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April in Paris, and a sprinkle of rain, a sudden whip of cool breeze, a greying sky to end the bright promise of the evening. John Craig decided that his saunter along Boulevard Sant-Germain might come to a quick end any moment now, and...
A classic novel adaption by the BBC, The Way We Live Now (2001) is chock full of
Two editorials in the July issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ask about the decay and future of the organization itself.Jim Larus, editor-in-chief of the CACM, writes Wither ACM? Publish and Perish?ACM...
Not A Leaf: Acanalonia planthopper on a stem, Schenley Park, 3 August 2019 (photo by Kate St. John) 9 July 2026 Now that Bug Season is in full swing it’s fun to find the bugs in camouflage. Planthoppers are parasites that suck the juice...
More photography here. Proud of capturing the 3 year old midair right before splashdown: Windshield bubbles: Our frontyard lilac in full bloom sandwiching our backyard redbud: Books on books on books at the library: Raindrops just hit...
WatchingWe got Netflix for the month, pretty much exclusively to watch season 2 of the live action One Piece. I especially love the costumes, hair, and makeup for the characters, including Miss Valentine, who wears a crochet hat. I ended...
Lee Garnett : his only surviving pictureLee Garnett was a 1950s rockabilly singer who burned bright and fast, only to vanish into obscurity before the decade was out. Born in 1935 in a small Texas town, Jimmy grew up on a diet of Hank...
Sometimes, advice columnists field questions about things that turn out to be non-problems. Case in point: a Dear Prudence question from the owner of a small farm whose guests fled at the prospect of no television set -- yes, set -- for...
Party people in the hoooouuuuse tonight, How are you all? Well I hope. Ok long story short, my mate (Big Waz) and I have started a ww2 campaign. To refresh your memory, for those of you that may be like me and forget my own name most...
Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack.This week’s Q&A is tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on our...
Three Parker 51 Clones: Wingsung 601 Demonstrators. Photo by Unattributed, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. For those who have seen my posts on c/Fountain Pens, PixelFed, or elsewhere on the FediVerse will know that I have...
This is a redress of my 2019 post Link + Disclosure Widget Navigation, except (as the title implies), I’ve modified it to use native HTML popovers instead of ARIA or HTML disclosure widgets. Popover has the benefit of using appropriate...
At last month’s All You Can Type conference in Vienna, Alja Herlah shared her recent work documenting Slovenia’s sign painting heritage. The research emerged, and was funded, as a direct result of her self-initiated ‘Signage Rebirth’...
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)This little midcentury wonder is the source of...
America at 250 is dysfunctional by design, and that's exactly why it keeps surviving its own worst impulses.