Nate MinorMore than 750 ex-nightclub employees are entitled to damages from their former employers for being forced to make up cash register shortages from their tips, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled. The high court’s ruling reverses the state Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of now-closed party bars Drink and Spin Night Club. Minnesota Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Nate Minor
Kyle Johnson is photographing, with a medium-format camera, every one of the 92 lookout towers in Washington state.
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(Update: NYTimes.com is chugging back to life, as of about 12:15 CDT. The original post is below.) NYTimes.com is down, as of this writing. It’s the first widespread outage in recent memory. The Grey Lady’s official Twitter handle says it’s an internal issue: We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which Read more →
NPR had the story this morning of Amazon.com getting into the fine art selling business: … [San Francisco art gallery manager Danny] Sanchez was eager to partner with Amazon. “They redefined online shopping and I think they have the ability to do that for this new kind of marketplace for art,” he says. The audience Read more →
T.D. “Tommy” Mischke, the quirky and well-loved radio host, announced on his WCCO-AM show last night that he’s leaving the station.
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For me, the canoe is staying at home this year and not heading to the Boundary Waters. Read more →
A new nationwide Gallup poll shows that beer and wine are roughly equally popular among drinkers.
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Freelance writer Michele Catalano, writing on Medium.com, relays the story of how six agents from a “joint terrorism task force” showed up at her house. Read more →
A new report from Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald says an National Security Agency program collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet.’
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After getting shut out of royalties in their breakout hit “Hot Cheetos and Takis” last year, Da Rich Kidzz (formerly Y.N. Rich Kids) are cashing in. At Kmart. Read more →
What is changing from the Vatican is tone, not catechism. Read more →
This Sunday, the moon will be at its closest all year AND it will be full. That’s a recipe for a supermoon, NASA says. Here’s what that looked like last year: Wired has tips on photographing the moon. Let’s just hope for a clear night.
Connor Sheets of the International Business Times reports: A group of employees at Cincinnati’s beleaguered Internal Revenue Service field office used IRS computers and email accounts to exchange dozens of emails during the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election among a group of friends and colleagues dubbed the “Neanderthals,” discussing national politics in Read more →
Turner Barr has been traveling around the world for six years, funding his adventures by working along the way. His blog Around the World in 80 Jobs offers tips and documented his travels, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBhZlaIrJc It was a great success. Then Adecco, a multinational human resources company, started using “Around the World in Read more →
Today’s dispatch from comes from Nagaland, in the north of India. Mary Roach from the Smithsonian Magazine visited a pepper-eating contest there and reports on the science of eating spicy peppers. First, the video: The contestants here are eating Naga King Chilis, often ranked as the world’s hottest. These guys are pros: Competitors have 20 Read more →