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Well, since there seems to be some further chatter about optimal density in the air, this seems like as good a time as any to address some thoughts I've been having regarding streetscapes and density, particularly in terms of height....
Ever aiming to republish my squamate-themed articles from years back (specifically, from Tet Zoo ver 2), I here reproduce part of the multi-part series I released on geckos. This section is from part II, an archived version of which is...
Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writing attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a life of Gregory the Great, that was written much earlier than Paul). He was in the household of Adelperga, a daughter of...
Remember the scene in Testament of Ann Lee where John Hocknell chases his own finger and it leads him to their settlement site? I am pleased to report that he was not the only one to experience that among the Shakers. A convert named...
This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. This morning, I once more had one of the hardest mornings ever. Nothing special actually happened. I got up at 7:30, had a coffee, walked my dog, went to my...
Does liberty mean a right to kill other people’s children, slowly and painfully? It would, if the Trump Administration had its way. It’s pressing states to allow broad vaccine exemptions as part of its larger campaign against settled...
I’m on annual leave next week. Now would be the ideal time to drop premium rage-bait and walk away. “One browser tab is enough” was drafted but due to a tragic git clean accident we are all spared. This sideways look at notifications...
purple and yellow and greysA water standpipe stands ready at the station. Two yellow bollards protect it from direct contact.
There are three broad categories of things about which we adults know more than the young children in our care: safety, schedules, and courtesy.The rest is trivia. Yes, I may know more about Elizabethan novels than the typical...
Roseanna Pendlebury Marie NDiaye’s The Witch was originally published in French as La sorcière in 1996. Translated into English by Jordan Stump 30 years later, it was shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize. It depicts a...
I’ve found my ideal format for shipping apps for personal & family use: PWAs, with an offline-first focus, rendering (mostly) entirely client-side. JavaScript is powerful enough to do pretty much anything these days - especially if you...
This article was originally posted on the Ubuntu Discourse, and is reposted here. I welcome comments and further discussion in that thread. I have written before about the role that Rust will play in Ubuntu’s future. The case for Rust in...
As a fan of Sherlock Holmes who enjoys many of the pastiche stories written by others, I am also open to seeing stories that make use of various secondary characters in the canon. There have been a few stories written focused on Holmes’s...
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 150 miles / 241 km, about three hours of driving, from Rosco’s RV Park in Fort St John to Azouzetta Lake Lodge & Campground in Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada.
One of the important ideas in the sociology of science is also one of the easiest to misunderstand: knowledge is socially produced. This does not mean that scientists simply make things up, it means something much more practical. Science...