quote [ A term which I've encountered quite a bit on Japanese personal sites is "????". The translation for this term is simply "search avoidance". ]

quote [ The story of a legless mystery man known as ?Jerome? who turned up one day in 1863 in Sandy Cove is well-known in Nova Scotia. He was found one morning, perhaps in September, by two fishermen on the beach by the Bay of Fundy sitting up against a large rock. ]

quote [ What do Elvis, President John F. Kennedy (and Jackie), Alfred Hitchcock, Truman Capote, Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe all have in common? Apart from the obvious cultural and historical significance, they all shared a special relationship with Dr. Max Jacobson or as he would later become known, ?Dr. Feelgood?. ]

quote [ The ?reply guy,? the internet-native take on Florida Man, has started to cause problems in the fediverse, and it comes down to ideology. ]

quote [ In any casual conversation regarding the history of film, the name of Louis Le Prince seldom arises. Yet, this legendary French artist and inventor stands out as perhaps the most important figure in the history of filmmaking. ]

quote [ Pastry warships, frogs hopping out of pies, and other spectacles devised by Robert May. ]

quote [ a madcap workplace drama that laid bare an awkward truth: No one really knows what it means to be "professional" anymore. ]

quote [ After Kenneth Law lost his job as a low-level cook at the Royal York hotel, he found another way to make money: peddling suicide kits on the internet. Now, he?s been linked to the deaths of over 100 people around the world?and their grieving families want justice ]

quote [ Becoming comfortable with (or at least inured to) rootlessness, transitory relationships, and isolation are important skills for living comfortably in the liquid modern world. ]

quote [ Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica ]