Lol’ed at this tweet by M.G. Siegler →
Breaking: NYT to acquire Metacritic, refocus site from movie review aggregation to critiquing Facebook.
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25 Classic Crime Books You Can Read In An Afternoon →
To celebrate the art of brevity, we’ve rounded up a list of 25 compact crime and mystery reads—noirs you can (and mostly likely will) read in the course of an afternoon (or an evening, or even a morning)
Combine “very” with a simple adjective and get a more concise adjective
A brilliant reference, the utility website does a single function, but does it well.
What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The Punctuation →
[W]hen you look at those writers’ punctuation, you can see, in a quick glance, how different they are.
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet →
At 1658 UTC we noticed that Facebook had stopped announcing the routes to their DNS prefixes. That meant that, at least, Facebook’s DNS servers were unavailable.
When my daughter requested recently if she can have her YouTube channel, I wondered if she would manage to keep her interest. She does. She reads, writes and keeps recording. Sure, not everything comes out perfect. But she does not stop. Today, her second video is out. Yay!
After a year of recording and sharing videos with the closed family, my daughter requested for something I knew she would one day, her own YouTube channel. After putting all the checks in place, here’s her video for Kids published on the Web.
Earth’s mysterious red glow, explained →
In 2009, a satellite circled Earth, scanning and sorting the wavelengths reflecting off the planet’s surface. Researchers noticed something baffling: an unexpected wavelength of unknown origin. They tried looking at Earth with only this wavelength, and saw the planet covered in a red hue of varying intensity. So, what was going on?
Cambridge scientists might have possibly detected presence of dark energy.
About a year ago, the XENON1T experiment reported an unexpected signal, or excess, over the expected background. “These sorts of excesses are often flukes, but once in a while they can also lead to fundamental discoveries,” said co-author Dr Luca Visinelli.
It’s curious to read about the scientists talking about their experiments. Their palpable excitement is always contagious.
If you like ebooks, great. Enjoy your dim, gray screen in peace. If you hate them, don’t worry about it. Who says everything must involve a computer?
I love physical books, but I prefer reading the ebooks. I hope the distinction is clear enough. If I could afford, I would purchase both the physical and digital version of a book. Read the digital version, carry around my library in the Kindle always. That affluent me then can gawk at the beauty of the physical book and stack it in his self-designed library.
Source: The Atlantic — “Why Are Ebooks So terrible?”