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Ampersound creates audiovisual non-fiction stories with a particular emphasis on the power of sound. Founded by George Lavender, the company develops all of its material by collaborating with real, live humans—a quality that became...
August 24, 2026 Ah, some of you still need to dress conservatively… And there’s a lot of struggle around the wisdom of owning a good navy suit. If you don’t like wearing navy, DON’T DO IT! But if you like wearing navy, and you’re...
Yesterday I mentioned that my LLM was generating some fairly good Lisp code and showed some examples of the code it generated. An anonymous reader commented: This continues to baffle me. On the one had we have Mr. Heresies here...
A narrow gauge model of an unusual prototype, this 00-12 model features an EDM 3D printed body, heavily modified to sit on a Hornby TT:120 chassis and has turned out to be a delightful little thing…The EDM ‘kit’ is more of a scratch-aid....
This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. It is clear that India’s relationship with the countries in its neighbourhood is at an impasse. There are many reasons for this: global power shifts, political...
No hyperbolics, zero partisan rants, just rational, logical in your face, common sense- a lovely change of pace on the insane card we've all been dealt...
So I’ve been otherwise occupied, both at work and at home, and with doing some behind-the-scenes tinkering with this here website, so today I’ll show you a picture of stacks of 1960s/1970s DC war comics I picked up over the weekend: What...
I have a pair of Skyway-related pix for you today, beginning with this portrait of a little girl, up in the charming Fantasyland Chalet; the Teacups, Flying Elephants, and a few of the old dark rides can just be seen through the branches...
I’m sure Capcom’s PSP puzzler Airou de Puzzle will look familiar to some of you; and no, I’m not talking about the adorably stylised felynes borrowed from the pretty much purrfect cat-village experience MonHun Nikki either. This is...
I've been wanting to build a structure like this for some time and now I have a possible prototype. It looks like a simple and fun build with polystyrene sheets.
One Day on Rails maps more than 70,000 train journeys across Europe during one single day this summer. It also maps 5,737 journeys across the USA, 34,206 journeys in Tokyo and 11,075 journeys in London.One Day On Rails visualizes an...
I mentioned Ballads of the Lilypond the other week. It’s a poetic tabletop role-playing game – think Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but everyone’s a frog and it’s set on the riverbank. Well, I formatted the thing on some lunch breaks...
I have been thinking about the effect of AI on how I perceive activities that I previously found enjoyable. Specifically the effect on how I perceive coding. I made the mistake (looking at it in hindsight) of allowing AI to take over my...
The Starfires first recordRecord listed at RCS (no location, no evaluation, not comped)Location found : Wilkes-Barre, PennsylvaniaThe Starfires, later known as The Star Fires on Laurie Records in 1966, were a garage rock band from...
Here’s a picture I took with my iPhone SE 3rd gen. on the Boulder Loop Trail in Albany, NH, on Saturday. I used the camera’s panorama mode. The elevation gain to the top is only about 925 feet, but that was meaningful for me. It’d been...