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An Ancient Witch's Guide to Modern Datingby Cecilia EdwardGenres: Fantasy, Romance Pages: 311 Rating: Synopsis: An ancient witch explores the thrills--and perils--of online dating with hilarity and heart in a charming rom-com perfect for...
Translating documents isn’t hard these days, but when it comes to long documents, it still gets tricky as most translation services are limited to a few paragraphs and charge for larger texts. If you use Microsoft Edge, you can use the...
Mt Warusawa (悪沢岳, warusawa-dake) and Mt Akaishi (赤石岳, akaishi-dake) are two mountains located on the southern end of Japan's Southern Alps. Although the Southern Alps honestly don't look that far from Tokyo on the map, some of the peaks...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
I’ve been watching through every season of Frasier from the beginning over the last few weeks and it’s been great to see all the character development and watch the Niles & Daphne love story unfold (again). But what if you took one...
Charli XCX “Camera” The aesthetic premise of Music, Fashion, Film is basically “pop-punk, but aesthetically interesting.” Charli XCX has been toying with rock sounds through her entire career, so it’s not surprising she’d tip in this...
In 2024 I blogged about a study that found the lowest incidence of Alzheimer’s-related mortality among ambulance and taxi drivers. At the time I noted that the study had a bunch of caveats and was… More
I picked-up a copy of RuneQuest, 2nd Edition, on a lark a few weeks back after Twinkee in the Table Shapers Discord server shared a link to some tabletop eBay finds. While I doubt I'll ever run a game using it, it's been a fruitful read....
I never played Spyrium, William Attia’s 2013 game of steampunk factories, but I heard good things about its worker placement/removal system. Greylune, as near as I can tell, recaptures that title’s core appeal, while swapping the geared...
Ludwig’s ghost Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge. In a nice coincidence, Frank Ramsey, the young genius who, as a teenager, first translated Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, is buried nearby. Quote of the Day ”When you become famous, being...
KENNETH ROBESON – Red Snow. Doc Savage #24. Bantam, paperback original; 1st printing, July 1969. Originally published in Doc Savage Magazine, February 1935. A strange red snow that disintegrates everything in it path threatens America’s...
Bill Dollins has been thinking about how to future-proof geospatial data infrastructure. When we design systems expected to last for years or decades, we tend to ask which technologies will still be around. Will PostGIS… More
Tony Feher, Come Out and Play Stephen Jay (detail), 2013Finishing the book feels like travelling through time. I can tell I’m more sensitive than usual this week, overwhelmed. I remember where and when it all started, and who I was back...
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AFP fact-checks fake AI-generated maps of the Canadian wildfires that have been circulating on social media, many of which overstate the severity and spread of the fires, including hallucinating wildfires in places they don’t exist,… More