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Last Saturday I went to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where I was born and lived for many years, to check out what turned out to be an unimpressive museum show. The plan was to take advantage of beautiful weather and commute back...
It’s been a couple of months since the last neocaml release, and the reason is simple — for a while there I was genuinely out of ideas. Back when I shipped 0.6 I declared (again!) that I was done with new features, and this time I almost...
A throwback from 2007: a local Bay Area a cappella group called The Richter Scales made a Webby Award-winning viral video about how that bubble felt. Hat tip: Toni.
This post is... indescribable
"Eminence Front" by The Who Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song with lyrics you didn't fully understand until you were older? - Eminence Front by The Who One of my favorite misheard song...
My latest contribution to the ever-expanding Tove Trove Library “Moomintroll woke up and lay a long time looking at the ceiling before he realised where he was. He had slept a hundred nights and a hundred days, and his dreams still...
We live quite remote, not Yukon remote, but enough that you don't want to run out of milk because driving to the nearest shop for more will double the cost per litre. Amenities like a cash-point, gas-station, or chinese-takeaway are much...
Just kidding it's me Kelsey but I understand what she must have been going through when she spent $60,000 on a psychic. I can't stop buying tarot decks and books on the occult (most recently, feminist texts from the 80s and 90s) and I'm...
Last year I managed to publish very little to the blog in general because life. This year I hope I made up for it with *…counting…* 14 posts across three months and more than 70,00 words of analysis, neologisms, and celebration. It was a...
In an early proof of concept, an automatic system puts a GPS collar around a red deer’s neck as the animal sticks its head into a small cage tied to a tree, lured in by food.Richard Bischof/Norwegian University of Life Sciences Richard...
If you’ve ever enjoyed pizza in Sweden, you may already know about the simple little side dish that quietly steals the show: Swedish Pizza Salad. This light, crunchy cabbage salad is tossed in a tangy vinaigrette and infused with dried...
In this (ridiculously) hot and humid weather, the Mayor is again promoting his Cool Spaces map. If you are out and about in the city and start to feel too hot, the Mayor’s Cool Spaces map will help you find a welcoming place to sit down,...
↳ “The girl who was supposed to be your girlfriend was taken from you a long time ago, sodomized out of reality. Nothing is going to bring her back.” On the morning of Monday, June 22nd, 2026, a twenty-five-year-old philosophy student...
As cars in the US have become taller, pedestrian deaths have risen after years during which they fell. (And why can you call a car but not a football team after a native American tribe?) CC-licensed photo by Kay Gaensler on Flickr. You...
Do you choose a photo you really like of something mundane, or a weaker photo of something cool?525 words · 16 images