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Come on in A hibiscus flower seen on an evening walk. And a bee who accepted the invitation and covered itself in pollen! Quote of the Day ”The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice...
Gordon White tells a story at the end of this episode about a co-worker whose mother had died. She went back to Yorkshire to be with her sister on Christmas when, on Christmas Day, they found a butterfly flying around the kitchen. The...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...