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Some of the best experiences I have had in the recent past. Highly recommended! And you can — and should — do them too!1. Saw Whimsy at Circus Juventas. I actually loathe Willie Wonka, but this mash-up was one of the best shows I've seen...
Although I can’t find it on the sum total of human knowledge, the World Wide Web, I have a memory that one of the Enlightened Unix Masters, Dennis Ritchie or Brian Kernighan maybe, wrote some tips about how to format written input for...
Old Timey Mono (specimen) A monospace based on Reproducing Typewriter. Code variant available. [ 📌mikael ] Learn How to Make Websites Never written a line of code? Perfect — this page is for you. Join Penelope the cat for four hands-on...
Cool and breezy, with everything damp from another rainy night. An indigo bunting sings a few bars and falls silent. An jewelweed stalk still sways from a hummingbird’s visit.
I'm jumping ahead a bit in the Blaugust prompts, but I saw this topic and knew I had to cover it. Today, I'm sharing my top 10 game developers, and it's quite a long post, so grab a coffee or tea and get ready to dive in! A note: I want...
I’m so delighted to welcome this week’s guest blogger, who has been working behind the scenes to test out a kickass product from one of my site sponsors. The New York Toy Collective’s Trans Masc Pump is something that not many UK shops...
In last week’s ‘BLAG 09 Digital Companion’ I mentioned that there was more to come from Murat Ertürk and his ongoing work documentating the hand-painted signs and sign painters from Bursa, Northwest Turkey. Here he introduces the digital...
Amy asked for cheetah spots on her friend's birthday cake, kind of like this: But instead she just got "spots": Appropriately Timed Fun Fact: Did you know Brits call zits "spots?"*** Kelsee ordered this sculpted Jeep cake: ...but after...
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!) Dearest pen friends, this week is my 10th...
Photo by Look Studio on Unsplash Introduction There is this truly great read in Noema: Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? by Aaron Horwath. One of the major points of this article is that Workism was used to replace religion in people’s...
I got a new lens for my old camera. @martinfeld made me do it.
“Scion” is billed as "John Wick meets Ghost in the Shell", but honestly I think it’s more Grosse Pointe Blank meets Blade Runner, with a dusting of Murderbot.
His mother said "Rise and shine, mister man" on a Tuesday and again on Wednesday, same inflection, same two knocks on his door frame. Eli kept his face in the pillow until she left and then reached for the composition notebook under his...
This book is edited by Hans Höller, and translated from German into English by Mike Mitchell. This is a non-fiction book with maybe a bit of a misleading title. It consists of three parts. The first is a war diary, the second is a...