Today's XKCD: Yesterday I was at lunch with three colleagues, whom I will call Alice, Bob and Carla. Alice: What about Star Wars? My kid is into it. Bob: No, but I always liked Star Trek, especially the series with Picard Me: The Next Generation? Bob: That's…
Continue reading...oogle announced yesterday that all of their non-core businesses will be moved to an umbrella company called Alphabet. (Link takes you to Alphabet.com but that's a car leasing agency in the UK or something.) The letter from Larry Page reads like an April Fool joke,…
Continue reading...I have been posting a lot of Geocaching puzzles (adapted to solving without actually logging the cache). Puzzle #1 Puzzle #2 Puzzle #3 Puzzle #4 Puzzle #5 Puzzle #6 So, not to be blunt but... is this something you folks want to do? Is it…
Continue reading...In this rare recording, JRR Tolkien reads part of Riddles in the Dark, from The Hobbit. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216079629" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] I am not a fan of audiobooks but I would buy this one, if it existed. via Brain Pickings
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