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1. My favourite translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia) - 1,000 year old Persian poetry - is by Robert Graves from 1967. Graves, it turns out, unknowingly based his translations on hoax sources. Which might not have gone down so badly, except that he used the his publication and the miraculous...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 128-130: The 1987 Constitution was intended to promote ‘maximum decentralization short of federalization’. It was imprecise about decentralization of public finances, merely referring to...
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #2 is from a list by Prime - "Books as treasure. No spellbooks." A list of books that were scattered throughout the Hexcrawl25 campaign: 1. Ruins of the Wild Woods - tree art, frontispiece changes, haunted by a druid 2. Torments of the Blade Dungeon - traps and...
When the papacy becomes vacant, a new pope is elected through a procedure known as the conclave. Cardinal-electors from around the world gather in the Sistine Chapel and vote in successive rounds. In each round, every elector casts one ballot for a candidate. If some candidate receives at least two-thirds of the...
Info: German content only, sorry. I was pondering for the past three years if I should give some sort of TLS basics talk at FrOSCon. I finally stepped up this year and gave that talk today, with the title "TLS, mTLS, SNI, ECH, CAA, HTTPS, PKI, Zertifikate und ein bisschen PQC". I was too optimistic with my 50...
Total solar eclipse over Zaragoza, Spain, 12th August, 2026. Photograph by Ruiyu Zhang. • Kenneth Anger (again), in a transcript for another KPFA radio interview, in which we Anger have mentioning HP Lovecraft. Not a major revelation in itself but it’s not something I’ve seen before. On a related note, Anger wrote...
It's feeling quite arty-creativey in the links today. Otherwise the usual mix of history, writing, fun projects, and IndieWeb stuff. Starting off with a list of Blaugust participants. I hope everyone taking part is having a fantastic time. Yesterday I did a whole list of Blaugust links also. Hilander's What Would I...
There’s nowhere to go but forward, but that’s ok because today we are creating tomorrow’s memories.
Sent to us as part of Kimberly’s Laban Pens - A Quick Comparison, the Laban Taroko is an excellent offering from this Taiwanese maker. I have one Taroko in their Pinnacle material, with a Fine Steel nib, to give away this week, and the winner is: Congrats Heather! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping...
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