My local rulers recently banned the use of disposable plastic shopping bags. Their stated goal was to promote the use of reusable bags and probably something about the environment.
I was unhappy about this. I’m usually unhappy when technocracy rears its ugly, empty head, but above and beyond that, this has make my life worse in a few small but noticeable ways. […]
One of the reasons I’ve been trying to trim my TiddlyWiki’s size down is to spend as little time as possible looking at the Red Box of Death: […]
Britain: IKEA has removed hidden security cameras from its warehouse in Peterborough, England, after an employee spotted one in the […]
Dateline Oregon (MSN): Starting in January, a real estate agent must reject any communication that would reveal the buyer’s race, […]
17 megabytes in size. I also mentioned an older wiki in the progress of being slowly imported and reorganized, but didn’t mention that it’s over 52 MB. […]
Here’s a copyright notice I noticed recently: […]
I use TiddlyWiki a lot. I use it as a journal, a book and image catalog, an archive of news articles, a to-do list, a notepad, a draft notebook for blog posts like this one and backup repository for finished posts… […]
I updated my phone recently, and soon afterward I noticed an available update from something called “Android System Intelligence, which I hadn’t ever heard of before. I certainly hadn’t installed it, and I hadn’t seen any updates for it before despite having used Android phones since Gingerbread was a thing. […]
If you follow virus news at all, you’ll undoubtedly have heard of herd immunity. The official consensus is that herd […]
Speedrunning, for those of you who don’t know, is a type of video game competition where people try to run […]
Ray of Infamy 