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The barbershop that I usually go to employs two barbers: one who plays oldies, and the other who plays no music when the one who plays oldies isn’t around. Today, both barbers were present, and there was a customer in each chair, so I...
Link: Chicago Public Media launching community website, by Amy Yee at the Chicago Sun-TimesIn an increasingly AI-dominated information landscape, real trusted communities and relationships will be the way to build trust and loyalty — I’m...
At Web3 Summit this past month, I gave probably what was one of the strangest presentations I’ve ever given. Over the past year I’ve been mulling over some big concepts and trying to put them all together in one coherent narrative. What...
A Friday Hodgepodge Screen capture by the author. 1. If you like Wordle, one "pompomsheep" at Hacker News is developing a timed word-solving game called 18 Words. As of this morning, the game gives you 30 seconds to solve words of...
Remember when the internet was young, there was a finite (but quite large) set of personal sites, personal contact actually mattered and you had trouble keeping track of who blogged where, who you corresponded with and what their social...
You asked for it, so here’s an occasional open thread to bitch about anything tangentially
I was cc-ed on a message sent by 18 members of the board of the journal Statistics and Computing, quitting their posts because the publisher (Springer) has announced a new policy whereby all authors will have to pay publication charges....
The Last Starfighter (Mad Cave) #1A Taurin Clarke Regular Release: Jul 01, 2026 Mad Cave Creators WriterDeric A. Hughes | Benjamin RaabArtistWilli RobertsCover ArtistTaurin Clarke Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the...
I subscribed to The Atlantic for quite awhile, but recently let it expire when I decided to limit my consumption of "political news." I don't have the time or bandwidth. I'm too busy playing with children and reading books.That said,...
It’ll be 1.7 in the store so I can sync the iOS and Mac versions. 😃 How close am I? It’s hard to say to be perfectly honest. One day I’ll just declare it good enough and I’ll boot it out the door. I want to do a bit of work to the...
I started Weekly Notes in 2022, with WN-29/2022. With this week’s note, we will complete four full years. Except for a couple of notes published on Saturdays, I have been on time, publishing on Fridays. In one of the IndieWeb Bangalore...
Over the years, I've built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles. It's a backup of every terminal tool and configuration I...
The A-series of modules were classics back in the day… But do they have anything to offer to the modern gamer? Originally Published March 16th, 2002 The A-series of modules was released in 1980 and 1981. Also known as the Slavers series,...
Val Kilmer in Kill Me Again (1989) Vitals Val Kilmer as Jack Andrews, cynical private investigator Nevada, Spring 1989 Film: Kill Me Again Release Date: October 27, 1989 Director: John Dahl Costume Designer: Terry Dresbach WARNING!...
Anna D. ordered a cake to look like this top tier: So... pink and blingy. Gotcha. Now, before I show you what she got, have you ever seen those stress toys with the eyes that pop out when you squeeze them?You have?Ok, cool.Just curious....