Fresh Daily – Week of 6/8/20
The Internet Age, so much information. It’s a struggle to keep the time we spend each day consuming it within reasonable limits. To that end, we offer this curated list of daily links of interest…
Fresh Daily – Week of 6/1/20
Covered this week; Lenny Dykstra, douchebag for the ages… Mass protests in the US, is this time different? A walk-thru of Logic Pro’s new drum synth… George Will unravels Donald Trump… The ups and down of being Trump’s star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame… Better Call Saul gets the point of prestige TV… Brand’s most effectively standing with Black Lives Matter…
Fresh Daily – Week of 5/25/20
Covered this week; What went wrong in Trump’s first real crisis – and what does it mean for the US? How baseball, or any sports return, is an extremely fraught journey… New bicycle sales soar during pandemic… Only one generation stands out as social distancing pros… Some info about Pac-Man you’ve (most likely) never heard before… Social Media, the new cigarettes… Christo, leaves this mortal coil at 84…
Fresh Daily – Week of 5/11/20
Covered this week; Jerry Stiller heads up to heaven for his airing of grievances… Google Street View camera rigs are pretty cool… Apple should be in charge of the United States… Stream a show from the Purple Rain Tour through Sunday night… Checkin’ in with Stewart Copeland at the Sacred Grove… Fred Willard dies at 86… A 3-minute mash-up of 1986’s best…
Fresh Daily – Week of 5/4/20
Covered this week; The dark side of 21st century capitalism… And you thought you were having an original thought… The portable Paul Krassner, a 2017 interview… Because ‘his brain is a gilded bowl of rotten nectarines’, Trump dissected… New Banksy art unveiled at hospital to thank doctors and nurses… 50 song mash-up from 1984… Tim Bray goes viral, Tim Bray gets some feedback…
Fresh Daily – Week of 4/27/20
Covered this week; A little deeper examination of Andreessen’s ‘It’s Time to Build’… It would appear the legal weed experience in Illinois, sucks… Assessing climate risks associated with specific Earthly locals… The history of McDonald’s McRib Sandwich… What about facial recognition algorithms when the face being read is masked? What better time to communicate with you then when you’re on the toilet?
Fresh Daily – Week of 4/20/20
Covered this week; The Coronavirus stole Earth Day 2020, let’s move it to November 3rd… The coronavirus didn’t break America, it just revealed what was already broken… Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Google Play Store, but they’re not happy about it… The Apple Watch, five years in… The story of Dennis Rodman’s tattoo t-shirts… Trump, breaking his arm patting himself on the back…
Fresh Daily – Week of 4/13/20
Covered this week; Apple and Google detail bold plan to track Covid-19 at scale… Something gives me the feeling that the near-future will be grimmer than I expected… Looking back to the roots of the Rolling Stones iconic logo… Brian Dennehy dead at 81… The eerie silence of the Las Vegas Strip… Am I the Asshole? Covid-19 is killing off the myth that we are the greatest country on earth.
Fresh Daily – Week of 4/6/20
Covered this week; Do you have a (fuckin’) plan? Tapper rings Trump’s bell… Don’t cough into your hand, Koloskus ranks some Covid graphics… Sadly, John Prine dies of Covid19 at 73… Chicago’s Lakeview Neighborhood of the mid to late 80’s… How responsible is this TikTok girl for the reaction she inspired? Welcome to the Trumpocalypse, fuck the religious right and other stories… SNL Music Producer Hal Willner, gone way to soon at 64…
Fresh Daily – Week of 3/30/20
Covered this week; Back from hiatus, spurred by a global pandemic… The life, and sad loss of William Helmreich… On the horizon, the authorized biography of The Ox… Regarding Amazon’s mistreatment of its workers… Bill Withers, dies at 81… When the buggiest of software is also the most popular… What would we do without the internet right now?