Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences.


When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses.


This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee.



One finds at least one vending…

Fabled author Ursula Le Guin had a sign over her desk: Is it true? Is it necessary or at least useful? Is it compassionate or at least unharmful? Not a bad place to begin.

If you have $3.7 million, you might be in the running to purchase Tregiffian Cottage, the Cornwall home of legendary novelist John Le Carré, who died in 2020. If not, you’ll have to settle fo…

New technology and conventions have led to several new classes of usability problems in Web design.

It was near impossible to convict scammers of fraud because jurors had a hard time believing that people would willingly engage in self-mutilation.

Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”

Occidental Petroleum is investing in billion-dollar projects to suck carbon dioxide out of the sky. The effort is raising hopes — and eyebrows.

At LinkedIn, we are using this curriculum for onboarding our entry-level talents into the SRE role. - linkedin/school-of-sre

Designed for craft, the Polaroid I-2 is the first analog instant camera with built-in manual controls and is equipped with the sharpest-ever Polaroid lens.

An informative repo for all Code.gov repos. Contribute to GSA/code-gov development by creating an account on GitHub.

When thirteen-year-old actor William Henry West Betty arrived in London from Ireland, crowds mobbed theaters and camped outside his home.

NGINX Unit - universal web app server - a lightweight and versatile open source server that simplifies the application stack by natively executing application code across eight different programmin...

Inductive current transmission unit inside the rotor enables ultra-compact e-motor design Performance data on par with permanent-magnet synchronous machines, currently the most common form of drive for e-vehicles Advantages: no magnets or rare earth materials…

This is the first in (maybe) a series of “Tales From Tech Support”, which are true stories from my point of view. I’ll probably only post these on a Friday.
In the 1990s, I worked as …

How to Make a Synthetic Diamond: My 10-year Wedding Anniversary is coming up so I thought I'd make my wife something special. A few months back I'd seen a show on TV where they demonstrated how companies were now making "cultured" diamonds in the lab. There…

Describe the bug Put the following code in the http:/try.dot.net page: using System; public class Example { public static void Main() { var x = Math.Round(11.1, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero); } } ...

In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Nuclear is obsolete. Take out your entire enemy virtually risk free. Just characterize him, release the swarm…