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The daily heat was determining my walking plans, but it also nudged me towards one of my favourite activities that takes me back to the origins of this blog in Summer 2004 – to stroll through the centre of London being guided by my...
Lucerne's annual free, open-air concert. My friends V&N invited us to "Funk am See," a concert held once a year in the large park next to the Transportation Museum. For some reason, I don't think I've heard about this event. If I had, I...
The AirTag left California hidden inside a rare book. It pinged again outside Milwaukee, then spent two weeks sitting in a distribution warehouse outside Kenosha. When the dot started moving again, it headed west by truck, stopped...
Suppose you have a planet in an elliptical orbit around a star. The math is identical for any light object orbiting a heavy object, such as a moon or satellite orbiting a planet, but we’ll call the heavy object a star and the light...
(I wrote this post eleven months ago, but for some reason didn’t get around to posting it. Well, now I have. Not now, when I’m writing this sentence, but now, when you’re reading it.) Back in 2019, when Matt and I were at the Carnegie...
Soon, you will know all the secrets of Z80 game programming. Or at least all the ones I didn’t know before I decided to port Tetris to a game console made to teach pensioners how to play cards. Things only get weirder from here, if you...
Juli Clover for MacRumors: Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the...
Myke Hurley, marking the 12th anniversary of our company: The versions of myself and Stephen who started this podcast network in 2014 feel incredibly different to me. We’ve learned a lot, changed a lot, adapted a lot, and sought new...
Los Angeles County's Department of Children and Family Services oversees roughly six hundred children with the most severe medical needs in its entire system. When one of those children is expected to die soon and needs somewhere to...
One of our favorite past times here at Frock Flicks HQ is to take a
From where I sit, there’s been a notable uptick in scholarship that appeals to anarchism and anarchist praxis in archaeology over the last decade. Some of this should be attributed to David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything:...
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In recent years, many of us have learned new terms. The "tipping point" is one of these terms, and it has been very relevant again during the summer.When it comes to climate, we constantly hear about tipping points. Thresholds that, once...