I’m pretty sure every country that shares a land border with Russia has a claim against Russia for territory. Every one. And they want it back.
I wonder when China is going to want Vladivostok back?
Wow, Hydrox Cookies are back and made in the USA by Leaf Brands. They also have no animal fats or high fructose corn syrup. Cool.
I’m going to buy this book. ‘Feminist icon’ Miss Marple returns in 12 new authorised mystery stories
PSA: It’s frozen pizza Friday.
I swear the whole world is becoming more like the show Twin Peaks every day.
I had chicken stir-fry. I can tell you that chicken stir-fry is better than hotdog stir-fry. In case you were wondering.
Definitely worth reading: Why Does a Librarian Own a Social Media Site That’s Been Around for Longer Than Facebook? Metafilter sounds interesting.
In case you missed it. We’ve started Indexing the Analog. Things like collecting typewriters, fine pens, paper etc.
Climate change: Everybody worries about the polar bears but nobody is worrying about the abominable snowman.
I’m certain Cryptozoology and Cryptocurrency are siblings.
Today’s Pointless Bird Site Thread: Age of Consent. As near as I can figure it people are saying it should be age 26 or even 35 yrs. Just in case you missed it.
I may have to commit a wiki soon.
Zombie movies are too much like real life these days.
I grew up watching Roger Moore play The Saint on TV. Later I found that one of my favorite actors, Vincent Price had played The Saint on radio. A light hearted take on the character but I found them very entertaining. Fun.
I just upgraded Ubuntu Linux to 22.04.1 LTS and everything seemed smooth. So far so good.
Amazon you already have your robots crawling everywhere on the web. You might as well notch it up a level and build a real index and web search engine.
Today i learned about corpse roads and some few still exist.
I’ve got the song Hold My Hand by Hootie and the Blowfish stuck in my head and it won’t stop. I guess that’s not a bad thing.
Here’s the deal America: let’s tear down all the good looking old buildings, your entire downtown, leaving weedy vacant lots, chain link fences, a parking lot and maybe we can attract a dollar store in a steel shed building. Deal?
US Passenger Trains: Let’s set some goals. 1. Get most long distance trains up to at least 110 mph and increase frequency. 2. Then get key long distance routes up to at least 150 mph with priority over freight while building true dedicated HSR network.
If you could revive one vintage desktop operating system which would it be: Commodore Amiga OS or IBM OS/2?
Prediction: Next Big Thing in the blogosphere will be Federated blogs. I have no idea how that will work or how it will differ from the #Indieweb or if it will even be useful.
It’s too bad we don’t have a way to tax non-search engine bots on the internet.
Methinks, there are some messages being sent to China. Germany flies 13 planes to Australia for exercises