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I'm sure all of you have already read my Apologia for RSS (the very first post on this blog!) and I'm sure you're all reading this in an RSS reader you've chosen for one reason or another. But does your RSS reader show you everything a...
Local boxer beats his wife until she runs into the arms of an adoring Chinese shopkeeper. Multiple gossipy spies get involved, jealousy ensues, everyone dies. Nice story but the titles doing too much heavy lifting; they hadn’t invented...
This weekend I finally got around to switching to Linux on my desktop PC. Like many others, I've become increasingly annoyed with how Microsoft has been pushing changes that help them but hinder me. Unfortunately, despite my paying good...
Sunday, August 9, 2026 - 20:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Discussions of cross-dressed medieval romance heroines commonly mention the tale of Grisandole. For the sake of completeness, I tracked down this comprehensive analysis of...
Fancy a quickie in Scotland's most haunted pub? Smut Slam is a (mildly) interactive performance where a handful of speakers get to tell their dirtiest stories. The audience fills in cards with their questions or confessions which may be...
I ran into a frustrating problem getting local video files to play on my Amazon Fire TV Stick. Goal: Reliably transfer a local video file from my Mac to my Amazon Fire TV Stick over the same network, then play it in VLC. TL;DR: Use...
Recently I have been building a number of WordPress websites for clients and for personal projects. I’ve found that often we want to display a list of items. These might be lists on sponsors of your local basketball club, or photos of...
CHRIS TRAPASSO: First impressions of Buffalo Bills’ new Highmark Stadium | Buffalo Rumblings. I’m looking forward to catching a game this fall in the new digs; sounds like it’s setting up to be spectacular.
The first recording today starts with the end of Atomic Betty. Then it’s a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – If the Scarf Fits, Wear It. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He...
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew return in a domestic comedy about a man who stays out all night playing poker, worrying his wife. His friends try to cover for him via telegram but end up making things even worse! Home Media Availability:...
I am generally not a fan of typewritten art, because at some point it all starts to feel a bit same’y, and the gimmick of using a typewriter as a paintbrush wears off pretty quickly. But these drawings by German artist Arno Beck caught...
Part four of Emacs Config Gems is about basic file operations and save functions. I realized as I was working on this that I have the frame configuration here, which is the wrong place for it. I will change it after posting. Alright,...
While KiF Productions’ debut soundtracked the English landscape, and a road trip from Yorkshire to Devon, the duo’s contribution to Ran$om Note’s Music To Watch Seeds Grow By series is a score for the lifecycle of the Passion Flower....
Last week (see here, here, here, and here), we retraced Adam Smith’s survey of three historic overseas trading firms — the Royal African, Hudson’s Bay, and South Sea companies — and saw a pattern began to emerge: Adam Smith is no friend...
Real animals in this one, and oh that cyclops design, that makes up for a lot. And there’s a lot to make up for: three hours of battle scenes and whinging about the downfall of respectful society. Bunch of excellent actors and the Nolan...