Here is another post with five Best of Web links from around the web: the new pandemic rules as we enter a second winter with it, a comprehensive Couchsurfing.com history and its sad current state, the planet’s greatest freediver ever, the 20 inventions that changed the world and amazing facts surrounding them and the best (so far) travel photos of 2021, enjoy!
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Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter
The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.
Hard to believe we are going to spend another winter with the pandemic. This is a MUST read! In its entirety.
Paradise Lost: The Rise and Ruin of Couchsurfing.com
The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
This is a very comprehensive history of the site that has been around for ever. I have never used it because I stay in luxury suites for free hehe. I really learned a lot about how it progressed over the years. It is still around in some form but other platforms have surpassed it. A lot of idealism in the early years but, you know, you can only do something for free until reality hits you in the face.
Anyway, the current ownership is, well, disturbing to put it mildly. Proceed at your own risk.
The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Freediver
With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports.
Well, you know, this guy is going to become a lot more popular when 60 Minutes does a segment about his astonishing feats under the water with a single breath. We will all freak out if we held our breath a fraction of the time he does. Some people are just freaks of nature. And he is a really nice guy too. You read this and you learn all about this sport and then when you get to the part about his mother who dove years ago and just never came up to the surface again…Unbelievable! You can actually see the whole dive here.
The Stories Behind 20 Inventions That Changed the World
These will shock you. I mean, really! You will learn amazing facts about suspension bridges, toilets, the Walkman (I have one in the basement!), the Pill, Super Soaker, the Blood Bank, Space Telescopes, Pizza Box and Table, X-Rays, Wildlife Cams, Duct Tape, Barcodes, Seat Belts, the Microwave, the Can Opener, Velcro, Air Conditioning, Radio, Aquariums and the Lightbulb.
Best Travel Photos of 2021
These are amazing!
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The invention article is wonderful! Thank you.
2x / week TBB is BACK baby!!!!
I had completely forgotten about couchsurfing.com. I remember hearing a lot about them a decade or so ago.
Silver for the glory and honor of…. Spokane, WA! Last day of the road trip, this! I do not understand how them underwater divers like that do not implode or something. That is crazy stuff! Another pandemic winter? I think we could have avoided a LOT of this but for vaccine refusers!
Good to see another post! Glad you had a good time in Moab and at Arches!
Dang, it. I meant Bronze. My bad.
Just want to say all Best of Web articles are wonderful 🙂
2nd post this week, yeah, crazy! And I am thinking to do the unthinkable, post another one on Friday! We shall see how this develops. I need to make the posts smaller because, after almost 9 years blogging, I finally figured out that if you take a week between posts traffic goes WAY down…and that is costing me so much $$$ from all the ads I inflict upon you guys. Hahahaha….
After TBB Board meeting it was decided to give Carl the bronze medal…almost disqualified himself but board members are feeling charitable today.
So, still no Chase Business Ink Unlimited card. Messaged Chase yesterday and they said it was mailed on 9/20 and since I did not get it yet, they canceled it and issued a new one and they are expediting it. Hope it gets here tomorrow to pay my insurance bills and earn another 75k.
Keeping it real here, no clickbait shit like OMAAT:
“Video: 2 Chainz Private Jet Pilots Get In Fight Over Bathroom Use?!”
I would rather watch videos of world record free dives…
Off to run today…we’ll see how it goes…aging and disks notwithstanding…
I think I am going to start rumors and start posting about credit card offers expiring so I can unleash on you my direct affiliate cc links which I have never had! Anyway, the 80k Citi Premier offer is going to go away…someday. If you use my links I post more and whine less #deal
Meant to post this a week or so ago. CBS did a Real World NFL. Made me lol.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FtmRqEQzxa0
Hilarious…I was afraid of Detroit, in the bathroom for a while LOL.
Some non-partisan political stuff for you:
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-pizza
Wait, I thought Trump fixed this too 🙂
Mick Jagger walked into a bar… And nobody noticed:
https://jeremymarkovich.substack.com/p/mick-jagger-charlotte-thirsty-beaver
A few years ago we went to the christening of the daughter of a friend in a small village about an hours drive from London.
After the service one of the parents said ‘Did you see Eric Clapton sitting in the back row?’. I honestly had to say the answer was ‘No’.
He was probably on his phone reading shit at a conspiracy site so everyone ignored him 😉
Saw that Mick Jagger, wild…if true. Heard he painted the red door black 🙂