Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

I was alerted by this Language Log entry to a new system of defining one's location - with three words. What 3 Words is an interesting concept site that gives map coordinates (to within 3m) as three words, rather than typical latitude/longitude strings of numbers. On the…

What would you do with exactly $1.00? A piece in the Dallas Morning News asked this question of a couple dozen people and got some mundane answers, and some that are out-there. I liked the treasure map idea, and the cup of cheap coffee for someone you…

I had heard of Peeple back in the fall. It's an app that allows its users to rate others as if they were ice-cream stands or movies. Like Yelp. For humans. If you decide to use Peeple, you identify who you want to rate, choose an…

Roger Craig gives us the absolute ballsiest moment from Jeopardy! You don't even have to follow Jeopardy! -- or even necessarily know all the rules -- to appreciate this. https://youtu.be/YRwK8SyVeJE And it was the finals of the Tournament of Champions, so there could not have…

BSides Rochester will be hosting a Key Party. (That link leads you to the best Wikipedia disambiguation page.) Of course, the type we're doing is this one. Still, you have to behave responsibly. Don't be this guy: