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I'm thinking about the USA election, and I'm thinking about Ukraine, and I'm remembering how the "Berkut" snipers shot journalists in Kyiv in 2013, and of course I remember Linda Tirado. And here's an article, an interview with her. She's crazy and beautiful. And here's a story she told a couple days ago. I don't know how long she can live like this. Brain's a tricky thing. There's not much …

In 2010, Coda Hale wrote How To Safely Store A Password which began with the repeated phrase, “Use bcrypt”, where the word bcrypt was linked to a different implementation for various programming languages. This had two effects on the technology blogosphere at the time: It convinced a lot of people that bcrypt was the right answer for storing a password. It created a meme for how technology bloggers recommend specific …

The mission: Provide a dashboard within the WordPress admin area for browsing Google Analytics data for all your blogs. The catch? You’ve got about 900 live blogs, spread across about 25 WordPress multisite instances. Some instances have just one blog, others have as many as 250. In other words, what you need is to compress a data set that normally takes a very long time to compile into a single …

These Boots Are Made For Walking The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits says “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” was a huge hit for Nancy Sinatra. The tune topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in 1966, becoming Sinatra’s first and only solo No. 1 single in the United States. So much played on radio and TV and at so many places in 1966, but also in expected …

Symbiotic Sense(s), an exhibition currently on view at the National Library of Latvia in Riga as part of the RIXC Art Science festival (see my notes on the conference), presents the work of artists who challenge the boundaries between self and other, human and other forms of life, natural and artificial. T(n)C (Agnes Varnai and Tina Kult), Retraining Laziness, 2023 Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, My Want of You Partakes …

I have reviewed several of John L. French‘s works here, but one series of his that I have yet to get into is Bianca Jones. Jones is a Baltimore detective who becomes the unofficial “monster hunter” on the force, facing several foes and menaces with only the help of a strange bookstore owner and a […]

Uri Levine, a cofounder of Waze and the author of 'Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution,' argues that unicorn companies and bestselling books have a lot in common.

It may be almost December but I’ve got no intentions of wrapping up the year just yet. There are still plenty more albums to hit the review block and the latest finds perennial RSTB favorite Lee Baggett back at it once again. The West Coast songwriter has long lingered in the crumpled and creviced end of the Cosmic American canon and he shows no signs of digging out now. Waves …

The streets of London were crawling with tractors recently, protesting the changes to inheritance tax on farms. (Previously farms were exempt from inheritance tax; now farms worth over £1m will be subject to it.) My initial response was to buy the line that this would only affect a tiny minority of farms, and that it was shutting a pretty egregious tax loophole exploited by the likes of James Dyson and …

Happy Thanksgiving! At the Plimoth Patuxet open air museum, this path leads to the English village. However, due to recent archeaological digs in downtown Plymouth at the site of the original fort, historians have learned that the native Wampanoag people lived very close to the palisade. Previously they were believed to live nearby, but not this close. The museum is re-interpreting the palisade and the Wampanoag dwellings. A grant from …

It’s one of those things everyone’s heard of, but few truly understand. It sits quietly in the corner of the bathroom (or as an attachment to the toilet itself), radiating mystery and a slight sense of intimidation. Ask someone about it, and you’ll usually get a shrug or a vague explanation that trails off into awkward silence. Why?

Here it is: full Black Friday Sales Deals at Amazon (and a few other places) to find your absolute best holiday prices on coffee + espresso. Updated Nov 27, 5pm. The post Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals 2024 appeared first on CoffeeGeek.

The groundwork for what we call today “signals” dates as early as the 1970s. Based on this work, they became popular with different fields of computer science, defining them more specifically around the 90s and the early 2000s. In Web Development, they first made a run for it with KnockoutJS, and shortly after, signals took a backseat in (most of) our brains. Some years ago, multiple similar implementations came to …

A few months ago I shared some research that explored pathways to transformation and asked y’all to speculate on whether the more common pathway was Collapse and New Equilibrium. I confessed that the study team guessed Collapse and the actual research found that New Equilibrium (NE) was the more common route. Let’s take a closer […] The post Let’s Get Loopy first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

3 different doctors told us my wife’s colon needed to be removed. This ongoing ordeal began last spring when she sent a fecal sample to Cologuard, a company that advertises frequently since the medical establishment has become fixated on reducing deaths from colon cancer. The results found genetic markers suggesting my wife might have colon cancer. The doctor ordered a colonoscopy. This procedure entails sticking a camera up a person’s …