@david@boles.xyz2026-09-23 13:29:32
Pillar of Salt
Genesis records the first health warning about sodium. Lot's wife, fleeing the burning city, looks back and turns into a pillar of salt....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/23/pillar-of-salt/
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de2026-10-23 10:24:46
Zumindest eine kleine Genugtuung für die Entscheidung in meinem Heimnetz kein PHP zu nutzen.¹
Und nein, das ist kein Argument gegen oder für PHP, das ist ein als Exploit ausnutzbarer Bug, und sowas kann in aller möglichen Software auftreten.
Und obgleich ich den Blogpost zum Exploit gelesen hab, bin ich nicht sicher, ob das der C-Implementierung geschuldet ist oder auch in einer Sprache mit strikterem Speichermodell hätte auftreten können.
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¹in der Uni galt es zu pat…
@david@boles.xyz2026-10-22 13:23:52
The Last Closed Sunday
The World Cup final fell on a Sunday this year. The largest crowd of the summer poured out of MetLife Stadium, and the stores at American Dream were open and selling....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/22/the-last-closed-sunday/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-10-23 14:36:05
Dallas Cowboys Urged to Swing Trade for 9X Pro Bowler in Blockbuster Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/khalil-mack-urged-trade-blockbuster-move/
@david@boles.xyz2026-10-23 12:35:30
Twelve, Neither More Nor Less
The jury box in a Florida criminal courtroom holds six chairs. In one of those courtrooms, in West Palm Beach, six people heard the state's case against a chiropractor named Hamed Kian, and they convicted him on every count....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/23/twel<…
@david@boles.xyz2026-09-21 12:32:40
The Empty Quad
This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/21/the-empty-quad/
@david@boles.xyz2026-09-22 13:20:58
Love’s Best Habit: On Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138
Ask a room of readers which of Shakespeare's sonnets is the greatest and the same three answers come back every time: Sonnet 18, the summer's day; Sonnet 116, the marriage of true minds; Sonnet 73, the yellow leaves....
https://bol…
@david@boles.xyz2026-10-20 13:06:37
The Last Free Acre
The last homestead patent in American history is dated May 5, 1988. It went to Kenneth Deardorff, a Vietnam veteran from California who had filed his claim fourteen years earlier on eighty acres along the Stony River in southwestern Alaska, near the village of Lime....
https://bolesblogs.com…
@david@boles.xyz2026-10-19 13:35:12
Democracy Has a Layout
The answer came thirteen months after the election, in the December 2001 issue of the American Political Science Review....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/19/democracy-has-a-layout/
@david@boles.xyz2026-10-21 12:05:16
The Dead Already Paid for Washington Square Park
New York University made an announcement this week. The school pledged $6 million over four years to the Washington Square Park Conservancy, the nonprofit steward of the nine-and-three-quarter-acre square at the foot of Fifth Avenue....
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