#Became

In 2013, not long after Pope Francis became Pope Francis, he gave us the encyclical “Evangelii Gaudium,” or “The Joy of the Gospel.” Pope Francis, God rest him, personified joy. He brought fresh air into the stuffy papal atmosphere. He…

Pearly Drops are getting ready to play Lollapalooza this summer, after which they’ll be joining Slayyyter on the much-hyped WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA fall tour.…

A NY Times interactive story about “the world’s rarest pasta,” by Matt Goulding, is interesting on a number of counts. Of course if one likes pasta it’s great to see it being made in such an elaborate way (“Stretched by hand, a single ball of dough is…

The luck of the Irish began not with shamrocks but in tunnels beneath the Nevada Desert in 1873. John Mackay, a Dublin-born miner, after two decades searching for gold struck what became known as the

On Angie Martinez’s podcast, the legend breaks down the song’s real meaning, the backlash from nuns, and how a ‘hooker’ anthem became a Hall of Fame hit.

SGA and the Thunder, the 90s Knicks, and LeBron’s Heatles lead a list of the NBA’s Big Bads.

There are few places on earth that feel as mythologized and untamed as California’s Big Sur coastline. The cliffs seem too steep, the Pacific too violent, and the roads too beautiful to be entirely real.…

The Orchard co-founder Richard Gottehrer opens up about his early years as a hit songwriter — and why he feels he never should have stopped writing.

From Buzzfeed RSS Feed: I Guarantee You Know Nothing About These 12 Mount Everest Stories, But They're So Wild, My Brain Literally Cannot Process Them

Brandon Nimmo became convinced to accept the trade to Texas only after a brief conversation with Mets baseball president David Stearns.

From Buzzfeed RSS Feed: 12 Celebrities Who Were Absolutely Everywhere Until One Career Decision Sent Everything Off The Rails

A nostalgic and slightly sardonic look at the tools, IRC channels, and cultural chaos that defined the late 1990s and early 2000s hacker scene.

Most developers today know Git. But before Git became the industry standard, another Distributed...

How a police dog became a hero in the search for a missing elderly man and how it was all caught on camera.

Now 67, Neelima Azeem says she carries no regrets despite three marriages, three divorces, financial struggles and raising two children largely on her own.

Clayton Echard will go down in “The Bachelor” history as one of the least-liked bachelors, but his post-“Bachelor” life got so messy it became the focus of the new 10-part, true crime podcast “Love Trapped.” After the show, Echard moved to Scottsdale,…

The retirement of Ingress-NGINX in March 2026 forced thousands of platform teams to finally confront...

My NAS became far more useful once I stopped treating it as storage and started using it as a service hub.

See the PoC/MVP here: https://dashboard.derivasys.com Over the past few months I’ve been building...