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"Monthly, weekly, and ongoing creative challenges"

"Turn URLs into descriptive links."

"One of my technological indulgences is that I upgrade my phone yearly, and for the last several years this means I get whatever the newest iteration of the Pixel phone from Google is. This year it&…"

"The scattered toponyms that delight us by their unvarnished expression of downheartedness, defeat and despond."

2023...this feels like it was longer ago than 1 1/2 years, but it's not like time means anything anymore.

“If you truly loved pop music in the 1960s… there was no ducking the choice and no cop-out third option,” one writer remarked. “You could dance with them both,” but there could never be any doubt about which one you’d take home.

"Describing these institutions as having “failed” misrepresents the reality of why Grenfell happened. Deregulation, cost-cutting and outsourcing were not “failures” of government, but flagship policies of austerity that were carefully planned and coordinated. "

"Handwriting suggests Prague doctor named Johannes Marcus Marci tried to decode in 1640."

1939-1979

"First, the playa fills with water, which must be deep enough to allow formation of floating ice during cold winter nights but shallow enough to expose the rocks. As nighttime temperatures plummet, the pond freezes to form sheets of "windowpane" ice, which must be thin enough to move freely but thick enough to maintain strength. On sunny days, the ice begins to melt and break up into large floating panels, which light winds drive across the playa pool. The ice sheets shove rocks in front of them and the moving stones leave trails in the soft mud bed below the pool surface."