- An oral history of Industrial Light and Magic
- Always Invite Anna
- Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s. Why Gen X is the real loser generation.
- Fat Bear Week is here.
- This is now incredibly the 16th consecutive year I’m linking to this: It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
- The truth is not always beautiful nor beautiful words the truth. – via @swiftonsecurity.com
- I’ve always loved the Jabberwocky.
- For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an edited version of Romeo & Juliet, with “a 67-line final conversation between Romeo and Juliet“, was more popular than Shakespeare‘s original. – via kottke
And now for the bad news:
- A little chat about genAI is well worth your time. Don’t be the kind of person who says, “I hear you. I understand. But also, I don’t care.”
- He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
- “A former director of the North Carolina Republican Party – who resigned amid election fraud and corruption scandals – has been appointed to a new role overseeing North Carolina’s state and local election officials…” – via @maddow.msnbc.com
- Bear shot, killed after wandering into Central Florida home
- POTUS Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
- Hollywood Union Files Complaint Against Use of James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader Voice—Which He Sold Before His Death
Posts tagged “Shakespeare”
- Scientific American published a list of all the interesting things to see in the night sky in 2025.
- Spotify’s Secret Star Wars Easter Egg: The Hidden Lightsaber Feature (I don’t usually stream music, but this is pretty cool.)
- Are you responsible for designing or developing any type of authentication for a website or app? Take a second and read the UX of login codes by Brad Frost.
- “You can’t speak to the weather’s manager. Mother Nature has no concierge. Your investment portfolio will not halt an inferno. A college degree won’t tame the blaze. In the way we all inhabit the same Earth, we are all made of blood and flesh that burns the same.” – via The Handbasket
- Own a Kindle? You can read the complete works of Shakespeare for free.
- The Jabberwocky was one of my mom’s favorite poems. I love that I can still recite most of it from memory and it always makes me think of her.
#FridayFive: Shakespeare
In which I list my favorite plays by the bard
Happy Valentine’s Day
My favorite love poems
Pentametron scours Twitter looking for tweets that are in iambic pentameter and then combines them into sonnets.
Living Under a Rock
With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet,
Some Good Books
In which I list some of my favorite books
Multiple monkeys with a computer accomplish nothing.
Javascript Clock
How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men’s lives. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me For now hath time made me his numbering clock; My thoughts are minutes. William Shakespeare – Richard III
Titus Andronicus
An essay on gender roles I wrote in college in 1994