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Data and statistical insights are key drivers for international development. They allow decision-makers to: objectively understand the reality and complexity of the world, logically coordinate various development activities between...
Stand by, trainers: prepare to catch, bond with and train your Pokémon with the August 2026 wave of LEGO® Pokémon SMART Play™ sets now available, but only in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, France and Poland.This first article takes a...
“Welcome August” sunrise, 1 August 2026, 6:06am (photo by Kate St. John) 1 August 2026 There was a spectacular sunrise this morning to usher in the month of August. As quickly as it built to fiery red with a sun pillar, it was gone. On...
The good folks at Hikmicro have sent me their D02 Infrared Camera to review. It's part of their "Eco" series of thermal imagers - designed to be easy to use around the home and relatively cheap. Despite the no-fills appearance, it packs...
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die - When cultural preservationists cast every extinction as murder, they can ignore speakers’ decisions—and the costs of keeping a fading tongue alive. By Nikhil Krishnan in the New Yorker
After a month of testing, I’ve cut over the site engine to my new Go-based generator, which lives almost entirely inside GitHub Actions and uses a rather convoluted process to minimize the number of moving parts and dependencies. I still...
A few month ago, when I saw the first announcement for Reality Fracture MtG set I get really excited about it and especially about the implication for one of my all time favorite MtG character, Vraska. So I get into a bit of "what if"...
What, Who & Why? The original challenge was to post 31 times during the month of August. This can be posting every day or doubling up on some days to make the schedule a bit easier. The idea is to spark creativity and get folks to create...
This is an intensive class on logical bilateralism, taught by Sara Ayhan and me at esslli 2026. Logical bilateralism is an approach to meaning and consequence that foregrounds a symmetry between certain notions, like assertion and...
One of my earliest and shortest posts on here in October 2012, was about Annotations of an Autopsy and their second full-length album, II: The Reign of Darkness. A more death metal-related record compared to the band's discography, it...
Excellent sailing so far. Launched Monday evening (after finding a trailer tire flat at 4 am leaving a hotel outside of Boston) and spent the night at a mooring at the boatyard. Sailed Mt. Desert Narrows the next day, then over to Swans...
Der modern gestaltete Innenraum des Kiosk No. 4 in Tallinn Das Kiosk No. 4 in Kalamaja wurde schnell zu unserem Lieblingscafé in Tallinn. Hervorragender Kaffee von Lykke, Gebäck von Bekker und außergewöhnlich herzlicher Service machten...
By Peter JewiczMellow Golem Games"OSR"Level 5? This twelve page adventure uses about three pages to describe four rooms in a hag lair. It sufferers from the generic/universal curse and relies on tables for a substantial portion of the...
For more than a year now 1Password has a bug where it auto-locks itself every ~10 seconds on the machine you are connected to via screen sharing…but only if “High Performance” screen sharing is selected. This has also been discussed on...
Norton Yields No Ground to Members Who Deny D.C. Residents Their Rights - YouTube