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You have a chance this week (ending August 7th) to pick up five apps at the lowest prices I've seen them listed for. Sale Details. Reviews of Apps I Have Personally Tested TextSniper - Better Than Native OCR | AppAddict ($7.99- On Sale...
I have been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since the first issue in Summer 1987. The JEP is published by the American Economic Association, which decided back in 2011–to my delight–that the journal would be...
Play, as in strategies, tactics, and moves. In a sport, a playbook contains all sorts of plays and diagrams. Teams practice plays all the time. When they execute them, they’re “making a play.” 20 years ago, Ryan Leslie noticed a lot of...
AI image, my own prompt; text screenshot from the website of Soundraw music software. All music lovers who perform others’ work are constantly walking a line between plagiarism (stealing music from other artists without acknowledgement)...
It wasn’t until 1959 that any being on Earth saw our Moon’s farside for the first time. Because the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, we only ever see its familiar nearside face. In the early days of space exploration, the Soviet Luna 3...
For many years I used to be able to say that I’d never unexpectedly bumped into anyone I knew. That ended when I sat down in an internet cafe (showing my age I know) in New Zealand and the person next to me lived on same floor as me in...
A few months ago a regular on the CachyOS forum asked the community what they thought about increasing AI usage in posts. This is my response. (All typos original to the source & retained for posterity.) As more and more people are using...
This hen at Mahukona looked remarkably clean and bright for a stray.
A classic string board appears in the introduction of Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator (Nick Nieuwoudt & Dominik Latos, 2026). ▲ Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator (Nick Nieuwoudt & Dominik Latos, 2026)
An essay on how AI-assisted development turns engineers into full-time reviewers. We spend our days evaluating AI-generated diffs instead of writing code, and that shift carries a new cognitive fatigue and may widen the senior/junior...
Genevieve Williams Under Review:Not with a Bang. Temi Oh. Saga Press, July 2026. For a story about the end of the world, Temi Oh’s Not with a Bang stays closely focused on a single family: the Mintons, in the final stages of wedding...
There may not have been any new art from me in the month of July, but at least I’m starting off strong in August. This one really should have been wrapped up a little bit earlier, but between enjoying my vacation and really struggling to...
Sangean is known as one of the foremost producers of excellent quality radios, both portables and tabletops. The new WR-60 is their latest stereo tabletop model incorporating and building upon the features of radios such as their RCR-40...
I used to run a website, creatively titled “Ben’s Picture of the Day”. Every day, for ten years or so, I took a photo and uploaded it to my blog. It was a time of change for me, the blog starts with my final few days in school, goes...
Here’s another one from HongKongFoodies.com! Go check ’em out as they’ve got a treasure trove of hard to find Demae Iccho variants! This is a straight noodle variant with two servings and the black garlic oil. Let’s kick it into high...