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Today should have been simple enough.A TER train Nuits-sous-Ravières - Paris Bercy, a TGV Paris Nord - Lille Flandres, then SNCB IC trains Lille Flandres - Kortrijk and Kortrijk - Brugge.But a half an hour out of Nuits, bang. The train...
Water [1991]I've always been perplexed by Green Mind and some people's opinions of it since it came out. I mean surely we all thought it was pretty crap after the astonishingly exhilarating electrifying insanity of You're Living All Over...
Here’s one of those varieties that really makes ne scratch my head. Says it’s made in Vietnam, but it’s got Chinese on it. I remember going down the rabbit hole on this one and finding it was made for the Taiwanese market, however that...
The latest set from LEGO® Architecture, 21066 New York City – The Big Apple continues The LEGO Group's enduring love of the city that never sleeps. Its simple colour palette does not mean there are no new elements: there are recolours to...
Wired: “Satellite technology is being used to streamline rescue efforts in Venezuela following the two earthquakes that struck on June 24. Space agencies have shared images with emergency authorities and the Venezuelan government that...
Whenever I find myself needing to update a previous blog post, I either correct it inline and add a small note on top, for small tweaks, or write a whole new piece for larger changes. My last blog post talked about how to use CSS to...
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Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.Did I miss something important? Send me an email to let me know.Did someone forward this to you? Subscribe for free.OpenAI...
It suddenly occurred to me today that it's actually pretty strange to strive to do most things by myself in an overly independent way. I have this romantic idea about solitude and independence. That it's this perfect state of being where...
The 4th of July hasn’t felt the same to me in quite some time. The country I was born and doesn’t feel the same as it once did. Yet it does. In ways I wish I could ignore. Those are obvious observations many share, I’m sure. To me they...
At the start of the week, I posted about Horror Movie rules and the Final Girl. The topic of the Steven Jackson Games Magazine's Slasher Flick. I had never played that, but I did know about the RPG Slasher Flick: Director's Cut from...
Surprise! Today’s post is about a video from Periscope Films from sixty years ago on the fundamental building blocks of computers from way back then. Right off we’re told that computers no longer rely on primative things like...
Thought it was about time we did another one of these. Looking through my archives, I found a bunch of arcade production line photographs that to my knowledge, haven’t been shared before. I originally posted some arcade factory pictures...
Source Every U.S. state has experienced temperatures of at least 100°F – even Alaska.The hottest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134°F (56.7°C), measured at Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913. It remains the...
Link: Cascade PBS launches Local Public as standalone streaming tech company, by Matthew Keys at The DeskI’ve got some complicated feelings about this announcement from Cascade PBS:“Cascade PBS, the non-profit television station serving...