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[continued from Part 1 here. I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see...
This was yesterday 30 July 2026. Watch my video account of the first in-service trip from Essendon depot to the city below. This item was written by Peter Parker www.melbourneontransit.blogspot.com
There's a story that goes something like this: In 1925, lightbulb manufactures secretly colluded to standardized lifespans at 1,000 hours. They would test each other's products to ensure compliance. This is true. At the time, many bulbs...
Sensational news! The Collatz conjecture has just been refuted. Ramana Kumar has proved its negation. The proof has been checked in Lean and double‑checked using the independent Nanoda type checker. Unfortunately, the proof is wrong. It...
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Company gross margin was 50.1 percent, including a...
Anything in life can be richer and sweeter if you slow down and pay attention, but some things reward attention more than others. The different amount of rewardingness per attention is socially constructed and thus arbitrary to some...
At work I went through a patch where it felt like I was doing everything. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration to some extent, but all I wanted was a lighter load and some peace. Be careful what you wish for, because for the last two weeks...
now that i've got a codeberg page, i decided i wanted to open source a couple of game engines i made for the game boy advance: tchotchke: this is the GBA engine i wrote on my phone recently. you can use it to create minimal bitsylike...
I was putting this one off as long as I could. Not because I didn’t think I’d like it, and not because I didn’t think I’d be interested. Quite the opposite – I already knew about it, thanks to my theater background; I’ve lived here long...
Today I and a bunch of other authors learned that Science Fiction Weekly has reprinted stories from Daily Science Fiction. My story “Kill Switch” is among those reprinted without permission. I have already emailed nastygrams and DMCA...
Google Maps users in New Zealand will get a voice that “speaks English with a Kiwi accent while accurately pronouncing te reo Māori (the Māori language) place names.” Street View imagery has been refreshed in… More
This week on the podcast: Future Fords are getting Apple Maps, future iPhones are getting leased, and future foldables may be less weird than expected.
"Latrine lunacy"!In the same 1980 issue of Sounds, wholly gratuitous shot of depantsed but thankfully still underpanted Judge DreddIn another issue Phil Mogg of UFO - one of Sounds frequent pin-ups - lays down the law: Unclear if this is...
I love a monstera, and sometimes the way our kitchen light hits ours makes me go all mothy.34 words · 1 image
A discussion about the best practices for running online games, alongside some of my own opinions and preferences for which you, the fledgling online referee, should follow exactly. Special thanks to all the referees whom I solicited...