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The first question you would probably ask if I told you that Google bought Spirit Airlines’ data at auction, including internal emails, documents, booking information, and other corporate data, is whether Google would use it to improve Google Flights (Google’s flight booking tool) or start its own airliner. The...
I have been working on a new (post-markdown) markup language Carve. And I wanted to know how it performs for input and output. Especially compared to Markdown and Djot, which mainly inspired me here. And it happens that Pandoc released 3.10.2 recently. Everyone who converts documents knows the process loses things....
Jinny Lu is a six-year-old pug with a big tongue. She has the standard odd-but-cute features of a pug and an aforementioned big and floppy tongue. She is not remotely ugly. Yet, she was crowned as the World’s Ugliest Dog for 2026. Huh?The whole point of the contest is that there are dogs who have really, really ugly...
This might actually be an effective ad in the campaign against data centers. It’s certainly a good piece of satire. The makers of Liquid Death and Garage Beer have enlisted former pro-footballer Jason Kelce in as an anti-data center campaign that pisses on the entire concept. Called We Want Your Pee the clever ad...
A short links this week. The past work week was very tiring and I have a lot of shit to do and also am going back to work for two days this week. So a delayed and shorter post this week. Rewatched The Story of Yanagawa's Canals by Laura Michet Fan Translations Still Are Being Done the Hard Way by Chris Person...
Glad you asked! Turns out that IKEA really does have a formula for product naming. We use Swedish names for our products. The product names reflect our Swedish identity, Småland’s heritage and our values. They make IKEA unique and contribute to a sense of playfulness. The names are real words and often inspired by...
Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF WHITECHAPEL this Sunday 23rd August . These portraits were taken around 1900 at the Working Lads Institute, known today as the Whitechapel Mission. Founded in 1876, the Institute offered a home to young men who had been involved in petty criminal...
We recently ordered from Domino PizzaThey had a curry pizza that I wanted to tryAlso if you ordered a large you could get it at the medium price The Summer Curry Quatro :Summer Veggie Curry, Butter Chicken Curry, Mayo Potato and their KalbiI was surprised that on the receipt they tell you what each part of the pizza...
Some internet standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet. Thus, a mapping from Unicode to ASCII for use in domain names is required. NamePrep was part of that solution, defined in RFC 3491 as a profile of StringPrep, and is crucially a component of...
The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Loveby Harry TannerGenres: History, Non-fiction Pages: 288 Rating: Synopsis: A gripping new journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love. In the early days of ancient Greece, queer...
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