Originally published January 2018. Updated March 16, 2020. People like to be near bodies of water. They like to linger over dinner and drinks at waterside tables. They run, walk and bike alongside its
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When Flickr was acquired by SmugMug in 2018, it was a mission of preservation: our tens of billions of photos, hundreds of millions of photographers, and millions of thriving communities were coming d
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In its day QuickTime was bigger than Apple itself, so widely known that many who used it on their PCs weren’t even aware that it was an Apple product. As one of the first extensible frameworks for mul
Kentucky’s Case of the Missing Bourbon After aging in barrels like these, Pappy Van Winkle bourbon is placed into bottles. Then it is supposed to go to retail outlets to be sold. Someone decided to in
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