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One of the most useful ways to understand the mess we are in today is to ask a deceptively simple question – what comes first – the individual or the network? #Mainstreaming economics startes with the individual, were sociology,...
In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.) He gets named “Little Angel”… or, depending on the press release, “Little Good Guy”. The character appears in...
My reaction to receiving the family photo album. On Thursday, I received an email notifying me that a package from the US had arrived. "It's here!" I shouted. My sister had mailed me the box about a week ago, but we spent months...
John Rodwell, son of Samuel and Rose (Ruddleditch) Rodwell, was baptized in Dickleburgh, Norfolk, England 24 June 1720.1 He married in Dickleburgh 16 June 1760, Sarah Miller.2,3 She was born about 1733 and was buried in Dickleburgh 3...
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Manton Reece I’ve started rolling out an AT Protocol PDS — personal data server — for new Micro.blog users. In the Bluesky world, a PDS is what stores your posts, follows, photos, and other...
In a recentish dialogue, I made a playful sideswipe at the sort of arcane rituals that certain private trackers force prospective inductees to undergo. The website I was most thinking of + poking fun at is Redacted, a private tracker....
Rusty York : Rusty Rocks28 tracks+booklet tracklisting & info
After about six months of play we had the first run in with starship combat in Classic Traveller. I was excited to finally get to bust out the majority of book 2 and had prepped our whiteboard for it months in advance. We ran into one...
Yesterday, during a thunderstorm, the Costco we were in lost power. Everyone continued to shop with phone flashlights until they herded us out. Apparently the registers ran on battery, so we were all able to check out, but then we were...
Homosexuality was illegal in England when I was at school, and I wasn’t aware of anybody who was gay (a word for homosexual that has a longer history but began to be widely used only in the 70s and 80s). I do remember fancying Stubbings,...
The original Peter Skillman talkTom Wujek's talk, with lots of data
In William Shakespeare's Richard III, someone refers to Richard as “that foule hunch-backt toade.” It's the first recorded instance of the term for someone who had a less-than-straight spine, and—putting aside the question of whether...
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‘@Play‘ is a frequently-appearing column which discusses the history, present, and future of the roguelike dungeon exploring genre. I’ve been thinking about classic roguelikes, by which I mean old games from the 80s and 90s. What usually...