Internet

We're all dirty in one way or another. It's just a matter of HOW dirty was YOUR state?

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The Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness is currently taking applications from Kent County residents who need help paying for rent or utilities. $39 million will be given out to those in need as part of COVID Emergency Rental Assistance (CERA).

Need Internet access? Grand Rapids Public Library has launched a new Hotspot Lending Program.

The library is working with community organizations to help lend out mobile hotspots for remote learning.

It may be hard to remember, but we haven't always lived in a world where every piece of information imaginable was readily available via smartphones in our pockets. But even 20 years ago, music legend David Bowie realized that the internet would have widespread impacts to not just the music industry, but to literally everything imaginable...

Today on Segment 16, the guys check out a hilarious news story about a Grand Rapids man who will do your dirty work for you! All you have to do is go to his website, pay him, and tell him what you want. He'll dump your significant other, fire someone, and do other unpleasant tasks for you. As long as it's out of the sunlight.

As the internet fills with more and more information, both helpful and useless, we've learned to Google everything. I mean, everything. Some people Google "how to Google something". Not kidding. But one thing people search for a lot, is disease symptoms. Everything from diabetes, coughing, to asthma. What's the disease people in Michigan search for info on the most?

All kinds of companies spend a lot of time and money to research what we're all doing online. What we buy, what we sell, what we search for...the amount of information on each of us is terrifying. Now, a report has come out to tell us about our secret, or guilty pleasure searches. What do people in Michigan secretly search for? And how perverted is it?

Sorry in advance for destroying all hopes you had of being productive today. Find the Invisible Cow is easily the most addicting new game on the Internet. Just tell your boss you're going home now, because once you start playing, you'll probably never stop.

Everyone has problems with Wifi sometimes, like I am right now, trying to write this blog. Sometimes it just gets slow and stupid, sluggish, and maybe even makes you feel like you're back on dialup. (Kids, dialup was when we used to have to get on the internet on a telephone line...wait, okay, a telephone line is...nevermind.) Sometimes, you have to call your internet provider to get help with you

The new Slayer album comes out on Friday, September 11th, Repentless, and if you read the internet stuff about it, people are constantly slagging Kerry King. Some of it is pretty funny, some of it is idiots blaming him for every evil in the world, Dave Lombardo being let go from Slayer, and even Jeff Hanneman's death. All of which is dumb, but is Kerry really a bad guy?