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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Magic Wand flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC links to a toot to ask us...
Mid-week check-in, hello! What has been going on? Sunday: Slept in very late from timezone-DnD the night before. Went to a stories meet-up where folks met at a bar called Tacos N Taps where the theme of the night was to talk about past...
I spotted Online Goddess’ blog post, Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop, which itself is a reply to Gavin Anderegg’s An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop on Bubbles and had to add my tuppence worth. Like Gavin and OG, I’ve been using...
1984 1949, George Orwell My rating: Loved it! This is a punch in the gut, but I am better for having read it. Not much can be said that hasn’t already been said; it’s one of the most discussed books ever (even if often misinterpreted to...
You can love pet rocks all you want. Still, nobody's gonna pay you to hold one. I've spent years reading about the elderly. Books, blue zones, long conversations with people who've actually finished the race. All trying to figure out...
What’s going on, Internet? Last Saturday was HTML Day, a yearly celebration of hand-writing HTML started by Elliott Cost and Laurel Schwulst. Meetups happen in cities all over the world, and Zachary Kai ran an online session for those of...
From weird existential thrillers like The Legend Of Tim Tyler to high-concept comedies like Big John, Little John, there were a lot of imported children's shows that felt like they 'belonged' on the BBC...
by The Pudding Pretty cool study about how our brains work in finding optimal routes and how surprisingly good we are at it, even when compared to computers. Lots of visual and interactive demos inside!
Playing the songs 'out' on Saturday has taught me a lot. I'm going to swap to playing the Telecaster for some songs- which means quite a lot of re-recording. The Green Goddess sounds just too pretty for a couple of the more energised...
A quick note on startups
Toronto Zoo announced the birth a female pygmy hippo calf on 2nd August 2026. This is mother Kindia’s third child. Congrats to all of them! The post Another day, another newborn baby pygmy hippo! appeared first on Cultrface.
I found out about this when looking at my website’s analytics: this is cool! It’s an aggregator of cool links from the indie web, where nobody posts anything: every link comes from RSS feeds of various sites, and users upvote the best to...
Not every historical artefact is a masterpiece.Some survive because they changed theatre. Some because they reveal something vital about the people who created them. Others survive because scandal proves more durable than artistic merit....
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin! If you’re not sure what the Spins are, here’s a reminder: The rules for Spin #45: * List any twenty books you have left to read from your Classics Club list. * Number them from 1 to 20. * On...
My thoughts on why Bear Notes is still worth paying for every year.