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Ed Zitron read a bunch of the emails released in United States v. Google and believes the quality of Google’s search engine has been in decline since early 2019 thanks…

No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies I linked to a story the other day about book sales claiming "90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies…

I had a very rough time getting going this morning, and I’m not sure why. Bad pain day, joints and muscles, and so very sleepy. I got the girls to…

A somewhat short driving day today as we drove to be close to the Las Vegas, NV area.  Since we gained an hour once we were in Nevada, we were…

Insomnia kicked in the other night, and I found myself beaming RIPLEY. Beautifully shot series! Entirely black and white with some of the most unusual angles I've seen on screen.…

I committed a pretty big social media mistake once. Well, way more than once since then, but I remember this one specifically because it was my first. It was well…

The upcoming single by Giack Bazz is titled "Only Fans," and of course just by title alone that string of words today is going to initiate a lot of upfront…

Adventures in learning Mandarin. As a heritage speaker, I have to learn Mandarin differently. It has been a frustrating and fun journey so far. Fortunately, lots of content from language…

If Hamlet had been a system of noncommuting charges, his famous soliloquy may have gone like this… To thermalize, or not to thermalize, that is the question:Whether ’tis more natural…

The requirement for TikTok to relinquish Chinese ownership or face a nationwide ban was signed into law today, as an add-on to a foreign aid bill:But even as ridiculous as…

Tijuana is the largest city in the state of Baja California located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico. Tijuana is the municipal seat of the Tijuana Municipality and the…

As far as I’m concerned, this 8-minute YouTube video by Becca Farcace at The Verge is required viewing for anyone interested in the Meta Ray-Bans and will give you valuable…

Really happy to announce our new (open access) paper was finally published today in @LinguisticsJ! "Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: A computational dialectometric approach"https://t.co/oyNPabq0CN with He Huang (lead author), Lei…

I tend to write about restaurants I like, so it’s funny to me that I have never written about my actual favorite restaurant. It’s a Peruvian restaurant in the historic…

Terry Carter, who played Private Sugarman on The Phil Silvers Show, Sgt. Joe Broadhusrt on McCloud, and Colonel Tigh on Battlestar Galactica, died yesterday, April 23 2024, at the age…

After many delays, due to last year’s strikes, and multiple bouts of recasting, Zach Cregger’s “Weapons” is supposed to start production in mid-May, according to THR.

Waked in the morning with my head in a sad taking through the last night's drink, which I am very sorry for; so rose and went out with Mr. Creed…

I love nearly every aspect of getting out to explore. The research when I'm at home. The anticipation of what will be found along the way. The unexpected discoveries along…

We report about a curiously vertical cumulus shooting out for the heights of the atmosphere. We are suspecting a certain amount of humid, warm air that is pushing up the…