Disappointing that they didn't make it a bit further into the year so that they could run as Spirit Halloween Airlines for a couple months before shutting down.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/spirit-airlines-bailout-shut-down-rcna343089

This is a grapevine. it's crazy what you can do in warm climates.

In Iowa there are wild grapes, but it is basically a new vine every year.

In Germany there is a law that makes it trivial to get online reviews of your company removed by sending legal threats to the reviewers. As you would expect, this has been completely co-opted by "reputation management" kinds of companies who will polish your Google Maps review to 4.9 by getting most 1-3 star reviews deleted.

I was glad to see today that Google is finally responding to the falseness of the resulting score, at least a little bit.

In a better world they'd just ban the place.

Amazing story of a camera network in New Zealand seeing a fireball, setting out to find the meteor and it showing up basically instantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qPyBxLKMhg

Additive manufacturing "solid" objects by knitting. They made a CAD program that can output a pattern for layer-based knitting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rld9zOaUzU