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Seventeen years ago I was writing short sketches on local history for a Londonderry website. I submitted the stories each month, and learned that I was part of something called a community "blog". It was easy to do, and I thought "I can...
This 1911 L’ODYSSEA is pretty good from a spectacle viewpoint. It’s from that naive period of cinema where the intertitles tell you want you’re ABOUT to see, relieving the images of the burden of telling the story. It’s a bit like a very...
Photo of Temper City taken from “Self Aware” video Late July is generally the hottest time of year for many locations in the Northern Hemisphere, and that’s definitely true for my part of the world in the Southwestern U.S. desert, where...
But I, bearing in mind my limitations, give my work off-hand, without premeditation, and indeed almost in rustic fashion, the caption of Attic Nights, derived merely from the time and place of my winter vigils; I thus fall short of all...
Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politics: The administration has acknowledged in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on...
Since the launch of the Google Maps API back in 2005, two fictional journeys have been mapped over and over again: Phileas Fogg’s global circumnavigation in Around the World in Eighty Days, and Odysseus’ long voyage home in the...
We got some rain at last. On Friday evening I checked the trusty Met Éireann app and saw this: With a west/northwesterly wind I thought there was a good chance we would get a bit of rain, and so it turned out although to be honest there...
👨💻 ♥ https://danq.me/2026/07/02/you-dont-have-to-blog-like-me/
This week's bookshelf is a manga shelf, and it's dominated by two creators, one of whom is among the most influential Japanese artists to ever put pen to paper. That is, of course, the late Akira Toriyama. On the far left we have four...
Have you committed any thought crimes today? If so, be sure to report yourself to the appropriate authorities.
I watched The Testament of Ann Lee this morning—thanks to @canneddragons for reminding me of it. Could not have loved it more.
Platinum 3776 - Ranking the Nibs (via Pen Addict - Kimberly). I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the Platinum 3776 pen body, but the nibs can be excellent. Kimberly walks through each of them. Opening the Japan-Inspired Curated Box from...
Absolutely love this post by Massy Books in Vancouver. …we’re especially not a space for genocide apologists, or people who think there are “two sides” on the topic of Palestine and Israel. If you think you deserve a “homeland” that has...
The old Postville Courthouse in Lincoln, Illinois, via The Library of Congress. Abraham Lincoln practiced law there from 1847 to 1859. Well, as a surprise to me, my silly little Gravatar article was posted to Hacker News. This has called...
Reader, where did I leave you? Ah. On the train to watch the World Cup. Monday was a holiday, so we pulled an all-nighter and enjoyed watching Spain win, followed by a quest to find a full English breakfast. 大成功だった！ During the day I...