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“This is fine.” Trump’s timing is impeccable, as usual: after the AI boom helped turn RAMageddon into a sustained memory price surge, he has apparently decided that what data centres, PC builders and everyone buying electronics need next...
Source But new research shows this image is misleading. The dodo was likely no less intelligent than any modern bird. It may also have possessed a rare and overlooked ecological trait: an adaptation to life in low light. Dodos probably...
About 180 pieces are going to be added to LEGO® Pick a Brick (PaB) on Tuesday 1 September 2026. The included elements are from sets released in May. See the list of all September 2026 PaB new pieces Continue reading »
Basque cuisine 🥓🫒🦐 The quintessential item of Basque cuisine is the pintxo (pronounced pincho, the 'tx' representing a 'ch' sound). A pintxo is a small savoury snack, bigger than bite-sized and generally breadier than tapas. They're...
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There’s something wonderfully comforting about a good fruit crumble, and this Three Fruit Crumble brings together the very best flavours of late summer and early autumn. Made with ripe pears, cooking apples, and a handful of berries —...
There is nothing that separates a password mugshot from a photography master piece: you can use the same camera for both, the same lens, the same location. The physical objects (file or print) are identical. So what is the difference?...
It’s been gloomy all day – the kind of August day that’s hot, humid and still, sapping all your energy because nothing *actually* cools you off except real air conditioning (or standing in front of the refrigerator), not even taking a...
…at both ends and seemingly for far too long beyond what my body deemed acceptable, and thus, I became sick this week. Did you ever have this? Just absolutely throwing all of yourself in the frying pan: bacon, eggs, butter, the works;...
Paul Frees (1920 –1986), born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago , is better known for his work on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Walter Lantz, Rankin/Bass and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation, and for providing the...
It’s a classic mistake. We develop a technology in N years for X dollars that’s 90% reliable, and extrapolate that traversing that final 10% will only take another 0.1N years and 0.1X dollars. This leads to the kinds of extraordinary...
At the end of a glorious day hanging out at galleries, antique shops and the pub with friend and historian Matt Allen we walked to the station at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, Australia (where I live) for Matt to get the train back...
Or, new etiquette norms need to be created for abnormal situation. ~ Link: Please Don’t Rearrange Our Shoes When We Turn up, Paramedics in Japan Urge, by Gavin Blair, The Guardian
… You don't know what I got! In this case, what “you don’t know what I got” is the camera I shot this dragster with. Sold as a “Retro Digital Camera” for the grand sum of $40 (it’s a little more expensive now) it’s a fine example of just...
Just a quick note for any of the Spanish language readers out there. There is a new translation of Wild Justice by George A Birmingham. Espuela de Plata based in Seville has been translating into Spanish then reprinting many English...