Randall Munroe, the author of the fantastic XKCD web comic, created this graphic charting Earth’s average temperature from 20,000 BCE. This visual representation is very helpful in putting our planet’s relative temperature fluctuations in the context of time, planetary events and human expansion. It is not a coincidence that the startling change in the last few hundred years comes directly after the industrial revolution and the human population boom, when carbon dioxide emissions took off.
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⚡ June 28, 2019The Galaxy Buds are great devices. They may not be quite as seamless as AirPods, but they come close for Samsung phone users. Our augmented future includes computers in our ears.
⚡ February 26, 2019Foldable screens are here, but the products are very early versions. I expect I’ll buy something foldable no earlier than 2021.
⚡ May 19, 2018File under “I should have done this year’s ago”. I added favicons to my Favorites page.
⚡ April 16, 2018I added “Asides…” to the site’s sidebar using some custom code for WordPress, leveraging Post Type. Read more here.
⚡ November 27, 2016My next personal computer is probably going to be a ChromebookÂ
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