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Stop / Stop
Stop / Stop
The difference between the iOS Timer and Alarm screens bugs me.
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Stop / Stop
On January 6
On January 6
“Officer Dunn, do you think this danger is still here? Where are we right now, in terms of the threat to democracy, from your view?”
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On January 6
Lighted squares
Lighted squares
A 1935 visit to New York lets us see Stefan Zweig as a spectator-tourist, visiting Radio City, the Savoy Ballroom, and “a self-service café” — no doubt the Automat.
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Lighted squares
Recognitions
Recognitions
I recognize that bus, which I saw in the Berkshires some years ago. It was surrounded by hippie-esque types and their children. And I recognize this bus too, which I saw a couple of years ago, parked at an orchard in downstate Illinois. They belong to a group now in the news.
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Recognitions
Wordle
Wordle
“Created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner”: The New York Times has the story behind Wordle.
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Wordle
How to improve writing (no. 99)
How to improve writing (no. 99)
“In your opinion, are Republican candidates in midterm elections who have received former President Trump’s endorsement more likely or less likely to win their primary races than Republican candidates who did not?”
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How to improve writing (no. 99)
Last call
Last call
A 2022 calendar in Gill Sans, three months per page, a free PDF.
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Last call
Critter
Critter
Beaver? Walrus? I’m not sure. But when I picked up this sweet potato last night, I knew it was also something — or somene — else.
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Critter
Sardine art
Sardine art
Behold: images from a facsimile edition of Glynn Boyd-Harte’s Les Sardines à l’huille, described by the publisher as “one of the outstanding auto-lithographed books of the 20th century.”
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Sardine art
How to improve writing (no. 98)
How to improve writing (no. 98)
“Hypothetically speaking, would you be in support of or not in support of an exception to the Senate’s filibuster rule with regard to legislation involving voting rights?”
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How to improve writing (no. 98)
Gorgias in our time
Gorgias in our time
“The orator need have no knowledge of the truth about things; it is enough for him to have discovered a knack of persuading the ignorant that he seems to know more than the experts.”
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Gorgias in our time
Graphs!
Graphs!
Steven Pinker needs to understand that no one lives life in the aggregate.
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Graphs!
Well, or not
Well, or not
A Balzac character writes about life as a mother.
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Well, or not
“Book-wrapt”
“Book-wrapt”
In its real-estate section, The New York Times hypes the idea of being “book-wrapt” in your “bookroom.”
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“Book-wrapt”
Noir filter
Noir filter
When I browsed the phone’s filters to turn the picture black and white, I found that the filter I wanted is called Noir. But I think it could just as plausibly be called Horror.
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Noir filter