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Commander Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch has faced down some of the greatest perils anyone can think of: dragons, guns, magic, time travel and Ankh-Morpork street food. But now he faces a challenge that he cannot escape,...
Insects, from a walk round Ardmore point yesterday.
Around a decade ago, I worked on a screenplay about two guys who used to work at a video store. The story was a way for me to work through some of my own unresolved feelings of a life that didn't live up to my own expectations. Of...
Currently reading: Count Zero by William Gibson 📚
Because of the heat, we’ve been sticking close to home. We do have another trip to LA planned soon, and you’re invited to come along. More details to follow, but in the meantime, I noticed that it’s World Elephant Day today, which...
Arthur Machen isn’t usually considered to be a Decadent author even though it was in the Mauve Decade of the 1890s that he first established himself as a writer. Machen knew Oscar Wilde well enough to recount an anecdote in later life,...
I'm a sucker for anything Beatles related - and the fringe has no shortage of musicals, reinterpretations, and shameless cash-ins of the Fab Four. When Vincent Met John is an oddity in that it is a normal play, rather than a musical. It...
IndexDiaspora, Greg EganGreg Egan loves Big Ideas and theoretical physics and wants to tell everyone about it. He’s very much off doing his own thing with this book, and your response will be according to how willing you are to listen to...
Linda Greaves, the fashion icon who is single-handily propping up the economy and who also happens to be my incredible Mother-in-Law, has a theory that the combination of Brummie cakes and a glass of cold white wine on the terrace of...
BACK FOR MORE: Dystany Spurlock Returns to Richmond for NASCAR Homecoming Week. Dystany became the first Black female driver to compete in a NASCAR national series race earlier this year.
Manchester Piccadilly 2019 This and more in today's update to the Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/manchester-city-centre-29-march-2019
A provocation about continuity, human–AI relationships, and why the relation may sometimes persist more robustly than either endpoint. When people ask whether a relationship with an AI can persist, the question is usually framed in terms...
An interesting post from Matt Mullenweg: Builders are the site shapers, webmasters, the agencies, the companies, the content managers that think in a more page-first rather than post-first way. Tagging? Blogroll? Date-based permalinks?...
Today’s the day! For the first time since 1999, folks in Europe will experience their first total solar eclipse. The eclipse will be seen by millions of people, first starting in Greenland and sweeping across the continent to Spain,...
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