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Off Book: The Improvised Musical podcast had a delightful exploration of the impish Salvador Dalí, an incredibly successful cat rescue, and...

Time to Orbit: Unknown is a novel by Derin Edala . It's the length of maybe 5 standard novels, but available to read in its entirety on...

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question. (Previously 2017 ,  2019 .) What is the longest amount of time you have gone wi...

 I forgot to write attributions so here are some more-scrambled-than-usual quotes: "Thank you! You've been sucked into the trap alo...

It's the end of the calendar year so I'm upping my recurring donations to charities and artists. And suddenly... my hard drive is fu...

Inexplicably, people keep talking around me and my brain keeps latching on to the strange ways they arrange words and ideas. K: "96% of...

WHEREAS the ongoing pandemic and various other elements of environmental, social, political, economic, and biological disaster loom large, a...

 After many months of living at the end of a narrow internet pipe, my bits finally stopped flowing (the pipe was blocked? ok, metaphor) and ...

Today is the 106th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing . (Of course, at birth he was probably very bad at abstract reasoning and proofs,...

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. What is the longest amount of time you have gone without using the internet? ...

Firstly, have you considered not making sweeping policy changes? While I am sure that you think  you have considered every aspect of the c...

Cortana is the Microsoft version of Alexa, who is the Amazon version of Siri, who is Apple's version of an embryonic Skynet, as fantasiz...

... and I'm out (previously: In which I am about to cancel my Verizon home DSL and Verizon update ). The service continued to be terrib...

An update: the squeaky wheel does, indeed, get the grease. After being maximally noisy in a public forum (Twitter) and expressing, at len...

I have not had home internet service since July 18th. My provider is Verizon DSL. At this point I have called, emailed, tweeted, and interac...

17776  ("What football will look like in the future") is a piece of fiction by Jon Bois, published on the sports website SB nation...

From Gaby Dunn's podcast, "Bad With Money", episode "Get Rich or Die Vlogging" @ 19 minutes: Youtubers are allowed...

Online dating seems to encourage a kind of window-shopping, where the process is glorified without any acknowledgement or progress towards i...

I am as much a datavore as the next internet-inhabiting member of my socio-economic-educational cohort. Right now, with a few clicks, I can ...