Urban planners struggle to improve neighborhoods that may be more than a century old. If you had a blank slate and nearly unlimited funds, what kind of city would you build?

Superstitious? Big fan of omens? Love messages sent by the universe? Can’t wait for the ancient prophecies to come true?

Do you become a mosquito buffet every time you go outside? Unless your crush thinks it’s sexy that you’re “so sweet the mosquitos love you,” the attention from tiny insect vampires will ruin your outing with all the buzzing and slapping. One trick?

Are we stuck in a loop? IF Monday THEN new storm system? The Weather Channel thinks so, and we’re inclined to agree. When do we get to ELSE and just have a nice week?

The IIoT is a major shift away from SCADA, but it brings huge gains in productivity, serviceability and flexibility as part of your digital transformation.

Halloween is over, except for the candy you stole from your kids and hid, so start the clock to 2022. Pedal to the metal, or maybe up your clock speed, and go directly to the end of the year. Except for Thanksgiving (in the U.S. at least). And for Christmas. And New Year’s Eve and Day.

In case you don’t have young candy-craving children at home, let us remind you this coming Sunday is Halloween. Of course, you can also tell it’s close by the sudden appearance of Spirit Halloween stores. New meme?

If your parents need a gift soon, the 2022 Old Farmer’s Almanac is out and ready to fascinate your father who will read things out loud to aggravate your mother. The prediction for this winter is “A Season of Shivers,” which sounds good for Halloween but lousy for a long winter.

It’s been a couple of weeks since Hurricane Ida flooded most of Louisiana, so now it’s time for Tropical Storm Nicholas to dump a half-foot or more of rain across parts of Texas and most of The Soaked State. Luckily, these newsbits are waterproof.

One resource that continues to grow and multiply is billionaires with “interesting” ideas. Go to space, like Bezos, Branson, and Musk? Old hat. Own a basketball team? Go, Steve-o. Floating city? Peter Thiel is outside your jurisdiction. Build a $400 billion city in the desert?