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This weathercock is above the Durnstein Abbey, famous for the blue and white tower. The weathercock above the church is typical of European weathervanes, since the 9th century when there was a Papal decree for each church to feature a...
So... Trump, with the aid of the Secret Service, plays his little, Top Secret, Three Card Monty, Now Ya See Me, Now Ya Don't, food container/airplane disappearing act to avoid a possible Iranian assassination attempt. Deftly played! And...
So when Crisis on Infinite Earths came out in 1985, I dutifully bought each installment, starting by peeling off the top copy from the giant stack of the first issue on the shop’s glass counter. It was a fun run of books, with each...
[1993]A lo-fi slacker rock jam that's probably mostly forgotten these days. Before burning cds from your mates became a thing I had One Sock Missing on a TDK D90 blank cassette with Archers Of Loaf's Icky Mettle on the other side. A...
If your Spidey Senses were tingling this morning, it might mean that:A) You were bitten by a radioactive spider, and/orB) You knew that it is Steve DeGaetano's birthday.As always, Sue B. has something for the occasion, and undated photo...
I seem to have spent a lot of time recently involved in books which deal with the horrors of the 20th century; maybe it’s a reaction to what’s happening in our current world where it seems that the human race hasn’t moved on at all since...
I've been neglecting the blog a little while I was away on holiday in Wales with Himself and The Trainee.If you follow the Bron Hebog and Minffordd page on Facebook then you'll have been able to follow the narrow gauge adventures we were...
Jubel lager "cut with" fruit has, it seems, been going great guns over in the country next door. It's possibly too early to say where this sits in the specialty beer segment, since it's definitely not in the geek-coded global-Brooklyn...
[I'm reading *Moby-Dick* at the moment](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xavierroy_srividya-suryanarayanan-asked-if-we-can-do-share-7490785589437349888-Pdwq/), and I've been thinking about first lines. That's probably inevitable when...
On the early morning August 13 (afternoon August 12 UT) there is a Total Eclipse of the Sun, Visible from the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland and Spain. Australia misses out completely, and Iceland looks like it will be clouded out.Not to...
It's hard to overstate how important Nifflas was to "the indie games scene" when I first got involved in indie games. Back then, Steam barely existed, and most PC indies weren't releasing on it. "Indie games" were, to me, free web games...
Beeper has some fun new features where you can merge chats with the same person across multiple networks, polls, labels… Very exciting work happening on that product.
We last met Róisín Normanly BC Before Coronarama when she scooped and classified some 000s of beetles out of ponds as an undergraduate. She is nearly the youngest of The Blob's Women in Science list. No shame in transitory beetlemania;...
Want to know less? This is a full breakdown of my holiday - day-by-day. If you want to just see the highlights, I will post a round-up at the end of this series. Previously # In part 6 we explored the southern side of Jeju Island. Now,...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...