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Coyote vs. Acme / YouTube: Not all underdogs are dogs. Coyote vs. ACME only in theaters August 28. With every new piece of footage, I remain baffled that this movie was supposed to be tossed away and lost for the purposes of a tax...
In 1906 an English mathematician named Charles Howard Hinton published a book arguing that the fourth dimension was not merely something to be calculated but something a person could learn to see, given enough practice. His method was a...
Yesterday, I sent out a newsletter and wanted to share it here too because HOLY CRAP. It's been nearly two months since I've published a newsletter or substantive blog post, to which I say, “No sir, I don't like it.” I'm tired of saying...
One of the recent papers that came across my X feed was a researcher digitizing a corpus of old Sears catalogs to estimate inflation more accurately: The technical skills to do this work are closely related to many of the projects I am...
When I talk with college students, and even high school students, a number of them have a profound sense that it is tremendously hard to find a job coming out of college. The level fear seems to me exaggerated, but some underlying shifts...
I have been sorely lacking in my rig reviews as of late. In fact, it's been nine months since my last look at what's been working well - and not so well - with the Tacoma, and so rather than just a few trips between this and the previous...
There’s this weird new consensus forming on the left (or so it would seem): AI is coming for the artists, the creators, the makers, therefore copyright must be defended at all costs. The same people who spent years dunking on Disney for...
This is a work of fiction. “So there’s no self, no ‘I’ or ‘you’, just bodies conditioning each other. And those bodies ‘decide’ everything we do, based on that conditioning. And then our brains get to work, after the fact, to rationalize...
I saw this Undulated Moray Eel during a recent swim. They’re usually most active at night, but are sometimes seen during the day. This one had striking markings and is possibly a juvenile. They’re not an eel for messing with though,...
Strategic red string appears on a war map in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (dir. Susanna White, 2010). ▲ Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (dir. Susanna White, 2010) ▲ Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (dir. Susanna White, 2010)
My son Miles is in full swing obsession with trying everything Buldak. This is an enormous switch for him. Miles is on the spectrum and doesn’t generally venture out of his comfort zone at all when it comes to foods. I’m impressed that...
The most frictionless tool I have ever seen is a piece of paper and pen. It’s simple and easy enough to not think about anything else related to it. I don’t need to think about how I can use that, as my brain knows how to use it like I...
For the last few months my laptop has been the bottleneck in my own workflow. Not the CPU, not the RAM. The fact that it’s a laptop.
[“Oops, I bought a very dumb house!”] Last year, I linked to an article on a $5.5 million Cape Cod mansion that was on the verge of tumbling into the ocean. Not long after, the house was demolished to prevent that fate. While the house...
I signed into the NYTimes.com cooking site and without me clicking anything got signed up for three of their cooking email newsletters.