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Another short digest for a long work week.
The Television Critics Association's 2026 TCA Award nominations were unveiled today, including 10 reality TV shows.
You know the song No Limit by 2 Unlimited, from the album No Limits!? Ever since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to like this song, but there’s one critical flaw: The song begins with the iconic line “Let me hear you say yeah”. What’s...
OK — it stands for Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse. FAIR is all about the computerization of digital assets; the capacity of computational systems to use data without a need for an operator to make choices for the...
Unaccountably, this blog has now has had more than 3,500,000 page views, which would seem to prove that the more arcane the topic, the more attention it will attract. Or, at least, that obscurity is not the kiss of death. I knew this was...
What are the requirements for a (good) website?
Creating a Nix shell for Rust development is easy if you’re prepared to either use only stable Rust or use Rustup to manage your Rust toolchain. But the latest version of Bevy was not compatible with stable Rust at the time of writing,...
Do they actually protect a tree’s roots from being munched by gophers? And once the tree is big, do gopher baskets not girdle the tree’s roots? Here are some avocado trees planted in a yard riddled with gophers that indicate the answers:...
Neil Young - TransTour 1982What we talk about when we talk about Neil Young’s 1982 tour is usually those strange performances of the Trans material — especially the choreographed dance routine with Nils Lofgren on “Transformer Man.”...
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 29-30: THE FIRST HISTORIAN of Ukraine was Herodotus, the father of history himself. This honor is usually reserved for the histories of...