Buckle up, Crash

Published 4:16 pm Tuesday, May 24, 2016

They’re no dummies: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released its latest crash-test ratings for Detroit’s muscle cars: the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger. None did well, but the Challenger rated poorly in four of five tests.

All the same, the crash-test dummies said, the cars are great for picking up those shapely mannequins.

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Brevity is the soul of Twit: Twitter, in trying to give users more space to tweet, has created some confusion. Photos won’t count against the 140-character limit, but weblinks will, as will some, but not all Twitter handles.

It didn’t help that Twitter tried to explain it all in 140 characters.

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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: The sci-fi mystery “Wayward Pines,” begins its second season on Fox with Dr. Theo Yedlin waking from suspended animation to find himself in the middle of a battle between residents and those who control the town.

That’s tough enough, but when he learns the front-runners for the U.S. presidency, he hits the snooze button with orders not to be disturbed until 2024.

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