The Jackpot Blog

I arrived at the White House page for EO 14217 only to find this….

Moar Mimidae

First US train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio.

“Biphasic sleep and human health: A theoretical paradigm for personalized sleep” [Sleep Medicine]. Seems a propos. This is a discussion of “The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’,” which has the disadvantage of never having been spotted in lab:

Moar mimidae!

Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek.

“When oil ran low, technology developed the pedicab.” —Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants

“Rediscovering the Handcart” [LOW←TECH MAGAZINE]1:

Like the (mythical) thieving magpie, I have a penchant for collecting and displaying small bright shiny objects (BSOs); hence my preference for aggregative genres. But what to call those objects? But it’s been a source of frustation for me that I could not find the right word to name them.

Haydar Khan, Brad, Goingnowhereslowly, Ex-PFC Chuck, unrequited narcissist….

A friend throws the following photo over the transom….