Orange Crate Art

It came to me: ’Just the Pages, a third-party app to adjust settings in the Mac app Pages.

[“Four Panels in Search of an Algorithm.”

From the 99% Invisible podcast series A History of the United States in 100 Objects, an episode about the Western Electric 500, the telephone that was once ubiquitous in United States households.

JetPens explains paper sizes.

[40 John Street, Financial District, Manhattan, c. 1939–1941.

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper is by Stan Newman, the puzzle’s editor, constructing as Lester Ruff.

[“Rabbit Hole.”

Playing Crossplay (The New York Times ) with our son Ben has turned Elaine and me into hardened criminals of this Scrabble-like board.

The Merriam-Webster podcast Word Matters disappeared in 2022 after 100 episodes.

A great website, though it makes no claim to be complete: Car Owner’s Manuals.

I’m losing a good ninety minutes this morning watching what I put on for a minute before reading: a Senate confirmation hearing on C-SPAN 3 for Dr.

When Lucio Bordenave was fired from his job at a bank, his wife Diana, aka the missus, wanted him to work at a used-car showroom.

[Sheila Cabot (Lana Turner) takes a cab.

”I am the code,“ he said.

Michael Gorra, a recently retired Smith English professor.

AI in the news: “Stanford Used A.I. to Swap Black Student for Hispanic Student in a Photo” (The New York Times, gift link).

Women scientist is the wicker furniture of typos.

[From Blues in the Night (dir.

[From Portrait in Black (dir.

The New York Times (gift links) is counting down what television people consider the 100 best shows of the twenty-first century.

Brad (Wallace Ford), in Blues in the Night (dir.

“I hear thunder.”

[528 Sheepshead Bay Road, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.

Real news (Reuters): the current occupant now plans to refashion his proposed arch into “a complex to house and deploy drones and sniper ammunition.”

At ProPublica, Alex Mierjeski tells the story behind the story: “‘Our Dear Friend Umar’: How We Uncovered That a Russian Oligarch Bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding.”

“Trump’s anger at the press was probably fed today by three scoops”: in the most recent installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson suggests three reasons for the current occupant’s banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from his house.

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper, by David P.

John Fetterman, offering a garbled echo of a Republican talking point about AI (i.e., there’s nothing Congress can do to regulate it): “Now, you hear the word guardrails and a lot of those things, that’s just, then, that’s just a statement, you know, what…

An exchange between Blondie Johnson (Joan Blondell), a rising criminal, and Danny (Chester Morris), an accomplished criminal.

In the library: “There’s an interlibrary loan book for me, I Went Down to St.

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[One to four stars.

“I’m gonna wear shoes.”

The most recent installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American marks seven years of daily letter writing: Seven years later, we are approaching the midpoint of Trump’s second term, and the patterns I saw seven years ago are slicing to the

“‘The White House has a taxpayer-funded team that tries to incite harassment and threats against their political foes,’ Rupar told Salon.

“When I told him that to celebrate the day, I had set up a thirteen-foot model of the triumphal arch in one of the salons, he immediately left the party and hurried to the room”: from Read, Seen, Heard.

“Nyack’s new spot for fine stationery”: Busman’s Holiday.

The paper in my 2026 Moleskine datebook is an improvement over that of years past: ink does not bleed through.

Sales of pens, puzzle books, Moleskines, and Fujifilm Instax cameras are all up: “The anti-AI portfolio” (Financial Times ).

The story has now made it to Newsweek : the White House’s Rapid Response 47 account has called the indefatigable Aaron Rupar “a sick, deluded freak” for calling attention to the current occupant’s travels with Natalie Harp.

Brown bourbon, a neon red maraschino cherry, the crisp pages of a letter, a thick piece of cream-colored stationery someone is about to write on.

In The Chronicle of Higher Education , Anastasia Berg suggests that “The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane”: How will encouraging students to use AI when writing papers in political theory, philosophy, literature, or history deepen learning?

In The New York Times (gift link), Eric Schlosser writes about the current occupant’s large order of mystery meat: If American consumers knew where that beef was coming from, they might not want to eat it.

[1116 Remsen Avenue, Canarsie, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.

“On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.

David Deming, the dean of Harvard College, says there should be “acceptance or even encouragement” of AI in student writing.

[Mutts , September 13, 2026.

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper, by Matthew Sewell, started out so easily: 1-A, four letters, “Hula hoops, for instance.”

The current occupant has promised $5000 to every adult American if Republicans retain control of Congress.

“On the 81st floor, there were no Republicans or Democrats, no Black or white.