ooh.directory

🍰 Five years old today!

1. The Public Domain Review
   Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated a day ago

   Scatology, autophagia, and vulva-like flowers all commingle in this ornament design book of grotesques.

🛎️ First post in over a year!

1. zignar.net, 2 hours ago, more info

   Over the years I’ve picked up various tweaks for my nvim configuration. One of them is template file support. This article is a short introduction to what they are, how do they work and how I recently extended them to support snippet expansion.

Recently added blogs

Or see recently updated blogs

1. Classic Movie Hub Blog
   Watching Classic Movies and Lovin’ Every Minute of It! By Annmarie Gatti, Minoo Allen, et al. More info

   Updated 3 days ago

   Thankful Noir Noirvember and Thanksgiving season. The weather is getting cooler and the leaves are continuing to turn and fall. So, what better time to pull up a chair, grab a cup o’ cider, and …

2. Condensed concepts
   Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter. By Ross H. McKenzie. 🇦🇺 More info

   Updated 6 days ago

   Proteins are a distinct state of matter. Globular proteins are tightly packed with a density comparable to a crystal but without the spatial regularity found in crystals. The native state is thermodynamically stable, in contrast …

3. Prop Up the Bar
   Travelling the land looking for the perfect pub. Then wondering what the one around the corner is like... By Nick C. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated a week ago

   In which I find myself with a couple of hours to spare in the Herts town of Bishop's Stortford, late on an Autumnal Saturday afternoon.I figured that should be ample time to get around the …

4. Actuaries in government
   News and updates from the Government Actuary's Department. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated a week ago

   Investment governance refers to the framework and processes which guide investment decision making. For actuaries this is often in respect of pension funds and insurers. However, the structures and policies apply more broadly across institutional …

5. Granite and Sunlight
   Disability justice in the age of austerity. By Fiona. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated 2 months ago

   I write a lot about how I see hope. I have poems about how hope doesn’t feel positive to me – I know its effect is positive, but it’s not a nice feeling. It hurts. …

6. Josh Collinsworth | Blog
   Writings on development, design, and random thoughts. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 2 weeks ago

   Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up …

7. Humanizing The Vacuum
   Alfred Soto's blog about arts and politics. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 5 hours ago

   “Some of these days, and it won’t be long/Gonna drive back down where you once belonged,” David Bowie sang in one of his few American top tens and one of many UK ones. This song …

8. The Aperiodical
   Occasional(ly) mathematical blogging. By Katie Steckles, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Peter Rowlett. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated 22 hours ago

   Double Maths First Thing is what the internet used to be like before billionaires bought it. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share joy and delight in …

9. Peter Follansbee: Joiner's Notes
   Seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 3 weeks ago

   [UPDATE: the carved box is SOLD. If anybody else wants one, send an email & I’ll put you on a list…] a follow-up to my previous post here. A friend of Drew’s Langsner’s (& mine) …

10. sjhoward.co.uk
    Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff. 🇬🇧 More info

    Updated a day ago

    I recently walked past this sculpture next to London’s ExCel exhibiton centre and thought, “that’s new!” It’s not, though. It’s been there since 2009. I evidently walk round with my eyes closed. The sculpture shows …

11. EvermoreStudio
    By Andrew Crawford. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated 2 weeks ago

    My 2024 virtual jack-o-lantern was created in Nomad Sculpt, then rendered and animated in Blender. Seen here with my virtual jack-o-lanterns from 2022 and 2023. The post Jack-O-Lantern 2024 appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.

12. Life, Technology and more…
    I'll know where I'm going, when I get there... By Mark Cathcart. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated 2 months ago

    don’t claim to know what will happen about the “Internet” archive of books. If you have not used them, why? While in general the scanning of old books, magazines, and manuals isn’t perfect and doesn’t …

13. declad
    I am an architect with over twenty years experience working in different countries. I am British but I live in Helsinki. By Lewis Martin. 🇫🇮 More info

    Updated 2 weeks ago

    Exterior -Image © Wellu Hämäläinen It’s often quite hard to make direct comparisons as to the sustainability of different buildings in the industry as costs, supply chains, and methods of construction to name just a …

14. He Can Jog
    A composer, improviser and instrumentalist of sorts. By Erik Schoster. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated 3 weeks ago

    It's a pedalboard, I think. This might be one of those misguided "if I only had this thing" thoughts, but I think the setup for rain -- and my instrument generally -- would be at …

15. Oliver Andrich
    A software developer from Koblenz with a passion for code, coffee, punk rock and a good conversation. 🇩🇪 More info

    Updated a month ago

    Two weeks ago, I published my article UV – I am (somewhat) sold. Since then, a lot has changed for me. I switched all my personal projects to uv from poetry. I have set up …

See more, or see recently updated blogs