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It’s exactly a year since I pointed out that the Open Journal of Astrophysics had saved the astrophysics research community worldwide a sum in excess of a million dollars in publication costs. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for...
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is about bookish places I’ve visited! I think the emphasis is more generally on cool places from books, author residences, etc, but somehow that’s not a thing that really excites me and I can’t think of...
So ganz ist der Crypto Betrug ja nie weggegangen, er hat sich nur verschoben. Heute vor allem hin zur Bestechungsmethode für die US Regierung und illegales Glücksspiel (“Prediction Markets”). Aber vor einigen Monaten wurde ich doch...
A very strong wind last night and today. Cutting off brash in the wood and burning it. Bona got a new car. Ted Williams caught after eggs.
Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on. Some of these I help to organise, some are run by good friends, and at some of them you’ll find me with a camera in my hands. Maybe more...
1957 horror, dir. Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins: IMDb. Karswell's enemies seem to die very conveniently for him; but of course there's no such thing as magic.
Surely, you have enjoyed that cinematic classic, “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Surely you remember the toga party at Delta House. Surely you savored the jumpin’ jive of Otis Day & The Knights. If so, you will recall John Belushi, as...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this wide black-and-white view across an Ontario field as storm clouds massed overhead. A single tree rises from the distant treeline, anchoring the composition beneath the shifting cloud formations. The...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Pokémon Heartgold I vividly remember playing Pokémon Blue in the back of...
Jacques Goudstikker's gallery, 1927-40Amsterdam. WikiJacques Goudstikker (1897–1940) was born in Amsterdam, son of a Jewish art dealer. He studied at the Commercial School in Amsterdam, then in Leiden and Utrecht. In 1919 he joined his...
“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you...
R2-WRWLF Halloween Edition Star Wars Droid Factory Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Wolf ears Action Feature: Comes apart Retail: $14.99-$17.99-$14.99 Availability: August 2026 Appearances: n/a Bio: All different...
It makes sense to me now, in a way it never did before—the idea of performers failing to adapt to a new medium, as they used to say of the stars of the silent movies. I think I must always previously have parsed this as a sort of...
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This popular US R&B quartet were billed as The Original Coasters because they were led by tenor singer Cornelius “Cornell” Gunter who’d been an “original” member of The Coasters who had moved to New York from Los Angeles to record for...