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The ghost of an ancestor leads a boy to find a hidden treasure and resolve an old feud with another family. Children's book.
If you’re in the USA chances are you’ve heard of AAA – the American Automobile Association. It’s a $60 or AAA left me stranded by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.
Last week, Cuba’s Prime Minister Manuel Marrero announced a package of free market reforms, including the legalization of private businesses in agriculture and tourism, that “significantly expand the private sector six decades after...
A quiz about which blogger archetype I am? Count me in.
At this point, you basically know what you’re getting from Japanese post-rock heroes MONO. Unlike some of their peers, they haven’t executed any dramatic reinventions (relative within the parameters of the genre, at least) but instead...
We have long “known” that kids from homes which contain more books tend to be better at reading — but we couldn’t be sure that that wasn’t because of encouragement from parents, who by buying books, might appear to have valued reading...
Michael H. Keller, Eli Murray, Danielle Ivory, and Irineo Cabreros, New York Times (gift link): The surge in pedestrian deaths has baffled researchers. Most other wealthy countries haven’t seen similar increases, suggesting that possible...
It’s 10 years tonight that this station recorded over 60mm of rain in 24 hours. It remains the largest daily fall at this station since records began in 1960. Rainfall rates touched over 60mm/hr during the early hours of June 23rd. The...
Since I’m a good mood today—at a beautiful science camp with my kids, high in the mountains near Big Bear Lake in California—I thought I’d blog about something positive. Last week, five authors posted a major paper to the Electronic...
A review of LocateAnything, an NVIDIA vision-language model that treats each bounding box as one atomic unit and decodes it in a single parallel step instead of a sequence of coordinate tokens. Its Parallel Box Decoding reaches roughly...
I’ve known about file local variables for a long time. I also knew about the eval keyword, which can be used as a file variable, but instead of binding the given value to the (non-existent) variable eval, Emacs evaluates it. This is...
Here ya go, folks — check it out here. Thanks to the aforementioned RAM and memory apocalypse happening due to so much of the current pipeline of RAM and storage being pre-purchased for AI data centers, the pricing is a tough pill to...
The last Korean review I did involved a spicy and sweet noodle served hot I kind of think might have been better cold. Well, here’s [...] The post #5597: Woobool Restaurant Cold Buckwheat Noodles – South Korea appeared first on THE RAMEN...
Cosmic Summer No. 13, paper collage, 2026 I love retro-spacey beach art. For that reason, whenever I find vintage beach imagery, whether in magazines or on postcards, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that I am going to pair it with...