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4/26/2024
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Numlock News: April 26, 2024 • Finches, IndyCar, Swift Books
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Push-to-Pass In IndyCar racing, drivers get a budgeted amount of time where they can use extra power called “push-to-pass,” which is activated through a button on
4/25/2024
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Numlock News: April 25, 2024 • Octocorals, Pinyin, Wizards
By Walt Hickey Digital Books Libraries pay extra when it comes to e-books that they lend out, and it can pinch them financially. For instance, Britney Spears' memoir The Woman In Me cost a library
4/24/2024
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Numlock News: April 24, 2024 • Chartreuse, Muskrats, Chicken Soup for the Soul
By Walt Hickey Chicken Soup The sentence “Chicken Soup for the Soul lost $636.6 million last year” is certainly a weird one, but I must assure you it did in fact happen. The brand, which expanded
4/23/2024
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Numlock News: April 23, 2024 • Mondo, Hydrox, Wingspan
By Walt Hickey Hydrox The packaged cookie business is a $9 billion category, and more than $4 billion of that is Oreo alone, owned by CPG colossus Mondelēz, with not only the flagship Oreo and the
4/22/2024
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Numlock News: April 22, 2024 • Ghosts, Crocs, Quasi-Moon
By Walt Hickey Next Big Thing Terence Reilly made his name as the guy who made Crocs, the brand of clogs, into a genuinely hot item over the course of a five-year stint as chief marketing officer. In
4/19/2024
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Numlock News: April 19, 2024 • Antarctica, Counterfeits, Eisbock
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Hipgnosis Over the past several years plenty of artists have cashed out by selling their catalogs to the Hipgnosis Songs Fund, including Journey, Justin Bieber,
4/18/2024
10 : 24
Numlock News: April 18, 2024 • Helena, Canned, Moons
By Walt Hickey Trial of the Century A long national nightmare draws to a close as finally a conflict that has cleaved the nation in twain, has pitted brother against brother, has severed the very
4/17/2024
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Numlock News: April 17, 2024 • Cables, Kelp, Visas
By Walt Hickey Welcome The US Citizenship and Immigration Service has hiked the price for a visa to get into the United States for a global musician on tour. Prior to the first of the month, it cost
4/16/2024
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Numlock News: April 16, 2024 • Tracker, Dungeons & Dragons, The Boy and the Heron
By Walt Hickey First Class The cost of a Forever US postage stamp will rise from 68 cents to 73 cents in July, following a price hike just this past January and the sixth increase since January 2021.
4/15/2024
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Numlock News: April 15, 2024 • Wrexham, Cats, Roguelike
By Walt Hickey Herding Cats Cats are having a moment in Hollywood, appearing in central roles in films like The Marvels, A Quiet Place: Day One and Argylle, as well as television shows and more. This
4/13/2024
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Numlock News: April 10, 2024 • Curling, Lefties, Smugglers
By Walt Hickey Gold Authorities in Hong Kong have made what officials say is the single largest gold smuggling bust in the city's history, identifying 146 kilograms of gold that have been disguised
4/13/2024
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Numlock News: April 11, 2024 • World of Warcraft, Jeopardy!, Strip Malls
By Walt Hickey WoW Blizzard Entertainment has cut a new deal with Chinese gaming titan NetEase that will bring World of Warcraft back to China. Previously, the companies had a 14-year running
4/13/2024
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Numlock News: April 12, 2024 • Jake, Grizzly Bears, Ajinomoto
By Walt Hickey Podcasts Enterprising actors are making money by pretending to be podcasters or guests on video for the purposes of advertisements, all for the sake of injecting at-a-glance believable
4/9/2024
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Numlock News: April 9, 2024 • Camels, Angry, Eiffel Tower
By Walt Hickey Exciting personal news at the new day job! Sherwood News, where I currently serve as executive editor, has launched! I'm incredibly proud of the site, so be sure to check it out.
4/8/2024
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Numlock News: April 8, 2024 • Coyotes, Cochlear, Shōgun
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Coyote The NHL's Arizona Coyotes have been in a comical limbo, having departed their arena in Glendale in 2022 and temporarily set up shop at the 4600-seat Mullett
4/5/2024
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Numlock News: April 5, 2024 • Salmon, Agave, Pollo
By Walt Hickey Agave The price of agave has slipped calamitously in Mexico as the effects of the tequila boom cause a major surplus of the agave used to make it. As recently as 18 months ago, a
4/4/2024
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Numlock News: April 4, 2024 • Beetles, Termites, Bones
By Walt Hickey South Carolina An imbroglio in South Carolina follows the government's discovery of $1.8 billion languishing in a bank account as legislators attempt to figure out precisely where
4/3/2024
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Numlock News: April 3, 2024 • Tomorrowland, Imax, Vocations
By Walt Hickey Meth Myanmar is a massive producer and exporter of methamphetamine all across of southeast Asia, from India to Australia, as a country roiled by war turns to illicit pharmaceuticals to
4/2/2024
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Numlock News: April 2, 2024 • Dwayne Johnson, Macau, Owls
By Walt Hickey The Right Fine, I Guess, Stuff Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology is a private higher ed institution that trains pilots and air traffic controllers, right by La Guardia airport
4/1/2024
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Numlock News: April 1, 2024 • Godzilla x Kong, Carpathia, Acacia
By Walt Hickey Reminder: Today is the worst day on the internet. Beware of what you see! Fear not, Numlock is functioning as normal. Reliable Talent The box office remains on a roll, as Godzilla x Kong