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From the August 26, 2026, issue of my This Week in Sound email newsletter: 59: Percent greater yield measured in a plant submitted to specific acoustic signals 340,000,000: Estimated number of people worldwide with “blindness or...
Hi Crowd! Funny thing I just did in the year 2026 of the common era, I set up my Twitter account. As a reminder twttr became Twitter which then became X, and apparently somewhere in there the trademark for “Twitter” has been challenged...
Hunger is not always about food.In the realms of horror and fantasy, it is usually the subtext, the want that remains once the polite explanations have been put aside. The thing under the thing.Roderick Morgan is driven by a need for...
Perfume PosseWish by Chopard Heya Posse, Cheap, Cheerful and Delicious? Make you Wish. I’ve got the answer. Available only at the discounters here in Australia nowadays. If we can still get it I’m sure you all can. My bottle was a hand...
Thursday 27th August 2026 Readers may recall the journey I took on route 99 in the Chew Valley operated by The Big Lemon for the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority back in April and explained how the route had been introduced...
The first time I ever had an SP-404 sampler in my house, I borrowed it from one of the guys in Edie Brickell's band. The utility guy, as fate would have it. It was so fascinating to go through and hear the samples that they had. They...
Apple event on Sept 9. Unless the company has moved April Fool’s Day to September, this has got to be announcement of new iPhones. What’s interesting, to me anyway, is that the tagline Apple uses for this event is translated quite...
I am no longer using NetNewsWire, the original RSS reader, on a daily basis, but I am still keeping this app on all my devices as a backup. But this is definitely a good app with many fans and users. Brent Simmons had declared, since...
Ben Nadel: But now that it's my hobby, not my profession, I don't have to justify any of it to anyone but myself. And I'm hoping that this clarity will bring me a new type of joy. ~ Link: Programming as a Hobby in the Age Of AI, by Ben...
This guy gave me trouble last time. The Avatar ended the last session wondering how, with no money and limited theft opportunities, he was going to outfit himself properly enough to avoid getting wrecked the moment he stepped through the...
Apple, after previously saying it would move Hide My Email to the private.icloud.com subdomain: After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com. The whole point of...
“How a Ukrainian [youth] survived FSB filtration and escaped Russian occupation” (Kyiv Independent, Aug. 26), youtu.be/pdCwslqd-… #RussiaIsATerroristState
Location of Nova Sge 2026, looking north from Adelaide at 21:39 ACST. The location of the Nova is indicated by the circle. The nova is around magnitude 7. Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at the same equivalent time....
Yesterday, I decided to unarchive my posts in my private account. Three months ago, I removed everything just because I was insanely overwhelmed by the current atmosphere on Instagram, as I wrote before. Nevertheless, my shots to find a...
I own a lot of books. And yet I continue to browse the stacks at used bookstores and swaps. I often find myself wondering if I have already picked up a given John McPhee or >DK Eyewitness volume. I also love distracting myself from...