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Across this Autumn ’99 sampler, ECM offers a varied excavation. The label’s familiar spaciousness becomes an instrument of light caught under glass. These tracks are drawn from different points in time and space. Some are lit by candles,...
This post is from Bob The sausage So as not to bury the lead (or “lede” if you want a mid-20th-century newspaper vibe), check out the this 3D HMC animation generator. It can render regular animations or produce anaglyph 3D encoding...
Japan’s largest volcano lies hidden. It can be found, if you know where to look, by starting from the southern island of Kyushu. Find the active volcano Sakurajima. (We will come back to it later. But this is not that volcano.)...
I can’t really say anything about this, but I wanted to record it anyway, because id Software had a profound impact on my early career. Some of the most fun I ever had at work was running Quake servers at Portuguese ISPs–which is, quite...
I started reading Witch Hat Atelier, a manga by Kamome Shirahama.
There have been several security incidents lately that involved compromising GitHub Actions workflows. This has led some to say "GitHub Actions is the weakest link" in publishing and to GitHub publishing a GitHub Actions security roadmap...
I am a tiny bit sorry for all the links I am posting regarding age gating. As I have written before, it is something I am still trying to work out for myself. After all, it seems straightforward why age verification is an easy way to...
Power Cat 2026-07-07 Mail fraud!
Being a temp worker is always entertaining. Recently I got a short-term contract at an organization that will go unnamed. Mystifyingly, they assigned me to do the entire front end of a project by myself, despite the fact that I have...
Photo taken with Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max Camera: Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max Lens: iPhone 17 Pro Max back triple camera 6.765mm f/1.78 Settings: f/1.8 • 1/3400 • ISO 100 • 6.764999866370901 mm
"This is 4D chess!!" shouted Matthew Goodwin into the howling void that is Twitter. With such an endorsement, you just know he was heaping praise on stupidity. And so it was. At 2pm Tuesday afternoon, Nigel Farage fielded a press...
C.S. Lewis, letter to his father (July 19? 1915): However, this I suppose is part of the curse inherited from our first parents: my private opinion is that after the words 'In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread' [Genesis...
Sometimes we go quiet for a while. We recently celebrated the United States 250th birthday, but unlike the 200th anniversary, several events were canceled at the last minute because of bad weather. At least we enjoyed time with our...
We made a break for it while the weather was playing nice. Out of Whangarei, around Busby Head, and north back toward the Bay of Islands. Going back up bought us three things: a change of scenery (badly needed), more anchorages to pick...