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What makes merino different from many other types of wool is the fineness of its fibres. Finer wool fibres are closely linked with comfort and softness, while the opposite is true for thicker wool fibres. However, wool quality varies...
I was writing about hay-rattle Rhinanthus minor a peculiarly desirable meadow flower parasitic on grasses. Digging a bit revealed that it was part of Family Orobanchaceae. Dang! that rings a bell I thought . . . but a distant one. The...
Some caption I love a good beat 'em up movie. Seeing the protagonist face off against dozens of indistinguist minions as they make their way to their objective. I feel that this movie does a great job of establishing the story and...
It's hard to believe that it's been close to a dozen years since I reviewed the COME LIVE WITH ME (1941) DVD released by the Warner Archive Collection!In addition to reviewing the DVD, I also previously posted a brief review of the film...
Took the whole crew on a geocaching adventure
JSON is not a good data-interchange format. This article is part of a series called Worse is better, in which I muse on technologies and techniques that became popular despite superior alternatives. Think VHS versus Betamax. In this...
Some notes:The generator is stupid. It won't assign a color or colors, so mentally replace the "M"s in its casting cost and activated abilities with whatever makes sense. It won't designate creatures as artifacts or legendary, so use...
Got up at 9.30 a.m. The wind is still cold. Nell went to Neston and got a doll’s cot for Jane. I went to see Cyril in the afternoon. Busy working on his house.
On Saturday we woke up passing the Westermsnn islands - parsley populated volcanic rocks to the south of the Icelandic mainland. Dramatic wildlife havens for the main part. As these receded into the distance life on the ship settled into...
...is Deep Sea Adventure, by Oink Games. It's an extremely simple, extremely short game, where players choose how much of a shared resource to risk in order to gain individual rewards. It's not quite "prisoner's dilemma: the game," but...
We’ve decided to spend a week blogging like it’s 2008 again: more posts, shorter posts, and more bouncing off other bloggers. This has been inspired by a few things, including: the ‘one link, one paragraph’ posts Stan Hieronymus shares...
Perfume PosseSelf-Seeding We’re about to enter heatwave number 3. Duration of two weeks, it looks like, this time. My jasmine is anarchic and I am pondering getting Chanel in to harvest the flowers. Good way to make a bit of side cash.…...
One hundred and four seconds. Not a long time. Or is it? It’s less than two minutes, but it could be an eternity under the right circumstances. Press your hand to a hot stove for a minute, and it’ll seem like an hour, as Einstein noted....
Donald Trump Celebrates His 250th Birthday Or so it seemed. OK, he's old, but not that old. But he certainly made it all about himself. Let's start with the run-up to the holiday itself. On June 24, a fake Great American State Fair...
Sunrise and Sunset is an interactive map that displays the sunrise and sunset times for any location on Earth, for any day of the year. It also visualizes the sun's altitude throughout the seasons.By moving the white dot around the...