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Sign #1 cracks me up.

Not only the best but also the most durable: I bought mine in 2016 (above) and ten years later it still works as flawlessly as the day it arrived.

For many years my family members, knowing how much of a food person I am, subscribed me to all manner of "Cheese/Sausage/Bacon/etc. of the Month clubs: it was an easy way for them to give me something they thought I'd enjoy without having to go through the

Alexander Overwijk draws a perfect freehand circle 1 meter in diameter in less than 1 second. 40,478,424 views since it was posted to YouTube on January 9, 2007.

This morning I clicked my Google search bookmark and up came the minimalist, stripped down homepage of yore —including "I'm Feeling Lucky" (above).

Finally.

Every time something big seems to happening when it comes to the world of money and investment and the market, that old saw "This time it's different" is bandied about to justify the hype and huge sums of money being put in.

I've been through a zillion different ones over the years, which tells you that none were perfect.

I mentioned before that I was both surprised and pleased to learn a few months into boj's reincarnation here that 70% of readers do so on their phones.

"This website renders every single road within a city."

I'm just the tiniest bit surprised that in "Lioness" Season 3 the principals continued to use Provigil (modafinil) prior to operations to stave off fatigue/sleepiness.

Simone Giertz is one of my favorite people and has been since long before she got big around 2016.

Sometimes you’ve got no choice: you're obligated to talk to someone, usually a family member, on the phone.

Finally.

Type in a last name and it will show you where in Great Britain that name has been found.

Above, all my aspirin and Tylenol purchases from Amazon since September 2021.

News travels slowly to Podunkville: how else to explain the fact that I.HAD.NO.CLUE that Replika is so popular?

Up to last week I'd have said "Of course not."

From the March 1957 issue of Scientific American: Children and Physics Does a child's first conception of velocity include comprehension of it as a function of distance and time, or is his notion more primitive and intuitive?

Above, a video of Nirvana playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in a small club in New Haven, Connecticut on September 26,1991, just two days after "Nevermind" came out.

Search Usenet newsgroup archives: text posts from 1981-present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.

After many years of listenting to music while running using only Apple AirPods and then each successive iteration of AirPods Pro (we're currently on #3 with #4 scheduled to be released any minute), Bluetooth annoyances notwithstanding, a couple weeks ago I

Long tip short: watch them park.

Artist Maya Barkai assembled a collection of pedestrian traffic signals from around the world: it's called "Walking Men Worldwide."

Since forever the email inboxes on my phones and laptops have differed: some emails arrive in one, others in the other, and still others show up in both.

Watching the terrific series "The Shards" on Disney+, I noticed that uberbabe Susan Reynolds, superbly played by Kaia Gerber, was partial to a classic old-timey BIC four-color pen.

One type, when dealing with a three-bulb, difficult-to-access ceiling light fixture containing two burned-out bulbs, replaces the two dead ones.

This fantastic 1951 film blew me away when I watched it as a boy.

Above, my download/upload speeds on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 —nearly 20 years ago — on my PowerBook G4 17" running OSX 10.3.9 on Comcast high-speed internet.

"The gang from Craighill explains the origins and uses of three seemingly small design details that show up everywhere: pips, nubs, and the very useful union of pips and nubs."

This list tallies posts that have appeared since boj's reincarnation here on Blogger on October 1, 2025 after Typepad went belly-up.

This new iPhone camera app combines two lenses at once to produce one hi-res photo, giving real optical detail with no generative AI.

Her powerful New York Times Op-Ed page essay of June 18, 2000 has become a classic.

Easy peasy.

Hercules in the Garden Q.

"Open a tool, do the thing, leave.

Long story short: Dustbuster wins.

On July 24, 2026, a post titled "Where Things Are and Where They Go — Part 2: Replacement Theory" appeared in this space.

The First-Century Mosaic and Accompanying Fresco Located Beneath the Baths of Trajan in Rome Welcomed Its First Visitors This Past Weekend A vast mosaic uncovered in Rome, the largest ever discovered in the Roman world, has opened to the public for the fi…

1) Start with water — the amount you've selected for your load size — and wait till it's all in 2) Add detergent, fabric softener, and whatever else you like to put in (OxiClean, Febreze, etc.) 3) Last, put in the clothes See how easy?

Type a domain, pick a country, and the page opens as a tile on an infinite board — each one a real browser running remotely in that country, so you can watch four news front pages (above) or three Amazon storefronts at once and see how the same site looks…

For over four decades, U.S. artist Patrick Dougherty has been weaving truckloads of willow saplings into more than 300 site-specific "Stickworks" — walk-through towers, arches, and urn-like forms that look grown in place.

Staggering.

I scrolled through all 471 tools pending review with the same delight I experienced reading the original Whole Earth Catalog cover to cover — all 448 pages of very small print, every word — when it came out back in 1968.

The five lanes of Highway 101 in Los Angeles are turned into a musical instrument: Each car on the live Caltrans camera is a note.

How about "I can't remember" — does that sound about right?

Kevin Kelly's review: ...............................

And why wouldn't I?

From the U.S.