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I loved CHiPs when I was little, even had CHiPs pyjamas. This theme is much more way out than I remember. Crime-funk going wildly cosmic. Check it out.
In the summer of 1951, a bus driver named Harvey Clark tried to move his wife and two kids into a rented apartment in Cicero, Illinois. He never spent a single night there. Instead, for the better part of a week, thousands of his new...
What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to...
There are very few things that man needs: to love, to be happy, to eat; and then he dies. Yet there are over six thousand languages spoken in the world — why do there need to be so many in order to make such simple desires understood?...
My writing elsewhere ▷ It’s very difficult right now for a new Computer Science graduate to get their first job. I have some advice for them, from my experience. Read Advice to new grads: take any job you can get in the industry Best of...
One thing that always amazes me when watching crowd funding previews is how good the games already look despite being way before production even starts and often a year or more before the final product lands on our door steps. Where do...
Plant Obsession
“Yeah he was big on conspiracy theories. Like, instead of just teaching us carpentry he made us watch these videos about how NASA used a green screen an’ all that. So, do you believe in climate change then?” “What? You… Wait, he said...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 19th June 2026 This is the second record from Iceland’s Vafurlogi, and ‘Gneisti af eldi Guðs’ had a different gestation from their 2024 debut ‘Í vökulli áþján’. That came from a short but intense...
This blog post is a sort of Public Service Announcement for all the MacOS users who don’t know about QuickLook plugins. MacOS’s file explorer Finder has a handy feature Quick Look that allows you to quickly preview a file without opening...
In my quest to find data points on how many D&D players there are out there I stumbled upon this "The tabletop gamers’ survey" by Compare The Market - the general gist of which is "there are a lot of gamers out there, have you got...
There are various good reasons to develop a symbology for colours, and there are several already. Why am I proposing another?
Today’s Imperial models are 3D prints once again. These Death Trooper proxies are known as “Enhanced Troopers” from Anvilrage Studios. I picked up these models from Garfie’s Games on eBay. These The Death Troopers wear really shiny...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this wide view over the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, Canada, in spring 2025. A dense layer of fog blankets the river, obscuring much of the water and leaving only the dark silhouettes of islands...