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As much as it delights me to live in a world where Slowdive are a constantly touring entity, I won’t pretend I’m not waiting for them to get off the road and back into the studio because, well, I live in a festival-less market so it’s...
KRULE X-FORCE (TOY BIZ) “A member of the long-lived strain of mutantkind called the Externals, Krule has had literally a millennium to perfect the arts of savagery and torture he enjoys so much. Because of his fiery personality, he finds...
I start with characterizing a term, ‘Humphreys opacity’ (or, if you prefer, ‘epistemic opacity’):1 this involves the inability to surveil the steps of a process from a known input to a known desirable (or truthful, useful, beautiful,...
Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - Danceteria oral history by Joy Press, aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club in the 1980s. Everyone from Madonna and Fab 5 Freddy to Mark Almond and Michael Musto to...
If the comments beneath HBO Max's newly released House of the Dragon Season 3 opening credits are anything to go by, viewers are more excited than ever to return to Westeros. The overwhelming reaction? Those drums. Hundreds of fans...
by Jan Jakeš A 3D museum in which you can walk on all about the history of WordPress, with displays for each release, some of the history behind them, all that. Really cool!
Well, you knew we'd eventually get to Mark Driscoll if we started talking about deconstructing and reconstructing my faith, right?[insert heavy sigh here]PostmodernityIn the spring of 1997, I attended the GenX church planting conference...
While Tacoma troubles may have prevented me reaching the summit of Waucoba Mountain on the first day of my trip, my failure to reach the top of Mt. Tom on the second day had me hoping for a bit of redemption. Luckily, I had a final day...
I last updated this yesterday lunchtime when we were in sight of Scotland. Overnight we have travelled further north to The Faroe Isles. As Scotland receded into the distance, the wind increased. As the wind increased so did the boat's...
Two weeks ago I quit my job. I had been working as a staff engineer at this startup for the last 2.5 years. The people, pay, and workload were all good but it was time to move on. I have worked with most of the team before this job and I...
Capcom's action and horror gameplay mash up like never before with the split campaign of Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy. Flexible perspectives and scenarios makes for a nostalgic, celebratory title. It felt more like a "cover album" to...
I finally hit 1,000 days of doing math daily! Early on in my journey I was a lot more aggressive with my XP targets, but settled into a low-volume rhythm as my goals evolved. I worked from MF1 (Math Foundations 1, lowest level) into MF3,...
Max Kozlov for Nature: Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants. The plot to murder American science in the style of Rasputin (poisoned, shot, shot again) is well under way, and this is the slow-release poison. Choke...
I saw a guy wearing a nylon shirt and matching cargo shorts, both clean but faded from too many washes, a plain non-matching ball cap, black sneakers, about 30 tools clipped to his belt, and a couple of ID badges. He was a phone lineman,...
Don't get dizzyThe Leucanthemum vulgare is considered in some places to be an invasive species. That does not prevent one from taking a closer look at the spiraling floret of the ox eye daisy.