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I recently acquired a 2009 Citroen Relay van. Driving it home, though, I discovered that the cab cooling fans didn't work. Turning the switch to 1, 2 or 3 did nothing, going to 4 led to a whiney fan noise with very little output from the...
The temperature of 36.7C recorded at Merryfield, Somerset, represents a new June maximum record for the UK. It is also now the 7th= hottest day ever recorded, matching the 1911 record at Raunds, Northamptonshire, that stood for nearly 80...
I've been using Reeder… for a long time. Maybe the longest running app on my phone… records say 2009. I admire Silvio so much, and Mela is now one of my most used apps. 100% the most used app on any mobile device… for almost a decade!...
A friend just told me he can’t listen to Radiohead anymore over Palestine. As the death toll in Gaza climbed, the band stayed mostly quiet. And the guitarist, Jonny Greenwood — married to an Israeli artist — kept playing shows in Tel...
"The vast, terrible enity from beyound time and sapce who waits brooding in his cyclopean home in sunken R'lyeh symbol and actuality of inimaginable nightmare - the greatest creation of H.P. Lovecraft. The Cthulhu Mythos inspired many...
Today's interview is with xtinak, (who also uses the handle msquixotic). She blogs at Ms. Quixotic Talks About Games and has an itch page at xtinak.itch.io/ Her WIP region, the White Wastes, has (I think, so far) the most "vertical"...
When this book was first announced, I wasn't interested. I'm not a fan of the character, I wasn't familiar with the creators, I didn't recognize the other characters on the cover, the apparent sci-fi setting (Kandor? Outer space?) didn't...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***We're all wallowing in the highs and lows of the World Cup, right now, as our favourite countries battle it out to become...
In the afternoon, I bought the artwork 'Stoeptegel 1' from Jobke Eijsink, which consists of two life-size prints, one of a paving tile and one with dots related to it.
"Food neophobia" is a survival mechanism that psycho parents break by shoving
Gothamist is reporting this morning that "a pro-landlord member of the Rent Guidelines Board resigned in protest on Thursday," apparently because the other board members were, as she accuses them, "ignoring rising operating costs of...
I heard an interview with Ivan Novak from the Slovenian band Laibach. When they talked about creation, Ivan explained that they didn’t really believe in the concept of originality. He said that it’s not like we’re taking something from...
Available here. Abstract: Future AI persons might both (1.) deserve moral consideration and rights fully equal with natural human persons, and (2.) have lifeways so radically different from ours as to break familiar patterns of moral...
I'm a desktop Linux user — specifically Debian GNU/Linux with GNOME and Wayland. I also do a fair number of video calls involving screen sharing. And I have an ultra-wide screen monitor (32:9). This can sometimes be a challenging...