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This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software. I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring. — Will Wright Gamers are both extremely dedicated...
With Keir Starmer recently losing a Defence Secretary and then leaving a budgetary timebomb for his successor as PM, Andy Burnham, I thought it might be interesting to see how we rank on defence spending and who are the world’s largest...
I’ve been arguing with people online. Maybe I should do less of that and ride my bike more. But I’ve also been trying to call out ableist behavior, which I think is important. People have also given me grief because I ride an ebike....
This year's shincha is an unusual one. Harvested in April, this niche tea cultivar is called benitachiwase (ベニタチワセ), and it's commonly processed into black tea, but this is a shincha - a first flush green tea, you could say - so I have...
Hey there. Before this week’s links, a quick update: After a couple of rounds of editing, I recruited a couple of friends as beta readers for Street-Smart Coding Manifesto. It’s not the first time someone’s read these ideas, but I like...
My first week on NHSE's record a vaccination service. Joining NHS England I joined the RAVS (record a vaccination service) team at NHS England (NHSE) this week. Working on a contract via TPX Impact. Shout out to Frankie and others for...
A study of the diet of chinook salmon in the Salish Sea has enabled researchers to create a map of the availability of their forage species. The Tyee: Instead of scientists trawling to try to… More
IN THE ZONE: Exploring the cosmos with PrairiewolfThe Zone Poems media blitz rolls on! Prairiewolf — that band I’m in — is on the cover of the Caribou Current this month, glaring at you semi-menacingly. Managing Editor Jezy Gray’s...
Why all the secrecy Around Short Circuit Current? This article has been on my to-do list since 2016. I had started it but, never finished. In 2016 IR meters started at $500.00 and went up from there. Today the very affordable Fnirsi...
Some wonderful shoutouts for my Private Collectors, we are so here for JigZeni y’all! If you’re interested in a doodle like this, the beginning of the month is the best time to sign up!
Jeff Geerling is living the dream:
This is a collection of short stories, spanning a wide variety of characters and settings, all related to the Pakistani diaspora. I picked this one up not knowing much about it, but the title and cover intrigued me. I was pleasantly...
Lo scorso aprile ho comprato una Nintendo Switch 2. E sì, mentre lo scrivo mi sto dicendo da solo e sti cazzi?
An email records what you sent. A text message records what you said. The chat log, the peculiar new artifact accumulating in evidence lockers across America, records something else entirely: a person thinking aloud to a machine that...
Tomorrow is Independence Day here in the United States. It's a day when we celebrate the Declaration of Independence and the formation of our nation. Where we, as a people, assumed our sovereign political destiny from the tyrant King...