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Tucked away at the bottom of Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version Link with Pokémon Home This October, The Pokémon Company and Game Freak has announced the end of Pokémon Bank: Pokémon Bank, a Nintendo 3DS application...
The title comes from one of Kevin Kelly's aphorisms in his book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. This is a book that I find myself picking up from time to time, with something new standing out to me each...
The title comes from one of Kevin Kelly's aphorisms in his book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. This is a book that I find myself picking up from time to time, with something new standing out to me each...
Greg Egan’s 1994 novel Permutation City depicts digital minds having a right to suicide; if they push a particular internal button, they end. And this does seem like a robust way to avoid many horrible scenarios. But the novel also...
Wilhelminische Bäderarchituektur wohin man schaut. Weißgetünchte Gästehäuser mit den typisch verzierten Holzbalkonen davor. Auf der Wilhelmstraße flaniert es sich prächtig hinauf zur Ostsee, in Richtung Seebrücke. Dabei ist Sellin viel...
It’s time we got serious about this Canadian smoke problem. Every summer it gets worse, to the point where in recent weeks the air quality over a large area of the United States has been almost as unhealthy as it was in the Barry family...
“Life is to be lived, not controlled.” - Ralph Ellison, Invisible ManHello friends! We are in the middle of an intense heat wave and I’m definitely ready for it to cool off! Still thinking about all those who are facing fires, smoke,...
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard - August 2026Coming rrrrrrright up this Sunday at 4pm PST — another edition of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard! Freeform transmissions to soundtrack the end of your weekend. Airing every third Sunday of the...
Sentinel (Webber) class Fast Response Cutters USCGC Douglas Denman (WPC-1149 and Forrest Rednour (WPC-1129) transit in formation during a photo exercise off the coast of San Diego, July 23, 2026. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer...
Some 60 years ago this week. A well-traveled paratrooper with good reason to wonder why. Official caption: “14 August 1966. SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle-weary eyes...
The animated film Heavy Metal premiered in the United States and Canada on August 7, 1981, making it 45 years young this month. As any Gen Xer can vouch, HM and the magazine that went along with it were transformative. Besides perhaps...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: The #CrossBorderRail methodBullshit Meter: Arriva NL to run international high speed trainsGood week: Leo Express manages to run to Przemyśl (but there's a catch)Also a good week: Italy and Austria...
Dan Hartland An arborescent form is effectively a tree, and—although the sight of what remains of the human embedded in its trunk can be confronting—it may be cut down or removed in the traditional way. The most difficult to deal with...
I’ve spent some time this week reading an excellent textbook called “The Recording and Reproduction of Sound” written by Oliver Read. The second edition that I have was published in 1952. In it, he has a chapter called “Magnetic (Tape...
Good morning. I exhale my sleepy thoughts and wake early.As usual. I have been told that if I want something, then I have to put it out there.Out there. I’ve been out there for too long and yet, I was told that if I want something, then...