OTR Backup 11/14/2026

• 32 "PizzaCake" Comics By Ellen Woodbury That Mix Dark Humor, Sarcasm, And Brutally Honest Observations | Bored Panda

  Ellen Woodbury’s PizzaCake Comics take on parenting, politics, social media, and her two very different cats, usually drawn with an expression that says more than words could.

• Google Maps Has A Built-In Function For Measuring Your Yard - Here's How To Use It Read More: https://www.bgr.com/2309880/how-to-use-google-maps-measure-yard/

• How did tariffs hit your town? This interactive map zooms in for the answer

  The tool provides a closer look at how Canadian industries – and their employees – have fared town to town

• Ontario gasoline, diesel prices expected to climb

  Dan McTeague, head of Canadians for Affordable Energy, offers his gasoline and diesel price predictions for Friday, Nov. 13 and Saturday, Nov. 14.

• What (if Anything) Do We Value About Teaching Writing?

  We’re making progress, but progress is hindered by not talking more about what values we’re trying to live by. Over the last nearly four years, I’ve done well over a hundred keynotes, workshops, public talks, podcasts and print interviews on the problem of trying to teach writing in a world in which generative AI is present. I go to universities, colleges, high schools, public forums of varying stripes. I’ve zoomed with school boards, book clubs and classrooms of pre-service English teachers. I talk to students, faculty, teachers, parents, administrators—not enough administrators, frankly—anyone who reaches out and says they’d like to have a conversation.

• I Run a One-Person Company With AI. Here's What I Won't Let It Do

  How a solo founder uses AI agents to build products, automate work, and maintain human control over publishing, authorship, and trust.

• Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams outage passes 12 hours with no fix in sight

  Microsoft’s global Outlook and Teams outage has passed 12 hours across 74 countries. The company says it’s not a cyberattack but has no sustained fix.

• Your PC isn't slow to start, Windows 11 is quietly holding your apps back on purpose, and one tweak cut a user's wait from 2.5 minutes to 30 seconds

  Windows 11 delays your startup apps on purpose. Here's why Microsoft does it, and how StartupDelayInMSec and WaitForIdleState turn it off.

• Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines Just Changed—Here’s When Men Should Get Tested

• I kept waking up at 3 a.m. until doctors explained my routine mistakes | Tom's Guide

• Microsoft global outage: What the company has said so far | Mashable

  As everyone deals with a big Microsoft 365 outage, let's review what the company has said so far.

• Why Canada Refused to Join the American Revolution | TheCollector

  The Quebec Act kept Canada loyal to the British Crown, and the 1775 American invasion of Quebec failed to win Canada to the Revolutionary cause.

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