July 15--Turns out about the only thing in common between Amazon's largely underwhelming Prime Day and Black Friday sales is that they each may be something someone in your family complains about over Thanksgiving dinner.
Guess watching from afar for years without saying anything, then taking pictures to pore over, is no longer seen as creepy and stalkerish. It's a Plutonic relationship.
The most optimistic take on the nuclear deal with Iran says it ensures Middle East stability until the end of time. The least optimistic is it ensures the end of time is only years away.
Iran will likely be ticked when, after all these negotiations, it discovers that its weapons-grade plutonium has been replaced with old pinball parts by Doc Brown, just like Libya. Quick, Marty, the DeLorean!
Researchers at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine believe it may be possible to use smartphones to passively diagnose depression. Imagine your iPhone knowing to arrange delivery of Ben Jerry's without you having to ask or even peek out from under the covers.
Facebook and Twitter are news sources for 63 percent of users, but a Pew report finds only 4 percent of Facebook users and 9 percent on Twitter deem them "most important" sources. The number's higher for tracking death hoaxes, Throwback Thursday and whatever we're outraged about now.
That said, if you're reading this via social media, please post, like, favorite, share and retweet. If reading the print edition, just wad up the page and throw it at someone.
J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" was published 64 years ago Thursday. Salinger died in 2010, but maybe someday someone will publish a draft in which Holden Caulfield is a carefree, popular honors student who thinks everything is swell.
philrosenthal@tribpub.com
