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25 August 2026 Some things change, some things stay the same * Any commentator on human affairs has to reckon with two things: that certain things do not change, and that certain things do. The job is to work out the difference. In one...
G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #37 (1985)Art by Frank Springer and Andy Mushynsky•In this issue, writer Larry Hama introduces several characters and vehicles from the toy line (and, by this point, the cartoon). Most prominent among them...
Apple’s Polishing Cloth is now just $9. It is unclear if this cloth is in any way different from what debuted five years ago for $19. According to Apple, it is compatible with these products: iPhones: iPhone Air iPhone 17 Pro iPhone 17...
Brennan tried to be a healer and savior: https://brennan.day/i-m-looking-for-love/ He preaches love as the universal cure while simultaneously advertising his own lack of it. All of this to say that I am, right now, looking for love. I...
The opening credits of Revival s01 (SyFy, 2025) feature an underwater version of a set of string connections, building on the comic series on which the show is based [NST #975] and related to its promotional clips [NST #1302]. From...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. I spent the first half of my life painfully terrified of dogs. There wasn't...
Source Datafinnovation are out with more impressive research described in a blog post entitled Losing The Blacklisting Race and a paper entitled Enforcement Speeds In DeFi: Limits to a Race Against Time by Ben Charoenwong et al. The blog...
2026/08/25 Tuesday Hundreds of these mysteriously appeared throughout the city overnight...
The big difference Apple isn’t really drawing attention to is memory bandwidth. The M6 tops out at 170GB/s and 32GB of unified memory, whereas the M5 Pro offers 307GB/s and up to 64GB–nearly twice the bandwidth, as well as twice the...
I love it when you are leaving at the end of your consultation with the GP with one hand on the door handle and his parting shot is "... and remember, if your chest starts hurting at all, just call 999." OK, I don't love it really. That...
Apple launched two new lineups of Mac models today (mini and Studio). The Macintosh hardware recommendations on this site were already a bit out of date, and today get even further out of date. Instead of rewriting that article for this...
If you haven’t played Kern Type yet, you’re in for a treat – released by Mark MacKay in 2011, it’s a delightful browser game that teaches you the art and the math of text kerning: If you have played it, you’re still in for a treat, as...
Anne Lister kept a diary for 25 years, and by the time she died in 1840 it ran to roughly five million words across 26 volumes, dwarfing even Samuel Pepys' famous journal by a factor of four. Most of it reads like any other 19th-century...
This article appeared in the Guardian. I read it at speed. What special, world beating, middle-classic (?) fuckwittery have we here? I can only say that this isn't really a problem in the special little places that form the lands, north...
A few days ago I wrote about a new tool called wacz-pdf, which will read a WACZ file and write out each web page as a PDF file. I got some quick feedback from Henry Wilkinson who suggested that it could be useful to allow a user to...