Jan 29, 2026 from Prakash S Bottom Up Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe
Jan 28, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0035: Premortem 0035: Premortem0:00/547.2641×Episode details: A reading and discussion of this, from 2023 ↓Premortem: before starting a new project, learn why it will end in failureA simple method for uncovering b...
Jan 27, 2026 from BEEW Smiling Assassins I recently came across a fascinating series of studies about women who disguise negative gossip as concern. Instead of hearing, "Sophie's a mess," you hear, "I'm so concerned about Sophie… she's be...
Jan 27, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943) A WWII propaganda film narrated as an "auto"-biography
Jan 27, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal NBA Champions After Losing MVPs/All NBA Players Every instance where an NBA player wins an MVP or makes an All NBA team with team X, leaves team X, and is still active and playing for a different team when team X wins a championship.
Jan 25, 2026 from BEEW The Most Important Question Is the One You're Avoiding If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that progress comes from having good answers. That smart people solve problems, that th...
Jan 24, 2026 from riz#000000me stuff I don't know. I've been spending a lot of money, but generally I feel like the purchases have either been something I would buy later anyway or are actually something I've thought about and the pur...
Jan 24, 2026 from riz#000000me winter blows The older I get, the more affected I am by seasonal depression. That's enough of a downer, but just taking stock of how it affects me: I do not want to go out in the cold. I don't even mind the col...
Jan 23, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Creating NLJ QR Code With QR Code Generator I decided to create a QR code for The New Leaf Journal's homepage. After some research, I tried nayuki's QR Code Generator on GitHub.
Jan 22, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine A short guide to adding the no AI version of DuckDuckGo to Chromium-based and Firefox-based web browsers as a custom search engine with shortcut.
Jan 22, 2026 from Ploum.net Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commis...
Jan 21, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0034: On speeding things up 0034: On speeding things up0:00/497.0241×Episode details: a reading and discussion of this, from 2023 ↓On speeding things upLearning from the hourglass & the snake.Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr...
Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these d...
Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) Etchings of birds in a somewhat theatrical style.
Jan 20, 2026 from Improve Something Today With paper, glue & scissors: how little zines can make a big difference Two ways to make an 8-page mini-zine using stuff you already have—and three reasons why you might do this.
Jan 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal PixelFade Studio VN Review Project Canadian OELVN developer PixelFade Studio announced its "retirement" from visual novel development on January 19, 2026. I announce my plan to cover the three PFS novels I have not yet covered and i...
Jan 20, 2026 from BEEW Like＞Love We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — the songs, the movies, the holidays, the grand gestures, the heartbreak, the dram...
Jan 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.
Jan 19, 2026 from Ploum.net Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots What I like most about teaching "Open Source Strategies" at École Polytechnique de Louvain is how much I learn from my students, especially during the...
Jan 18, 2026 from riz#000000me on swift horses What a heartbreaking movie. Generally set in the 50s and maybe early 60s, there is nothing particularly heartbreaking about the movement of the queer characters and the way they talk around identit...
