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Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Forgotten Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the first half quarter of Galactic Mutant Animals,...
Happy weekend! And I’m glad to see it, especially since it’s going to be a pretty busy week ahead. Gotta soak up some relaxation now! Books acquired this week A couple of books I was excited about came out this week, but so far I’ve...
Statue of Liberty during the Annular Solar Eclipse on 10 June 2021 (photo from Wikimedia Commons) 4 July 2026 Today we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776, 250 years ago today. We often hear a...
Growing up, the game I watched along with my friends was cricket. And there was a familiar story about the Indian team — Sachin Tendulkar, the iconic batsman, would do well all the way to the finals, and then inevitably get out, and the...
Them Sugar Hill Gang bangers got everywhere in the 80's didn't they? Here replacing Grandmaster Flash with erstwhile lead screecher from The Pop Group, Mark Stewart. No subtlety here from absent lovers rock producer Dennis Bovell, who...
The weather certainly doesn’t help, but I’ve still managed to squeeze in a few interesting hacks this week in between work, flashbacks about the recent reorg (too soon to call it, but like everyone else, I’m waiting for the other shoe to...
The difference between different groups of Jews arts with the Jewish Diaspora, the displacement of Israelites outside of the Southern Levant. Because Jews traveled to various parts of the known world and communication was not as easy as...
This was a little idea gnawing at the back of my brain. The humble barcode has been in use since the 1970s. In the next few years it will likely be replaced with a 2D QR Code. I couldn't find anyone who'd made a QR code with an embedded...
Reasonable people can disagree, but I thought this was a really fascinating take
switchedThe metal knobs were too large (IMO) for the dresser drawers. Decided to use one shaker knob per drawer. All of the tenons on the knobs were about a 64th over 3/8".quick jigThe tenon length was 3/4" and the drawer fronts were a...
“Corpographies of Public History: The Sequester of Statues in Flagstaff Gardens, Barrackpore, West Bengal” Asian Review of World Histories ISSN: 2287-9811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10107 Abstract: Public history means...
By Scott_mFirst Era AdventuresOSRICLevels 2-4 Ten years ago, the new rector went insane and burned down the town chapel, killing his fellow priests. No one knows why he did it, but superstitious townsfolk just wanted the whole sad affair...
The day after IndieWebClub Bangalore Special Anniversary Meetup, Ankur, Tanvi and I got together and did a retrospective on the event. We noted down what went well, what didn’t and what we should do the next time. This note summarized...
Australian schools all have their own 'values' even if they all circle around the same things. My school's acronym for values is RIVER. respect, integrity, vitality, excellence, responsibility. I have been thinking about what I value...