Currently reading: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle 📚

Currently reading: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle 📚

Must be Lego Day at Wirecutter

Three Four stories posted today:

I missed this one: Lego Isn’t Just for Kids. Here’s How to Become an Adult Lego Master.

The Best Lego Sets for Adults

The Best Lego Sets for Kids

The Best Lego Sorting and Storage Tools

ER docs worry over extreme heat as a ‘mass casualty event’ In Phoenix, where daytime temperatures are topping 110 degrees...

ER docs worry over extreme heat as a ‘mass casualty event’

In Phoenix, where daytime temperatures are topping 110 degrees Fahrenheit for the third straight week, emergency room doctors think of extreme heat as the public health emergency it has proved itself to be: In 2022, Arizona’s Maricopa County reported a 25% increase in heat-related mortality from the previous year.

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Why does Apple pronounce “silicon” with an “ə” in the last syllable instead of the more traditional American “ŏ”? Are they sourcing it from the UK’s Commonwealth?

kottke.org, Jason Kottke: Instruction Manuals for 6000+ Lego Sets, Courtesy of the Internet Archive

kottke.org, Jason Kottke: Instruction Manuals for 6000+ Lego Sets, Courtesy of the Internet Archive

Announcing The Laundry Files 2nd Edition | Cubicle 7 Games I’m so excited for this one!

Announcing The Laundry Files 2nd Edition | Cubicle 7 Games

I’m so excited for this one!

Nautilus: A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished For weeks, Adam Smith had been crunching the raw data from more bird statistics...

Nautilus: A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

For weeks, Adam Smith had been crunching the raw data from more bird statistics than anyone had ever tried before—thirteen different bird counts and millions of radar sweeps. Suddenly he heard the musical chime that tells him his results are ready. He leaned across his desk, surrounded by enough high-powered computers to heat up his entire office, and stared at what could only be an impossible conclusion: Over the past fifty years, his calculations found, a third of North America’s birds had vanished.

But is Anish Kapoor allowed to use it?

NYT: To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats

Dr. Munday noted that covering half the Sahara, or any contiguous surface, with that much radiative material shouldn’t happen for a number of reasons, among them practicality, wildlife concerns and weather disruptions caused by one region suddenly becoming much cooler.

Wirecutter: “Why We Love Lego” I have a stack of bricks at my desk that I use as a fidget toy to help me think during meetings. I stack...

Wirecutter: “Why We Love Lego”

I have a stack of bricks at my desk that I use as a fidget toy to help me think during meetings. I stack and unstack the tiny tower of three by two bricks, hearing the satisfying click as I break them apart and put them back together.

This is how I get through every phone conference and zoom meeting.

Florida Republican women say they will switch parties after DeSantis approves alimony law: Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure...

Florida Republican women say they will switch parties after DeSantis approves alimony law:

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure that will overhaul the state’s alimony laws, after three vetoes of similar bills and a decade of emotional clashes over the issue. The measure (SB 1416) includes doing away with what is known as permanent alimony. DeSantis’ approval came a year after he nixed a similar bill that sought to eliminate permanent alimony and set up a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriage.

“…it was also bad to suffer the terror of monotony” WHAT DID PEOPLE DO BEFORE SMARTPHONES?

“…it was also bad to suffer the terror of monotony”

WHAT DID PEOPLE DO BEFORE SMARTPHONES?

Currently reading: The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear 📚 This is a fascinating look at a part of technological history I had not known...

Currently reading: The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear 📚

This is a fascinating look at a part of technological history I had not known about before picking up this book.