The Maxwell Street Polish is an essential part of every Chicago hot dog stand, and it's so easy you should make one at home next time you grill.

My favorite part of any Law & Order episode is when detectives question a neighbor or bystander about the perp or the crime. In this four-second snippet, the New Yorker being questioned by the police does not know anything, has not seen anything, but adds unmistakable New York City ambiance to the episode.

Parts of a federal bill meant to strengthen safety standards on cruise ships are set to become law.

The Florida Legislature added a provision to a general transportation bill that would overturn Key West voters' attempts to limit cruise ship operations on the island.

Spoilers included to protect people from the experience of watching a terrible movie. (content warning: sexual violence against women)

A New York Post reporter claimed she was 'ordered' to write an 'incorrect' story on Kamala Harris and 'welcome kits' for migrant children.

Most Mondays and Tuesdays, former President Donald Trump skips golf to confer with aides about the week ahead.

The pre-modern buildings that we venerate are sometimes said to be more than 1,000 years old. “The same people that built the Capitol in Washington built the pyramids in Egypt,” Skaar says. (paywalled but I can paste the text of the article)

"Calibri in Office" could almost drive (15 years old), but a new sans serif will soon emerge.

In the last post, I mentioned the Twitter response to the Brazilian rejection of the Gamaleya vaccine. I believe that the official blue-check-marked “Sputnik V” Twitter account is run by the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the sovereign-wealth part of the Russian state that is in charge of rolling out the vaccine to different countries. In that case, the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund needs to clean up its act. I say that because of their aggressive political marketing. Here’s a tweet from earlier today, all about how countries that are “independent enough” to not only use “Western” vaccines but also the Russian and Chinese ones are doing better in the pandemic. But beyond this, they have also posted tweets about the safety record of their vaccine and others in Hungary, specifically claiming that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has “32x the death rate” and “6x the infection rate” of their own vaccine. That follows up on a tweet claiming that data across several international health sources shows that there is a higher death rate after administration of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as well. These claims are bullshit. Posting them is a disgrace.

A Maryland defense attorney has decided to challenge the conviction of one of his clients after it was recently discovered that the phone cracking product used in the case, produced by digital forensics firm Cellebrite, has severe cybersecurity flaws that could make it vulnerable to hacking. Ramon Rozas, who has practiced law for 25 years, told Gizmodo that he was compelled to pursue a new trial after reading a widely shared blog post written by Moxie Marlinspike, the CEO of encrypted chat app Signal. It was just about a week ago that Marlinspike brutally dunked on Cellebrite—writing, in a searing takedown, that the company’s products lacked basic “industry-standard exploit mitigation defenses,” and that security holes in its software could easily be exploited to manipulate data during cell phone extraction.

A rockslide forced the closure of a road through Boulder Canyon in Colorado on Tuesday.

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – Body camera footage of sheriff's deputies fatally shooting a Black man won't immediately be released after a judge ruled Wednesday to allow at least a month for state authorities to complete an investigation into the shooting. Andrew Brown Jr.'s family will be allowed to view additional footage of his death, Judge Jeffery Foster ruled. He also would reconsider whether to release the videos in 30 to 45 days, after the State Bureau of Investigation completes its inquiry and a charging decision can be made. Brown was shot five times, including once in the back of his head, by deputies serving warrants at his home in Elizabeth City last week, an independent autopsy commissioned by his family and released Tuesday showed. His death caused a week of peaceful protests amid demands for accountability and transparency.

I’m old enough to remember when people bought and sold gold coins in private transactions. I guess we’d call that peer-to-peer today. I’m old enough to remember when well-meaning people would have earnest conversations about gold as a reserve currency, just like well-meaning people today have those earnest conversations about Bitcoin. I’m old enough to remember how quickly those conversations died out after State Street launched GLD in 2004 and took in a billion dollars in a few days. Turns out people didn’t really want the grumpy grandpa identity of owning physical gold in some Mad Max world as much as they wanted gold! TM in their financial portfolios as an abstracted insurance policy against central bank error. It’s exactly the same with Bitcoin! TM today.

A hardcore show with over 1,000 maskless attendees was held in NYC at Tompkins Square Park over the weekend. Turns out the permit for the show was filed under the guise of it being a "September 11 memorial."

Here’s a little update on the false story published by the New York Post that claimed the Biden administration was giving out copies of Vice President Kamala Harris’s book to migrant children held in federal shelters: the author of that story, Laura Italiano, has resigned, and claims she was “ordered to write” what she described as an “incorrect story.”

Prosecutors obtained the warrant as part of an investigation into whether Mr. Giuliani broke lobbying laws as President Trump’s personal lawyer.

Iowa’s largest hog producer courted power and turned farming into a numbers game. Businesses like it are increasingly the norm.

A decade is an eternity in internet years. But people still haven’t forgotten the British politician’s errant tweet, and he’s still playing along.

A video purporting to show an NYPD detective facing an attack on Monday is raising questions among Twitter users.