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“Joint stock companies, established by Royal Charter or by Act of Parliament, differ in several respects, not only from regulated companies, but from private copartneries.” (Smith 1784, p. 58) Thus far (see here and here), we have...
Bombanana! Yesterday, two of my friends and I played through Bombanana!'s demo. It's a cooperative bomb defuse video game in which you play one of three monkeys. They are a group, just like their three wise relatives in the Japanese...
Just over a month ago I allowed myself to dream once more of a prairie based model railway. It’s a dangerous pastime filled largely with disappointment, the Canadian prairies are a massive expanse of rolling agricultural land spreading...
Rudolph Vanlentino Jean Acker One hundred years ago this month, Grace Kingsley was writing about the usual assortment of casting news and Hollywood party-going, and she debunked some gossip about Rudolph Valentino. On the twelfth she...
Today's "Anything Goes Saturday" images were a mystery to me; we see a small, unusual-looking sternwheeler on a glassy body of water, with the name "S.S. Priscilla" visible on the life preservers on the upper level (the "hot dog deck", I...
Changing rolesTo the traveller along the Lower Icknield Way, north of Tring, the village of Marsworth seems unimpressive, somewhere to pass by quickly perhaps, on the way to Dunstable. But it’s more interesting than that, because the...
I may be a little less visible than usual online over the next few weeks, as my mother sadly passed away this week following a long decline into dementia. It has been painful to watch her become not herself any more but in many ways it’s...
Rob Hopkins, who founded the Transition Towns movement two decades ago, has been a tireless and engaging activist for community-led Transition ever since. As the work has developed, so have the methods. What started in the Transition...
Himbeer-Torte mit Kokos Ich hatte mir eine Torte gewünscht. Eine Himbeertorte. Fruchtig. Sahnig. Mit Kokos im Boden und auch auf der Sahne. Und einem knuffigen Biskuitboden. Alles ganz einfach. Und wenn sie direkt aus dem Kühlschrank...
During my years as a lawyer, I read countless motions. This one made me stop because of the government's extraordinary explanation for why an indictment should never have been sought in the first place.This is an excerpt from the federal...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got warmer Guinness, Italian pils and the Good People. First, a rare example of a story from a retail technology vendor press release that is...
Decided to make life difficult for myself; a carp on the fly. Thought it wouldn't be too hard with so many carp - but despite lots of fish investigating a variety of flys it took 1½ hours before one hit a Squirmy Wormy - totally worth it...
I have been serially restarting Cities Skylines 2 with new city starts and new mods. It was inevitable that I would eventually try to make a city with no cars (well, no privately-owned vehicles): I'm pleased by how easy this was to try....
Today is “Send a Friend a Webmention Day!” What’s that? See indieweb.org/send_a_friend_a_webmention_day, and the 2026 event page. I’m running late, and these folks may not have websites which support webmentions but nonetheless they are...
The moment right before the sun comes up, right before a breath is really there, right before a tension is released. That's where the rainbow starts.