I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1726

This is a really cool piece about how the Tube has been cabled for mobile signal - nerdy for those who like nerdy, but also accessible for non-nerds.

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

I want an e-reader I can buy books for and also email links to web pages or run instapaper.

All those articles on how to de-ice your car never seem to mention the simple act of putting a hot water bottle on your dashboard. De-ices the screen and stops it from fogging up plus you then have a hot water bottle to give your passenger or kid to keep warm.

A Turning Point for Trump’s Marauding Secret Police talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-tur...

Currently tasked with building, effectively, a single page app in Drupal using Ajax. My dislike of the shambles that is Drupal combined by the mess that is frontend development and the interaction between JavaScript and PHP with Drupal fucking it up in between is driving me insane.

My hopes for a good 2026 look a little battered right now.

I wonder if it will be like razor blades and we’ll get three-factor authentication and then four-factor. I need half a dozen services for work and they all need authentication codes which I now struggle to find in the list (I fear deleting any).

magical

I think FIFA must rescind Donald Trump’s FIFA inaugural peace prize or I think the reputation of the FIFA peace prize could be severely compromised and it will be seen as just a sycophantic bauble - poor FIFA

Computer game idea: a driving game called Full Self Driving where you play the role of a driving exception engineer who has to take over when self-driving cars that lack lidar get confused in driving situations. You are sat at a computer and when a car gets stuck you are suddenly presented with …

Forgot to post this one

can't think of a better demonstration of how these things aren't intelligent and literally just tell you whatever you want to hear.

Been off work since the 23rd and I have absolutely no idea of what day of the week it is anymore.

I want an e reader that can run apps such as newspaper apps, Substack, rss, kindle, etc.

One year, Jools Holland’s New Year show is going to be recorded so early in the year that at least one performer will have died and been buried before they are seen to celebrate the New Year.

“One of the key concepts in Scrum is that the team members decide themselves how they’re going to do the work. It’s management’s responsibility to set the strategic goals, but it’s the team’s job to decide how to reach those goals.” And yet we have Jira that works in the opposite direction and so…

White House   Maid Shrieks After Spotting    Melania  On Ceiling https://theonion.com/white-house-maid-shrieks-after-spotting-melania-on-ceiling/

Forget those videos of people eating really spicy food, I’d like to watch a strong cheese eating competition. Watching people trying to eat Gorgonzola in sizeable quantities would be something.

Project idea: like Shazam for films but it detects the film and tells you what has happened up until this point and if it’s worth watching the rest of it.

In case you were wondering how that ceasefire was going… Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today We will never forget.

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year theonion.com/cia-realizes...

Pros And Cons Of War With Venezuela https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-war-with-venezuela/

Listening to Springsteen’s Born To Run and it’s dreadful. It’s like a poorly written Meatloaf country-inspired album.

Business idea: selective burglars. You get given 50 stickers to stick on items you love but aren’t critical to everyday life and then the ‘break’ in and take anything of no practical use (including clothing) and sell it and split the money 50/50 with you. You can appeal items for a fee and have…

Briefly logged into X to check something. Wow. If I’d taken how bad I thought it was and over exaggerated it I’d still not have got it quite as bad as it is. Other social media sites should take note of how quickly they could lose their relevance as X has done.

Just need to find a Roman era arcade cabinet to put them in.

Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.

PSA…

. @theonion.com This has to be one of yours.

Authorities Abandon Search For Missing Girl After Finding Huge Bass While Dredging Lake

I want to wake up to Chris In The Morning on KBHR

Agile is a weird thing. I can’t think of anything in IT that is so popular and enthusiastically promoted by people who evidently have little or no idea of what it is or how it should be implemented. The closest analog seems to be conservative Christians.

What a precipitous drop in reputation the US has undergone.

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles

Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

Heinz tins don’t stack unlike every supermarket brand. I don’t understand why they make their tins irritating to stack.

2/ so many gutting moment but this was among the first, from one of the world’s leading scientists on vaccines and immunology:

Your dog is frightened of fireworks? I don't know why. The fireworks are only being friendly.