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Ralph Archibold, the Ben Franklin impersonator the article mentions, was a legend in Philadelphia and a really nice guy. I met him back in 1999 when I was working for a city touris…

The page you link to doesn’t say that. “As of February 2026, Khelif had not described herself as intersex or as having a DSD.”

The Yahoo article linked says that exceptions will be made for people with conditions like that: “Athletes diagnosed with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) ‘or other …

This is entirely incorrect about Jewish belief.

Speed dating is a scuzzy industry and would seem likely to get chargebacks. They often lie about who will be attending and what the criteria for setting people up with potential ma…

Apple put Barenaked Ladies’ The Old Apartment video on the Mac OS 8 CD as a QuickTime demo

(2022)

We never had anything different, though. Computers always became so obsolete after a while that there was no longer any point in trying to upgrade them. I think I got eight years o…

You don’t become one of the wealthy just by going to school with them. You’re still an outsider, lesser, just one of the little people, not their sort.

People have a very poor conception of what is easy to find on the internet. The author is impressed by the story about Chat GPT telling his friend how to enable the sprinkler syste…

It now takes four clicks to delete an app on an iPhone, and four clicks and a swipe on an iPad.

Do you have a pointer to documentation on that, or a keyword to google? Would like to find out more.

You can also hold down the hyphen key and select it from the popup menu. En dash lives there, too.

Most companies, even fairly small ones, already have a substantial number of contract tech employees in India, Eastern Europe, or South America.

On iOS, you can also hold down the hyphen and get a popup menu with an em dash option (along with en dash and a bullet). On Macs, you can get an em dash with option-shift-hyphen.

How is javascript required for accessibility? I wasn’t aware of that.

We were taught to use em dashes as reporters 25 years ago, and I use them all the time in personal writing.

And workers should be paid to have space to work from home and internet service and food and office supplies and electricity.