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1. My favourite translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia) - 1,000 year old Persian poetry - is by Robert Graves from 1967. Graves, it turns out, unknowingly based his translations on hoax sources. Which might not have gone...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 128-130: The 1987 Constitution was intended to promote ‘maximum decentralization short of federalization’. It...
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #2 is from a list by Prime - "Books as treasure. No spellbooks." A list of books that were scattered throughout the Hexcrawl25 campaign: 1. Ruins of the Wild Woods - tree art,...
When the papacy becomes vacant, a new pope is elected through a procedure known as the conclave. Cardinal-electors from around the world gather in the Sistine Chapel and vote in successive rounds. In each round, every elector casts one...
Info: German content only, sorry. I was pondering for the past three years if I should give some sort of TLS basics talk at FrOSCon. I finally stepped up this year and gave that talk today, with the title "TLS, mTLS, SNI, ECH, CAA,...
Total solar eclipse over Zaragoza, Spain, 12th August, 2026. Photograph by Ruiyu Zhang. • Kenneth Anger (again), in a transcript for another KPFA radio interview, in which we Anger have mentioning HP Lovecraft. Not a major revelation in...
There’s nowhere to go but forward, but that’s ok because today we are creating tomorrow’s memories.
It's feeling quite arty-creativey in the links today. Otherwise the usual mix of history, writing, fun projects, and IndieWeb stuff. Starting off with a list of Blaugust participants. I hope everyone taking part is having a fantastic...
Sent to us as part of Kimberly’s Laban Pens - A Quick Comparison, the Laban Taroko is an excellent offering from this Taiwanese maker. I have one Taroko in their Pinnacle material, with a Fine Steel nib, to give away this week, and the...
Emilee Hackney: To this day, I’ve never been to an Appalachian funeral where there wasn’t a preacher and a sermon. It’s the same around here. I keep hearing that cremation is now the majority practice but I can count on one hand the...
So. AI Slop. Fun topic, isn’t it? Anyone you talk to seems to either discuss it as the second coming or the antichrist. It’s rare you come into contact with someone who treats it like what it is - code. Algorithms. Lines of logic run on...
I built another app! This time, it‘s for privacy respecting basic analytics. And it will be open source! Meet Applause—simple analytics and easy interaction counters.
So, it’s 20:30 PM. The only light in my living room is the one above the dinner table, and beneath it am I, holding my rocking head with the thumb and index of the left palm. The only noise audible is the thrashing of my dishwasher, some...
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Last month Sssluke asked about websites that are created as artworks themselves. Not about art, the actual art. I’ve written before about the early net.art movement in which a bunch of artists looked at the (at that time) new word wide...