My thanks to Hello Weather for sponsoring last week at DF. Regular readers know that I am an inveterate aficionado of weather apps. I’m not really much of a meteorology nerd, but I’m a pedestrian in a city with widely varying seasons. But even more so, I find weather apps to be a true playground […]
One last post on my recent Substack kick. Yesterday I linked to Ana Marie Cox’s scathing analysis of Substack’s financials. She published that on June 23, and wrote about Substack’s $100 million funding round, with a $1 billion valuation, in the future tense. Substack indeed closed that round in mid July, raising $100 million, with
Simple single-page website with (a) reasons to leave Substack; (b) links to comprehensive step-by-step instructions for how to move to other platforms, such as Ghost, Buttondown, and Beehiiv; and (c) links to several popular publications that moved and are glad they did. ★
Just got this press releases emailed to me and had to share! Look at that star error – unbelievable! Here’s the full release below, courtesy of Jeff Flynt (thx man!) ****** Rare Mint Error Discovered on New 2024 Kennedy Half Dollar, Certified by PCGS as “Dropped Star Obverse” Fort Worth, TX – April 29, 2025
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Good morning, friends! Got an email from a friend wondering what the heck those coins are above (his subject line was literally: “Fake dimes?!”), and after being stumped for a few minutes I did some sleuthing 🙂 Turns out, these aren’t actually fake coins at all – they’re 100% authentic! And they even have a