Odd Stuff (Part 4)

Passport photos of a young Alan Moore, prior to his growing a beard. SOURCE: THE EXTRAORDINARY WORKS OF ALAN MOORE (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2003)

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Obligatory…

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More than 20 shipping containers line the south side of a Navy base in Gulfport, Mississippi. They’re not there to transport goods, but instead stand as a silent marker of the gun violence afflicting the state’s second-largest city.

The hulking boxes were put in place last fall, after gunfire at a subsidized apartment complex across the street damaged five homes inside the Naval Construction Battalion Center; no one was hurt. The base responded by increasing patrols around its perimeter and making one of the most fortified areas of Gulfport even more so.

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Can we get one that has the Talking Moose on the uppermost layer in MacOS6 and 7 desktop?

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Tom Cruise & James Join ‘The Lion King’ Cast

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Ghosts Hot Take GIF by CBS

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Ryan Reynolds Reaction GIF

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Parking violations.

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The 2005 Radio Scandal Was a Glorious Mess

A little-remembered scandal back in '04-'05 gave a revealing and hilarious look into music industry corruption. Dozens of popular bands, from Pearl Jam to Norah Jones, relied on a playbook of unscrupulous tactics in order to get their songs played on the radio. “Gifted” playstations, six-figure payola schemes, hiring college kids to make phony song requests: These were among the tricks employed just to stay on the Billboard chart an extra week.

The 2005 radio payola scandal is a disturbing reminder how much the mainstream music market was, and continues to be, fixed. It’s also, in retrospect, really, really entertaining.

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For some reason Youtube’s algorithm thought that I wanted to watch Jamiroquai memes all last month.

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Help it get a water break?

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941

A submersible that takes tourists to the Titanic shipwreck has gone missing off the North American coast in the Atlantic

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