Map of the Week
Fastest Growing and Shrinking Cities
This map shows the fastest growing and shrinking cities in the United States and Canada using 2023...
17 minutes ago
This map shows the fastest growing and shrinking cities in the United States and Canada using 2023 data.
The map appears on Visual Capitalist and the data is only for the city populations, it does not reflect the overall metropolitan areas. The top seven population gainers are...
Society's Backend
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024
The top 5 articles and resources
35 minutes ago
The top 5 articles and resources
The Elysian
Social Development > Self-Development
We need one much more than the other.
an hour ago
We need one much more than the other.
Quentin Santos
Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
3 hours ago
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
Flashbak
Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
5 hours ago
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
Seth's Blog
Find the others
New years bring resolutions, but those resolutions rarely stick. Creating change is difficult, and...
5 hours ago
New years bring resolutions, but those resolutions rarely stick. Creating change is difficult, and it’s hard to do it alone. New years remind us that we might need a better strategy. A philosophy of becoming, a clear vision on where we’re going (and why). Here’s an invitation to...
Paul Cudenec
For one people's resistance!
by Paul Cudenec
6 hours ago
Atoms vs Bits
Modern Noble Lies
The high price asked for harmony
6 hours ago
The high price asked for harmony
Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
6 hours ago
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
diamond geezer
2025
-->2025 is special because 2025 is a square number.
45 × 45 = 452 = 2025
The last was 1936 (= 44...
8 hours ago
-->2025 is special because 2025 is a square number.
45 × 45 = 452 = 2025
The last was 1936 (= 44 × 44), and you'd have to be over 88 to be alive back then.
2025 is extra-special, as square numbers go, because 20 + 25 = 45.
2025 = (20 + 25)2
(1+2+3+ ... +8+9)2 = 452 = 2025...
TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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9 hours ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'And Talked Down Speechless Death'
In my November 1 post I asked, “Does anyone know anything about Edward Case?” I had stumbled
on a...
9 hours ago
In my November 1 post I asked, “Does anyone know anything about Edward Case?” I had stumbled
on a gifted poet previously unknown to me who had died in 1985. This week I heard
from his son James Case, an architect living in New Jersey, who briefed me on
his father and his work....
The American Scholar
New Year, Old Year
The post New Year, Old Year appeared first on The American Scholar.
10 hours ago
The post New Year, Old Year appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Map is Mostly...
Resist Summary
painfully quick thoughts about AI
16 hours ago
painfully quick thoughts about AI
Nothing Human
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
the actually scary thing about social media
16 hours ago
the actually scary thing about social media
Calculated Risk
Fannie and Freddie: Single Family and Multi-Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in November
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Fannie and Freddie: Single Family and...
17 hours ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Fannie and Freddie: Single Family and Multi-Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in November
Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2025, Bill
Here are the multi-family 60+ day delinquency rate since 2006.
There is much more...
The Honest Broker
The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024
Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
17 hours ago
Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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18 hours ago
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: MAGA's Civil War
The MAGA Civil War and a recap of recaps
18 hours ago
The MAGA Civil War and a recap of recaps
TheCollector
Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
19 hours ago
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
20 hours ago
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
Calculated Risk
Question #4 for 2025: What will the participation rate be in December 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
21 hours ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Birchtree
Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want.
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a...
21 hours ago
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of
nanoscale views
End of the year thoughts - scientific philanthropy and impact
As we head into 2025, and the prospects for increased (US) government investment in science,...
21 hours ago
As we head into 2025, and the prospects for increased (US) government investment in science, engineering, and STEM education seem very limited, I wanted to revisit a topic that I wrote about over a decade ago (!!!), the role of philanthropy and foundations in these...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metabolism
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
He wakes up and the first thing he does is insist...
22 hours ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
He wakes up and the first thing he does is insist that professional grade ninja stars are an investment.
Today's News:
TheCollector
The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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anderegg.ca
A look back at 2024, and what’s next for 2025
At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake...
23 hours ago
At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake out?
Top level stats
I considered 2023 the first year that I honestly tried getting back into blogging. My goal then was to post something every month, and I managed that with 14 posts...
99% Invisible
Hyperfixed: Dylan’s Supermarket Cold Case
We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s...
23 hours ago
We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s this little thing that quietly annoys you that you’ve learned to grudgingly put up with. But regardless of the size of your problem, it would be so great if someone would just fix it...
The Marginalian
Some Blessings to Begin with
It is good, I feel, to begin a new year, or a new day, with a little reservoir of gladness. Here are...
23 hours ago
It is good, I feel, to begin a new year, or a new day, with a little reservoir of gladness. Here are some gladnesses I have gathered, and two new bird divinations I have made, as a conscious way of consecrating our days with the blessed fact that we weren’t promised any of this —...
IEEE Spectrum
In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat
The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of...
yesterday
The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of Wales and England. There, the ocean-exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the seafloor at depths up to 200 meters for weeks,...
Calculated Risk
Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up...
yesterday
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October
S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October ("October" is a 3-month average of August, September and October closing prices). ...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
yesterday
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
yesterday
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
Calculated Risk
Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October
S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October ("October" is a 3-month average...
yesterday
S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October ("October" is a 3-month average of August, September and October closing prices).
S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index Records 3.6% Annual Gain in October 2024
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home...
journal – Winnie Lim
looking back at 2024
Every year I tell myself I should start writing this post earlier so I don’t have to rush at the...
yesterday
Every year I tell myself I should start writing this post earlier so I don’t have to rush at the last minute, but every year I fail to do so. Next year,...
TheCollector
Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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yesterday
Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
yesterday
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
yesterday
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
TheCollector
Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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yesterday
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2024
The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it...
yesterday
The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make out most of the part numbers. Maybe this can help someone else in a similar fix! Warm...
Unfiltered by Tim...
When You Reach the Point of “F*ck It, I’m Gonna Try Anyway” Your Entire Life Changes Forever
“If there’s fire inside you, with nowhere to go, it burns you alive.”
yesterday
“If there’s fire inside you, with nowhere to go, it burns you alive.”
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
yesterday
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware, November 2024
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely...
yesterday
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely from 74HC00 NAND gates. Even the D-flip flops are made from NAND gates: Lots and lots of NAND gates… I got to meet the maker, who goes by Cherry Takuan, at the Chiba Institute of...
Seth's Blog
The reality of meliorism
Nearly 150 years ago, George Eliot gave us a name for our project. She pointed out that we could...
yesterday
Nearly 150 years ago, George Eliot gave us a name for our project. She pointed out that we could ameliorate the problems of the human condition, day by day, year by year, toward better. Max Roser highlighted three sentences that seem like they can’t all be true: “The world is...
Drew Ex Machina
Top Ten Posts of 2024
Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on...
yesterday
Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Inverted Passion
2024 wrapped
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right...
yesterday
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right now for a holiday and I don’t feel like being in front of a screen for long. I mean, just look at this view and tell me that you’d rather be in front of a screen writing…
Read...
diamond geezer
Summing up 2024
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming...
yesterday
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming you've been counting, which obviously I have. Cue my Counts of 2024.
(If you don't count these kinds of thing, look at all the fun you're missing out on)
the number of London...
TheCollector
The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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yesterday
Anecdotal Evidence
'There’s No Such Thing As a Synonym'
My favorite
literary non-form may be commonplace books, those magpie collections unified
only by the...
yesterday
My favorite
literary non-form may be commonplace books, those magpie collections unified
only by the sensibilities of their hunter-gatherers. They are kept by industrious
readers and serve as literary Wunderkammern,
cabinets of bookish wonders that may reveal a reader’s truest...
essay – snarfed.org
Tech pace layers
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
yesterday
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
The American Scholar
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Horses” by Edwin Muir appeared first on The American...
yesterday
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Horses” by Edwin Muir appeared first on The American Scholar.
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Case-Shiller House Prices
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Start New Week With Some Hope
Last week...
yesterday
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Start New Week With Some Hope
Last week wasn't great for mortgage rates. They moved higher on each of the 5 days. Moreover, there was a distinct lack of logical motivation from the economic data. In fact, on a few...
The Marginalian
The Promethean Power of Burnout
"Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on...
yesterday
"Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on in the same way. Not being able to go on, is always in the end, a creative act, the threshold moment of our transformation."
Tony Finch's blog
obfuscated C revisited
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have...
yesterday
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have announced the 28th contest, to
coincide with its 40th anniversary. (Or 41st?)
The Judges have also updated the archive of past winners so
that as many of them as possible work on modern...
Citation Needed
Not just one bad apple: FTX's practices were business as usual in crypto
Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret...
yesterday
Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret acquisitions of “grey area” businesses, buying influence, and creative accounting.
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2024
I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number.
I...
yesterday
I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number.
I spent a lot of time this on my own writing and crafting, and I had less time for books.
I returned to a couple of favourite authors and their latest releases – including Toshikazu...
Notes on software...
How I run a coffee club
I started the NYC Systems Coffee
Club in December
of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get...
yesterday
I started the NYC Systems Coffee
Club in December
of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get around 20 people each
month. You bring a drink if you feel like it and you hang out with
people for an hour or two.
There is no agenda, there is no speaker, there is no structure....
TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate increased Year-over-year
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 21 December
The U.S. hotel industry reported positive...
2 days ago
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 21 December
The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year performance comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 21 December. ...
15-21 December 2024 (percentage change from comparable week in 2023):
Occupancy:...
Calculated Risk
Question #5 for 2025: What will the YoY core inflation rate be in December 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
2 days ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
TheCollector
Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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2 days ago
Society's Backend
Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More
Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
2 days ago
Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
TheCollector
What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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2 days ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Podcast Notes: Vlad Prelovac on “The Talk Show”
Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for.
He’s on episode 416 of John...
2 days ago
Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for.
He’s on episode 416 of John Gruber’s The Talk Show to discuss why he thinks we should be paying for search.
Hearing his point of view is compelling. I quite enjoyed the entire podcast. So much, in fact, that I...
Flashbak
The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
2 days ago
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
Birchtree
More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies.
Here we go again!
This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV
On the other...
2 days ago
Here we go again!
This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV
On the other end of things, here's a QVC presenter destroying a TV live on camera. Cybertruck reveal vibes here too
If you've tried Balatro and haven't
Both Are True
When You're Done with that Condom, Just Throw it Anywhere
just a lil guy
2 days ago
Calculated Risk
Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in...
2 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales
A brief excerpt:
After the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) releases the monthly existing home sales report, I pick up additional local...
Birchtree
2025: The year of fitness (members post)
2025 is upon us and my goals for the new year are very clear: I need to get my fitness in order....
2 days ago
2025 is upon us and my goals for the new year are very clear: I need to get my fitness in order. Here's the plan…
Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
2 days ago
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
TheCollector
5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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Calculated Risk
NAR: Pending Home Sales Increase 2.2% in November; Up 6.9% Year-over-year
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of...
2 days ago
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of Increases
Pending home sales gained 2.2% in November – the fourth consecutive month of increases and the highest level since February 2023 – according to the National Association of REALTORS®....
Scarlet Ink
My 61k subscriber newsletter, about marketing, and a bit about relationships. An off-topic holiday...
An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
2 days ago
An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less)
The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
2 days ago
The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
Retail Design Blog
Creditreform Offices by Mint Architecture
Mint Architecture designed a timeless and loft-like office space for Creditreform in Offenbach,...
2 days ago
Mint Architecture designed a timeless and loft-like office space for Creditreform in Offenbach, incorporating natural and contrasting materials within the...
The Works in...
Three percent more Monaco: Links in Progress, infrastructure edition
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat...
2 days ago
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat tunnel.
Calculated Risk
Housing Dec 30th Weekly Update: Inventory down 2.5% Week-over-week, Up 26.8% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.5% week-over-week.
Inventory will...
2 days ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.5% week-over-week.
Inventory will continue to decline seasonally until early next year and probably bottom in late January or February.
The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family inventory...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major...
2 days ago
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Vision Pro report card here.
Year one of Vision Pro
This is a bit of
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
2 days ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Hightown Inn, Liverpool
Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then...
2 days ago
Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then the Hightown Hotel), I never really considered this grand old Victorian building to be much of a "local". I was far more likely to get the train to the Railway in Formby where most...
TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
2 days ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
Retail Design Blog
L’Oreal Skincare Set by BXL Design
We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative...
2 days ago
We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative brainstorming seminars and...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
2 days ago
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
Retail Design Blog
MR ER store by J&C Design
Chinese womenswear brand MR ER has opened a new branch on the premises of Yintai City, one of the...
2 days ago
Chinese womenswear brand MR ER has opened a new branch on the premises of Yintai City, one of the leading...
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s bus fleets want to go electric, but manufacturers can’t meet demand
Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
2 days ago
Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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Seth's Blog
Calendars are a choice
Humans are unique. We give names to the days of the week (we even have weeks). We eat something...
2 days ago
Humans are unique. We give names to the days of the week (we even have weeks). We eat something different for breakfast than dinner. We chronicle the passage of time. In fact, our chronicling of time is what makes it noticeable. Coordination can only happen when we’re in sync...
Apoorva Srinivasan
diffusion models for protein generation
Introduction
Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually...
2 days ago
Introduction
Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually every important task in living systems. While nature has produced an incredible range of protein functions, these represent only a tiny fraction of what's possible in the protein...
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
2 days ago
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
2 days ago
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
Paul Cudenec
Keeping it in the deep-state family
It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person...
2 days ago
It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person bearing the family name on the Foundation’s board of trustees.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system
Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
2 days ago
Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should visit Jimmy Carter's hometown.
diamond geezer
Unblogged December
31 unblogged things I did in December
Sun 1: You'd think after all these years I'd be an expert in...
2 days ago
31 unblogged things I did in December
Sun 1: You'd think after all these years I'd be an expert in getting the temperature of my bath just right, but today's was only borderline warm enough when I got in and swiftly cooled to aggravatingly tepid so I had to get out early. I...
TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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2 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Be Able to Call It a Poem'
A few poets
are born into each generation. A measure of the rareness of their gift is...
2 days ago
A few poets
are born into each generation. A measure of the rareness of their gift is the
proliferation of wannabes who make poetic gestures, relish the title “poet” and
write undistinguished prose. I was given an issue of American Poetry Review, a magazine I
haven’t looked at in...
The American Scholar
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on...
2 days ago
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Etymology
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2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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This will be in the compendium of SMBC etymology jokes, volume 8.
Today's News:
Christopher Butler
Year in Review – 2024
The highs and lows of the year in exhaustive detail.
This is going to be a long post. I’ve...
2 days ago
The highs and lows of the year in exhaustive detail.
This is going to be a long post. I’ve broken it up into a few sections, so if one is of greater interest, just hop to it.
Overview
At Work
Magnolia
Art
Reading
Music
DIY Projects
Overview
What a year!...
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
2 days ago
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Celebrating the Centennial of Galaxies January 1 2025
On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer...
2 days ago
On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer Henry N. Russell read a paper contributed by a young astronomer named Edwin Hubble (who was too junior to earn a trip across the country from the California observatory where he...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Build Something, Dammit! (#56)
Power vs. abundance; Chinese espionage; U.S. manufacturing woes; the growth of good jobs; Milei's...
2 days ago
Power vs. abundance; Chinese espionage; U.S. manufacturing woes; the growth of good jobs; Milei's successes
Calculated Risk
Monday: Pending Home Sales
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024
Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for...
2 days ago
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024
Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December.
Pending Home Sales Index for November. The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in the index.
Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for December. This is the last of regional...
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
2 days ago
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool).
I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run.
To my great joy...
ntietz.com blog -...
Reflecting on 2024, preparing for 2025
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these,...
2 days ago
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these, so I guess it's an annual tradition now!
This is where I reflect on the year that's been, and talk some about my hopes and goals for the next year.
Reflecting on 2024
This year has...
Ryan Mulligan
Some Things About Keyframes
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a...
2 days ago
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations,...
The Convivial...
Life Cannot Be Delegated
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
3 days ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
Birchtree
OpenAI is early Googling late-stage Google
Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From...
3 days ago
Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From the 2000s
In order for Google to keep its crown, it needs to remember what it was in the 2000s and a bit of luck.
Seeing Google grow from the
Eukaryote Writes...
Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
3 days ago
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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3 days ago
TheCollector
The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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3 days ago
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
3 days ago
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
Last Place Comics
Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
3 days ago
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Christmas Day
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents...
3 days ago
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents and we’re more than content to have absolutely nothing to do — it’s Christmas day after all!
But not Dad. He’s in the bathroom laying tile.
Again, this is Christmas day and Dad is on...
Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory
How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and...
3 days ago
How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and mm_struct
TheCollector
What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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3 days ago
Mind Mine
are relationships actually “hard”?
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
3 days ago
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
GeoCurrents
The Cook Islands: Seeking Independence and Sovereignty, Or Already Independent and Sovereign?
In late December 2024, the government of the Cook Islands, an autonomous Polynesian polity in “free...
3 days ago
In late December 2024, the government of the Cook Islands, an autonomous Polynesian polity in “free association” with New Zealand, announced plans to introduce its own national passports and citizenship. Currently, Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand while being considered...
Calculated Risk
Question #6 for 2025: What will the Fed Funds rate be in December 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
3 days ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
3 days ago
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
3 days ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
3 days ago
Another of my essays in French.
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024
2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
3 days ago
2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Apple Watch
This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
3 days ago
This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Apple Watch report card here.
Series 10
It’s always fun when we get a new Apple
TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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3 days ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bedtime
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How did it accidentally become depressing comic...
3 days ago
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How did it accidentally become depressing comic week?
Today's News:
TheCollector
Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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3 days ago
Seth's Blog
Secret recipes
“You can try this at home…” But you probably won’t. The secret recipe isn’t the reason Coke is...
3 days ago
“You can try this at home…” But you probably won’t. The secret recipe isn’t the reason Coke is successful. And the recipe for KFC isn’t much of a recipe at all. The secret way you do the thing isn’t what keeps your clients coming back. It’s the part you do in public that matters.
TheCollector
10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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diamond geezer
2024 index
dg 2024 index
Beyond London
Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to...
3 days ago
dg 2024 index
Beyond London
Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to its radio masts [photos]
Crewe: The delights of the railway town were worth half a day... [photos]
Stafford: ...whereas this historic market town could have sustained me for...
TheCollector
The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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3 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Future Spells Only Disaster'
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books...
3 days ago
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books published in the twentieth century,” and listed some of the titles deserving
a place in that category. Most, I wrote, “are not found in the traditionally
defined literary categories; that...
Working Theorys
Writing Wrapped
I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
3 days ago
I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
Koos Looijesteijn
How to get good at anything creative
3 days ago
HTMHell
datalists are more powerful than you think
by Alexis Degryse
I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
3 days ago
by Alexis Degryse
I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field.
It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
4 days ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
The Honest Broker
In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast
I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
4 days ago
I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
4 days ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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4 days ago
Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
4 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in...
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
New Home...
4 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November
FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores
Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
4 days ago
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line.
The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm.
A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jimmy
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This will be a lot funnier in the year...
4 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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This will be a lot funnier in the year 2072.
Today's News:
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll Podcast: Substack founder Hamish McKenzie
An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
4 days ago
An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
TheCollector
A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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4 days ago
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
4 days ago
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here.
MacBook Pro
The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as
TheCollector
Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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4 days ago
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024
Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2025.
----- Monday, December 30th -----
9:45 AM:...
4 days ago
Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2025.
----- Monday, December 30th -----
9:45 AM: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December.
Pending Home Sales Index for November. The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in the index.
Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity...
Moneyness
Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network
There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments...
4 days ago
There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial messaging network. Below is a version from the Economist, but I've seen other versions too.
Source: The Economist
When banks make...
TheCollector
Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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4 days ago
Irrational...
How to effectively refine engineering strategy.
In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice,
he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs.
His...
4 days ago
In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice,
he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs.
His premise is that you should cheaply test new ideas before fully committing to them.
Your organization can only afford firing a small number of cannonballs, but it can bankroll far more...
TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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4 days ago
Seth's Blog
Fiblets
Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume...
4 days ago
Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume actually unusually heavy? Did a chef really prepare this meal just for me? These fiblets are so common that they become part of the culture, a trope that lets the user know that this...
journal – Winnie Lim
chiang mai’s scenes of creativity
Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long...
4 days ago
Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long history of their hill tribes and their crafts? I thought I’ll...
Noahpinion
Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down
A repost, with some updates.
4 days ago
A repost, with some updates.
The Ruffian
Best of The Ruffian 2024
Catch-up service:
4 days ago
TheCollector
10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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4 days ago
Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
4 days ago
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in December 2024
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in December 2024
1) TfL expect to introduce both peak and...
4 days ago
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in December 2024
1) TfL expect to introduce both peak and off-peak Stratford International-Beckton DLR services on a permanent basis once sufficient new trains are available to permit this.
2) Touchless push-button signage has been...
TheCollector
Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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4 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'All Is Not Dead'
Sadness
nicely coexists with happiness this time of year. Christmas is over. Memories
abound. We...
4 days ago
Sadness
nicely coexists with happiness this time of year. Christmas is over. Memories
abound. We underestimate ourselves when it comes to emotional capacity. Only
the insane know one emotion at a time, which is why bliss and clinical
depression are rare states and why Joseph...
Casey Handmer's blog
Salton Sea statistics
I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step...
4 days ago
I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step one was to gather publicly available data about its level, and collate it into a single graph. Here we see that despite the continual formation of Salton Sea advisory committees,...
SatPost by Trung...
11 Best Things of 2024
My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
4 days ago
My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
McMansion Hell
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
This is an essay in two parts.
Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian...
4 days ago
This is an essay in two parts.
Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian Jank (1869).
There exist in architecture clear precedents to the McMansion that have nothing to do with suburban real estate. This is because “McMansionry” (let’s say) has many...
diamond geezer
Weather 2024
the dg weather review of the year
used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too...
4 days ago
the dg weather review of the year
used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too much effort for too little reward so here's a breezier summary. All data is for Hampstead, as per usual.
temperature rainfall sunshine
Jancold snapaveragesunny
Febvery...
Calculated Risk
December 27th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
4 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
mtlynch.io
The Case for Open Borders by John Washington
If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you....
4 days ago
If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you. If you’re anyone else, you’re probably not the target audience.
HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
4 days ago
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I...
4 days ago
At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. In…
Birchtree
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is...
5 days ago
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming:
With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0...
Birchtree
That time Apple made Auido Hijack way worse, but eventually made it better for everyone
Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
I’m delighted to say that we have completed...
5 days ago
Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
I’m delighted to say that we have completed our transition to ARK, and it now powers all of our audio capture apps on MacOS 14 and higher. Our glorious hassle-free future has finally arrived, and you can get
somethingaboutmaps
Journey’s End
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my...
5 days ago
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only...
TheCollector
Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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5 days ago
lcamtuf’s thing
Against the hydraulic analogy
The most popular tool for teaching electronics makes the trade harder to learn.
5 days ago
The most popular tool for teaching electronics makes the trade harder to learn.
GeoCurrents
The Forests of Northern Somalia?
Somalia (including Somaliland) is widely known as an arid and drought-plagued land. Climate maps...
5 days ago
Somalia (including Somaliland) is widely known as an arid and drought-plagued land. Climate maps depict most of the country as having a hot and dry desert climate (“BWh” in the Köppen classification system). Much of southern Somalia, as well as a portion of the far northwest...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sporting
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And the brain can be made into a fancy...
5 days ago
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And the brain can be made into a fancy candlewax!
Today's News:
CONTEMPORIST
An Orange Spiral Staircase Is An Eye-Catching Feature Inside This Apartment
Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in...
5 days ago
Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in Mumbai, India, that has two eye-catching orange spiral staircases. Stepping inside the penthouse, there’s an open plan living room with a variety of sitting areas and decor that...
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI stories that shaped 2024
Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
5 days ago
Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Unitree Talent Awakening
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
5 days ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
5 days ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
Calculated Risk
FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding...
5 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores
A brief excerpt:
Here are some graphs on outstanding mortgages by interest rate, the average mortgage interest rate, borrowers’ credit...
TheCollector
The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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5 days ago
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1%
From Goldman:
We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter...
5 days ago
From Goldman:
We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). Our Q4 domestic final sales forecast stands at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Dec 27th estimate]
emphasis added
And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow
The GDPNow model...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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5 days ago
Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
5 days ago
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
5 days ago
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
5 days ago
Retail Design Blog
FRU:DOZA Protein Ice Cream by Brama Branding
Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it...
5 days ago
Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it contains up to...
Calculated Risk
Question #7 for 2025: How much will wages increase in 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
5 days ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPad
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
5 days ago
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPad report card here.
iPad Pro
I'm so happy I get to say it was a
Retail Design Blog
Confidential Client Offices by Chalk Studio
Chalk Studio‘s Office X in Gurugram blends Zen design principles with nature-inspired elements like...
5 days ago
Chalk Studio‘s Office X in Gurugram blends Zen design principles with nature-inspired elements like wood and greenery, creating a harmonious...
TheCollector
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A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine
<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack...
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Retail Design Blog
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Since Luke and Lucie Meier took over the creative reigns at Jil Sander in 2017, the Milan-based...
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Retail Design Blog
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How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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Seth's Blog
Project/Product managers
You might be both. In big organizations, project management is a distinct skill. It involves...
5 days ago
You might be both. In big organizations, project management is a distinct skill. It involves timekeeping, record keeping and organization. The project manager knows the budget and the deadline, and ensures that constituents stay in sync. This is the construction coordinator and...
Electronics etc…
Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python
The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow
An Image Downscaler as Example Design
The...
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The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow
An Image Downscaler as Example Design
The Reference Model
The Micro-Architecture Model
Comparing the results
Conversion to Hardware
Combining symbolic models with random input generation
Specification changes
Things to...
Paul Cudenec
The single global mafia's bid for 'transformational change'
Paul Polman first drew my attention in 2019 when he was one of the “business leaders” who publicly...
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Paul Polman first drew my attention in 2019 when he was one of the “business leaders” who publicly voiced their support for Extinction Rebellion, the UK-based “climate” campaign group.
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
5 days ago
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
diamond geezer
The evolution of Christmas
The evolution of Christmas
mid 1990s Xmas: Go to the shops to buy everything you need for...
5 days ago
The evolution of Christmas
mid 1990s Xmas: Go to the shops to buy everything you need for Christmas
mid 2000s Xmas: Go to the shops to buy everything, except for a few books, CDs and DVDs from Amazon
mid 2010s Xmas: Get most of your Christmas stuff online, assuming it ever...
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 8 Shikata Ga Nai
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
5 days ago
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. “Shikata Ga Nai” Japanese for “What else can we do?” “It is what it is,” “There is no other choice.” The final chapter of...
TheCollector
The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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5 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Have Part of His Life to Himself'
“I am not
obliged to do any more.”
Retirement
is my choice. For most of my life I assumed I would...
5 days ago
“I am not
obliged to do any more.”
Retirement
is my choice. For most of my life I assumed I would drop dead at the keyboard in my office, mid-sentence,
but next week I retire. I have always enjoyed work, the
sense of contributing something to an enterprise, no matter how...
The American Scholar
Ho Ho Horror
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American...
5 days ago
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Elysian
This Chinese philosopher reformed politics in one generation
Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
5 days ago
Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
5 days ago
Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
HTMHell
Misleading Icons: Icon-Only-Buttons and Their Impact on Screen Readers
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Introduction
Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a...
5 days ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Introduction
Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a product. You dive into the work with full energy, and just before the deadline, you manage to finish it. Everyone loves your work, and the feature is set to go live the next...
Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
5 days ago
alexwlchan
I deleted all my tweets
I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X).
I wasted a lot of time there, got into some...
5 days ago
I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X).
I wasted a lot of time there, got into some embarrassing arguments, and wrote things I now regret.
But it’s also where I met friends and partners, started my career in cultural heritage, and began my queer awakening.
Maybe...
Calculated Risk
Question #8 for 2025: How much will Residential investment change in 2025? How about housing starts...
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #8 for 2025: How much will Residential...
6 days ago
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #8 for 2025: How much will Residential investment change in 2025? How about housing starts and new home sales in 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
The Honest Broker
The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024
Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
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Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
TheCollector
Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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6 days ago
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 7 Senzeni Na
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
6 days ago
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. [Edit: If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may find a career at my company, Terraform Industries, rewarding. We’re hiring...
The Rational Walk
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This post is a list of books that I read in the fourth quarter of 2024, including Euripides, The...
6 days ago
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Infinite Scroll
A User's Guide to Building a Subculture
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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Calculated Risk
Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with house prices in 2025?
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with...
6 days ago
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Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices,...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
6 days ago
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPhone report card here.
iPhone 16 Pro
I really, really liked the 15 Pro lineup, and I would
anderegg.ca
An update on Mastodon and referer headers
Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys...
6 days ago
Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys following web analytics, it seemed a shame that Mastodon appeared never to send any traffic. I knew this wasn’t the case, but that lack of traffic data certainly wasn’t doing...
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 219,000
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, a decrease of
1,000 from the...
6 days ago
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, a decrease of
1,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 220,000. The 4-week moving average was 226,500, an increase of
1,000 from the previous week's unrevised average of 225,500.
emphasis added
The...
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
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***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
TheCollector
10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Old Structures...
Top To Bottom
From Scientific American, December 8, 1894, an interesting view of two buildings: drawings that...
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From Scientific American, December 8, 1894, an interesting view of two buildings: drawings that include both the above-ground portion of the buildings, more or less as you would see them, and the foundations as they could never be seen. The foundations are seen as if the earth...
Seth's Blog
Taxonomy as a service
When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out...
6 days ago
When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out which shelf to put it on. Should the extension cords go next to the hoses? After all, they both do the same thing, one with electricity and one with water… The purpose of putting...
TheCollector
How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Give Up These Things If You Feel Like You’re Stuck in Life or Had Enough
Plus one thing *not* to give up.
6 days ago
Plus one thing *not* to give up.
Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
6 days ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write,...
6 days ago
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link.
Something...
Noahpinion
Indian immigration is great for America
This isn't ambiguous.
6 days ago
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
6 days ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
The Modern House
Seeking sea spray: a collection of nine covetable coastal homes
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside...
6 days ago
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside homes that would easily facilitate this bracing, peculiarly British tradition. Here, we’ve collected some of our most far-flung fantasies, from Cornwall to Norfolk and all the way...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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6 days ago
TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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6 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Whole Time Reading, Reading, Reading'
“I’m not
doing any work, just reading or pacing up and down. However, I don’t really
mind having the...
6 days ago
“I’m not
doing any work, just reading or pacing up and down. However, I don’t really
mind having the time to read. It’s more enjoyable than writing. I feel that if
I could live another forty years and spend the whole time reading, reading,
reading, and learning how to write with...
Computer Ads from...
Merry Christmas 2024
and a Happy New Year
6 days ago
Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Mortgage rates...
6 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Mortgage rates as of Monday (a little lower on Tuesday).
initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. Initial claims were at 220 thousand last week.
HTMHell
The underrated <dl> element
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns,...
6 days ago
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized.
It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure,...
Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner...
6 days ago
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so
friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing
consistently every week since I started for the first time this
August. It's been a...
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
a week ago
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
a week ago
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
Mind Mine
write like you are mortal
because you are
a week ago
anderegg.ca
Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however...
a week ago
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however you celebrate. During the downtime I got to play a game I’d been wanting to try for a while.
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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a week ago
The Marginalian
Birds, Loves, and Obscure Sorrows: The Best of The Marginalian 2024
Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a single year is to...
a week ago
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some More 2025 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket
OOP readers always have some interesting ones
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OOP readers always have some interesting ones
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
a week ago
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Map of the Week
Merry Gridmas!
Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas...
a week ago
Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas themed map showing land use with holiday emojis.
Also if you visit the Gridmas page you can watch the snow fall over Europe. You can pan and zoom around, however if you try to go...
Calculated Risk
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to All!
High Sierra webcam (it is snowing!)
beach in Newport.
Best Wishes to All!
a week ago
High Sierra webcam (it is snowing!)
beach in Newport.
Best Wishes to All!
TheCollector
4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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a week ago
Old Structures...
Happy Christmas
I’m not so sure about that vest.
a week ago
I’m not so sure about that vest.
TheCollector
Was Jesus a Radical?
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a week ago
Seth's Blog
Our new school
When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small...
a week ago
When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small royalty that I earmark for worthy causes. This year, we were able to help BuildOn and the community in Khakh build a new school. It’s the first real school building the village has ever...
Old Vintage...
A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my...
a week ago
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my wife's family in regional New South Wales, Australia. A friend of the family had an "old Commodore" in their house and asked if I wanted it. Stupid question, yeah?
The...
Paul Cudenec
Stickergate and the crumbling of the system
By way of bringing a little festive cheer to my readers, I thought I would share this short extract...
a week ago
By way of bringing a little festive cheer to my readers, I thought I would share this short extract from a rather lengthy historical account that I discovered on The FastForward Machine Internet Pre-Archive, first saved on January 1, 2052.
Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
a week ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
TheCollector
When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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a week ago
Anecdotal Evidence
''He Knew It Was All Wrong for the Season'
Once I
listened to a guy who had decided to stop drinking while sitting alone in a
diner eating his...
a week ago
Once I
listened to a guy who had decided to stop drinking while sitting alone in a
diner eating his Christmas dinner, separated from his wife and children. He
recalled the moment with good humor. What had depressed him was eating canned
corn. He had grown up associating good food...
The American Scholar
A Story for Christmas
The post A Story for Christmas appeared first on The American Scholar.
a week ago
The post A Story for Christmas appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration
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a week ago
Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems, periods in which humanity loses the ability to comprehend itself and collapses into chaos in order to rebuild itself around a new organizing principle — there...
Mind Mine
the taste issue
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a week ago
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
HTMHell
Preloading fonts for web performance with link rel=”preload”
by Alistair Shepherd
Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent...
a week ago
by Alistair Shepherd
Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent calendar last year you may have already read many of my thoughts on the subject. If not, read Getting started with Web Performance when you’re done here!
This year I’m back for more web...
Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
a week ago
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
Calculated Risk
Lawler: Interest Rates Since the Federal Reserve Began Cutting Rates
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
Click on graph for larger image.
10-Year T1PS Yield
a week ago
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
Click on graph for larger image.
10-Year T1PS Yield
99% Invisible
New Year, New Neighborhood
Every year, millions of eyes turn to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The ball drops, confetti flies,...
a week ago
Every year, millions of eyes turn to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The ball drops, confetti flies, and people around the world celebrate as one of the most iconic urban spaces transforms into a glowing, glittering symbol of hope and renewal. But this carefully orchestrated...
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
a week ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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a week ago
Calculated Risk
Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show Massively Higher Population Growth
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show...
a week ago
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show Massively Higher Population Growth
From housing economist Tom Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Incorporate Revised Methodology for Estimating Net International Migration, Show...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Capital
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings...
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings then surprised that they still sink.
Today's News:
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: X-ocracy Now
The government is now run by Elon Musk's X
a week ago
The government is now run by Elon Musk's X
TheCollector
The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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a week ago
anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks
The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
a week ago
The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
a week ago
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
Calculated Risk
Question #10 for 2025: Will inventory increase further in 2025?
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #10 for 2025: Will inventory increase...
a week ago
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #10 for 2025: Will inventory increase further in 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices,...
Birchtree
Grading my 2024 Apple predictions
First off, merry Christmas!
I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main...
a week ago
First off, merry Christmas!
I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main product lines, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, and the soon-to-be-released Vision Pro. I’ll be doing that again over the last few days of the year, but in the interest of
TheCollector
The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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a week ago
Old Structures...
Genteel
That’s the Hotel Marlborough at 36th Street and Broadway, shortly after 1900. The hotel opened in...
a week ago
That’s the Hotel Marlborough at 36th Street and Broadway, shortly after 1900. The hotel opened in 1888 when the entertainment district on Broadway was further south; by the time it was demolished in 1922, that district had moved to Times Square, a few blocks to the north. It’s a...
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem.
In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company,
Theoretical Ride...
a week ago
In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company,
Theoretical Ride Sharing, should adopt Large Language Models (LLMs).
Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on understanding the expected evolution of
the LLM ecosystem, which we’ve build a...
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
a week ago
Seth's Blog
The challenge of excess capacity
Marketing as we know it happened because of machines. Machines made factories dramatically more...
a week ago
Marketing as we know it happened because of machines. Machines made factories dramatically more efficient, which meant that producers could no longer easily sell everything they made. When you go from making four ceramic plates a day to 4,000, your capacity starts to look like a...
TheCollector
Who Invented the Ukulele?
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a week ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
To Make Enough Money to Retire Early, Stop Doing These 7 Things
What Harvard research bizarrely shows about retirement
a week ago
What Harvard research bizarrely shows about retirement
Noahpinion
Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people
GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
a week ago
GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
Astral Codex Ten
Why Worry About Incorrigible Claude?
...
a week ago
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