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Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
Way back on May 27th of this year, I shared some 1973 photos taken by Lou Perry from a visit to SoCal's now-defunct Lion Country Safari. After a too-long wait, here is Part 2!You can tell that these antelope feel pretty safe on this faux...
If you read my last post about being unhinged, here's an update. I feel re-hinged. I am not in total fucked up despair mode anymore. I did spend the last two days barely able to get out of bed without feeling super tired and with a...
The return of SQL? It's no secret that I'm no fan of ORMs. Most people, on the other hand, find them indispensable. As one reader commented: "I can work with raw SQL ofcourse... but the mapping... oh the mapping..." qfilip This seems to...
Comanche Tactics I dont remember from I cant believe it was out 15 years ago. The video AI is impressive and hilarious at the same time. The imagery is often engaging but the context is can be crazy. I don’t know how accurate the...
I sat down and plowed through Knytt Classic in a single sitting. While I was doing it, I had a lot of thoughts about why this game was so influential to me and others, and what it was like to be "in" the "scene" of indie game enjoyers...
The admirable futures and business writer Art Kleiner has a long post on his Substack outlining what he thinks we already know about the 2030s. He’s not making predictions, exactly. More just pointing out that we can see right now some...
WebSub support added.
In 1999, I was the Irish Node [director and sole-employee] of a European academic quango. We had an AGM in one venue or another, and for 1999 some bright spark suggested that the German node at Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) in...
No, not again, I hear you think. But look at it. It’s a mess and there’s no fixing it. A 2005-style left side column bar. My brother told me it was too distracting, and it has no internal consistency either. And what about those rounded...
If you’ve ever wanted a reliable recipe for soft, homemade burger buns, these Easy Burger Buns are a beautiful place to start. These buns have quickly became a favourite in my kitchen. Adapted from a vegan recipe I found online, I’ve...
Wow! (just wow)
TODO summary
Welcome news is so rare in our withered literary culture, we are obligated to celebrate good new work when we encounter it. The summer 2026 issue of New Verse Review has been published, and it includes work by several of our finest...