h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock"

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/as-seen-on-wikipedia-socks

Don’t trade where you tweet

In the 1630s, Adriaen Pauw was the closest thing Holland had to a prime minister; he was also fabulously wealthy. To display his wealth and good taste, Pauw commissioned a tulip garden filled with cleverly positioned mirrors. The heart of the garden was a sprinkling of the rarest tulips, multiplied by the mirrors into a bountiful array. The rarest bulbs cost as much as a h

https://timharford.com/2026/01/dont-trade-where-you-tweet/

#UndercoverEconomist

We've been hosting our own email since last century, and we've never relied on Gmail for anything other than a backup, and we haven't done much of that in years: Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/gmail_dropping_pop3/