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Not a bad day but cool out of the sun. Dot and Ron stayed the night. Jane very pleased to see them. Put soil to my spuds and cabbage.
They sit you at a table and then bring you a single slice of hot toast. When you are done, they bring you another. Have as much toast as you want for a fixed price. One hot slice at a time. Tea, coffee, etc., can be extra. As can things...
Two standards for the agentic web shipped within a week, both with Google's fingerprints, neither referencing the other, one not even agreeing with itself about a field name. They turn out to connect almost perfectly: OKF packages a...
Back to the boardgame café.
I call this a pond but it’s really a wide part of a stream that flows into the Ashuelot River from Wilson Pond in Swanzey. I’ve seen many wondrous things here over the years. An odd thing I saw here recently was this painted turtle...
A guest post by Hiroko Yoda.
Over a decade ago, Alexander Chen’s iconic MTA.me turned Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 New York subway map into a live, plucking string instrument. On this map every time an MTA train crosses the track of another line, it twangs like a musical...
When pre-twentieth century Africa is studied in schools it is the slave trade, its awful consequences and the later colonial Scramble for Africa of the nineteenth century which tend to attract the focus of both teachers and students....
What I loved and hated
If you like an extended visual metaphor, then you will love The Nymph, written and directed by Vanessa Stachel at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of the internationally most acclaimed film and media schools. Together with a team of...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got desi pubs, bad news and pub crawls. First, news from the World Cup and from Boston that seems to confirm a Scottish stereotype: Devon Savage...