The more things change, the more they stay the same, perhaps? Manuel Moreale writing the other week about blog post comments: I’m not a fan of comments in general and I think commenting on something should be done in one of two ways: 1. Privately via email or via direct messaging … | Continue reading
It's an amusing scene, but it's a troubling one, too. Video capturing fishermen's attempt to bait wild sea lion raises concerns: 'And this is what happens when you feed wildlife' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I’m very happy with this particular episode of the podcast: Neil Jhaveri founded Mimestream, a macOS email app for Gmail users. Stephen and David talk to Neil about his time at Apple, Mimestream’s roadmap (including an iOS version and supporting non-Google services), and email’s … | Continue reading
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast is so good. This came to me via Marty and I'm so glad he thought to post about it. I love The Lonely Island and the first four episodes of this show are great. Each episode they talk about one of their digital shorts from SNL starting wit … | Continue reading
The second week of work being super busy 🥱 This coming week is the first week of our new on-call/host-of-the-week, so there's going to be a lot less context switching and (internal) customer support Meant there's been a fair bit less free brain time outside of work as it' … | Continue reading
If you’re planning on visiting Disneyland Paris for the 2024 holiday seasons, the dates have been released for the Disney Halloween Festival and Disney Enchanteed Christmas events. Disney Halloween Festival The Disney Halloween Festival returns October 1 through November 3, 2024. … | Continue reading
Fitzroy North Terrace by Field Office Architecture exemplifies a meticulous fusion of historic charm and contemporary design interventions, establishing a harmonious and light-flooded residence for a young and creative family. Continue reading | Continue reading
Sports media misogyny was alive and well this month. In just the few short weeks it took for star United States basketball players Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese to shoot their way from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Sweet 16 to the Women’s National Basketball … | Continue reading
wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock The core experiences of depression – changes in energy, activity, thinking and mood – have been described for more than 10,000 years. The word “depression” has been used for about 350 years. Given this long history, it may surprise you that experts don … | Continue reading
EdBelkin/Shutterstock A landmark legal settlement has once again focused our attention on the dangers of “forever chemicals”. This class of chemicals, technically known as per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are widely used to make nonstick or waterproof products. The pr … | Continue reading
Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation delivers an urgent call for action. Haidt argues that the evidence is in. Teenagers’ widespread use of smartphones is causing a mental health crisis. Individual, collective and l … | Continue reading
Tavrius / Shutterstock Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t a one-off glitch, but it happened all the time: imagine … | Continue reading
Australians are having fewer babies, so many fewer that without international migration our population would be on track to decline in just over a decade. In most circumstances, the number of babies per woman that a population needs to sustain itself – the so-called total fertili … | Continue reading
/imagine a photograph of a Thai woman, pregnant in a green and white dress with luggage at an airport departure terminal in Bangkok in 1974 with her eyes closed thinking about what happens next as she holds her hand out in a theatrical gesture Sara Oscar Since last year, I have b … | Continue reading
Study finds stimulating a brain rhythm with light and sound increases peptide release from interneurons, possibly slowing Alzheimer's progression. | Continue reading
The Norkus House is uniquely positioned in Cala Carbó on Ibiza island, leveraging its elevated suburban site to offer expansive views towards the sea and Es Vedrà. Continue reading | Continue reading
The river known today as the Adige, the second-longest in Italy, flows south and then east from the Alps to the Adriatic. As it travels around hills and through flatlands, the river meanders widely, sometimes nearly looping back on itself. The city of Verona took root and grew ar … | Continue reading
This week’s edition is the last one before going on a cruise ship next week. See you in two weeks! | Continue reading
Nestled within a family-owned property on Guemes Island, the newly designed bunkhouse by SHED Architecture & Design offers additional sleeping accommodations, enhancing a legacy property with modern functionality while honoring its historical context. Continue reading | Continue reading
It's an inspiration for the rest of us to be more mindful of our surroundings. 97-year-old botanist calls attention to rare and overlooked cause of extinction: 'This is our heritage' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Bosque House stands as a beacon of modernity amidst the rugged beauty of the Minas Gerais hills in Brazil, perched atop the city's highest point. Its design, akin to a metallic spyglass, delicately interacts with the surrounding landscape Continue reading | Continue reading
This year started off pretty light when it came to programming because I’ve been addicted to the video game Against the Storm since last winter. But I eventually started working again on various projects – some old and some new. I didn’t do any programming in January, so we’ll st … | Continue reading
Just before the weekend started, the animation space lit up when someone suddenly leaked a lot of never-before-seen internal material from Disney. We won’t link to it, but included in that material is a sizable amount of stuff from the company’s TV animation slate across its Disn … | Continue reading
Palermo, 29 April 2024 The development of the Greenway Kaggera-Vita-Salemi is part of the pilot coordinated by GAL Elimos in the frame of the INCULTUM project. The encounter of 29/4/2024 hosted by the University of Palermo is the occasion to present the results of … Continue read … | Continue reading
…in England and Wales From 1696 until 1851 a “window tax” was imposed in England and Wales. Sort-of a precursor to property taxes like council tax today, it used an estimate of the value of a property as an indicator of the wealth of its occupants: counting the number of windows … | Continue reading
The original Skycamp from iKamper was a true innovator in a now-overcrowded rooftop tent (RTT) market. IKamper has built out the Skycamp brand over the years, adding smaller, lighter models and improving upon existing designs. It is now spinning off the Skycamp DLX sub-line. That … | Continue reading
Last night I woke up in the middle of the night from a dream where I was at a programmer convention. A bunch of devs were arguing and they came to me to be the deciding factor for the future of the KDE Plasma 6 project. Each was very passionate about the direction they wanted […] | Continue reading
Banská Bystrica, 25 April 2024 An international conference dedicated to the Mining Cultural Heritage of Central Slovakia was held in the city of Banská Bystrica on April 25, 2025, as part of the international innovation project INCULTUM. The goal of the conference was to present … | Continue reading
Good afternoon, readers, I hope you are having as good a day as I am. Today I started playing "Midnight Suns" (PS5) and so far, it's a heck of a lot of fun. Yesterday was one of those days that was so good, I almost got a bit paranoid that something bad was going to happen. (It d … | Continue reading
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Jeannette Cooperman in The Common Reader: In need of silence, I booked a room at a Trappist monastery. The following Friday, I snuck out of work early and headed south, not realizing that Ava, Missouri, was four hours away, down at the border of Arkansas. I sped down the intersta … | Continue reading
SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024 The novelization of news: Back in August 2018, Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison. Cohen had been Donald Trump's "fixer." Among his various duties, he was deeply involved in the "hush money" payment to a certain "porn star." (Phras … | Continue reading
Anne J. Manning in The Harvard Gazette: The endangered bonobo, the great ape of the Central African rainforest, has a reputation for being a bit of a hippie. Known as more peaceful than their warring chimpanzee cousins, bonobos live in matriarchal societies, engage in recreationa … | Continue reading
For about three years, I had the opportunity to work in the most interesting setup I have ever encountered in my professional career. It may sound complicated to maintain at first, but trust me, it is not. The results speak for themselves. Pair Programming was the default in our … | Continue reading
Ian Berlin at CNN: I do not deny that there has been a shocking and upsetting rise in antisemitism over the last few months, including several instances of antisemitism right at Yale and in New Haven. Last fall, one professor’s post on X (formerly Twitter) appearing to praise Ham … | Continue reading
From Hume Texts Online: My family, however, was not rich, and being myself a younger brother, my patrimony, according to the mode of my country, was of course very slender. My father, who passed for a man of parts, died when I was an infant, leaving me, with an elder brother and … | Continue reading
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Links! Get your red hot links here! There Are Plenty of Power Publicists. But Only One Works for Taylor Swift [Allie Jones/WSJ] – Tree Paine (as the owner of what I think is also a great name, I salute you Tree) seems incredible competent. It’s amazing how compelling that is thes … | Continue reading
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Junk mail is an extremely wasteful practice. Resident shares frustration with photo of absurd junk mail received: 'I find it infuriating' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ryan Reynolds, co-owner of Aviation Gin, is having the company release six specialty bottles inspireed by Marvel Studios’ upcoming film “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which he also stars in. The Details To celebrate the release of the film in US theaters July 26th, Aviation American Gin … | Continue reading
the actual encampment at Columbia—i'm here after teaching my final class of the semester—is downright tranquil, impossibly sweet. there is a "nut zone" for the safety of kids with allergies. — Vinson Cunningham (@vcunningham) April 25, 2024 The robust young activists of USC can b … | Continue reading
Since it debuted back in 2021, Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa’s Radiant Black has become one of Image Comics’ biggest books. Now that it’s got an entire universe of its own full of equally colorful characters headling their own books, it’s just a question of what’s next for the s … | Continue reading
While the first season of The Dangers in My Heart missed my 2023 top-six list, the second season proved to be the first genuine anime of the year candidate for 2024. | Continue reading
Rarely do I link to something just because I want you to go read it, but this piece by Alex Ross in the New Yorker is just such an occasion. It is a wonderful piece about how we sometimes embrace noise and sometimes reject it, and what “noise” even means. (Via Matt.) ⌥ Permalink⌥ … | Continue reading
Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman, writing for the Brookings Institution in October, following a vote to begin the process of reclassifying broadband as a “Title II” telecommunications service, regarding efforts to paint net neutrality regulations as no big deal: It is the conduct … | Continue reading