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A message from the street to add a bit of perspective to our lives. Is the message trite? Perhaps, but a reminder is often necessary when the world narrows our vision. The traffic cone adds a new level of context as “under construction”...
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I had low expectations going into my Sailor TUZU Fountain Pen Review, but as it turns out, Sailor made a pretty great pen. They have continued to expand the lineup since then, including with the translucent barrel Crystal collection. I...
MUDs, and their sibling games MUCKs and MOOs, now almost forgotten except among a rapidly-aging userbase, used to be the biggest gaming draw on the internet. When MMORPGs became big, it was largely by using the lessons of MUDs and...
José Fernando BonaparteOne of the hardest-working, most intense and multi-faceted palaeontologists to ever grace our planet was José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 – 18 February 2020).We often imagine the great scientific pioneers as...
So, I should try and get the Sandown stuff cleared before PW (two weeks today!), but there was a lot of the sort of 'stand alone' stuff, so it'll be a bit bitty for the next few days, but well start with a peach of a small-scale piece,...
Alien: Colony War is a classical Alien story in the "Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe": state, corporate and military corruption and greed, individual bravery and struggle, xenomorphs and mothers willing to protect their children,...
A typography savant on staff had spent a month designing link underlines (literally just lines) that were more visually pleasing than Chrome or Safari’s defaults. On Tuesdays, engineers stayed late at the office, fixing design...
Last week I spent a few days in Switzerland. I went to Zürich on Thursday to meet up with a few people, having a pleasant chat with Beat Döbeli about his 30 year old PKM system Biblionetz, and a nice dinner with long time open data...
Eric Novik came by my talk the other day and we were chatting about a number of things, including how much we forget as the years go by. I remarked that I used to be very comfortable with Fourier analysis … Continue reading →
Wow, I really loved this book! I started reading it because of the title, expecting to read about how technology evolves ever faster and leaves people in the dust. I mean, it's very apropos these days. But then I've read the first...
Today started just right so far. Sleep was sufficient, draft writing, a lot of fun with Subnautica (the first one, I’m finishing it up…), and now farmer’s market with River. Good stuff.