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For the past few days, I’ve been getting what I assumed were random fake popup ads about Xfinity when I visit various web pages. But it turns out they weren’t fake, and they weren’t ads. Turns out there are two things I didn’t know about my cable internet service: It’s a limited data plan. If […]
For those unfamiliar with it: Markdown is “a text-to-HTML conversion tool”—or, to put it another way, a simplified way to...
Google Contributor is an experimental system that allows you to directly financially support websites you visit. If you sign up...
This was probably my favorite thing that I saw online yesterday. Requires a computer keyboard. Go to the Vogue UK...
The “American novelists” category on Wikipedia is apparently theoretically supposed to be just a list of subcategories, but it currently...
In 1974 or so, Lewis Thomas wrote an interesting essay titled “Computers,” which he reprinted in his book The Lives...
My domain was offline for somewhere around seven to twelve hours last night. I have no idea what happened. I...
I've been doing some research on online magazines, and I've found two things particularly frustrating: First, a great many web...
Today, instead of doing anything on my to-do list, I spent about five hours drafting an article covering the whole...
T.A. Pratt's Marla Mason series of urban fantasy novels was cancelled last year after four books. Not long ago, the...
Courtesy of links from a discussion thread on Otavia's recent Facebook post: Woofer: Just like Twitter, except that any given...
I often find myself reading a web page with no conscious idea of what site it's on or who the...