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Sign painting reached a huge new audience recently with a segment about hand-painted Ghanaian film posters on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. And, just as I did for BLAG 04, the show’s producers commissioned an original piece on...
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)Every time I use Blackwing pencils, I get picky...
So Shawna A. asked her bakery to make a cake just like this one from Pink Cake Box: To make it easier, she even brought in a print-out of this picture. And, since she wanted her cake to say "Welcome Little Monkey" instead of "Happy...
The Rift by Nina Allan (Titan Books, 2017) Twenty years after she disappears without a trace, Selena’s sister Julie rings her up. When they meet, she first refuses to explain what has happened to her, where she has been all this time....
Sucks ass. Firstly it is extremely small and had only 2 bed spots, while we always with 3 people. No piloting place, for the controller, charges, the drone. Very low celling - never can be in full height. My back wasn't happy about it....
In reply to Setting up Webmentions by Alex Hyett It’s always good to see a blogger adding Webmentions to their site. Cross-blog conversations are to me what blogging is about. And Webmentions are a useful piece of plumbing to make it so....
Patches of dull sunlight brighten as the clouds thin. A distant whine of traffic is sweetened by goldfinch chatter in the treetops. Below the porch, wild garlics are beginning to raise their crane’s-bill heads.
The title says it all really. As part of ShinyZeni’s Zenithon from 2025, one of the incentives was to do an Any% run while wearing those famous Squirtle Squad shades and the game of choice was Super Metroid. I remember Lee Provost of...
Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline: DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation are partnering on a series adaptation of Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s best selling DC comic book series Absolute Batman. The partners announced the upcoming show at...
Monty Python’s World Cup Team of Philosophers - video Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically, it exists only in the...
Mijndert Stuij shares a bunch of practical ways to make your terminal feel instant, from skipping shell frameworks and caching completions to lazy-loading slow tools. A good reminder that tiny bits of latency add up fast when you live in...
What is the sacred? It seems to be a way that groups bond together by seeing something outside themselves as of special value to them. The group values itself as the only people who can see that sacred thing.What is ideal identity? Let...
A scene keeps playing in my head. Over and over again.A man is riding his bicycle. He crosses the street and starts weaving right to left. He hits a pole and falls down. Head first on the street. He isn't moving. I get off my bike and...
Our friend Allan Pinkerton, who has preserved many released C64 titles over the years and helped us (see ALA Software titles), has preserved a batch of Expert Software titles for the Commodore 64 which include: Personal Skills Money...
Worthy Read is an ongoing series here at the blog where I link out to a piece I think is worth your valuable time. Graham Smith / Jank: The videogame industry wants you to buy games before they’re released because it makes it easier for...