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Category Archives: Interests
Max Headroom: the definitive history of the 1980s digital icon | The Verge
More than you thought you wanted to know about Max Headroom.
Five Ghost Towns Abandoned after Disasters | Atlas Obscura
Places you can’t go.
Top 10 Simple Things Every Computer User Should Know How to Do
Most of you should already be doing these things.
A Real-Life Garden of Poison Exists in England | Upvoted
There is a place you can go where everything can kill you.
Well, that garden and Australia, I suppose.
Zzyzx, California, Or the Biggest Health Spa Scam In American History | Atlas Obscura
Another story about Zzyzx, which I am sure I have referenced before.
Goodreads | John’s Year in Books 2015
Stuff about the stuff I read last year.
Border Patrol | Lapham’s Quarterly
Walls do not work. History tells us this.
Nor do they often say much good about those who build them.
The Origin of Krampus, Europe’s Evil Twist on Santa | Travel | Smithsonian
It is Krampus time!
A Mythbuster And More Discuss The Rise Of The Makers – Forbes
Interesting story, even more so that Forbes did a fair job of the issues.