For the most part, I find John Oliver’s show underwhelming and annoying, but his takedown of Vince McMahon is well done.
Interplanetary Travel Posters
Lynx Art Collection makes and sells these prints advertising alluring interplanetary opportunities.
The Shredder Shredder–Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cheese Grater
I’m not making this up. I wish I was, but I’m not.
1927 Paramount Studio Map of Filming Locations
Via Reddit comes this map purportedly used in 1927 by Paramount Studios to determine where to film in California and Nevada to best match other locales.
It Is 2019, and ESPN Still Doesn’t Give a S— About Its Users’ Security
Why the f— is ESPN still not using TLS in 2019? This is extremely irresponsible behavior from a company owned by one of the largest media companies in the world (Disney). There are zero excuses for putting its users at risk this way.
USC Didn’t Forget About Dre
Honestly, donating $70 million to a university to name a building after you and get your daughter admitted is pretty gangsta.
Dr. Dre wrote that his daughter Truly was accepted to the University of Southern California “all on her own” on Saturday. Given the college admissions scandal that’s still making headlines, this was a strange brag — the school literally has a building named after him.
“My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own. No jail time!!!” Dre wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post. Presumably, it was deleted because people quickly pointed out a $70 million donation he made to the school with executive Jimmy Iovine in 2013, which funded the Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation. (Dr. Dre’s legal name is Andre Young.)