Quite a few years ago, Jim Hansen, described as “a leading NASA climatologist” was at a panel to discuss global warming's significance for humanity. He is reported as saying “Humans have taken over as the major forcing of long-term climate change.”¹

Who do you suppose countered with:

I don’...

It’s a little like the old time warp, having said which I confess I never really bothered to get my head around those puzzles about meeting yourself in another time. Anyway, a little more than a year ago, and inspired by Peter Rukavina, I set out to restore my previous online self, one day at a time. That anniversary passed on 18 July, but I couldn’t easily celebrate it with a blog post because in a sense it hasn’t passed yet.

No excuses. Well, plenty of them, actually, including trips to London and the USA, during which I resolved not to clutter my life with doing things for the sake of it. So, I did some things I needed to do, but not things I might have wanted to do had I been at home. As a result, there’s a big chunk not accounted from, from roughly 20 June to 20 July. And I don’t care. Much.

Well, well, well. Cory Doctorow weighs in with a blistering Why None Of My Books Are Available on Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,128.55, which, deliciously, is available on Audible. Doesn’t help me in my desire to listen to Elie Mystal’s Allow me to Retort, but does make me even keener to...

This morning, I brought in a 2006 item about the world record for speed harvesting wheat. In the course of checking old links, I discovered they’re still at it, most recently in 2018, at least as far as I can tell.

Philip Robertson, Guinness World Record Adjudicator, calls the day “an extrao...