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Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak has the distinction of being the first story in the first issue of Galaxy Magazine back in October 1950. It was serialized in three parts as Time Quarry. (All three issues can be found here.) It’s...
Mr. William de Worde has never cared much for his family’s traditions, which typically include privileged and arrogant behaviour as well as a foolhardy death in some stupid war. No. Instead, Mr. de Worde likes words. As the black sheep...
Pain was never the decoration on a tattoo. Pain was the receipt.CipherX has worked out how to skip it. Ferdinand Kohle co-founded the London biotech startup after training in Innovation Design Engineering, the joint Royal College of Art...
Another day, another short film package at the Museum seemingly scheduled with the intent of overlapping everything else in the schedule. But first, Niko. Director Julien Birban Levy is French, apparently spent a fair amount of his youth...
Nice sunny day to see a sunflower 📷
The annoyingly loud typeface on the front cover design of Dungeon Crawler Carl was a sign of worse things to come. “Are you kidding? The Syndicate consists of over three billion independent star systems. Every season, a new Dungeon...
The world isn't actually called "Al-Qadim," is it? When I last wrote, I had discovered that some group called the Nameless Masters (which paradoxically means that they're not "nameless") was behind the Genie's Curse, my family's ruin,...
Ever worked with a useful software architect? Yeah me neither. But I sure have tried to be one. Software architects have a weird role: Think about the code tomorrow. Today's code is what it is, how do we make it good tomorrow? Without...
It’s difficult to ascertain the damage that climate change has caused simply because there are so few places on the planet where we are not found. Human intervention creates artificial change, so in order to work out the real impact of...
A nice moment in Logic Pro, a music app. Like with most such apps, you can press R to record you playing an instrument. However, if you forgot to play record, or were just goofing around and stumbled upon something wonderful, you can...
This is the story of how the app evolved from being a high demand app to manage the electricity load shedding across South Africa, to something completely different after load shedding went away. The app now helps communities crowdsource...
The sharp eyed amongst you, will almost certainly have noticed a distinct change in style with my most recent post. Some might be thinking this isn’t Paul’s normal style, and others might be wondering why this sudden change? You would of...
The Cat Pack
Could this be my last morning ever drinking tea on the Fundamente Nuove and looking across the lagoon to San Michele and sometimes the distant mountains? It could well be, but at the same time I feel it won’t be, especially now that I...
Gillian Tett for the FT: Welcome to the era of financial candyfloss. ⊕ [Note: Gift link, if you click on time. ] It is the perfect metaphor for American finance: spinning thin and devalued real properties into mounds of tooth-decaying...