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Our newsletter only exists because of your support. Thank you for supporting the work that goes into it, by subscribing or sending it to a friend!!I used to think I was an idiot. I spent years assuming everyone else was smarter than me,...
I lighted my first cigarette after 25 years. Everyone at the bar stared at me, no one said a word. They know I do not smoke. They just stared at me as I picked up a cigarette without asking the owner. I took my first drag, and the...
for Glaugust 2026A catamaran is like a boat with a thigh gap, and is recognizable from a distance as fairy bullshit.The flag on the catamaran depicts......many long-necked animals twisted together in a senseless knot. (braids save or...
Since doing an awful lot of thinking about the value of books my brain has gone down some weird rabbit holes. 20 odd years ago, in a different life when I was a different person, I very briefly worked for a company involved in book data....
Hello! I have had a lot going on recently so I thought the best thing to do would be to wrap it all up in one place. Here’s what I’ve been up to in the past week: Onimusha: Way of the Sword Preview I had the opportunity to go hands-on...
Feeling a bit nostalgic for the old web, I posted this thought this morning:How long has it been since you hopped around the web from blog to website to a different blog to someone’s about page to yet another website? I miss the old ways...
by Tam Phan (Secret Asian Man) I saw Shaft this week, and I understand why people speak so highly of it. Richard Roundtree has a confidence that fills every room before he says a word, and the film carries itself with a style that few...
DARTH VADER — DAGOBAH STAR WARS: POWER OF THE JEDI (HASBRO) “Taking the form of Darth Vader , the Dark Lord of the Sith, this spirit is the embodiment of the dark side of the Force. It dwells in a cave on the swamp-covered planet of...
https://svandragt.github.io/memory-games/ made some games based on scientific principles to improve remembering multiple things at a time.
From RIBA’s photographic archives: “Design for offices of British Petroleum (BP), Britannic House, London Wall, City of London: perspective view”, by Francis Milton Cashmore, of Messrs. Joseph & F. Milton Cashmore & Partners, the...
Valencia is a remarkable city. On one hand you have the City of Arts and Sciences, which looks like it could be set from a science fiction movie (several have been filmed there). On the other you have the Old Town, with its sweeping...
Wilson Fisk's reign as New York mayor continues, but Daredevil is determined to expose his criminal connections and bring him down, with the help of allies including Karen Page and Jessica Jones. With Daredevil on the run and Fisk...
Zig’s Io.Threaded is Neat Aug 6, 2026 std.Io.Threaded is one of the implementations of Zig’s new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a boring “just use threads” impl. I personally find it neat though — it does this weird thing...
The sun about to crest the side of Hualalai Volcano.