• Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply (IEEE Spectrum) Not enough to run your refrigerator, but maybe enough to run your laptop.
• Investor Bill Gross accused of blaring ‘Gilligan’s Island’ song on loop to torment neighbor (LA Times) Clearly the Republicans are right, we must worship teh billionaires. 
• Did You Know Autumn’s Purrfect Fruit, Pumpkin, Is A Year Round Healthy Cat Snack? (Cole & Marmalade) Not sure if I buy it, but it is interesting. 
• ‘Sleeping giant’ Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find (The Guardian) We are screwed.
• Watching AOC in Congress Is Like Watching Jordan at North Carolina (Esquire) AOC 2024.  She turns 35 on October 13, 2024.
• In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code (Ars Technica) Obscurity is never the solution to security.  It was alwyas a question of when this lock got picked.
• John Gray: ‘What can we learn from cats? Don’t live in an imagined future’ (The Guardian) Philosophy for National Cat Day.

The greatest martial arts fight in the history of cinema.
The spear duel in Kurasawa’s The Hidden Fortress: