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LAIKA Studios on YouTube: There are places you don’t go. One choice changes everything. Watch the Teaser Trailer for Wildwood now, and see the movie in theatres everywhere October 23. From the makers of Coraline, Wildwood is a sweeping,...
Blog Quest is a Firefox extension by Robert Alexander that quietly collects RSS feeds when you surf the web. I like the idea of passively collecting feeds of websites I potentially find interesting, all while preserving my privacy and...
On Interpolatable Archives, Part 3: Accelerations, Anachronisms, Wishfulfillments, Severances and Homogenizations.
"What comes next, after the algorithmic social feed that’s defined our digital social lives for the last decade?" I believe this very useful presentation will be referred back to for years to come.
It’s an exciting time to be a software developer. Exciting and weird. It’s exciting because of what developers are capable of doing with agentic AI tools from companies like Anthropic. It’s weird because as Clive Thompson, who writes:...
Samin Nosrat’s Piri Piri Chicken from Good Things is a bold, spicy chicken recipe made with roasted Thai chiles, Fresno chiles, garlic, smoked paprika, vinegar, and bay. Marinated overnight and roasted until burnished, it’s smoky, fiery,...
Me on social media last week: Sorry gang, I gotta go a little deeper here on this thought. The inciting incident for the above is due to a story I saw going around related to Star Wars, namely… “RUMOR: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel...
Xuanzang, the Tao, and the Paradox of Cultural Translation
Best Record of 2001: Day 38 | Fennesz ‘Endless Summer’ Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at ‘Endless Summer’ by Fennesz. Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challenge and noted that I’d be writing...
I thought young Séamus (aka Maynooth University Library Cat) was fast asleep when I saw him under a tree, but I think he was just pretending as he had his beady eye on something…
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...