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Last week, I blogged the Moss v. GoDaddy decision holding that a key part of California’s Yelp Law doesn’t authorize a private right of action. If you didn’t read that post, go read it now because this post assumes you have. In short,...
Part 3 of my investigation into "Hobbits have a Roadside Picnic." Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.Traps"I don’t exactly understand your terminology. What traps?”Noonan laughed. "That’s folklore," he explained. "Stalkers’ jargon. Bug...
Read the full post at - Lewi Blake – Remote Bikepacking Adventures on YouTube Lewi Blake is a travel vlogger unlike anyone I’ve ever seen. He’s just an independent guy with some camera gear, a sense of storytelling, a skill for editing,...
Unintended consequences are one of my favorite topics. I only wish politicians around the world felt the same. Most of them barely consider the immediate effects of their policies, let alone the second-order ones. They settle on a...
I've bounced around a lot in my note-taking practices. I've flirted with Obsidian, and maintained bullet journals for many years. Since last August, I've mostly been using Capacities, and it's probably been the most use I've gotten out...
2021 Media Shipments Exabytes Revenue $/GB Flash598$68.6B$0.115 Hard Disk1418$28.0B$0.020 LTO Tape59.2$0.51B$0.003 I summed up my big picture view of archival media eight years ago in Archival Media: Not a Good Business. Whatever your...
Building on the motif of a variant cover for issue #1 [NST #1456], red string appears on the cover and interiors of Land of Never #2 (Mad Cave, 2026). ▲ Land of Never #2 (Mad Cave, 2026), cover by Miguel Mora ▲ Land of Never #2 (Mad...
Back in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, the European Union passed the European Green Deal, setting a goal of having the EU be climate-neutral in its emissions by 2050. Here in 2026, 20% of that 30-year time window has now passed. The...
In the Spring 2026 issue of Mythlore, I reviewed the book Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection (2025), edited by Amanda T. Zehnder and David M. Brinley. The review is available...
I spent so many hours in IRC in the late 90s and early 2000s. I have seen the netsplits, the drama, the communities that formed. And it was such a fun time. I have seen the IRC client wars, people flaming mIRC users, irssi becoming...
Little Green Pig is “a small charity based in Brighton and Hove* born out of the belief that offering children and young people the opportunity to develop writing skills and invest in their imaginations can truly change their lives. For...
When Bethany and I first came together, I was a full time single dad to two children already. They were in their teens and, quite frankly, I was looking forward to to having a life with adult children living on their own and Bethany and...
The Ware for July 2026 is shown below. I’ve got silicon on the brain, so I’m going to give a die shot another go at name that ware. Hopefully this one is a bit easier than the last one. This excerpt is a design pattern I look for and...
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked...
I mentioned here that, over the years, I’ve linked to 133 places on OpenStreetMap from the space.I set out to find a way to see those all on a map together.I started by pulled out the OpenStreetMap IDs from my blog posts, with a MySQL...