I was today years old when I discovered that in the chorus of Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" the ladies where singing in French "Les yeux sans visage" - apparently named after a 1960's French film by that name. #BillyIdol #80srock www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFp...

#OliviaRodrigo - off the #BillboardHot100 charts for almost two years comes in hot with "Drop Dead" debuting at #1! shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #rstats

RAM prices have dropped from 4X the normal price to just 3X the normal price. I GUESS that's good??? This is for Corsair 2 x 16GB DDR5-6200 kit #ram #hardware #inflation #ai

After the post-Christmas slump, "Opalite" and "The Fate of Ophelia" rebounded on the #BillboardHot100. This week "Opalite" takes the top spot and all but these two songs have fallen off the chart for #TaylorSwift.

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#BadBunny continues his post-Superbowl bump in the #BillboardHot100 shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #rstats

Dec 5, 1998 saw the most songs (60) debut on the Billboard Hot 100 - aside from the chart's inaugural week way back in 1958. The next highest debut week had just 34 in Nov 27, 2021. The average # of songs newly appearing on the chart in any week is 9.21. #billboardhot100

YouTube is now old enough to drink.

Come see my "DuckDB 101" session on Saturday March 7, 2026 at the datatuneconf.com in Nashville #DuckDB

@hannes.muehleisen.org I LOOOOVE DuckDB so much that I am presenting a "DuckDB 101" session at datatuneconf.com on March 7

@heidisql.com is there any consideration for supporting DuckDB databases? @duckdb.org

#BadBunny #Superbowl bump on the #BillboardHot100 shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #rstats

Is it just me or is the Venn diagram of the Gadsden flag "Don't tread on me" crowd and the "comply or die" crowd starting to look like concentric circles? #Minnesota #minneapolis #ice

"William" is the most popular name to never reach number one in any year. #SSA #babynames shiny.briandill.net/Babynames/?n... wiki.briandill.net/books/duckdb...

Like a moth to a flame Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" returns to #1 again and again. shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #billboardhot100 #rstats #shinyr

Michael, David and Jacob were the king of boy's names from 1954 to 2012. All have seen rapid decline in popularity since 2013. How popular is YOUR name? shiny.briandill.net/Babynames/ Some stats: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Data: #SocialSecurityAdministration #rstats

It's only Dec 4th and already 4 of the #BillboardHot100 chart's top 10 are Christmas songs.

The # of unique female names began its long rise around 1945. Male names didn't start its long rise until the late 1960's. Both climbed until the mid 2000's when both stopped climbing. Data from the #SocialSecurityAdministration How popular is your name? shiny.briandill.net/Babynames #rstats

The best explainer I have seen on UTF-8 if you want to take a short trip down the encoding rabbit hole. youtu.be/vpSkBV5vydg?...

Can we outlaw the rubberized coating on plastics that turn into a sticky goo after a few years? Or at least require labeling? #consumersfirst

Why can't someone make an 18650 Li-ion charger that stops charging at 4.10V?

"... it’s far easier to lead ourselves astray when the practical consequences of being wrong are small or nonexistent, while the social consequences of being “wrong” are severe. It’s no coincidence that this describes many controversies that divide along partisan lines." Ch 1 of amzn.to/46xNVtg

Where my #chemistry geeks at? Avocado's number anyone? If you don't store it carefully it will probably be eaten by a mole!

I'm always weary of pre-trial hype, but if true this is more than a watershed moment. This is species changing. www.facebook.com/share/p/179c...

The iconic group "Heart" had two songs hit # 1 on the #BillboardHot100 Can you name them? Don't peek until you have guessed: shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot...

Artists with 3+ simultaneous Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Beatles 1964 The Bee Gees 1978 none in the 80's, 90's, 00's until Adele in 2012 Justin Bieber 10-weeks 2015-16 Drake - the first to have 6 2018 Taylor Swift - the first to have 8 - 2022, 2023, 2024 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Today in "let's make you feel old"... The SNL "more cowbell" skit (2000) is closer to the release of Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" (1976) than today (2025). youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s?... youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s?...

Guess who was POTUS for 9 of the 10 largest single day drops of the DOW? #ArtOfTheDeal #ColdHardFacts

I'm down the rabbit hole in ICD-10-CM codes. I guess it's not surprising that the category with the greatest number of codes is dislocation and sprain of joints. What I would NOT have guessed is that "Other disorders of the eyelid" would be the 3rd highest! #icd10 #icd10cm

Since 1998, Democratic senators have continuously represented more Americans than Republican senators have, but Republicans won control of the Senate in 8 of the last 14 elections anyway. Likewise, Republican senators have not won more combined votes than Democrats since the 1990s. Source data:

1) The Senate will be 53-47 GOP while Dems represent 53.5% of the 50-state population 2) 51% of Americans live in the 9 biggest states & get 18 senators; 16% in the 25 smallest states get 50 3) CA is > the 21 smallest states combined & 67 times > WY 4) 4 million citizens in DC & PR get 0 senators

Highly recommended book: "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" on Kindle for $2 right now. amzn.to/3ZwI3ho

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Interesting to note that HI doesn't have any local funding for public libraries. #rstats #imls #PublicLibraries data: www.imls.gov/search-compare

I stand by my assessment. The only question I is "will he nominate another "F" or will he nominate a "D"?

Soon, the zombies will come for Medicaid. Clearly, Rs will try to push many off the program with work requirements. Except anyone who has looked at the numbers knows that more than 1/2 of the money goes to the elderly and disabled ... 1/

There you have it. Texas is the first state to officially offer up their state for the concentration camps

If you scared of high prices before, Trump's plan will tariff-y you! #Econ101 #TariffsAreATax

Like many of you this account was one the few reasons to even keep/look at X.

Education matters

Interesting from @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Remember as a kid when you got a "D", but you told your parents you got an "F"? And then when you revealed you really got a "D" they were relieved? That's what is happening with cabinet nominations right now.

What if you learned that since 1950 we have had 11 recessions in the US. Just 2 of those 11 recessions that started when Party A was in the White House. While 9 of the 11 recessions started under Party B. Which party would you want in the White House? #factsmatter

If you were presented this data and told that these were the "new jobs" numbers since 1989, which party would you want in the White House? #factsmatter #bls

Sharing my "data project". It has a list of what I believe to be interesting data sets that are easily readable and understandable. briandill.com/data/data.html #data