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The Italian Navy has declared its stockpile of Cold War-vintage 9mm Beretta burp guns that are surplus to its needs and is actively seeking to part with them. The Italian Defense Industries Agency (L’Agenzia Industrie Difesa) recently...
The 1,200-ton HMS Saxifrage is the last of 112 Flower-class corvettes constructed during WWI, the last of 366 Q-Ship “Special Service Vessels” from the same conflict, and only one of three remaining British warships from the era. IWM SP...
Visualization: Jon Keegan / Beautiful Public Data. Data: New York City Office of Technology and InnovationI can't believe this is the first time I am writing about an NYC dataset.The scale of New York City can be overwhelming. Over 8.5...
After modifying FreshRSS, I found myself using it more for blog post reading. On the main page, I only see a list of posts from my subscribed feeds with no eye-catching features (graphics). So, they all look the same and I can go through...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the weeks of Jul 6 – Jul 19. Stats Stories Finished: 3 Submissions Currently Out: 3 Submissions...
Gemini is… weird. I have it (via GitHub Copilot) on every machine I use and have reached for it on almost none of them. It rides along in my agent containers “for kicks”, it’s the third pane in a Copilot side-by-side I mostly use to...
Thanks to Sean Bowen and Jordan Helzer, who sent me this link to a Facebook post from the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario in May. Ottawa 696, the oldest double-truck car from that city in preservation, has been moved to a new location....
The 2026 World Cup ended last night with a 1–0 win for Spain against the champions Argentina. It was certainly one of the finals of all time and probably the most one-sided match I’ve ever seen (and by design). It took 117 minutes for...
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...
Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a very specific substance in that flask, and it wasn't blood; it was urine. Blood's color rarely looked different from person...
Review of Madhava Prasad’s 2014 book seems now more than ever… “Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity star system took hold, and this star persona system now acts...
In the last year, I've been through over a dozen cities and used public transport in all of them. It is wild just how confusing and complex buying a ticket can be. While some cities obviously take a user-centred approach to ticketing,...
Daffodils along West Cove Road, McLemore Cove, Walker County, Georgia. Do you look deeply at your photographs after you've made them to see what they are truly about? I'm not talking about things like composition, exposure, focus, and...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
link to album here