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This week, I’m living in a villa on a vineyard about 9km North of Tarragona, on the East coast of Spain. Gotta say, it’s a pretty place to walk the grounds of. A large part of our choice of location for this trip was, of course, the...
Good yarns. 🔗
The freedom to read is fundamental to a free society. – John Adams* To Molest and Rape When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators? An Illinois [cop named]…Douglas Lee…was stripped of his [magic] powers and [arrested...
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “The influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.” The...
Yesterday was a good first day of class at Spartanburg Methodist College, and not just for me. Everyone I talked to yesterday mentioned the good energy on campus.Of course, the first day of a semester is usually wonderful--and fall...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Magic Wand flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC links to a toot to ask us...
Mid-week check-in, hello! What has been going on? Sunday: Slept in very late from timezone-DnD the night before. Went to a stories meet-up where folks met at a bar called Tacos N Taps where the theme of the night was to talk about past...
I spotted Online Goddess’ blog post, Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop, which itself is a reply to Gavin Anderegg’s An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop on Bubbles and had to add my tuppence worth. Like Gavin and OG, I’ve been using...
1984 1949, George Orwell My rating: Loved it! This is a punch in the gut, but I am better for having read it. Not much can be said that hasn’t already been said; it’s one of the most discussed books ever (even if often misinterpreted to...
You can love pet rocks all you want. Still, nobody's gonna pay you to hold one. I've spent years reading about the elderly. Books, blue zones, long conversations with people who've actually finished the race. All trying to figure out...
What’s going on, Internet? Last Saturday was HTML Day, a yearly celebration of hand-writing HTML started by Elliott Cost and Laurel Schwulst. Meetups happen in cities all over the world, and Zachary Kai ran an online session for those of...
From weird existential thrillers like The Legend Of Tim Tyler to high-concept comedies like Big John, Little John, there were a lot of imported children's shows that felt like they 'belonged' on the BBC...
by The Pudding Pretty cool study about how our brains work in finding optimal routes and how surprisingly good we are at it, even when compared to computers. Lots of visual and interactive demos inside!
Playing the songs 'out' on Saturday has taught me a lot. I'm going to swap to playing the Telecaster for some songs- which means quite a lot of re-recording. The Green Goddess sounds just too pretty for a couple of the more energised...
A quick note on startups