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Escaping the Heatwave, Evading the PubA walk from "Best Pubs in South Devon" holds plenty of promise.Yet compromises need to be made. We are on day 2 of the heatwave that has had the news outlets reaching for ever darker crayons. Mrs M...
Thunderstorm in the distance Week in rewind⚽ I went out with friend to watch the Belgian game against Egypt, on the big screen. It wasn't exactly a big screen, rather 2 smaller ones, making it hard to follow at times. However, going to...
Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: Rockstar Games has finally announced the price of GTA 6, while confirming it features a “single-player experience” at launch. Rockstar said GTA 6 costs $79.99 across PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S,...
Chillscape is celebrating Spooky Season a little early with some chill horror (and horror-adjacent) video game music! This week's guest is Dave Pietrangelo, host of "Remember 64" ➡️ https://linktr.ee/Remember64 CHAPTERS ⤵️ 00:00 Intro/...
It is absolutely blazing out there today. Heat warnings are in effect. Friday looks like it’s going to be the hottest day. OPERATIONS: 700 words yesterday, looking for at least 1000 todaySTATUS: DHL have lost a mystery parcel that was on...
A look at the new experimental headingoffset attribute, which lets heading levels adapt to their context instead of hardcoding h2s and h3s. A thoughtful explanation of where this could be genuinely useful, especially in component-based...
THANK YOU NEW YORK VOTERS FOR SEEING THROUGH THE GASLIGHTING “VOTING YOUR CONSCIENCE IS UNREALISTIC” SAYS THE DEMOCRAT WHO JUST LOST “THE WORD SOCIALISM SCARES THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS” SAYS THE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN WHO'S...
Prime Video / YouTube: New villains on the streets of Gotham City and there’s only one man for the job. Batman: Caped Crusader returns July 31 to Prime. I absolutely adored the first season of this, so suffice to say, I am all in on its...
Homer, Odyssey 1.96 (tr. Daniel Mendelsohn): Her words. ὣς εἰποῦσ᾽... Homer, Odyssey 1.381 (tr. Daniel Mendelsohn): His words. ὣς ἔφαθ᾽... My words: grotesque, jolting, irritating, obtrusive. The translation here draws attention to...
Keeping on my run of Yorkshire-based blogs, I've just been back to the historic Yorkshire Dales market town of Settle recently where I had a walk around the compact town centre and checked out several of the local hostelries, finding...
This long article about David Foster Wallace’s sister has been on open for weeks, and I only just got to reading it. It’s pretty remarkable. Make time.
In the AI age, could curators become king again? Columbia Journalism Review on a fresh crop of print (!!) magazines geared at overwhelmed young people. → Columbia Journalism Review
Here is the incomparable Julia Evans advocating for directing one's writing at exactly one specific person. Notes: Julia's warning is about the failure mode of trying to write for everyone. There's another failure mode here, though: it's...
“The pavement and the road are crowded with purchasers and street sellers. The housewife in her thick shawl, with the market-basket on her arm, walks slowly on, stopping now to look at the stall of caps, and now a cheapen a bunch of...
Record-breaking temperatures are expected in England and Wales today, and in France and Spain they’ve been even worse. Social media has noticed the uncanny similarity between a fictional weather forecast for August 2050 from French TV in...