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I was a REST purist for a while and the purer I got the more unhappy I was. Hypermedia standards like Siren and HAL just made things miserable no matter how hard I tried to make th…

This is basically a fluff piece about Lego with a side helping of climate and sustainability topics. It’s not a particularly good article in my opinion. I think the most fundamenta…

This is a video by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder for anyone who might want help deciding on whether to succumb to the clickbait title.

My dental practice has only one significant improvement that I’ve noticed in the last 30 years, which is to use a sonic scaler to remove plaque instead of manual scraping with an i…

I find it curious that the Lockheed Vega is chosen as “Amelia Earhart’s plane” since most people would probably associate her with the Lockheed Electra, the plane she was flying wh…

I am also bad at mini Metro but the thing that makes me crazy is that when the game ends it says something like “your city shut down.” That makes absolutely no sense and the endgam…

I was never a very big fan of Edward Gorey but I always loved his contemporary Ogdred Weary. :)

My condolences on your loss. I used QModem in the early 90s downloading shareware and the like. I just looked through my floppy disk holder and found a 3 1/2 inch floppy from 1992 …

Meta discussion: The article is brilliant (my fridge hassles me too!) but makes two small word usage “errors” by using the phrase “dawn it’s Freon cap” The first “error” (I’m mostl…

I seem to recall that some drawbridges could be counter weighted and have supports that could be removed quickly that would then free the counterweight and close the bridge immedia…

If you search YouTube for the channel Extreme Deer Habitat and the video How to Never Get Poison Ivy again the presenter asserts that hard scrubbing with a cloth will remove the ur…

I'm hesitant to comment because while I'm an aviation fan I really know very little. I subscribe to VAS Aviation and Blancolirio where a lot of these incidents are reported and ana…

One we like is the unfortunately named “FunWhole” on Amazon. Though to be honest I think these are increasing in price on Amazon lately :( But there are tons of other sellers and m…

Cheap imitation building blocks are stunningly high quality nowadays and many companies offer extremely interesting sets at a fraction of the cost of real LEGO blocks.

We are very casual birders but on our daily walk yesterday we watched a pileated woodpecker eat insects from a log for 5 minutes from about 25 feet away and it was wonderful :)

Some discussion and a really upsetting video on Reddit that I’m assuming is this incident https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1boxor4/cirrus_sr...

By 2030… “Soon” seems like a bit stretch.

When my daughter was a teenager she dropped her phone in the toilet and fished it out and put it in rice to dry. We didn’t see any rice in the trash, and so we continued to questio…

My favorite combo so far was Alien + Buddha = Yoda :D

I’ve been seeing a lot of lost pet posters lately. One of the things that has struck me is that they seem pretty ineffective. Most of them have really small writing and when you’re…

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Commercial pilots are actually paid incredibly well. The reason for the shortage seems complex and has to do at least partly with regulations passed that mandate 1500 hours of flig…

I just set up a new iPhone yesterday, and it was pretty frustrating. Apparently there is a known bug that prevents seamlessly setting up a new iPhone from your old one unless you f…

Short version: They pump CO into the holes to kill the rats.