A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
The Atlantic
In 2018, one year before his ascension to prime minister, Boris Johnson was asked by a European diplomat about these adverse effects. He replied, “Fuck business.” And indeed, something like that happened.
Good article that explains a lot, but not how people were bamboozled into letting it happen.
The 252nd Carnival of Mathematics
I loved some of the things Fractal Kitty rounded up, especially Hawzen's amazing effort to identify a fossil mollusc shell purely on the basis of gross morphology, here. I kinda sorta understand the maths, though not in any great detail, especially this:
Naturally, the distance between two shells s1 and s2 is squared euclidean distance between their contour points:
Naturally!
Is it the species they think it is? Who cares.
Domain prices in 2026 for my portfolio - Jan Wildeboer’s Blog
This is sound advice to shop around and maybe consolidate domains. Glad I moved from Gandi a long time back.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Tab Trick
Just the other day I was looking for a way to prevent myself accidentally closing an open tab, when along come Tim Bray with an extension to that idea that I immedately want to try.