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Bunny Yeager was a model-turned-photographer who made Bettie Page famous, broke into a male-dominated industry, and redefined what pin-up photography could be.
It's so peculiar- I feel as though I have been away for months, but it's only been three days!On Saturday afternoon I went to Dumfries by train, via Carlisle. As usual, the west coast service was late (the doors got stuck at Preston and...
There is a lot of chatter about online age verification. When the criticism turns to the EU's approach, it tends to be either uninformed or deliberately misleading. Do we need online age verification? This is partly an ideological...
Canal at Sunset – Copenhagen, Denmark – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Copenhagen Negative – XPan Over the weekend, PetaPixel published an article encouraging Fujifilm to make a digital XPan camera. Their idea was to make an X100VI-like camera with...
Jenna Hamra via PexelsI’ve admired the work of writer and educator Ian Bogost (perhaps currently best known as a contributor to The Atlantic) for years. We share an interest in objects, and I cited some of his thinking about everyday...
I did a test run of adding text pages from comics to the comics magazine search engine a couple weeks ago, but I wasn’t quite sure whether it was a good idea. Or whether my pipeline was good enough. And after getting some feedback, it...
I had a simple idea awhile ago checks watch...apparently five years ago! What if I could loop a song from the CLI to stay in the groove when coding? I called it looper. Originally it could only play local files, and you selected one, and...
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Cloudy and calm. I last ran 41 days ago. I was slightly heavier than today, which is a coincidence, though I did have a tumour the size of a “big marble” removed from my chest in the interim. After a heat...
I had a puzzling micro moth in the UV trap a couple of nights ago. It was about 8-9mm long, grey with some well-defined black markings. And, as it was walking about in the moth pot, it did so with its forewings splayed. Very odd. My...
Lucy Beware by Pamela Sykes, 1983. This book is the sequel to Come Back, Lucy (Mirror of Danger). Come Back, Lucy was the original title of the first book, when it was published in Britain, and Mirror of Danger is the US title. The story...
<!-- end-chunk --> <!-- begin-chunk data-anchor="marktwain" --> <h4>Marktwain.</h4> <p><em>A markdown editor for novels.</em></p> <p>I love markdown and use <a href="https://ia.net/writer">IA Writer</a> for pretty much everything, but it...
In Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious, Jim wrote: I often look at my own posts and think, “There’s nothing novel, or important, or deep in here at all — is this even worth saying?” How can I guarantee that nobody will ever find...
As I wrote many times, I use pdf-tools as main pdf viewer. I thought that one thing that would be nice is being able to open pdfs in it from outside Emacs. For example, texdoc could use it instead of Evince (which is pretty nice, but...
A scraped knee and – finally – a little bit of rain. 👉 View one more image
I started today’s presentation with “I went into security engineering because I love public speaking and I’m really good at it”. Sometimes you have to commit to the lie.