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Duncan Rawlinson photographed this aerial view of a small island in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario, Canada. White snow covers most of the island, contrasting with exposed rock and vegetation at the edges, while dark water surrounds...
Available in English as The War Within These Walls, translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. A notably different title, the original title means 'the ghetto's colors'. Did they opt for that change because the word ghetto might have...
A brief elaboration on my political priorities and opinions, including a critique of leftist populism (with bonus Foucault dunking).
The world's first digital nomad: One Planet Journey interviews Steven K. Roberts. Why Do Tech Bros Always Learn The Wrong Thing From Sci-fi? – Demonitzed on Youtube. Music is a weapon – Chords and Discords on Youtube. #radar
When we learn about the history of civilization, we get to hear about the Stone age, the Bronze age and then the Iron age. Whatever follows is named after historical events or political systems rather than technology, although some...
A few years ago I won (!) a SBC and have been trying to figure out what to do with it ever since. The board is called LibreComputer Alta AML-A311D-CC and this post will outline how I got it’s NPU working, even though I still don’t know...
In the third GrailQuest gamebook, Gateway of Doom, one of the new spells Pip is given in their Second Spell Book is Pip's Amazing Legume Spell, which will give an automatic Friendly Reaction from any attacking vegetable. (Ordinarily, a...
Our last stop on this year’s summer vacation was South Tyrol. We stayed at Lago di Caldaro, and it was a contrast to our previous stops, as everything was already in German. It did not feel as much like Italy anymore. The nature was...
The ‘thrum thrum thrum’ overlaid on the ‘ggg the the thur ggg the the thur ggg the the thur’ is something you only notice after a few minutes of listening to HMLX 8032. It has been months since this Montreal Locomotive Works veteran has...
by Anthony Hobday As a non-designer that sometimes designs stuff, this is fantastic! A compilation of easy to understand rules you can follow in web design without having to worry too much about context. Some of them I had already...
Of all the podcasts in my subscriptions, there is one that I've unsubscribed and resubscribed so many times that I've lost count: BBC's Global News Podcast. There will be days when I think that I want to keep up with world affairs in my...
@painesplough_ blank is about blank who wants blank, but blank is stopping them… A writing prompt, imparted to Roy Williams from the late great Stephen Jeffreys. 📽️ @DMLK Video Meet the Writers is a video series from Paines Plough about...
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I had a long and fascinating chat with David and Jeffre the other day. They wanted to talk about Cog for their interestingness project and knowing a conversation with them is always fascinating I asked if I could record it.We rambled on...
I was listening to a rebroadcast of an old recording of American Top Forty with the legendary Casey Kasem on my second-favorite SiriusXM channel — 70s on 7 — the other day when this oldie by the musical duo Pratt & McClain popped up....