I'm yet to see a convincing, authoritative historical source on the "whale killer" factoid. Follow the trail on asesina-ballenas and Basque fishermen and you get nowhere.

The print is smudgy and the oval graphic on the print is a raster that's already been stretched, I think. Add the image focus being a little off and the compression by the file host, and it's a conjunction of mess.

Protocol is strictly "Madam".

You'll see the same in other positions -- Madam Speaker, Madam Secretary, Madam Ambassador.

*Madam

Succinct and accurate. Really wish people were more objective and less polarized on software.

We're excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

I don't see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that's not wh-

We're proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

...

Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don't ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

It's part of the Manoogian collection in Detroit, MI. It's called Shore of the Turquoise Sea or sometimes just Emerald Sea.

There's a ton of history on Wikipedia. Most of it is the council coming up with new reasons to demolish it or plans to change it, with no convincing motive.

The most notable things for me were:

• An allegation that they want the bridge demolished to remove the trams that mar the modernity of the waterfront regeneration project nearby.
• A mention of ~~Chinese lenders bankrolling the demolition and construction~~ a Chinese construction firm being awarded the contract for constructing a new bridge.
• A mention of a Russian construction and design group submitting plans for transforming and relocating the existing bridge.

I'm weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?

Mark Gurman, who's normally dead on the money when it comes to Apple, thinks they're unlikely to keep up annual releases (though I should note the linked article suggests the new iPhone model schedule is unlikely to change for now).

Gandalf is the name of a dwarf in the Norse Poetic Edda (from which Tolkien borrowed a bunch of names, mostly dwarves). He supposed – probably accurately – that it meant "wand-elf", but he originally gave the name to Thorin.