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A Library Without Walls My grandfather's library I grew up among books. Both of my parents were teachers and avid readers. My sister is also a teacher and a book lover. When she has time, she posts amazing articles about books and book...
You’d expect a World Cup hangover at San Pedro Square, but the crew at Dr. Funk aren’t waiting to launch an updated cocktail menu for the first time in a just over a year. The new menu contains a number of new original cocktails that...
In an era where it seems that every conversation is being recorded, there should be a sign outside every board meeting that reads: “Your notetaker is not welcome here.”By “your notetaker,” I mean any AI notetaker. A personal one that...
One of my favourite moments of the year. I look at the calendar. Pick a date, Ask Anne if she's got anything on. Do a bit of googling to make sure there's nothing important happening and email the Conway Hall.They send me back some...
Moar links … MOAR! And I have made a change to my criteria to include smolnet hyperlinks. Did some thinking and decided to include all geminigopher capsuleholes that are not all tech and protocol specific posts. Even the topics might not...
Smells the Way Ella Langley SoundsIt's tempting to say that we're experiencing the "enshittification" of everything, from movies to fashion to music and yes, perfume, but I'm not so blackpilled. Are Christopher Nolan movies the new...
So a few amendments made, but what I really am happy to finally see, is the loophole closed around marketers opting in or not: “Any direct marketer who is not registered on the opt-out registry is prohibited from contacting consumers for...
The following table gives medians of 3 LLM estimates re % relative importance for short term success in 5 areas of life of these 4 factors:(A) status: looks, $, fame, family, connections, credentials, charisma, wit, etc.(B) social...
I’m just back from Stationery Fest and of course stopped by the Zodiac Pen Co. table to see Bart’s amazing work. At a previous event, he handed me this Zodiac Pen Co. customized Rickshaw Sinclair for giveaway, and I figure what better...
I've started using Mastodon a bit more recently since lots of Pagecord customers hang out there. I've just changed my handle to @olly@indieweb.social since my last one was far too obscure, so give me a follow if you'd like 👋
Rick Vega made this helpful site to build your own zine.
As some of you know, the color collection of Schulz’s late-1950s newspaper feature It’s Only a Game that I published in 2013 is a bit weird — namely, the book’s spine is not on the left, as with a normal English book. No, the spine is on...
This was a hard one to get through honestly. It's one of those books that presents a lot of old ideas as if they were just discovered. With a title like this I thought it would really go for something new and provocative. When the title...
Met up with Tony this morning at Ebley for our regular monthly riverfly survey. We decided to use the alternate site rather than the main site, because we were never confident the main site would show anything during the summer months....