Dovi’s Digest Volume 258

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May 23, 2025

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Hello all! Welcome to Volume 258 of Dovi’s Digest!

You’d think that after an hour’s drive from a long day of work that when I get home all I want to do is go straight inside, take off my work clothes, and maybe have a stiff drink if it has been a rough day. You’d think that all I’d have on my mind is being in a safe space and feeling warm and nice.

And you wouldn’t be wrong.

That *is* all I want to do.

However, almost every day without fail, I pull in, close the garage, switch off my car, and instead of going inside, I sit and stare off into the distance for a little while. Disassociate and decompress no matter the day I’ve had. And it isn’t unique to the post work drive. Often, I’ll sit in the car for a few minutes and compose myself. It’s akin to those long showers where you get in and then somehow bluescreen for 25 minutes.

Which makes me think of this tweet:

I thought that it was one of my oddities. That I was special for the nothing I do in the car when I get home. But it turns out I’m not special at all. Apparently, it’s common for people to switch off their cars and then just:

And there’s a reason for that. Read all about it in this week’s headline article.

In this week’s added extras:

An oral history of the 2000 Webby Awards, the apex of the dot-com era.

The best way to drop an egg.

Neal.fun’s latest game is…a crowdsourced internet road trip.

Find the “word of the day” by narrowing down its alphabetical position. Enter any word to reveal whether it comes before or after that day’s answer alphabetically. You then try another word, and so on and so on until you find it. Click here to play

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There were THREE correct answers to last week’s brainteaser. Well done to Yisroel G, Yona K, and Jeff C!! The answer and this week’s riddle are below.

Keep those articles (and everything else) coming.

Have a great weekend,

Dovi

And now, the articles:

Quote of the Week:

“Do you want to be right or happy? You can’t be both.”  — Attributed to Marshall B. Rosenberg

Word of the Week:

Griffonage

Noun

grif·fo·nage ¦grifə¦näzh

1. careless handwriting, a crude or illegible scrawl

Do you know a word you think others should know about? Submit it here!

Facts of the Week:

A horse’s teeth take up more space in its head than its brain.
Red pandas are the only non-primate mammals that can taste artificial sweeteners.
Pan Pan the panda, rescued as a cub in 1986, has since fathered 120 of the 520 pandas alive in captivity.
Pandas born outside China are repatriated by FedEx at about four years old.
Just four of Japan’s 6,852 islands make up 97% of its land area.
The Queen travelled over one million miles.
King Charles is exempt from the Data Protection Act.
Donald Trump steams his trousers while still wearing them.