Wednesday, August 18, 2021

The Absinthe Enthusiasts Hiding Bottles in the Swiss Woods

 

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
~ Charles Bukowski

A fleet of winged underwater robots will patrol the seas for the US Navy Popular Science. 


Global Warming Over a Lifetime

The Absinthe Enthusiasts Hiding Bottles in the Swiss Woods

Fontaine des Fées, Buttes

In the Val-de-Travers valley, people never stopped distilling the spirit. Full article on Gastro Obscura.


Goodreads Has An Extortion Problem

The site has a bullying problem, too. Huge traffic and inadequate moderation have allowed "review bombers" to threaten authors: Pay us or we'll flood your book with bad reviews and tank its rating. (Or maybe we'll do it just for kicks.) - Time


Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Six: With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics

Uber continues to hemorrhage cash and rack up impressive negative operating margins, yet the press eats up its accounting misdirection.