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The summer holidays are here so let's go on a Trafalgar Square Treasure Hunt! Here are clues to ten letters of the alphabet, all of which are to be found in or around Trafalgar Square. Can you find all ten and then jumble them up to make a word associated with the square? Letter 1: This bus stop on the east side of...
100 Days Election Day is 100 days from today. Let's check in and see what the state of affairs is. Click here for full story
If you enjoy a cookie that’s soft, tender, and full of cozy maple sweetness, these Soft Maple Sugar Cookies are about to become a new favourite. They’re the kind of bake that fills your kitchen with the warm scent of butter and maple, and they stay wonderfully soft for days — the perfect little treat with a cup of...
A recent e-mail asked how to deal with leading or trailing yarn-overs (YO's) when starting lace projects on double-pointed needles(dpn's). The problem: a YO as the first or last stitch on a dpn wants to slip off, plus, the needles themselves want to slip out.I'm guessing others have these problems too.The YO's in...
➜ D was still at her sleepover at the grandparents in Germany on Monday, so I could start the week with an early morning weight lifting session. ➜ at 10 I went up to the studio to work on my half-timbered houses. and I made the first prototype of a new shaped card. ➜ I worked in my studio the whole day until 7 in...
John Gruber is arguing that Apple is weakening its advantage over competitors by adding more ads into their operating systems: Apple’s competition is lousy with ads. Downright lousy. Apple seems to be choosing the route of “Don’t like ads? Choose Apple, we shove fewer of them in your face.” That’s way less bracingly...
Yesterday, I published the last planned release of File Browser. It includes a few security fixes and a notice about the wind-down of the project. Alongside it, I announced that this was the last planned release and updated the repository so that it’s ready to be archived on September 1st. For many people this came...
When I ponder a brand like Lalique, I consider the bottles before their contents. How could I not? As a student of art history, I am well aware of RenĂ© Lalique’s historically significant jewelry and glasswork. He was arguably the most versatile glass artist of the first half of the 20th century (he died in 1945),...
Shout out to my favorite L.A. bookstore, Lost Books (the entrance of which is pictured below), where I found a veritable treasure trove of erudite tomes — listed below in alphabetical order (by author): Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neuman (Norton, 2022). Full...
In his essay Civilisation & its Discont­ents 1929, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had analysed the aggressive cruelty that changed men into sa­vages. Aft­er Hit­ler took power in Germany in 1933, as much as he recog­nised these trends, Freud was reluctant to apply them to Vienna. Even when the Nazis burnt all the books...

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