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Why northern Chile is flooding in 2026, and what El Niño has to do with itNorthern Chile sits close to home for me. My family lives there now, even though I was born in the V region myself, so this is not a story I am watching from a...
Very fun, feel-good 80s-style fusion jazz. Energetic and very much on the pop side; it's a good start to the day. And don't you just love that cover art?
@lordmatt Right now I am mostly reading my way through Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive. Once you get into it, the series is really good. You will want enough time to get past six or seven chapters when you start on book one because...
Someone asked why I volunteer for the Mon Refugee School? I do not understand the political situation, and it is unlikely that it will resolve in the near future. I agree on both points. What I also see are both adults and children who...
What’s about the only thing more badass than a 17-year-old winning a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)? That 17-year-old intentionally forfeiting his gold medal by wearing an Israeli flag while the medal was...
Shadows and Solid Things: A History of Religion and Archaeology in the Modern World by Kris Zimmitti will be published this November. Kris writes beautifully and has an important tale to tell about how the study of the past through...
The gameshow format exploded in popularity in the US in the late 1950s. The promises of instant wealth and exotic prizes combined with flamboyant hosts became a global phenomena, that has never really ended, merely changed. By the...
There is a particular humility in being invited somewhere as “the TPACK guy.” TPACK is the framework that Matt Koehler and I developed years ago, and it has since traveled farther and wider than either of us ever imagined… far enough, it...
Pereira Maintains: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh (New Directions Ebook) [T]he fact is that I’ve been stricken with misgiving, what I mean is what if those two youngsters are right? In that case they’re...
The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro of today (8/20), depicting a preposterous cartoon event: It’s a Renaissance Faire and a Ren & Stimpy Show animated cartoon (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 3 in this...
Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Here are a couple of attempts of mine to take moody photos of the geothermal fields behind the horticultural school, by the Fífilbrekka cottage. These are from a new path that was made in the reforestation area...
Toronto’s Otsyuda have been making a name for themselves both as one of the city’s promising new shoegaze/dreampop acts and as an international supergroup of sorts – their collective resume including Russia’s Blankenberge, Colombia’s...
The doctors surgery texted me just twenty four hours after my echocardiogram scan. They said they had received the report from the scan, and asked me to please make an appointment with the GP so he could discuss the results with me. One...
I once read a novel about a cartographer that didnt know that trap streets in maps — intentional fake streets and the likes to catch plagiarisms. That immediate pulled me out of the story and I couldn’t suspend my disbelief anymore, and...
Popular IndieWeb bloggers have been talking about "Hardcore IndieWeb" recently (Neatnik, Brennan). The idea of "hardcore" in this context is doing everything yourself: building a site with pure HTML and CSS using a text editor on your...