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2025 fantasy mystery, second in the series. On the border of the Empire, a new member of the mission negotiating with a petty kingdom has disappeared from his room and later turned up, well, some of him has turned up, floating in the...
A little mouse, foraging for food, comes across and injured bird. It has been trapped by the wing and the mouse makes the decision, on the spot, to help the bird, release it and share its home with it until it is fully recovered and can...
Rodney Forest Ludlow was among the richest young men in Springfield, Ohio, in 1888. His father owned an iron foundry and arranged lucrative positions for each of his sons. Rodney, or “R.F.” as he preferred, was 35, married with four...
Rodney Forest Ludlow was among the richest young men in Springfield, Ohio, in 1888. His father owned an iron foundry and arranged lucrative positions for each of his sons. Rodney, or “R.F.” as he preferred, was 35, married with four...
Duke and Duchess of York opened Parliament House May 1927. The need for a national capital city arose when the colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The constitution provided that a new national capital should...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using artificial intelligence to explore hybrid digital forms. The composition presents oversized fungal and coral-like structures in saturated blue and red against a dark field. Radiating filaments...
VENDOR DROID Silver Star Tours Droid Factory Customizable Figure Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney? Number: n/a Includes: n/a Action Feature: Removable limbs Retail: $12.95 Availability: April 2017 Appearances: The Clone WarsBio: A...
How listening to and collecting vinyl records helped me reconnect with music. At the start of July, I decided I wanted to collect records again.* This happened after we visited our neighborhood comic book store and realized there was a...
At astonishing speed, around the world, fundamental rights are being cancelled at the behest of oligarchs and corporations. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st July 2026 No more resistance in the US. The era of human rights...
Utagawa Hiroshige, Views of Ōmi #3: Autumn Moon At Ishiyama Temple, 1834 Twenty years ago I wrote here about the tradition of 'Eight Views' in Chinese and Japanese art, stemming from the original Eight Views of the Hsiao and Hsiang...
Intro Ever since LLMs entered the scene I have been lamenting the blunt human refusal to acknowledge the similarities between how LLMs work and how people work. These are not just parallels, they are actual copies. LLMs are working on...
Your body has a natural chronotype: a morning type, an evening type, or something in between, driven by the circadian rhythms of cortisol and testosterone. It determines when in the day you perform best, physically and mentally, and the...
My earliest console gaming memories are on my granddad’s Master System. Since getting into retro handhelds, I’ve been revisiting the Sega Master System games from my childhood. Check out Part 1 for more! Super Monaco GP My granddad and I...
Following the success of Isometric NYC, it was probably only a matter of time before another city received the same pixel-art treatment. Now Isopolis - San Francisco has recreated the City by the Bay as a sprawling isometric world that...
More rain until after dinner but it’s gone warmer. Cut wood for fire and did some more hedge cutting. Would have done it all but for the rain. Wedding anniversary.