Looking out to see what’s leftIt isn’t hard to be bereftThe stuff we hoped would stick aroundIs buried deep within the groundWhile garbage that we’d scorn and jeerGrows more successful every year:Flailing wildly for attentionMaking things too crass to mentionPumping out the same old crapIn hopes it puts them on the map Watching all the […]| Hmm Daily
Good morning! A little more than nine months ago, we launched Hmm Daily, as a demonstration of faith or at least hope in two propositions: that articles published on a website were still a thing that people were motivated to read, and that it might be possible for us to use new tools to build […]| Hmm Daily
After several years of frequently being unable to access my own accounts, spend my own money, or generally make my way around the Net unimpeded, it struck me that I may not be what I thought I was. Though I was raised to believe I was a human—perhaps like many of you presently analyzing and […]| Hmm Daily
Probably it was kids at the beach burying other kids at the beach, but something made me start thinking again about this video I’ve never really stopped thinking about, where the badger completely buried the carcass of a 50-pound calf to save the meat for later, to the astonishment of scientists. National Geographic wrote up […]| Hmm Daily
The notice was thoughtfully displayed on top of a writing pad next to the telephone, in our hotel in Shanghai. But no one telephones nowadays. So I didn’t see the sheet of paper, with its neatly formatted corporate logos, until my daughter brought it to me to make her a paper airplane. | Hmm Daily