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Interesting Things

Jan 24, 2025

The Microsoft Excel World Championship [NY Times Gift Link]
Esports grow in the most unusual places

Jan 17, 2025

Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
Wonderful article on the person that turned Tolkien's books into geography

Jan 15, 2025

Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
Hits very close to home

Jan 4, 2025

Hacking yourself a satellite - recovering BEESAT-1
Amazing explanation of hacking into a malfunctioning cubesat
Gasoline Car Review
A review of a gasoline car, mimicking the way automotive writers review EV cars.

Dec 31, 2024

Poetry & the US Navy on the New Year [WaPo Gift Link]

Dec 22, 2024

Amateur radio enthusiasts receive signals from Voyager 1
Using an old radio telescope, they were able to receive signals from the farthest traveled spacecraft.

Dec 20, 2024

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a super dog
Brian Grubb's brilliant post on Krypto, Superman's dog

Dec 12, 2024

Final Moments of Gukesh Winning World Championship
18 year old Gukesh Dommaraju wins the world chess championship. The energy is wonderful.

Dec 10, 2024

Wildfire Map
The LA Times makes this helpful wildfire map. California has many pluses, but fire season is not among them.