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I recently listened to two completely unrelated Buddhist lectures that involved developing equanimity as an important part of Buddhist ethics. Both were met by Westerners thinking they had the ultimate gotcha question. Obviously, you...
Hey! Paper jam on the scanner. OK, I’ll remove the jammed paper and then press the stop button. So what do you think happens when I press the stop button? I’ll give you a chance to guess… Yes, exactly! It starts passing all the remaining...
Imperial Messenger: Escape from The City Absolute2027, WuYa Software An adaptation of the Kafka parable A Message from The Emperor. After a brief cutscene in which the anonymous player character is seen leaning over the enormous deathbed...
Paul Taberham’s impressive study of film animation was released earlier this month. The title brings to mind a major concern of David Bordwell in studying cinema, poetics as an aesthetic approach. Taberham has indeed been influenced by...
In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Landmark treatment slashes cholesterol by 62% with a single dose Amylin design debate heats up Could Your Insulin Pump Detect an Occlusion Before Your Glucose Rises? Yale Researchers Identify...
My initial concerns about Horizon Hunters Gathering possibly ruining my annual prediction have been quelled. Jason Schreier has reported that the cartoony online co-op live service game has been rebooted. Here's a gift link to his...
Ilya Birman on his blog talks about interfaces that unnecessarily slow people down, in a series of two posts. In the first one, titled “Let me click,” Birman shows a few places that force the user to go through a roundabout series of...
Words: Chris ArnsbyBruno Brookes: “Good evening and welcome to Top of the Pops. On the show tonight, Jason Donovan, Martika, Zoe, and also this fellow who’s locked himself away in a studio for the last couple of years making a terrific...
I listen to a lot of true crime. Most of the time while I’m driving. Occasionally, Youtube will toss some content of a similar nature into my “suggestions” (if you can call them that), and suddenly it’ll have me watching police...
I missed the midway point of the month where I'd originally intended to do a blaugust check-in post. Honestly, where has the month gone?? I can't believe we're in the home stretch, the final week. I really did have high hopes of posting...
When I used to visit India in my younger days, I became used to the trials and tribulations of travelling by road. Amenities and facilities were few and far in between along the highways. But on this trip, while on the highway out of...
I feel like we should normalise tagging things #RSVP, #WannaChat, #LetsTalk or similar for those times when you really just want to get a conversation going.
Flexjet’s first Gulfstream G500 in all her beauty When Flexjet recently reached out asking if I would like to tour their first Gulfstream G500 (N200FX), how could I refuse? I tried to act cool, but of course I was giddy to have the...
One of the many pro-Pluto websites that sprang up in the immediate aftermath of the disastrous IAU planet definition vote back in 2006 featured the image of a counter depicting Pluto’s time taken away since the vote. That counter updated...
May I never be accused of wringing every last drop out of my tympan.