714 years ago today, Robert the Bruce was crowned the king of the Scots:
I’m sure he was singing this later…
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OMG, Caitlyn Doughty was a Jeopardy Daily Double!!!
Although at first I said to myself “James Jones also wrote a book called ‘Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?’”
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I misread that as James Joyce and was very, very confused.
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Rube Goldberg Dinner.
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Don’t believe the hype: Today’s AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans
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From my morning newspaper today.
That guy in the middle, selling air conditioners, used to be the worst-ever president of the United States.
(Caption: Appreciating the General Electric bedroom air conditioner in the Waikiki Manor co-op model are Carl J. Schiffers of Hawaiian Electric; Ronald Reagan, host of TV’s GE Theater and Ralph Johnson, president of Hawaiian Electric.)
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Meanwhile:
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Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm
Our Microsoft sources tell us some staff are now hitting Reply All for the sheer fun of it, posting frivolous messages that celebrate the ridiculousness of the situation. Memes and other oddities are swirling in the storm.
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Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it
Scientists have crafted a tiny flexible electrical device capable of generating terahertz waves that can penetrate walls and microscopic cells, potentially paving the way for new imaging techniques – and fast switching in chips.
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I’m so torn by this. The transport dude who’s written customer specs for new stations in me is quietly nodding. It’s a busy station with both Harajuku and Yoyogi Park and it’s just not equipped for the number of passengers it takes today. On other hand, it’s a beautiful chaos in one of the last of the old stations on the Yamanote line. I’ll always associate it with cabaret punks, anime meetings and loligoths eating ice cream in the summer sun.
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Shit. Now they’re the good old days.
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Exactly. I know.
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