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February 8th -14th Open Thread By Cleveland Sasquatch on Feb 8, 2021, 11:58am GMT 504 Welcome to the open thread, where anything goes within reason and is your daily dose of TLO randomness. In case you almost forgot : We are still, in fact, Champions of England and the World. The main page historically provides open threads on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the season, so feel free to participate in those while you follow along with all the exciting footballing action. I guess wev...

I’ll bet against a blanket pardon of the insurrectionists and a self-pardon, but honestly it’s like predicting where a fly is going to land, so I don’t put much stock into my or anybody else’s predictions. yes, impossible to predict. But I can absolutely guarantee you that there will be no end to the butt-hurt complaining about how *Jimmy (the worst president ever) Carter gave blanket pardons to draft dodging, treasonous hippies, so why can’t His Excellency (the Greatest President Eve...

STMicroelectronics looks to boost IoT design productivity STMicroelectronics is now offering a solution to accelerate the market introduction of Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4 based IoT devices with a miniature, ready-to-use STM32 wireless microcontroller (MCU) module. The 7mm x 11.3mm STM32WB5MMG module has been designed to let product teams build connected devices without needing wireless-design skills. Made to enable low-cost PCB technology requiring a minimal number of la...

I’m going to bigfoot myself with an Authors in Our Midst post in a couple of minutes, but I wanted you to have an open thread to discuss other things. But stop by the Authors’ post to check out the latest author highlighted. Meanwhile, here is Bixby unboxing his gifts. Bixby LOVES his boxes, so I saved a box and packed some new chew toys into it. He had much more fun opening the box than playing with the toys. Funny story I may have told you before, but he loved boxes AND our UPS driver whe...

On or around this day in 1973, The Gulag Archipelagoby Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was first published, in Russian, by a French publisher. The three volume text traces the history of the Gulag labor camps under the Soviets, and describes in detail the cruel living conditions prisoners were subjected to. It was censored in the USSR until 1989, though it circulated widely as samizdat. You may use this page to discuss the history of the Soviet Union and its dissidents, or to pursue o...

December 28th - January 3rd Open Thread By Cleveland Sasquatch on Dec 28, 2020, 12:20pm GMT 436 Welcome to the open thread, where anything goes within reason and is your daily dose of TLO randomness. In case you almost forgot : We are still, in fact, Champions of England and the World. The main page historically provides open threads on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the season, so feel free to participate in those while you follow along with all the exciting footballing action. I...

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This day in 1913, the first crossword was printed in the New York World newspaper. Originally titled a “Word-Cross Puzzle” by creator Arthur Wynne, the blank grid and numbered word clues going both across and down make it easily recognizable as the puzzle standard we all know. You may use this page to discuss the word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, or philosophical puzzles that intrigue you, or to pursue other areas of freewheeling, off-topic discourse. Find previous discussions in the Open Threa...

December 21-27 Open Thread Welcome to the open thread, where anything goes within reason and is your daily dose of TLO randomness. In case you almost forgot : We are still, in fact, Champions of England and the World. The main page historically provides open threads on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the season, so feel free to participate in those while you follow along with all the exciting footballing action. I guess weve kind of taken over the weekend Open Thread duties most weekends so ha...

Time for another round of submissions! Note for next week: I’m going to do a recipe post with cookies and such, so if you want to send me holiday photos of some of your treats, meals or edible gifts, that would be fun. On to the festive photos. This is one of my favorites, I’m in awe of these eggs from Cheryl from Maryland: Re Holiday Joy — during the 1960s and 1970s, when I was a child, my mother was a regular consumer of Womens magazines dedicated to homemaking and enriching your child...