Bubbles
Latest Posts
Dense Discovery – Thoughtful links across design, tech, culture and art – hand-picked weekly to inspire reflection, not reaction.
In May a company I remember called Google declared war on the web. They propose to replace all their search results with slop. The predicted consequences are emerging, such as searches for strings which contain the words “disregard” and...
After fifteen years, I have finally realized that my old MacBook Air from 2011 is not up to the task of being a travel companion anymore. To be honest, it hasn’t been for a long, long time. And the age shows. No updates, including...
Students have just as much a right to access information as adults. – Cameron Samuels Business As Usual (ROTW #16) Prohibition invariably leads to corruption: …in November 2023…a joint state and local raid on two northern Indiana massage...
Vitals Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn, American diplomat Rome, June 6, 1970 and London, June 1975 Film: The Omen Release Date: June 6, 1976 Director: Richard Donner Wardrobe Supervisor: Tiny Nicholls WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The...
I wrote a piece over on the Oh Dear blog about a failure mode that most uptime monitoring quietly gets wrong: a domain gets pulled from its registry’s zone, but its authoritative nameservers keep answering, and cached resolvers happily...
Daily Drawing 888
Continuing on from my collection of humorous mathematical aphorisms, today’s excerpt is an exercise from Calculus by Michael Spivak (4 ed.). Chapter 10, Question 2. Find $f'(x)$ for each of the following functions $f$. (It took the...
My daughter has had a laptop for two years now. For school. But not just for school: the thing is used for everything (i.e. Minecraft). And if she isn't using it herself, the youngest one is sitting on it. At the end of April, she...
I need to get outside today. Rachel and I are going to take a walk this morning, then I’m going to doing some berry picking. Also, I’ve been thinking about the Lost River lately so I think I’ll visit the Orangeville Rise and the Wesley...