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A personal newsflash: today (June 2nd) sees the US release of my bestselling banquet of historico-linguistic nerdery, Why Q Needs U – that book about the alphabet and the English language that came out in the UK last October and has...
30 May 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Chris Brokaw and Fancy Weapon.Tortoise is one of those bands where it's an automatic 'yes' when you see they're touring. Okay, it's only happened to me twice so far, but still. Last time it
Daniel Petrica tells the story of how an unpatched Livewire vulnerability on a forgotten side project exposed Mailcoach API keys and led to 50,000 spam emails being sent. It is a useful reminder to keep dormant apps updated, and a good...
Nintendo: This is on top of them adding the entire Mario Kart World soundtrack. It’s still weird that they aren’t just putting this on the normal mix of music streamers, and still weird that it’s locked behind a Nintendo Online...
This strawberry cordial recipe is a taste of summer in a bottle. Easy to make, the cordial will make your kitchen smell divinely of strawberries as it simmers on the […] The post Strawberry Cordial Recipe appeared first on Stephanie...
My interest in Roman lamps has not grown over the last few years where I’ve been studying them (albeit in a rather desultory way). As readers of this blog know, we have a lamp deposit from Polis and have been working to say something...
A write-up walkthrough on how to solve Bellingcat's After the Blast Charge Size open source challenge with answers.
28 May 2026 in Melbourne.Over the past few months I have been getting into old movies, lots of classic noir and such things. At some point my attention was drawn to the 1957 Billy Wilder film Witness for the Prosecution which stars...
June 2, 2026
Some 85 years ago this month. Troops of the 113th U.S. Infantry Regiment (New Jersey National Guard) during the Virginia War Games of early June 1941. Note the very transitional nature of the outfit, with a M1911 (not A1) .45, early M1...
Unless you have been under a rock, Sail 250, a tall ship parade joined with U.S. and allied warships, is rolling this summer from New Orleans (last week), to Norfolk/Hampton Roads (June 19 to 23), and thence to Baltimore (25 June to 1...
Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Books on Urban-Rural Divides (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Books on Urban-Rural Divides...so far.
I first thought about the next chunky Pagecord feature 148 days ago, according to the Fizzy card I created (I use Fizzy to track all my Pagecord work). I put up the first PR 32 days after that, and I got it production ready today, 4...