💻 Labor Day was Monday, and if you’re older than a certain age, you remember when Jerry Lewis owned that holiday. Television writer Ken Levine remembers, too. Read I miss Jerry
📰 Men are skipping college in record numbers, and it’s creating an education gap. The Wall Street Journal reports, uncovering some reasons why. Read A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’
💻 Aaron Renn points out — and notes it’s not being widely reported — that the pandemic-style rule by executive order is not popular anywhere along the political spectrum by everyday people. Read The Unpopularity of Rule by Emergency Decree
💻 Your best bet is not to share or retweet that news story, because our confirmation bias is probably behind it, and it could be spreading misinformation. Mike Masnick has a good example to share. Read The Role of Confirmation Bias In Spreading Misinformation
📷 Paul Lovell takes a quick look a the Ihagee Exa, an early SLR with a top shutter speed of 1/150 sec. Read Ihagee Exa
📷 Did you know that Kodak made a genuine TLR after the war? Not one of those pseudo-TLRs, one where the viewing lens focused with the taking lens. Juliet Schwab has the review. Read Kodak Reflex II Review — A Rollei Competitor at a Tenth the Price?
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