Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Feds execute search warrant at Giuliani's residence, says NYT

Federal investigators seized Rudy Giuliani's electronic devices in a search warrant at his Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan today, reports The New York Times. Sources told the paper that the warrant is part of a criminal investigation into Giuliani's dealings with Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden. — Read the rest



Two bars of soap morph into Godzilla and King Kong

For all you soap whittlers (or wannabes) out there, watch these hands and their carving tools quickly transform soap into Godzilla and King Kong. This is the first video on YouTube's new The Workbench Show, with hopefully more to come.



Mars helicopter Ingenuity snapped a fantastic aerial photo of the Perseverance rover

During Sunday's third flight of the fantastic Mars helicopter Ingenuity, it snapped the image below in which you can see the Perseverance rover that delivered the chopper to the Red Planet and acts as its base station for communications to Earth. — Read the rest



Tech startup that banned political discussion turns out to have maintained internal list of funny names to laugh at

Two days ago, the project management startup Basecamp publicly and ostentatiously declared that it was banning political discussion among its employees at work. This led to a debate over the usual topics of racism, wokeness and corporate responsibility. It was noted that the one of the gentlemen shutting down workers' distruptive chitter chatter had not been made happy by the purchase of yellow lamborghini, and that he would perhaps not be made happy by this either. — Read the rest