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Namco’s Pole Position, released to arcades in 1982, was a massive hit. The kind that shifts the entire direction of the industry and what it spends its time creating. It was effectively the first racing sim out there, and literally...
I was 15 years old when a school friend lent me her cassette of Disintegration. I took it home, slotted it into my boombox and my mind was blown. Your teens can be tough, but a band or an album can help you navigate those tricky years....
Belgian pie-throwing activist Noël Godin dies aged 80 https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2285449/belgian-pie-throwing-activist-noel-godin-dies-aged-80 What’s this? Who? What? Georges Le Gloupier: the Custard Pie Thrower or, as he was...
A recent addition to Naval Station Norfolk’s Gate 2 are a pair of historic, and rare, Cold War era twin mounts: two twin 3″/70 Mark 26 guns in Mark 37 mounts. The guns came from the old USS Norfolk (DL-1), the one-off ASW destroyer...
Some 55 years ago, Southeast Asia. Loading a 6th Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment M107 175mm self-propelled howitzers onto USNS LST-546. Photos by David D. Lozano, B Battery 6/32ed Artillery. Cam Ranh Bay for a move to the DMZ...
On a recent trip to the Benelli factory in Urbino, Italy, we got a peek at their one-of-a-kind facility that blends Old World craftsmanship with modern manufacturing standards. We were there to get the scoop on the new gas-operated M2-G1...
Let's see: what do we have this week? Well, you might notice that the anchor of the CBS evening news this week is Ron Cochran, and if you're an eagle-eyed reader, you'll probably recognize him more for his time as anchor of the ABC...
I was in work the other day, chatting to a guy who's one level above me, and around 20 years my senior. I was moaning talking about my kids and how I try to make time for them despite having a stressful, busy job. His reply was something...
Yesterday, I shared my article There’s no membership card for IndieWeb and got the following comment from Dale: Great article, I agree 99%. I do take issue, however, with your spiel that the IndieWeb is a recursive effort to ultimately...
I came across this line recently and thought it was profound. “Always reaching, already enough.” It speaks to the power of holding two opposite ideas at once. When you’re secure enough in yourself, you can keep reaching, knowing it might...
Yesterday was a Fremont Market day. We’re not getting rich but we are continuing to learn. The lesson from yesterday was, people buy comics. We’ve got zines, posters, cards and original art. We’ve sold a little of each. Yesterday we...
I’ve mentioned several times on this blog that there are many crows in Maynooth. By “crows” I mean members of the family Corvidae, including rooks, jackdaws and magpies as well as crows themselves, of which the hooded crow is the most...
Fairy fingers (Clavaria fragilis), Frick Park, 22 Aug 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 24 August 2026 Sometimes fungi catch my eye. In Frick Park on Saturday we found small ghostly, upright fingers emerging from the leaf litter. These are...
Probably named after Monsieur and Madame Verdurin, the prominent bourgeois couple and salon hosts, from Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, Verdurin only released one 7″ as a band. Which is a shame. The band formed by Olivier...
On our recent trip to the Edinburgh Fringe, I was bemused by just how little effort performers put in to finding out why people had selected their show. Taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe is ridiculously expensive with some performers...