms — an old female friend, not a girlfriend, but a good friend. And the young … Continue reading
Splitfish introduces a first-person shooter mouse system for the Playstation 3
Yep, it’s true. We may not have rumble back yet, but for all of you people out there who, like me, like first-person shooters better when you have the freedom and precision of a mouse over the (for FP shooters) … Continue reading
