doug — off the record

• Political cartoons for November 21 | The Week

• It’s not just you: The internet is breaking

  Recent outages show that your digital life increasingly hangs on a few files behaving themselves — because the cloud wasn’t built to fail gracefully

• Google is working on vertical tabs for Chrome

  And you can try them now

• Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand - Ars Technica

  Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

• Every Canadian NHL team but two is having a miserable season | Sports

  The 2025-26 season has been a very disappointing one for five of seven Canadian NHL teams, who are at risk of missing the playoffs.

• 1950s Crooner Music Trivia | BuzzFeed Quiz

  A lot of answer options are Frank Sinatra, and that makes it more difficult.

• Teacher lists the 5 things high schoolers do today that would sends us olds ‘into a coma’ – Upworthy

  ​“There is such a lack of care that goes into everything."

• Outrage over Trump’s bill reclassifying nursing as not a ‘professional degree’ for college students

• I stopped digging through menus after pinning this tool to my Windows taskbar

  This hidden Windows feature is the fastest way to tame your settings.

• B.C. shoppers go 'pro-Canada' while U.S. crossings continue steep decline | Urbanized

  The majority of B.C. shoppers are choosing to buy gifts close to home instead of travelling down to the United States.

• How to clear your Windows 11 PC cache (and put an end to slow performance) | ZDNET

• Why I stopped touching my phone after discovering this Android Auto shortcut

  Android Auto made me ditch my phone for good

• 5 Obvious Ways Everyone Knows You’re Using ChatGPT

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