Mid-week and the highlights include new startups to keep an eye on, a new list of websites that will make you laugh, photos that will tell stories, and Porno for Pyros. If you need to know what that is, you must read on!

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Hubspot highlights the company that gives away a ton of high-quality content if you give them the same contact information every time you want a piece of that content. Here's an article about startups to keep an eye on in 2023. There are several reasons why a story like this is worthy of a shout; on the surface, it's interesting to see new businesses that have been funded. It's also interesting to see what is getting funded in 2023; AI is a big part, but not the only part. Healthcare is a big winner in 2023, including wellness companies. Keep an eye on a few of these companies; we suspect they will continue to grow.

Blinkist is a service we have been using for years, and we were surprised to find it on a startup list. It offers summaries of books read by professional readers; they are a leader in the space, this is also a space ripe for disruption with AI, and our assumption is Blinkist is already using AI.

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An interesting marketing piece, a website called Boxmode which looks like an online marketing (type) company, put out a list of websites that might make you laugh. It's not the worst list we've encountered, and we found a few sites we'd not seen before. We signed up for The Oatmeal and look forward to the daily jokes and comics it will send us.

We thought this was a comic piece; it's a game you can buy; read on to see what they are doing.

Check out the photos of the week from The Atlantic. We recommend viewing in full-screen mode. Pictures of firefighters, floods, and full moons. The right photo can tell a story; the week's photos do not disappoint.

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Porno for Pyros, the punk rock band Perry Farrell started after the first breakup of Jane's Addiction, is working on a new record. With PFP in the news - Loudwire tried to figure out where the name came from, and with a bit of digging, they came up with a couple of possibilities. First, they pieced together from several interviews that the name might have come from the LA riots and the Rodney King verdict. Second, Farrell may have seen the name or a version of it in a "dirty" magazine ad for fireworks. Both stories may have some truth; we’ll ask the next time we see Farrell and Porno for Pyros. They are planning to tour this year.

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