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Via Newspapers.comThis unnerving account of the mysterious deaths of two sisters appeared in the “Patriot News,” March 24, 1968:A soft sigh, a stare of horror, a piercing scream and death that as yet is unexplained…that was the fate of...
I’m not certain when I first became aware of Francisco de Zurbarán, but I can remember as a teenager thinking that there were just three great Spanish papers: Velasquez, El Greco, and Goya. Spanish art, I knew, was different to the art...
My recipe for not hating myself consists of three elements: 1. Keep changing -- and by changing, I mean improving, and by improving, I don't mean "be more productive." I mean be a better person today than I was yesterday. Better means...
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound...
Researchers claim to have achieved perfect randomness. (Hopefully nothing like True Level). But I kind of liked the Lava Lamps. I did not know that (some of) Europe mandates family dynasties by forcing a minimum percentage of an estate...
I think a lot of people now know what this game is, due to its rarity/price/etc, but for all the billion times you hear YouTubers reference that, none of them ever seem to think it’s important to mention that this is also a Psikyo game....
tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #infusions #link-post #yell-at-cloud Quite a while ago I read this post by Annie: Ritualize anything Rituals? I can't stop myself. They're so good. Absolutely breathtaking. Humanity's finest work, perhaps. They...
I'm really digging their new album, and this performance on KEXP was great too: There's a couple live shows of theirs on my youtube concerts list that are fun. Recommended if you like heavy, fuzzed out guitars.
Have you ever written with two fountain pens of the same model and same nib size, only to notice subtle (or maybe not-so-subtle) differences in line width? As retailers, we get questions about this topic all the time, and have...
Illustration of a “plotting room” on a Royal Navy World War II K-class destroyer Director Control TowerHello readers, Every couple of weeks, I get a nice note or restack about my Principles of Plotting series. So, I figure it is finally...
The above sketch shows a decision tree. The circles are uncertainty nodes and the squares are decision nodes. Read the tree from left to right: to start, there is uncertainty of which of the strata i=1,…,I you will be in. In any given...
If you could put a short phrase/question on a bracelet (or somewhere else you’d regularly see it), in order to help you make better decisions, big or small, to improve your life, what would it say?
Keith LeBlanc was the only white boy in the Sugar Hill Gang Village, hence the name. So to win the respect of the majority Black members of America's premier Hip-Hop collective Keith had to show off his technologically enhanced and...
I have a soft spot for Sayid - it’s one of the most ingenious Clojure tools ever built, and also one of the most neglected. It’s an omniscient debugger: instead of stopping your program at a breakpoint, it quietly records every call to...
We are going back to Raccoon City! So pack your zombie survival kits and uncover the mysteries with Max Roberts and Logan Moore alongside special guests Michael Ruiz and Ricky Frech! Can action and horror be perfectly balanced or are...