The Star Wars Holiday Special is more important to canon than ever | Polygon | https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/500987/star-wars-holiday-special-skeleton-crew

SteamOS moving from Steam Deck to more handhelds gives me hope for better anti-cheat compatibility | GamingOnLinuxhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/steamos-moving-from-steam-deck-to-more-handhelds-gives-me-hope-for-better-anti-cheat-compatibility/

Can You Eat Turkey Eggs?https://www.thespruceeats.com/can-you-eat-turkey-eggs-5081613#:~:text=Why%20Don't%20We%20Eat,up%20to%20%2436%20per%20dozen.

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV – ABC Newshttps://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361

The Untold Story of the Vegetable Peeler That Changed the Worldhttps://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-untold-story-of-the-vegetable-peeler-that-changed-the-world

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanstothers/are-these-christmas-movies-poll

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts – The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather-forecast.html

Jeopardy!: The spinoff is finally here. It might make you question your faith in humanity.https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/jeopardy-final-pop-culture-colin-jost-prime-video.html

This is wild – There is a non-zero chance the insurance industry will collapse by 2040.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prosperity-or-catastrophe-insurance2040-study-reveals-four-possible-futures-for-the-industry-302304272.html

Sorry, I got a little busy with Thanksgiving and things lately! I'll try to get better at using this. 🙂 https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces-new-president

63-year-old man arrested in U.K. cheese heist : NPRhttps://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168356/cheddar-cheese-stolen-neals-yard-dairy

Dozens of monkeys escape from research facility in South Carolinahttps://www.wral.com/story/dozens-of-monkeys-escape-from-research-facility-in-south-carolina/21711665/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/04/guardian-sports-writers-and-arts-critics-swap-jobs-for-one-day

All About Wonders of Wildlife's Octavia the Octopus and Keeper Jared Belt | 417 Magazinehttps://www.417mag.com/lifestyle/life/octopus-keeper-jared-belt-wonders-of-wildlife/

US Copyright Office “frees the McFlurry,” allowing repair of ice cream machines – Ars Technicahttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/us-copyright-office-frees-the-mcflurry-allowing-repair-of-ice-cream-machines/

Who Invented The ‘Bedsheet Ghost’?https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-invented-the-bedsheet-ghost/

Seven new frog species discovered in Madagascar: Sounds like something from Star Trek | ScienceDailyhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241015141512.htm

Star Trek's Holodeck recreated using ChatGPT and video game assets | ScienceDailyhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240411130301.htm

Sorry for the shortfall, I'm traveling this week and not reading a lot of news on my laptop. 🙂 Here, have a picture of the Very Large Array!

Guitar Hero but with a TROMBONE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUFR8_Fuf0&t=659s

Eggs might be $5/dozen, but is there some kind of potato glut!? $1.50 for 5 pounds!

Apparently people now think an em dash is a sure sign you used AI to write something? I hope I don't have to break up with my favorite punctuation to look human.

New cybersecurity EO this morning. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/16/executive-order-on-strengthening-and-promoting-innovation-in-the-nations-cybersecurity/

https://geekmom.com/2025/01/joann-stores-likely-to-go-out-of-business-what-now/

Attention crafty folks with limited shopping options: Joann has filed Chapter 11 again. Gordon Brothers is the "stalking horse," which means it's open to other bidders, but I wouldn't hold my breath. If no others show up in 60 days, they will begin going out of business sales at all locations.

Here's a thing I bet you forgot existed… gmailswap.com, where people who have snagged one of those coveted new gmail addresses and also lucked up into having invite codes can help those who have not. https://web.archive.org/web/20040630224735/http://gmailswap.com/

Me: Wow, that's a pretty good DSW coupon. I wonder if they carry dance sneakers? DSW:

https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/5ff1e13a-f1c3-4785-846f-0946463884f7

What's holding a lot of folks to Facebook is organizational news. Parent groups, booster clubs, meetups, support networks. Bsky and the other Twitter-esque don't replicate that well.

I've been wearing contacts for decades and had no idea. Always out here learning something new.

I know about starter packs, but is there a tool that says "here are the people that people you already follow commonly follow"? i.e., if there's somebody I've missed following that 30 people I do follow like, I probably like them too.

What's the highest level into an arena that an NHL puck has ever been hit? This is a weirdly hard thing to Google.

I understand /why/ the Internet has broken the inverted pyramid format of journalism. I celebrate that we aren't limited by pixels, and nobody needs to cut stories from the bottom. But it is super annoying not to find the dang subject of the story for five paragraphs.

Stores I want to go in: Drive-up pickup spots take up half the parking lot. Stores where I want to pick up: The drive-up spots are hidden behind the store in a grove of trees marked by a 2" sign and guarded by a troll with questions three.

Love that customer support chats exist. Hate when they don't appear to have read the information you gave them, e.g.: "I'm having trouble completing a transaction." "What is your order number?" Don't have one. Just told you. Grr argh.

I am irrationally annoyed by headlines that attempt to inspire my awe with the phrase "visible from space"! "Visible from space" is not really that impressive. Unless you're trying to make your house qualify, a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_the_Halls_(2006_film) Which I started trying to calculate…

Tropical Coke tastes like a super weak tiny cocktail you paid $20 for because it was the only bar on the beach. If this is your taste of "holiday bliss," let's talk about how to improve your holidays.

Amazon digital credits expiring… what should I buy?

Are you a senior level Python dev who would like to work for the Apache Software Foundation? Good news! We've got a job posting for that. https://www.indeed.com/job/senior-software-engineer-tooling-001ef6abb5b7639b