Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

  • With temperature change comes change in taste, but because cold-brewed coffee eliminates most of that temperature change, flavor is locked in. In other words, your day-old cold-brew won’t taste stale like day-old coffee. I must try brewing me some cold coffee. Source: thedailybeast.com

  • Watching a tubby Greek guy pour lighter fluid in a circle and lighting it is better than a lot of things. (via Christopher Benson’s Photos – Greece) Source: facebook.com

  • This is a beautiful reminder of how great and beyond understanding our God is. In December of 1995, astronomers did a risky experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope. They pointed it to a region in space the size of a speck of dust that is seemingly empty and kept the telescope watching for 10 days. (via Neatorama)…

  • Testing out Notify over the next week. It’s a menu bar app that keeps watch on multiple gmail inboxes (work, personal, your dogs email, etc) with a nice simple interface and growl integration. It doesn’t do Google Apps yet, they say that’s coming with a 1.1 in about a month or so. You’re probably wondering when…

  • Facebook won’t let me change my email settings. I would like none, please. 0. I use the iPhone app all the time and check the site quite often from my computer. I don’t need an email because someone I went to kindergarten with sneezed.

  • Now that Jane’s awake we’re going out blackberry hunting.

  • We will be the family to find a home for that child, and there’s no limit on this. You can tell your friends, you can tell your family, you can tell the whole world… A church in Georgia has promised to take any baby or orphan in as family. That is awesome. (via 22 Words) Source:…

  • “You know people who don’t drink Wilkin’s coffee just blow up sometimes.” madmenfootnotes: “No one under 25 drinks coffee anymore. Just Pepsi. They pour it on their Frosted Flakes.” This is an actual ad Jim Henson did for Wilkin’s coffee in 1958. The ad is both strangely violent and quirky but it’s no wonder Don…

  • Sonar Ruler rules! (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • Google Voice announces that they’re bringing back free calls to Canada.

    I missed this on Wednesday. If only I knew someone in Canada to call. Google Voice announces that they’re bringing back free calls to Canada.

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