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- Nothing interesting happened over the last few weeks so OH WHO AM I KIDDING, How to flee justice with only a former Green Beret, a black roadie case, and two private jets. I wonder if they had to outbid the Venezualean gold shippers.
- Why do we call it the "iron" age and not, say, the Flax Age?
- Playing chess via text prediction.
- My 19th century Cornish insults, let me show you them.
- Stop reinventing spinlocks, just use Mutexes.
- Antlers might be domesticated cancer.
- The levity of the prose is a bit incongruous for the sadness of the subject but this 13-part piece on figuring out what happened to a German family in Death Valley was interesting.
- I'm so glad we put all the data in the universe on a half-dozen providers and then made sure to rank them only by price. What could go wrong.
- West of the Hajnal Line, ~10-20% of adults never married. East of it, nearly everyone married. There are lots of other things that line up suspiciously well with it, too.
- Intel's new NUC is neat, socketable everything.
- Computer acting up? It's hungry, give it snacks.