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Before I headed out to Milan, I looked around for books on the network. Sadly, there didn't seem to be any, or at least none in English, and I didn't have time for a crash course in Italian. I finally found Italian Ways: On and Off The...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...
I collect handmade folk art masks. Life size Tiger Mask c. 1950-1970 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Buld and others various.
GORM is an editor for .po files (in case that link is dead, see the Internet Archive) that was originally written by Lars Dybdahl and to which I have been contributing quite a few features in recent years. Since Lars is too busy to do a...
Via Newspapers.comOn this blog, I’ve covered what many Fortean experts like to call “Anomalous Falls From the Sky,” but this is a new one for me. Lousy actors and criminals in the stocks used to get pelted with tomatoes, but it’s a bit...
By Nickolas Zachary BrownFive CataclysmsFive CataclysmsLevel 1 Souls trespassing into the rogue plane of Akiandor are captured and trapped here, doomed to be tormented by the dark denizens of this place, their souls slowly whittled down...
Thursday was yet another hottest day of the year, which reminds me of a classic Simpsons bit: BART: This is the worst day of my life. HOMER: The worst day of your life so far. At the Makerspace I used the laser cutter to make a...
AirPods with cameras in is a good thing because for a year they’re all anyone will want and proper earbuds will get cheaper. And then there’s a fair chance that anyone with camera AirPods will be shunned as unnatural and there will be a...
Over the last week or so, I’ve been slogging through some revisions on my article about the the first 23 volumes of NDQ. While this has involved lots of spinning wheels, some crunching of data, and some new prose (especially after I...
To anyone who hasn’t played Discworld Noir, FOR SHAME. I ah, also can’t blame you. It’s hard to find and equally hard to run on modern systems, which is a shame in itself. Discworld Noir managed to land at number 6 on my Top 10 Point and...
Western sandpipers in flight (photo from Wikimedia) 19 August 2026 Though the growing season hasn’t ended yet, it is waning fast in Alaska. The Fairbanks area has already lost 5 hours and 45 minutes of sunlight since the June solstice(*)...
For this interview, I had the chance to sit down with the three people behind Cocoon: lead developer Mothrip, UI/UX designer and developer lnkd, and sound designer and developer Tristan Serva (who goes by Anti). Rather than just looking...
I gave Megan and Dina a month or so to cool off. I assumed that once the anger faded, they would understand how everything had happened and realize there was no reason to throw away our friendship over one teeny, tiny mistake. That is...
As walked back from lunch, my friends and I encountered an itinerant preacher. He was a bit more bellicose than is usual, which is saying something. He had a megaphone, and he was using it to proclaim that queer people deserve to be...
The northwest corner of North 6th Street and Berry Street in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) in 1940: The four-story building on the left is 111 North 6th, “Jersey Hogs Pork Products” is 115 North 6th, and the building between (the second...