Charles Clyde Ebbets (1905 – 1978) was an American photographer who took the iconic photograph "Lunch atop a Skyscraper." The 1932 photo was taken as a publicity stunt to promote the sky scraper called the RCA Building. While there is some uncertainty about the true...
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The Best Life Hacks Ever
I discovered these wise gems in David Brooks NY Times column. He discovered them in Kevin Kelly's Technium blog. Kevin is a tech journalist who shared these for his 68th, 69th and 70th birthdays + + + When you have 90 percent of a large project completed, finishing up...
YouTube Shorts 30 Billion Views
YouTube is focusing more resources into their new YouTube Shorts which is a short-form video platform designed to compete with TikTok. The new platform, YouTube Shorts, now averages more than 30 billion daily views, according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Alphabet is...
Toy Video Billions
By Ryan ToysReview - Ryan ToysReview, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60637274 "Ryan's World" is a YouTube channel for children aged 2–6 featuring 10 year old Ryan Kaji (born 2011.) One of the channel's videos, entitled "Huge Eggs Surprise Toys...
Free Photoshop Clone
Photopea is an open source image editor that looks and works like Photoshop. You will think it is Photoshop, but this runs in your web browser. So you don't have to install anything. You don't have to worry about updates because you are always running the latest...
What Can Free Online Courses Do For You?
Let's start with Khan Academy. The goal of Khan Academy is to create set of online tools that help educate students. Short lessons in videos and supplementary practice exercises are all free. No contracts or ads. Many of the lessons are intended for students, but for...
Wildlife Cameras Record Surprising Visitors
Wildlife Cameras also known as Trail Cameras can open a fascinating world of rarely seen wildlife. Is someone raiding the lettuce in your garden? Catch them with a wildlife camera. Even if you don't live in the country, suburban areas attract surprising amounts of...
10-Second Video Sells For $6 Mil. Discover Non-Fungible Tokens
Non-fungible tokens may change everything. Art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile paid nearly $67,000 for a 10-second video artwork. He could have watched it online for free. He sold it recently for $6.6 Million. A video artist who goes by the name Beeple created that...
VHS Resurgence
The VHS format is obsolete. Nevertheless, there are vast libraries of films and TV shows on VHS that are unavailable elsewhere. There is a big nostalgia factor even though the last VCR was manufactured in 2006. There is also a surprising market for prerecorded VHS...
Feel Good TV Stories
"Alex Trebek's wardrobe donated to help Americans in need" "Louisiana sanitation workers help police find missing girl" "Amanda Gorman recites powerful original poem at Super Bowl LV" These are just a few of the "Uplift Stories" from CBS news. The TV networks use...
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