- Every Frame Is a Goodbye is a lovely little essay on photography – via my dad
- I am relieved to report that Happy Gilmore 2 was fantastic. I was worried it might be terrible, but it was a masterpiece sequel and loaded with incredible cameos and great jokes.
- A Friendly Introduction to SVG and a Priority Compass – both via the always brilliant cassidoo
- Someone has put together a compilation of awesome video game maps. – via hiro.report
- Here’s a handy hack to keep squirrels out of your garden.
- “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” I’ve seen that attributed to William Butler Yeats, but Quote Investigator can’t verify it.
- Related: Stop living this way. Make the smallest bit of effort. Be your own person. Research. Take pride in the words you repeat, and … attribute them accurately.
- We truly owe Thomas Jefferson mad, mad props for wonderfully irreverent things like the Season 27 premiere of South Park.
- I’ve been using Markdown for around twenty years now and still often forget what’s what. I love a good cheat sheet.
- Just Give Me Some Normal Damn Dinosaurs
- Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider
- Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting
- FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed and deficient with Noem in charge
Posts tagged “quotations”
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
— UCLA Coach John Wooden
Two things, at minimum, that wealth cannot save you from:
- death
- being a piece of shit
Isn’t that sort of wonderful? And amazing? You really cannot buy everything. You cannot buy being an interesting, sensitive, charitable person.
– Robin Sloan
- A Masters win for Rory McIlroy gives him, at last, a seat at the table.
- The Last of Us S2 on
HBOMax premiered this weekend, so it’s a great time to read some perspectives from an epidemiologist and a plant scientist. - What can we learn from the books being read by the characters in White Lotus S3?
- Lorne Michaels is going to produce a British version of Saturday Night Live starting in 2026.
- Great quote from physicist Brian Greene: “My best teachers were not the ones who had all the answers. They were the ones deeply excited by questions they couldn’t answer.” – via Austin Kleon
Dreaming of a song, but something went wrong:
- A federal judge sided with the [current] administration in allowing immigration agents to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship for now.
- Death is the point.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas, and then voted in Hawaii. – via mehdirhasan.bsky.social
- Vice President JD Vance fumbles trophy during Ohio State football’s White House visit
- I can think of a few thousand better ways the AP could have worded this headline to more accurately convey just how corrupt this weirdo is: DeSantis Defends $10M Donation from State Agency Settlement to Charity Linked to His Wife
- The American Dream Is Over: He did this with the enthusiastic support of the entire Republican party and conservative movement, and a plurality of American voters.
- A High School Reunion Reignites a 50-Year Crush – via Links You’ll Love
- Feel-good story of the day? The fast food chain White Castle has over 30,000 reservations for February 14th. – via @froggyb.bsky.social
- Love in the Time of Darwinism
- The Voice at Embankment Tube Station
- “If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.” – Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Roger and Elaine
- “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein
- Flirting with an attractive woman really does make men feel good, scientists find, as they discover it causes a surge in health-giving hormones.
- My Two Favorite Poems about Love