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Way back in 2003 and 2004, I wrote about a trip that we took with our friends Charlie and Carie to see the Museum of Glass and pointed to the pictures we took there. That trip started a chain of events that saw me enter an NPR...
Yash Garg: A friend pointed me to this option in Meta Accounts Center called “Activity from other businesses”, which shows “activity sent from other businesses or organizations to show you relevant content.” Their main help page doesn’t...
Power Cat 2026-07-13
Found this ad at one point and felt it was totally appropriate for a post on here. Powered by Bear 😂
Ryosuke Fujii's (2026) How to Design Effective Scientific Figures lives up to its title and is written at a level accessible to undergraduate and graduate students when conference time rolls around. It was published in Nature, and it...
When you press the volume keys on macOS Sequoia and earlier, a nice big user interface appears as feedback, registering the volume change and displaying the new system volume. You can’t miss it. On macOS Tahoe, however, you can easily...
A snapshot from my weekend bike ride.
Hi Crowd! Over the weekend I saw that Nick Gray launched slashfriends in an attempt to get people to add a /friends page to their websites. The basic idea is that this is like an old school blogroll or webring, which fellow olds may...
Karl Bode: One lie that companies have been telling local municipalities is that if they greenlight a massive local AI data center, it will immediately bring a flood of savvy innovators to your podunk-ass town. The promotional materials...
flannery’s yard Acrylic, watercolor, ink, graphite, and gloss gel on 19”x24” BristolLate one night in the mid ’80s, while delivering for UPS, I drove into a front yard during a heavy rain and buried the package car up to its axles. I had...
Radiant Blackby Kyle Higgins, Cherish Chen, Marcelo Costa, David LafuenteGenres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels Pages: 192 Series: Radiant Black #1 Rating: Synopsis: Visionary writer KYLE HIGGINS (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ultraman) and...
# Happy Monday! It's been a while since I've said (or felt) that. Following on from last week, it feels so freeing to decline and delete whole series of meetings this morning. Friday saw me finally catch up with all messages and emails —...
This article went massively viral, “Why American ambulance rides are so expensive?” The focus is on ambulances, but it applies to all aspects of the US healthcare system. Ambulances are expensive for the same reasons the rest of American...
Here’s another episode in my memoirs of being an activist. You can read it at substack, or here!: Between school and college I decided to take a ‘year off’ (what they now call a ‘gap year’). I didn’t have much of a plan, except that I...