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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'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.
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...
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...
Discovering old obscure releases with little or no recognition is a great past time of mine. As much as I like to boast about how much of this genre I've listened to, records always skip through the cracks, not to mention all the demos...
A good part of my failure to cull the too many books we own is the thought that some forgotten classic will go straight to pulp if I donate it to a charity shop. But it is too much effort to find the only other person in the country...
Source More than a thousand years ago, Maya dental specialists were creating decorative tooth inlays with a level of precision that still impresses researchers today. They carefully drilled small cavities into living teeth and fitted...
The lighthearted spy thriller A MAN COULD GET KILLED (1966) is now available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.Although I've always been quite a fan of James Garner, this is one of his titles which hadn't really been on my radar, so I was glad...