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He may strike a passing resemblance to David Koresh, but Paul Kelday made better ambient electronic lunar landscapes than the long deceased leader of the Davidian cult in Waco could manage inbetween impregnating as many female followers...
Adam “Experimental History” Mastroianni : Guys who work in bike shops like to joke about bicycle-shaped objects—sure, that mass-produced hunk of metal and plastic has a seat, pedals, wheels, and handlebars, but that doesn’t mean it’s a...
The ancient Romans were impressive engineers. The original water sources near Rome were considered unsafe–fetid swamp water and rivers polluted with human sewage. To supply the increasing population of the economically thriving city,...
One of the promises of the AI-filled future is that we'll all have highly capable autonomous servants "agents" to work for us. Even back in the 1990s, it was a common trope in future-gazing to insist that a person's personal slave agent...
Unlike most of Sassoon's war poems, the verses of this one have a calming and reassuring effect, leaning on lovely pastoral imagery. But there’s also a lingering sense of loss and sorrow throughout — subtle yet deep and unsettling.
This is a big story, certainly bigger than you might have guessed from the coverage. Smart commentators like Patrick Boyle and the Financial Times have been ringing the alarm bell on the state of debt, particularly involving the...
Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World - New paper from Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Patrick Norrick Full paper here or if you're on the move ,Notebook LM made a podcast out of the paper Tyler Cowen comments here
Before I headed out to Milan, I looked around for books on the network. Sadly, there didn't seem to be any, or at least none in English, and I didn't have time for a crash course in Italian. I finally found Italian Ways: On and Off The...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...
I collect handmade folk art masks. Life size Tiger Mask c. 1950-1970 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Buld and others various.
GORM is an editor for .po files (in case that link is dead, see the Internet Archive) that was originally written by Lars Dybdahl and to which I have been contributing quite a few features in recent years. Since Lars is too busy to do a...
Via Newspapers.comOn this blog, I’ve covered what many Fortean experts like to call “Anomalous Falls From the Sky,” but this is a new one for me. Lousy actors and criminals in the stocks used to get pelted with tomatoes, but it’s a bit...
By Nickolas Zachary BrownFive CataclysmsFive CataclysmsLevel 1 Souls trespassing into the rogue plane of Akiandor are captured and trapped here, doomed to be tormented by the dark denizens of this place, their souls slowly whittled down...
Thursday was yet another hottest day of the year, which reminds me of a classic Simpsons bit: BART: This is the worst day of my life. HOMER: The worst day of your life so far. At the Makerspace I used the laser cutter to make a...