Today's news and jokes

And one last example, not mentioned in the piece but much-loved by me: the Casio QL-10, which, yes, came with a built in cigarette lighter. From the zenith of pocket calculator commodification, when companies were trying anything they could to shift products. pic.twitter.com/65P7Wvgtty

— James Vincent (@jjvincent) September 27, 2023

(Deleted, so here's a detailed look)

I was wondering when this was going to get out.....https://t.co/txLEjeoPfD

— Matt Brown (@MattBrownEP) February 11, 2025

guessed a store’s bathroom code using the street address pic.twitter.com/80mFZjzImB

— helmet girl (@sbodrojan) January 12, 2025

For the youngsters out there, these are:
- a coin holder for paying at the toll booth
- a "car phone" (meant you were a big wheel to have one back in the day)
- a 5-disc CD changer (also has a tape deck in the cockpit). pic.twitter.com/yyHTUnB3UJ

— Tom Shugart (@tshugart3) January 15, 2025

til that while filming tokyo drift, the crew couldn't get a permit to film a scene in shibuya, but they filmed it anyway and paid a guy to pretend to be the director and spend a night in jail instead of the actual director

— “paula” (@paularambles) January 13, 2025

I'm assuming this is true

fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped

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— Joe Wintergreen. buy influx redux (@joewintergreen.com) January 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Today (or rather sleepless at 3am), I learned that Iran tests their ejection seats with an F-5 cockpit j-b weldeded to the tail of a Tu-154M.👀

Just wanted to share. Carry on. 🫡 pic.twitter.com/TTWkdyZdGv

— Tim Farmer (@timfarmer) January 16, 2025

@atlas.the.golden.boy

Based on a true story. I’m in moms schedule and my bru is killing the night time vibe 🤎🙉🐾

♬ Welp, Didn't Expect That - Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX

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