Best Of The Web: Vol. 3
Why are these phones so damn nosy?
Welcome to our monthly news roundup, Best of the Web, a curation content you may have missed of late—the kind worthy of your attention (notice how we dodged politics?).
If you know of a great website, podcast, shop or anything else a man of taste would enjoy, drop us a line at info@crownshavingco.com. There’s a chance we’ll publish your recommendation. And if you like, we’ll even give you a shout-out right here on this blog.
Grooming
MeetYour 2022 Kid Mullet Champion.
Menomonie, Wisconsin’s Emmitt Bailey is this year’s Kid Mullet Champion.
The 8-year-old and his blonde, fastidiously kept business-in-the-front-and-party-in-the-backer beat out five competitors to clinch the hallowed claim of owning the best kid mullet in America. When asked what he’d do with his cash prize, he said, “Buy a go-kart…because I want to race.”
Legend.
Cayden Kershaw of Wasaua, Wisconsin, took home the best teen mullet title.
What is it with Wisconsin and mullets?
How can one not love this?
(Via The Washington Post)
Mother Earth
Atlantic Canada Took It Right On The Chin With Hurricane Fiona
Our thoughts and prayers are with our Canadian brothers and sisters our East as Atlantic Canada reels post-hurricane Fiona.
What started as a category four tropical storm that rocked Bermuda last Friday eventually downgraded to a two before it hit Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and other parts of the Maritimes, but the damage was still too much for humbler parts of the area to bear, as buildings washed into the sea and more than 200,000 people were left without electricity.
The Canadian military has since been dispatched to help.
(Via the Globe & Mail)
Two Blooddrunk Orcas Are Serially Killing (And Eating) Great White Sharks Off The Coast Of South Africa
You people and your notion that sharks are scary, when in reality, it’s the orca whale who’s long claimed the throne to ocean master.
For the last three months, “Port” and “Starboard” have been stalking, ambushing, and otherwise ending great whites and, more specifically, eating their livers. Based on experts cited in that Forbes article, it’s “believed the orcas responsible for these kills may be members of a rare shark-eating morphotype.”
(Via Forbes)
Business
A Lot Of Folks Have No Clue How Much Their Company’s Worth, And Why It’s Critical That They Should
When it come to mid-size and family businesses in America, too many have no actual grasp of how much they’re worth. The Harvard Business review offers some novel solutions.
(Via HBR)
How To Cut Costs Like A Pro When You Run Your Own Show
From auditing yourself to outsourcing work the right way, Entrepreneur.com shows you how to save serious cash whilst building your business.
(Via Entrepreneur.com)
Tech
TikTok’s Recording All Keystrokes Typed Into Your Phone
So it begins.
A couple weeks ago, U.S. Representative, Dusty Johnson of South Dakota, introduced a bill that’ll ban TikTok, a Chinese, video-sharing social media platform (of which you may have heard), from being used in government over reports that the app’s browser logs user keystrokes, which technically means they’re logging people’s passwords, and who knows what else.
This after the lid was blown last month by ex-Google engineer, Felix Krause, who exposed Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram) for Javascript injection, or “the practice of adding extra code to a webpage before it is displayed to a user.”
(Via Hindustan Times)
Sports
Pro Tennis Legend, Roger Federer, Retires At 41
Widely considered the GOAT of his sport, Swiss tennis legend, Roger Federer, retired last Friday after losing a doubles match at this year’s Laver Cup. His partner? Only Rafa Nadal. But the duo lost a nail biter — an 11-9 tiebreak — to a formidable American pair in Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe.
You know the guy wished he’d won his last go, but after 20 Grand Slams and 24 years hustling his peers at the top level, doubt he’ll care come Monday.
Hats off to you, Mr. Federer.
(via ESPN)
Get Ready For A Barnstormer Between The Jays And The Yankees This Week
Major League Baseball’s American League East division is about to do what the AL East always does—erupt into an all-out brawl for a guaranteed right to play postseason baseball next month… all while the Boston Red Sox watch. Man, even Baltimore’s good again.
Not sorry, Red Sox.
Our boys could only manage one win out of three games against the Rays this weekend, which puts a nice dent in their hopes to win the hardest division in pro baseball and, more importantly, snag that all-important first round bye.
Here’s where things get fun: The Jays, who sit first in the AL Wild Card race (just above the Rays, Mariners and Orioles), are set to duke it out with everyone’s most hated team in sports, the New York Yankees (sorry, but not sorry, New York), in a three-game stint this week that’ll not only confirm who’s king of the AL East this year, but whether or not the Jays even make the playoffs.
Things are heating up, just how we like it.
(Via Jays Journal)