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By SJ Groenewegen Atrocities in East Pakistan The news out of East Pakistan has been appallingly bad. Back in June, David Levinson reported on the violence and the political situation, and Gideon Marcus acknowledged the horrific images...
Some of Shakespeare’s plays were extremely popular during their author’s lifetime, only to fall into relative obscurity in the centuries that followed his death. Others were less successful in their first runs, forced to wait centuries...
When I was a teen, my dad had a knack for talking small businesses he frequented into hiring me as their newest lowest rung helper. To be clear, I didn't want these jobs, so I developed a knack for staying at them for three days. I don’t...
The Plain English Campaign promote (not unsurprisingly) the use of plain English {{1}}, and have campaigned against “gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information” since 1979. Their website has several (clearly written 😉) guides...
I have completed my Placement year (3rd) year of my Software Engineering Degree at the University of Ulster. I am awaiting entry into my fourth year. I would like to express my whole-hearted gratitude to those at the Camlin Group who...
HAL JORDAN GREEN LANTERN MOVIE (MATTEL) We’ve officially made it to another Friday! Alright, welcome to Friday! We’re once again doing that fun Flashback Friday Figure Addendum bit, this time flipping back over to the DC side of things,...
Both the title screen and the box agree: The master name of the game is Pagan. Pagan: Ultima VIII United StatesORIGIN Systems (developer); Electronic Arts (publisher)Released 1994 for DOSDate Started: 24 July 2026 I've told this story...
I swear this isn’t turning into an AI blog. But did you see the one about the Riemann hypothesis? Someone at Anthropic did something I’m sure they’re all tempted to do, and tried to use an internal version of their Claude AI system to...
I read two very interest interconnect blog posts this morning from Jim Mitchell and Sebastian1, both talking about the why and way they blog. Which, of course, got me to thinking about how others blog and, in particular, how I now blog....
my own chart of collapse being a multi-stage, centuries-long phenomenon, with no ‘Hollywood’ moments or endings There is a phenomenon in psychology called “creeping normality” which asserts that often changes occur so subtly and...
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On Black Friday in 2004, I purchased a cheap MiniDV camcorder with the intention of filming a short film and finally beginning my filmmaking career. Over the next three weeks, I wrote a script, bought stuff to record audio, built my own...
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My friend Stefanie Hutka has an upcoming book called What Your Machines Should Do. It’s about how organizations can use automation more intentionally — that is, to support their strategic agendas. Greg and I both read a preprint and were...
A really well-produced 27-minute video from Super Splash Wave about 8-bit and 16-bit pixel art: What I liked about the video is that it doesn’t just revel in nostalgia, but goes deeper into some techniques and trends and details in the...