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The WordPress co-founder has been on a...weird tear lately.

2009: "If Academy Awards were given out for titles alone, the forthcoming Pride and Predator would win next years best picture Oscar hands down." It starts out as Pride and Prejudice but then an alien lands and starts stalking everyone.
It reminded me of the apocryphal round-robin story written by two people with very different sensibilities as to what makes a good story, and figured it would either be awful or hilarious. Possibly both. 2024: I don't remember whether this ever actually got made, and there's no sign of it on IMDB.

While most of the West Coast uses the two interchangeably, there's a sharp divide between “um” and “uh” throughout most of the country.

"Going back many, many years, we’ve written about how the public narrative that the large social media networks engage in “anti-conservative bias” in their content moderation policies is bullshit."

"each straw has its own density and hue, and the analogue camera gives a straight indexical rendering of whatever is placed directly in front of it."

2017: "After nearly 100 years, the Carmel River runs unobstructed again and set a record for high flow levels in January."

"How filler words and tiny pauses keep conversations from going off the rails"

"If there was one thing you wish people understood better about astronomy, what would it be?"
You may think it's a long walk down to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to the solar system.