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I was struck the other day by the following: The cooking instructions on my Bob’s tri-colored quinoa package said to combine 2 cups of water with 1 cup of dried quinoa, which would ultimately create…
Cronk rules everything around me: long-lost beverage resurrected…
A chance discovery in a newspaper archive has left drinkers in Canada and beyond salivating at the prospect of – finally – getting their hands on some Cronk. More than a century after it was…
Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections
When writing services that accept TCP connections, we tend to think of our work as starting from the point where our service accepts a new client connection and finishing when we complete the request and…
Google AMP: What Website Am I On? NYTimes…
Take a look at the below screenshot from Safari for iOS. What website am I on? Based on the contents of the page, I’m clearly on the NYTimes website, but based on the address bar…
WIRED’s Ultimate Summer Reading List
If you’re like us, then you’re struggling to read these days. Not news stories or tweets—we read plenty, probably too many, of those. We mean actual, many-page books. Something about the state of the world…
“Covid Parties” Are Not a Thing
The dreaded “Covid party” has come to Alabama. Even as the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients in the state reached record highs, news came out this week that college students in Tuscaloosa have been throwing…
Need a Cheap Phone? Look No Further Than…
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Amazon challenges Google with smaller, cheaper Echo Show
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Metal Mario makes his Hot Wheels debut this…
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