Australians sure do love their Vegemite.  To be fair, I also like Vegemite ;-), Marmite is fine, but Vegemite is what I prefer.  Anyway - for April Fools' a variety of different Vegemite-themed collaborations were "unveiled," including Vegemite ice cream, tortilla chips, and...Vegemite by the bucketfull.

Anote local government April Fool's 😂. This one from a Councilor At-Large.Bruce is an inside joke - Bruce is a chocolate lab who was running for Dog Mayor Of Salem last year during the Halloween Pup-parade.~~~Accessible text: The Transportation Commission will meet tonight to review a proposal from my office to integrate dynamic, biologically based traffic calming elements at selected high

Alright, with April Fool's behind us, this week (and maybe part of next week) will be a roundup of posts and fake products that were announced yesterday.  To kick things off, here is a post from the City of Salem, about reincorporating territories that spun off from the original Salem.City of Salem Announces Historic Reincorporation of Original TerritoriesREUNIFIED SALEM, MA — In a stunning

Alright, so it seems like Reddit isn't doing a recapped this year or at least nothing has been announced.  Someone has created a Reddit Wrapped where you provide your public username and they produce something with Generative AI, so you know it's all made up, but what the hey - let's have a laugh!I almost spit my coffee out with this roast 😂: You own a 23-year collection of obsolete mobile

 Bluesky hasn't done an official wrap-up this year (did they last year?), but - as one might predict - someone on the internet has.  So, plugging in my public profile information, here's what I got fromI am not sure how accurate this is, but I don't know what to make of these stats... 🧐

GoodReads went all out this year (at least when compared to previous years), and gave me not only my large catalog of books read in 2025, but it also provided me with some summary cards in December about the books I read, and various comparisons with others users in the system. This year I guess I managed to read something that was popular with other people too (Careless People). And yes, the trend

My Flickr Year In Review isn't a lot to phone home about. I am actually surprised that I had over 1800 views of my photos.  I basically use Flickr as another backup for my phone's photo roll.  Maybe next year I should spend a bit more time seeing what friends and acquaintances post on Flickr and what else exists on this platform.  I think the initial concept of a photo-based social network

I think this was the first year I really dove into Discord. I've had an account for ages, but it wasn't really until the exodus from Twitter when I started looking at different spaces. I don't remember how much Discording I did in 2024, but I must have done enough to pique my interest to use it for class.While I've joined many communities, my top three were no surprise.  I think the fact that

My Swarm Year In Review is rather bland and uninteresting. I didn't really travel all that much in 2025, so my major destinations were the dog park (at least my dog isn't unhappy 😂), super markets, work, and places that I went to for walks, runs, and just to touch grass. I think the farthest I went was to Maine to drop off a laptop to a colleague who couldn't make it to campus... Maybe 2026 will

Another one of those Year in Reviews, this time it's the Year in Beer from Untappd. Admittedly, I am not a huge beer drinker.  I did go through a phase just before COVID where I tried a lot of different types of brews, but over the years I've cut back.  Untappd is soft of like my "Goodreads" for beers, in other words it's what I use to keep track of what I've tried and what I like in case