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What do Norman Mailer and Charles Dickens have in common? – Crimereads. The Nogood Book – Fonts in Use. Vintage Egyptian cigarette packages – The Daily Heller. #radar
Fremantle2026 August 21 (Friday), 8:14PM· copyright · metadata · British Library · Sharing British Library open metadata with our communities, August 2026: This policy reaffirms the British Library’s commitment to making metadata as open...
It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to...
Prichetnik combines a common prefix, root, and suffix to make a culture-bound and fairly precise meaning. I noticed it in Ursa Major (Большая медведица, 1870–71) by Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, in a description of the ostentatious Easter...
catching myself falling into bad habits again. it really takes so little for all my carefully cultivated resilience to fall away, huh? check your phone every 20 seconds for a notification. become so paranoid that you hear the phantom...
I had this plan to restart my quick hits and varia this week. It was an honest and real plan, and then the long, lazy tendril of late summer burn out happened and instead of doing work for my blog, I spent the last week fiddling with a...
"Criticism of Israel is not Antisemitism." It would ordinarily go without saying. For example, one never hears anyone disclaiming that criticism of Denmark isn't "anti-Scandinavian." But the trouble is those Jews are just so sensitive...
“That’s what sport is. That’s what life is, isn’t it? A series of chances.” - Rebecca in Ted LassoHello friends! I had the photos in this post but completely forgot I needed to write the opening and closing because I was watching Ted...
The Royal Navy R-class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign (05) in 1941 was a Great War-era bruiser who was having a very busy year. With larger German surface raiders amok in the North Atlantic, she rode shotgun on Convoys SC 16, HX 103, TC...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: The end for Freiburg-Colmar? But was there ever a start?Bullshit Meter: Virgin Trains to run Channel Tunnel services in 2030Good week: Koralmbahn results in less traffic and and an economic boostAlso...
CoAspire’s CHAOS (Coalition Heterogeneous Affordable Offensive Strike) system, composed of the RAACM-ER cruise missile attached to a booster and a launcher system, is billed as a sort of cheap mini-Tomahawk or JASSM, with a 500-pound...
Cue the funeral dirge for a few classic CZ models that are being escorted out of the company’s pistol catalog this year. CZ announced on Thursday that 2026 will “mark the conclusion of production for three CZ 75 models: the CZ 75 B, CZ...
I’m currently working on a pretty deep optimization cycle in how RavenDB and Voron (its storage engine) handle I/O. The idea is to be able to squeeze more performance out of the system by being able to utilize a lot of moving pieces at...
The first cross-validation scheme in the audio project looked clean at the row level and failed inside each row. Each row contained a pair of performances, and the pair rows did not overlap. But an individual performance could appear in...
In the old days, man tried to catch a glimpse of the future in the strangest of ways. they locked themselves in dark rooms not partaking of food and drink At the stroke of midnight they ventured out into the night through the dark woods...