Blogs

The ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Was Killed, but Consumer Advocates Could Revive It

A US court scrapped a rule requiring a simple method for canceling recurring payments. Experts are hopeful regulators will revisit the issue and ease consumers' rage over “subscription traps.”

25 Best Cheap Watches Under $1,000 (2025): Timex, Hamilton, and Seiko

Watches can be an expensive hobby. That’s why we’ve put together a list of our favorite wristwatches under $1,000—from Hamilton and Seiko to Timex and Farer.

No Sleep – Le site qui empêche votre ordinateur ou smartphone de passer en veille

Je vous présente nosleep.page, un site web qui empêche votre ordinateur de se mettre en veille en utilisant l'API Screen Wake Lock, ou une vidéo invisible pour les navigateurs non-compatibles. Pratique pour éviter les interruptions pendant des tâches longues,…

Are We Watching the Internet Die?

Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the ac…

Technical Manual TM 11-410: The Homing Pigeon (1945)

Comments

Chiplet IP Standards Are Just the Beginning

Data and protocol interoperability standards are needed for EDA tools, and there are more hurdles ahead. Customized chiplets will be required for AI applications.

"Rabbit Test" Unwins the Hugo Award

I cannot convey the supreme depths to which I’d rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulat…

Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?

A Tale of Two Devices, Task Stacking, But Is It Really Reading? Plus: The Cigar Rollers’ Pastime

Odds & Ends: March 1, 2023

Fitness Trackers Find New Symptom of Depression — Body Temperature. Researchers using data from the Oura Ring fitness tracker to see if it could detect early symptoms of COVID-19 (it could), made another unexpected finding: a link between body temperature and…

Graceful

Long after people forget the details, they’ll remember your kindness. There are many forms of hospitality, but resilience, goodwill and gratitude are often the ones that matter. PS here’s a short ebook I published almost a decade ago.

Recent Posts