Welcome to your Friday Roundup, assembled by me, The New Guy. Because it’s my first time putting one of these together, I hope you’ll go easy on me (but definitely send me all your feedback, good or bad).
Actually, I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time. A loyal Roundup reader myself, I particularly love the Song of the Day. I patiently read the entire Roundup, saving the SotD for last — like the tip of a waffle cone, full of melty, vanilla goodness. And now I get to pick one myself!
By way of an indroduction, I design web pages, sub-sites like and and for The Post on weekdays, and spend the rest of my time photographing Colorado and writing about pre-digital cameras. My favorite Colorado beer is Red Rocket Ale from Bristol Brewing in the Springs, I don’t ski, and I make breakfast every morning in my great-grandmother’s cast-iron skillet.
Now that we’re better acquianted, it’s Roundup time!
The Big Stuff
Time to break out your
Today’s weather will start off unremarkable for December but the , bringing snow this evening and sub-zero overnight lows. You might even need a jacket, Coloradans. Or that hand-knit that’s probably waiting impotently under the tree (or equivalent).
Saturday fares no better, with a daytime high of 5 degrees on tap for the Metro area and an overnight low of 10 below zero queued up to hit early Sunday. If you’re heading into the mountains to slide down them on those slippery sticks and boards, expect to test your patience — the snow has already started falling up there.
Our shows things improving slightly toward the end of the weekend.
Adams County pot tax ruled invalid
The that a 3 percent sales tax on recreational marijuana that Adams County has been collecting since July 2015 violates the rules set out by Amendment 64. Now the county could be on the hook for .
Related: A three-page DEA filing on marijuana extracts, including CBD, was published this week in the U.S. Federal Register, .
Can the Broncos stop Bill Belichick’s offense?
The Patriots coach excels at exploiting weaknesses and reacting to changing game conditions at a moment’s notice, . And Aqib Talib knows better than to let himself fall victim to the head games Belichick’s been playing this week, heaping praise on Talib and the Broncos’ secondary.
Preparation is going to be the most important factor for the Broncos’ defense this week — more than at any other point this season.
A hacker atones
Crime writer extraordinaire reports: “Once an enabler for internet blackmailers, Greek computer programmer Athanasios ‘Thaos’ Andrianakis, 27, now , using artificial intelligence tools to write software that exposes child pornographers and ferrets out clients who violate the company’s pornography prohibition.”
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The Rundown
* Today’s starts out okay, but them gets cold. Also, the .
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* Articles: , , and will take you to today’s list of articles, no matter the day. It’s always Today in Denver.
By The Numbers
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That’s how many 2016 lighting displays have been submitted to . Check it out to build your own festive tour route, or ! (Note: DO NOT CLICK the “Enable Festive View” link in the top right corner! You will regr … You already clicked it, didn’t you? I knew you would.)
Quick Hits
+ in response to the fake news frenzy that’s grown more and more heated since the election.
+ The Winter Park Express ski train is , and CenturyLink is going to help cover the costs (in exchange for their name wrapped around three cars and the locamotive).
+ Oskar Blues Fooderies will bring smoked meats and 43 beers on tap next summer, as well as something called a “grotto.”
+ If their record hasn’t turned you off completely, the Rockies have announced , and if they have, join me in considering this (Sorry, Colorado. Not sorry).
+ The temptation to steal a car when you miss your bus may be strong, but putting thought into action for a man in Grand Junction.
+ . ‘Nuff said.
+ You already know, loyal reader, that billions of Yahoo accounts were revealed yesterday to have been compromised. The record mega-breach (Yahoo beat its own record here) shows .
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+ — and for just $2.75 million.
+ Robin Hickenlooper () is among .
+ Ah, the holidays. That time of year with a few cookies, a little festive lighting, and a whole heaping lot of fraud. .
+ Apparently I’m full of holiday cheer today, because here’s more: over the past 100 years or so.
Super-good deal: . You could go looking for a better deal but that sounds like a lot of work and plus you’re already here.
What We’re Reading
+ “Howdy” and “Doody” don’t overlap geographically as much you’d think, according to , a look at where the 100,000 word are used the most, according to Twitter data.
+ , which pulled no punches and led to the President-elect to tweet his displeasure on Thursday.
+ High resolution, high speed video of is considerably more exciting than it has any right to be.
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+ Aspen Institute CEO and Steve Jobs (among others) biographer Walter Isaacson says the internet is broken. .
+ Meet Louis Mendes, .
+ How have I never heard of “Iowa Sushi” before? These “Holiday Pickle Wraps” may be .
Trump Stuff
+ A group of electors who were on Tuesday denied a ruling that would allow them to vote for whomever they choose in a bid to block Donald Trump from the presidency have .
+ Bloomberg examines President-elect and concludes it has a lot of white men, and not very much government experience. And they have .
+ Top U.S. diplomats say the country . “What happens beyond our borders affects us very, very directly,” retired ambassador Ryan Crocker told The Denver Post, citing the Sept. 11 attacks and World War II as examples of what can happen when Americans recoil.
+ The Obama administration in Russian hacking interferance that may have helped Trump win the presidency.
+ In a Letter to the Editor today, a reader asks: “?”
Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Shonen Knife
Sounds like: Teletunes. Do you remember ? That’s where I first heard all-female Japanese pop punk superstars Shonen Knife (it was the “” video). I can’t not listen to this one at least twice.
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Hat Tips and Corrections
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