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Last-Run Syndication

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:01:08 GMT

quote [One of television’s most important business models, first-run syndication to local TV stations looking to fill airtime, might be losing strea … er, steam.] Entry Comment: It feels like it's in syndication

Astronomers Witnessed the Birth of a Magnetar for the First Time. It Explains the Mysterious Flickering of an Ultrabright Supernova

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:57:51 GMT

quote [New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions] Entry Comment: Magnetar! The math behind celestial wrath

GIMP: The Movie (2026) | Official Trailer | Starring Pork Johnson

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:46:01 GMT

quote [This is a trailer for the upcoming movie, GIMP: The Movie. The film follows Spencer Kimball (Johnson) as he creates the photo editing application, GIMP, and ...] Entry Comment: I'd buy a ticket.

Problem Child

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:23:06 GMT

quote [Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves.] Entry Comment: Bring light to this like Pixar movies slowly bouncin' by

My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:39:59 GMT

quote [The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly] Entry Comment: All on the search for a Faberge Egg

Burnett River Flow Gauge

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:34:51 GMT

quote [Still being updated when stats come out. Official peak 7.4m] Entry Comment: So something I pictured, might be of use to some.

The Ghost Rockets of Scandinavia

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:00:46 GMT

quote [n the summer of 1946, residents of Sweden and Finland began reporting strange objects in the sky. They were described as rocket, or missile-like, fast-moving, sometimes glowing, and often silent.] Entry Comment: I'm seeing Ghost for the rocket

The Ballad of Ollie Jackson

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:05:31 GMT

quote [How the Baddest Man in the St. Louis Underworld Failed to Become a Folk Hero] Entry Comment: Like some kind of crazy folk hero

Readers Are Embracing a Shift in Perspective in Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture.

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:04:47 GMT

quote [There’s been a profound shift in perspective preferences when it comes to romance novels.] Entry Comment: Now I'm reading romance novels and I'm dreaming of yesterday

Treat your to-read pile like a river

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:54:41 GMT

quote [The problem, as the critic Nicholas Carr explained, isn't filter failure. It's filter success.] Entry Comment: Great comment on self-org-graciousness. Also: Antilibrary. [edit:] Ok, only now I see that this is a page full of self-help-consulting stuff. Aah, whatever, still great advice.