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As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting, it's not surprising that many people take the time to reflect on their recent past — what we've …

Karen Lord, The Blue, Beautiful World, Del Rey, 2023.Audiobook available.The Blue, Beautiful World is a fascinating science-fiction stand-alone novel about first contact. Owen is a global music star. The crowds flock to his concerts, commune …

What’s going on, Internet? I came into 2024 with a taste for West Coast IPA’s (WCIPA) as a continuation of 2023. My love for the WCIPA stemmed from disillusionment of the Hazy craze that has …

We are visiting our family in San Francisco to celebrate our youngest granddaughter’s 5th birthday. Yesterday when she came home from school she recited the morning verse that the children say each day at her …

She said, I don’t think I can do this anymore. I love you but I can’t do this. I said, But if you love me, why can’t you try? She said, It’s over. I said, …

Image source: Wikipedia Ever seen this poster before? If you’re a silent film geek, you’ve likely spotted it on the thumbnails for YouTube uploads of A Fool There Was, the 1915 hoary melodrama that skyrocketed …

Summer is here. Time to cool off. Cocktail coolers have long been a fixture in the mixological world. This particular refresher comes from the classic Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930. Like their cousins, Tom Collins …

It's that time again, when I cast an over-shouldered glance at all the new beer I got to drink over the past year and tell you which ones were best.My drinking year was ultimately cut …

“My brain couldn’t stop me, so that tiny but mighty intestinal diverticulum did.” Brilliant and important piece from Shannon Mattern about burnout, but more importantly, about how systems of exploitation and abuse are created and …

One would think that we’ve more or less figured survey UI out by now. Multiple choice questions, checkbox questions, matrix questions, dropdown questions, freeform textfields, numerical scales, what more could one possibly need?! And yet, …

My 2018 12.9 iPad Pro has been one of my greatest tech purchases. I’ve used it nearly every day for the last 5.5 years, and it’s still in great shape. Why upgrade now? While I’m …

That sound you heard last month was the “thud” of another classic evolutionary hypothesis hitting the ground, falsified. There’s nothing particularly unusual about that; despite efforts from the antiscience fringe to play “gotcha”, it’s actually …

Today's photos are hand-dated "June 22, 1965". We've actually seen some photos from this batch before, but I was on LSD and forgot to use Jason's Disneyland Almanac for some date-specific facts. It was a …

I was using my 5G router setup with Vanilla OpenWRT and QMI Cellular as a protocol for quite some time, but there were irregular disconnections etc. Updating the firmware of the modem didn’t help. Some …