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Somehow I stumbled on another Puutalo (company) building. It’s the sauna from the 1948 London Olympics which has fairly recently been Listed as a heritage building. It’s fascinating to see how little the main elements of the building...
Finally started reading this.
There’s something about the rhythm of a day that either drags us down or draws us closer to heaven. Morning rush, midday crash, evening blur, bedtime chaos… then late-night scrolling. Then we wake up and do it all again. But what if our...
I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m kind of excited about this new paper, so I’ll talk about it here too: • John Baez, Endre...
I was dumb enough to argue on discord again. The following article is going to read as unkind, and unfortunately this feels unavoidable because the facts of what's being presented are simply unkind on its face. The following is a...
Judging by the headlines in the New York Post, reparations for slavery are back in the news. This time, Alameda County, California, which notably contains Oakland, is considering cash payments to black residents.The conservative outlet,...
I never did enjoy reading Nancy Drew when I was young. But I very much enjoyed reading Miss Marple. These women detectives are now entering public domain. Ellen O’Connell Whittet is asking: what comes next for them?
2026 // July 13 - July 19Trying out this weeknotes thing! I’ve seen more than a few people I follow talk about it in the last couple of weeks, and while I’m a sucker for trying new things, I’m skeptical about how well I’ll keep up with...
So, according to this report from 404 Media, Apple failed to fix a privacy bug with its Hide My Email feature for more than a year. The bug was only fixed after the website published its report earlier this month. Well, dear Apple, the...
William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the continent and suffered painful internal damage. Physicians examined his urine and predicted imminent death. William...
I love Dyson products. I love the founder less, but there’s no denying their products are well thought out and built. My Dyson cordless cleaner is the best vacuum cleaner I’ve ever owned. So when they announced a handheld cooling fan,...
Ordinarily the sine of x radians and the sine of x degrees are very different numbers. Having your calculator in radian mode when it should be in degree mode, or vice versa, results in a major error. But sometimes it doesn’t matter. A...
On-rails shooting galleries were not new with Sega’s The House of the Dead, not by a long shot. Konami released Lethal Enforces into arcades in 1992, five years prior. Namco dropped the first Time Crisis in 1995, the same year as Time...
Stumbled across this little anecdote this morning, somewhere down the click-hole: … the armed forces of Sweden, for over a decade in the 1980s were bombing the living daylights out of their coasts because they were certain that what they...
Overcast and cool. A rain shower comes rustling through the grass as a pileated woodpecker drums up on the ridge. I crush a mosquito, but not before she has bequeathed to me her itch.