Dr. Glendenning died this week. On the spectrum of thoughts about how we educate our children (and ourselves), there was no one I was more aligned with. And there was no person who had more lasting ...

Distant friends of the blog, Jeremy Cherfas and Edward Hasbrouck, chatted about food in American prisons on the latest episode of of Eat This Podcast. To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my ...

“Season your work with the physical,” that’s what Sloan has been doing lately, and it’s at the heart of what I’ve been doing for as long as I can remember.

Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand. We’ll laugh and explain to our grandkids how silly it was that we typed out JavaScript syntax with ...

Allan was witty, creative, contrarian, and wickedly smart. While he was a political candidate–he ran for the NDP against then-Premier Alex Campbell in 1974 –Allan excelled at being just out of view.

If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...

A postscript to my Amazon post from earlier: here’s a chart showing my annual order volume and total spend from Amazon from 2001 to 2025: I generated the chart by ...

The venue has a ramp entrance. Gender-neutral washrooms are available on site. The space is air-conditioned and an air purifier will be in use. Attendees are welcome to move around, step outside, or ...

Lisa writes about Leona’s Fox, the varied edition of reduction prints she’s been working on this month and finished up yesterday: For the past few weeks I have been picking away (well, carving away) a ...

When Lisa and I were in the first flush of new love, Mondays would see a flurry of texts from me to her, a deluge of sparks and inspirations, pointers and exclamations, all to fill the hole that was ...

Prince Edward Island electricity load exceeded 400 MW for the first time ever today, measured at 5:44 p.m (chart). The temperature at the time was -16ºC, with a wind chill of -21ºC. The previous peak ...

Wes Anderson in conversation with The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison, in An Editor’s Burial: WES: Well, I’ve had an apartment in Paris for I don’t know how many years. I’ve reverse emigrated. And in ...