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I will not be surprised if Black Bag wins the Booker Prize this year. This was the book on the longlist I was least excited to pick up, the sixth one I've read so far, but enough people had told me how much fun they were having with it...
My friend Dave, of Callisto Comics, has been working on a website all about the Spector Club Comic Show and its history. It is the Midwest's oldest comic show, and he's been hard at work already doing interviews to build a detailed oral...
I created a collection page in my Bullet Journal to track and plan my 2026 Blaugust posts. It's dead simple, with my goal number of posts at the top followed by a weekly plan/log. I am loosely using some ideas from the festival calendar...
A moment ago in the sweet sad seeming of April,this fat plum was a tiny white un-blossom.Now the hummingbird’s persistent tick scolds you to attention. The perishing golden catastrophe of a late August dahlia means something that you...
Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is one of our closest galactic neighbours. Located approximately 2.7 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum, it is the third-largest member of the Local Group after the...
Speaking of user interface guidelines, developer Matt Sephton and others compiled many of Apple’s human interface guidelines, starting from 1980, all the way to 2014, including some goodies like early drafts, NeXT, Newton, and so on....
Bottlenecks to GoalsEvery person, process, and goal has a bottleneck somewhere in the line because not everything is equal. The pursuit of eliminating bottlenecks just shifts it to a different spot in the line—when capacity in one area...
I’m coming off of a week-long vacation, or staycation, if you will: we didn’t go anywhere in particular, save for the overnight in New Brunswick. I just made salads and boiled eggs for the week ahead. Of course there’s some Sunday...
Originally written on lamb-releases: A release candidate for 0.13.0. Try it on a test install before you put it on a site you care about, and report anything that looks wrong. The headline is that you can now get your content out of Lamb...
My installation of Feedland is one of the services I currently do not have access to due to the Proxmox host failure. Fortunately my installation of River5 is on another host, but this circumstance gives me the opportunity to try out...
In my early memories of home computing post I wrote about some pre-1995 games. This is the 1995-2002 edition. Because we already had a computer in the house we were late to consoles. I remember, pre-1995, playing Sonic at other people's...
Fascism’s unifying idea carries also its death.
Sometimes, the best of intentions is not enough. I started doing weekly notes which, at the time seemed fun, and then? I stopped because I realised I was just rehashing stuff I’d already talked about throughout the week. And let’s face...
Words: Chris ArnsbyGary Davies: “Hello. Very good evening to you. Welcome to a hot summer night’s edition of Top of the Pops and of course we are in stereo on Radio 1FM. In the studio tonight we have Right Said Fred, and Sophie Lawrence,...
I missed session 2 but Nathan summarised it here. Essentially the gang went south, killed a harpy in control of these derelict buildings called Harpy Towers, and took over, renaming it Delicious Towers (after Madonna Delicious, who did...