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KENNETH ROBESON – Red Snow. Doc Savage #24. Bantam, paperback original; 1st printing, July 1969. Originally published in Doc Savage Magazine, February 1935. A strange red snow that disintegrates everything in it path threatens America’s...
Bill Dollins has been thinking about how to future-proof geospatial data infrastructure. When we design systems expected to last for years or decades, we tend to ask which technologies will still be around. Will PostGIS… More
Tony Feher, Come Out and Play Stephen Jay (detail), 2013Finishing the book feels like travelling through time. I can tell I’m more sensitive than usual this week, overwhelmed. I remember where and when it all started, and who I was back...
Desert Brat 2026-08-11 rawr
AFP fact-checks fake AI-generated maps of the Canadian wildfires that have been circulating on social media, many of which overstate the severity and spread of the fires, including hallucinating wildfires in places they don’t exist,… More
# I looked down at my watch earlier to see a crack right across the glass 😱 I don't even remember bashing it at any point this morning. Luckily, on inspection, it was the protector I'd put on and not the watch itself. 😅 I was worried as...
Sarah Perez, in a TechCrunch story about monthly active user numbers for Bluesky, Threads, and X, using data provided by Similarweb: Instead, the data shows that X’s worldwide monthly active users on mobile were down around 3%...
Power Cat 2026-08-11 I forgot to draw the panel border :3
Very recently marked 29 years since I was brought to the United States from my country of origin. Thankfully, my adoptive parents never attempted to celebrate my "gotcha day," a day and overall concept often dedicated to rescued pets and...
Tuesdays begin like any other day. I rise before the sun, make a carafe of coffee, then return to bed to read The New York Times on my laptop. My wife has made me promise to wake her with news that Donald Trump is dead. The Environment...
Fremantle2026 August 12 (Wednesday), 7:03AM· MediaWiki · upgrades · I've upgraded Freopedia and ArchivesWiki (and some other wikis on the same server) to MediaWiki 1.45. Everything seems fine so far. ← Previous My main RSS news feed:...
CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKET . For all those with a fascination with ropes and knots, the Whitechapel Gallery is currently hosting the ROPERY, a free exhibition offering visitors of all ages the opportunity to engage in hands-on rope...
In this Tale from Tech Support, I create the origin story of an old inherited server from an investigation into why Veeam suddenly stopped working
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 19th June 2006 I had recently read an article on Loudwire about bands who had peaked on their last records, and was pleasantly surprised to find Swedish technical death metal legends Anata on there,...
Almost always on my first day in Hawaii, I visit Mom & DadWent to Waipio Big City Diner with Aunty...had a loco moco "for Satoshi"The hamburger patty was a little hard, but I was glad the portion was on the smaller size BFF found a can...