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Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), Odes 2.18 (tr. Malcolm Quainton and Elizabeth Vinestock): My mind is thoroughly exhausted from too much study of Aratus' Phaenomena; it is time I had some fun, and went out into the fields to play. Good Heavens! Who would want to praise those who, glued to a book, never have any...
AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur August bookclub selection is The Simp by Roshan Sethi. We will be in conversation with Roshan on August 26th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is open. For newcomers, there is a bookclub FAQ if you have questions about how it all works. And this is what we will be reading for the...
Plus teen monsters, tween lamsters, and the twenty-five greatest genre docs ever?
For most of my life, I thought the sound effect of crickets playing was just that - a sound effect. Something that they put in movies and tv shows to cue awkward silence. Not something that really occurred in real life. Living in a more northern climate, crickets weren't something I'd ever encountered. One summer in...
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...
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