Merriam Webster hosts their own Wordle clone, Quordle. The usual Wordle rules apply, but solve for 4 words at once in 9 attempts. Those first two or three guesses are key to knowing what vowels and common consonants you’re working with. As you can see, I didn’t solve this one. *sad trombone noises*
Merriam Webster hosts their own Wordle clone, Quordle. The usual Wordle rules apply, but solve for 4 words at once in 9 attempts. Those first two or three guesses are key to knowing what vowels and common consonants you’re working with. As you can see, I didn’t solve this one. *sad trombone noises*
Recently, Anna’s Archive, perhaps one of the largest online shadow libraries, put out a call for visualizing all the books that have an ISBN. This would be helpful to understand how complete their coverage is. Here’s a comprehensive explainer as to how the winning entry was designed.
From existennialmemes:
Roald Dahl’s daughter Olivia died from measles in 1962 before a reliable vaccine was available. In 1988, he wrote a letter published by Sandwell Health Authority in a pamphlet. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often…
This poem, the birth and reverb of friendship, by Derek Sivers, hit hard. An excerpt. The seed of who I am might have been there before.But the interaction with a friend made it sprout.That’s when this tree began.Conception versus birth.
The New York Times goes in depth as to how Elon Musk took over the government. Mr. Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter, the social media company that he bought in 2022 and…
Wesley Morris ties all the 2025 Oscar Best Picture Nominees with a common thread: they’re each uniquely weird. They’re weird — every single one. They take weird forms. The people in them do weird stuff. They induce weirdness in you. I’ve seen 9 out of 10 of the nominees (still waiting for I’m Still Here…
When it comes to trusting media and information, Gen Z gives priority to the immediacy of influencers versus the authority of actual experts. It’s not that Gen Z doesn’t believe in experts. Rather, it’s that social media has rewired the way they think about credibility. TikTok influencers are now our “friends.” The algorithm repeats and…
