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Good live improvisation progressive rock band. Saw them at Tip Top Deluxe in Grand Rapids, MI, and look forward to whatever they lay down on a record.
The growing popularity of 8-bit computers is a living critique of the world we live in.
Everyday we’re bombarded with information, such as studies and advice. So what can be trusted? Most studies are bullshit–just Google “replication crisis”. But a possible exception is when the science agrees with empirical evidence, such...
Last week, James mentioned the Holyhead Breakwater Railway and he’s produced a really beautiful series of sketches over on his blog this morning. The idea of building a model of the Holyhead breakwater railway, in some form, in some...
Bill McKinnen, in A Question of Margin:
For over ten millennia of the farming era, most folks saw themselves as tightly tied to small groups that lived in a largely alien and hostile world, under the thumb of empires and elites selected by tradition and power, elites not...
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but our world isn’t doing so well. Even as there still is endless denial by fossil-fuel corporations and the politicians they’ve bought climate change has started to wreak havoc. In addition, in many places...
Last time, I discussed the first sound/color Zorro movie, The Bold Caballero from 1936. The next Zorro screen production was just a year later, Republic’s 1937 serial Zorro Rides Again—no relation to the 1931 Johnston McCulley novel of...
What is a weekend? #DowntonAbbey