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Harry wrote about finding people to trade postcards with. I’ll admit, I never know what to write on a postcard (or a card, for that matter!) 📫 A couple people with postcards on their websites: Dan Q – postcards received Ruben – postcards...
Worth watching for the quaint-yet-eerie morphing and other early-digital FX. And the information about the human face through history and across cultures, the physiology of facial expressions, how we interpret them and judge people by...
An interactive website explains all the things we take from granted that prior generations would have been amazed by.
Putting images in frames with nicely-formatted captions like in my last two posts is a bit labor intensive on Mataroa. There's no good way to do it natively in markdown; you can use MD tables, but they require the presence of a header...
And I only found out, by chance, today! Dorothy Parker was a poet and writer who died back in 1967. Her acerbic wit lives on through her many biting quotes. One of them is this: I hate writing, I love having written. You can see a wide...
Two bits of news on the Biauru front today. One, “Skin in the Game,” the previously announced sequel to “Aleyara’s Descent” and “Aleyara’s Flight,” is scheduled to appear in the January/February 2027 issue of Analog Science Fiction and...
Today is a bit of an outlier. Normally I share something I have read each day, but today I am sharing an essay I wrote recently.Thanks for reading,Etan-- AI and Creative Work, or Worshiping the Idol of Productive Output1.In Jewish...
I haven’t done a Cure post in a while, nor an Iterations, so let’s do both! “Boys Don’t Cry” was released as a single in 1979 but, as was the custom at the time, did not appear on the band’s debut album Three Imaginary Boys on its...
I'm feeling a bit ill today, so I'm going to cheat and bring back an old post from 2024. I had it up for a while, but I eventually unpublished it because my opinions slightly changed. I'm doing some rewrites, so this is technically a new...
Imported the content from micro.vandragt.com and 2020.vandragt.com into this site with the Known CMS importer feature for #Lamb. Sets up redirects so no breaking links. Good URLs don’t change!
Richard Goes to the Movies
It’s Hedgehog Week here in Sweden. The number of hedgehogs is almost down to half of what it was 12 years ago. To get a clearer picture of where they live and where they don’t, WWF launched the Hedgehog Week project back in 2024. Anyone...
By SJ Groenewegen Atrocities in East Pakistan The news out of East Pakistan has been appallingly bad. Back in June, David Levinson reported on the violence and the political situation, and Gideon Marcus acknowledged the horrific images...
Some of Shakespeare’s plays were extremely popular during their author’s lifetime, only to fall into relative obscurity in the centuries that followed his death. Others were less successful in their first runs, forced to wait centuries...
When I was a teen, my dad had a knack for talking small businesses he frequented into hiring me as their newest lowest rung helper. To be clear, I didn't want these jobs, so I developed a knack for staying at them for three days. I don’t...