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From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 213-214: THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL anthem begins with the words “Ukraine has not yet perished,” hardly an optimistic beginning for any kind of...
The reality of human sexuality is a whole world; describing it requires at least four dimensions plus time. – “Two-Dimensional” One who thinks a dog must be forced to lick humans has never met a dog. Prohibition turns people into “crime...
I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually a lot, so I don’t take these very...
Connie Francis & Harve Presnell.When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965). What possessed a Hollywood producer to pitch a 1960s update of the George and Ira Gershwin stage musical Girl Crazy starring Connie Francis, Liberace, Louis Armstrong,...
Few recent technological innovations were better poised to become a productivity slam dunk than the personal computer. Spreadsheets, word processors, databases, presentation software, email – the list of programs that could vastly...
Credits: Guest: Ian Mond Title: Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman Host: Jake Casella Brookins Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough References: The Writer and The...
A few sites and articles of interest I came across this month. Maybe blogging is falling out of favour because Gen Z think it’s too “cringe”? The Bank of England is asking people to vote on which animals should be ont the next series of...
The month June I can describe best as hot, hot, hot and slowing down. We had 2 weeks of uninterrupted rain and 2 weeks of heatwave. Talk about contrast! Maybe the longest heatwave the Netherlands ever had in consecutive days? The...
Few arcade shoot-em-ups made as much of an impact in the early 1990s as Seibu Kaihatsu's Raiden. First released into arcades in 1990, the vertically scrolling shooter quickly became a huge hit thanks to its fast action, varied weaponry...
Ten startups, forty top-tier investors, and more than one hundred strategic connections forged in a single room. As Ruhbir, one of our volanteers and startup founder who pitched, aptly noted, the event successfully compressed twelve...
As I mentioned before, in the last week of each month, I am taking time out from blogging to write the Amanda Jane Textiles Newsletter. The June Newsletter has just gone out with Colour Inspiration and Design Inspiration for you to use...
This weekend involved a lot of time away from the computer. This is healthy and fine, but I'm looking forward to stagnating at my desk for the next couple of days.There's yet another internet kerfluffle happening around yet another...
Neapolitan photographer Augusto De Luca (b. 1955) treats shadow not as absence, but as a scalpel. His black-and-white work operates on a principle of subtraction — light reveals, but shadow carves away, giving the image its depth and its...
So far this month has been a really hard one heat wise and today we finally have it a little cooler. The weather for northern Europe has been terrible, affecting transport and people in equal measures. Roads have been popping and snow...
Twenty years ago, Warwick Folk Festival asked me to create a community choir as part of its education outreach programme. Singing Safari, Warwick 2007 I was reluctant to use the word “choir” because I thought it might put some people...