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The Most Likely Person to Read a Book? A College-Educated Black WomanMost of this article is copied below. Bold added.In its look at the adoption of electronic book formats, Pew Research stumbled onto an interesting data point. The most...
This year’s Texas peach crop was predicted to be sparse due to a lack of rain and freezing temperatures the past winter. The Texas peaches I’ve eaten this season have... Source
Handwriting was always problematic for me. My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Cloud, placed a high value on well-formed cursive strokes that she flowed smoothly onto the blackboard. At my desk I struggled to copy her examples and failed...
I didn’t realise that Echo & the Bunnymen was still going as a band, but after hearing Brussels is Haunted, I am glad that it is. I remember Ian McCulloch leaving the band in the late 1980s and then there was a resurrection in the late...
By Ben Miller 13 feature films into his career, director Christopher Nolan has developed a string of touchstones for his films. You can expect an all-star cast, massive practical set pieces, underdeveloped women, stunning visuals, and...
In an era of remarkable technology (say, since the early internet of the 1990s) it now beggars language itself to assert that a remarkable aspect of this age's new tools is that the tools themselves can think, reason, and speak back to...
[This post is for RSS Club members only.] RSS Club was started by Dave Rupert as a way of providing RSS-only content. I took it as both a technical challenge and a thought-provoking way of talking about the pros and cons of RSS. One of...
The party continue to prepare for their upcoming mission, creating a clever disguise for Seren, and get a lead on a lead about the missing Rhodri's whereabouts. Episode 4, "Foul Garden: Trouble in the Onion Castle!" Session 19Cast...
16th July 2026 A judge has made a splendid Order, which should be read in full. * There has never been a case like this one. That is not just the view of some passing legal blogger, but of the judge herself. As Judge Kathleen M. Williams...
The sitemap is back by popular request (sorry). I'd like to clean it up a little but.. It's there!
A second post from Nottingham, containing a quartet of pubs outside the city centre, a superb pub dog, hanging baskets, live music, and a 6% strong premium ale from Tyne & Wear which slowed me down somewhat.After visiting several central...
I never expected model railways and politics to collide in such a media spotlight, but here we are, and it's happening in, of all places, Clacton.Many years ago, before anyone beyond private school alumni and city traders had heard of...
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[Do lingonberries make good race fuel?] If running an entire marathon in an IKEA sounds like a good time to you, I regret to inform you that this weird event in Croyden, England has already filled its 80 open slots. For those who managed...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***I think we're all familiar with the joke that starts with the words, "What's a Greek urn?"And, this week in 1976, one Greek must...