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Socks and underwear are shorthand for disappointing Christmas gifts. We all have that clueless relative who zeroed in on giving you practical gifts as a child instead of the newest toys you crave. Well, if you grew up in Iceland, you might have a better appreciation of finding clothing inside that wrapped box under your Christmas tree. That simple gift may have saved you from experiencing the horrors of the Yule Cat firsthand.

“They will run you dizzy. They will pile falsehood on top of falsehood until you can’t tell a lie from the truth and you won’t even want to. That’s how the powerful keep their power.” — Richard Boone, Winter Kills Of all the conspiracy theories that have swirled around the JFK assassination, my favorite happens to come from my father, an otherwise sane and rational man who strongly believes that two shooters were firing at the presidential motorcade that afternoon in Dallas.

“Zimmerman House” (Built 1950) Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright 150 Ash Street Manchester, NH The Zimmerman House is a house museum in the North End neighborhood of Manchester, New Hampshire. Manchester is one town over from where I used to live in Bedford. One of my daughters and her family still live in Manchester (it’s a long way from Florida, where Robert and I live). The one-story, two-bedroom house is 1,700 square feet and has no basement or attic.

Seen at DCA on 04 Feb 2024, 12:30 pm; 15 Feb 2024, 8:15 pm The Zone of Interest is a terrifying, suffocating film. Perhaps not instantly, and not if we’re looking only at the surface, which is the focal point of most of our film experiences. If an audience, frustrated about the rigidness of it all, leaves the theatre thinking that it’s about a high-ranking Nazi family living right next to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and the enormity of this situation, the takeaway is not wrong but unfortunately it means that much of the film’s power has slipped through the cracks.

I was delighted to learn that my interview last week with Father Jamie Franklin on the Irreverend podcast — the UK’s top Christian podcast — topped the Christian podcasting charts in Britain last week. Here is a link to the Irreverend site, which has my interview, “The Old Gods Are Returning”. (For more about the return of the gods, check out my post from last year about the pastor Jonathan Cahn’s eye-opening book about how we are welcoming back ancient Near Eastern gods that Christianity’s triumph exiled.

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Programming Note: This is the second installment of The Klonickles. I’m still figuring out how it’s all going to work, but for now it looks like it will be a weekly newsletter focused on online speech and law & technology plus a crazy Kate post-script (see below) for paid subscribers. Thanks for reading and thanks double for pay subscribing. The more you do, the more I have the freedom to research and write.

It’s a strange sight seeing the Green Bay Packers at the center of the first day of the NFL’s free agency frenzy. Yet, for all of the big moves the Packers have made, no move has made waves like moving on from a beloved Packers legend such as Aaron Jones. From a fifth-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, to leading the league in rushing TDs in 2019, to becoming a Pro Bowler in 2020, Jones’ emergence as a no.

Last month we talked about the effort to reverse engineer the AOL servers — named the “Re:AOL” project — and create a standalone AOL-compatible server that let people experience the joys of using America On-Line from “back in the day”. Well, it turns out there is a similar project underway to do something similar… except for the Prodigy online service, dubbed the “Prodigy Preservation Project”. Progress appears to be moving along — though not at quite the breakneck pace of the Re:AOL project — with the assistance of code included in the Prodigy patents.