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  1. Mind the blog
    Here you’ll find reviews and features on theatre, concerts, albums, and anything else that’s even tenuously related. By Debbie. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Murder on the Orient Express (2024-25)
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” Most recently staged at Chichester Festival Theatre and Bath’s Theatre Royal, Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on …
    By Debbie, 781 words

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  1. Grand Text Auto, , more info

    Post Position 2024-11-05 13:15:05
    I’m delighted that after more than four years of work by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and myself — co-editors of this book — the MIT Press and Counterpath have jointly published Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 This anthology spans seven decades of computer-generated text, beginning before the term “artificial intelligence” was even coined. While not restricted to poetry, fiction, and other creative projects, it reveals the rich work that has …
    By Nick Montfort, 404 words

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

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    Western RoundUp: Lone Pine Film Festival 2024
    Lone Pine Film Festival 2024 I had an amazing time again this year at the annual Lone Pine Film Festival held in Lone Pine, California. This was the 34th festival, of which I’ve attended around …
    By Laura Grieve, 51 words
  2. Condensed concepts
    Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter. By Ross H. McKenzie. 🇦🇺 More info

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    A very effective Hamiltonian in nuclear physics
    Atomic nuclei are complex quantum many-body systems. Effective theories have helped provide a better understanding of them. The best-known are the shell model, the (Aage) Bohr-Mottelson theory of non-spherical nuclei, and the liquid drop model. …
    By Ross H. McKenzie, 633 words
  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

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    Halloween Post - The Hatchet inn
    It's that time of year again where there's a crate of pumpkins in the supermarket, Film 4 are showing Scream, and I'm struggling to find a haunted pub worthy of a Halloween post.My travels took …
    By Nick C, 787 words
  4. Actuaries in government
    News and updates from the Government Actuary's Department. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The value of parametric insurance in the event of climate disasters
    How the African Risk Capacity (ARC) helps protect African countries following extreme weather events. This year marks the 10th anniversary of ARC Group, a specialised agency of the African Union. It provides technical assistance and …
    By Nam Le - Actuary, 1,592 words
  5. Granite and Sunlight
    Disability justice in the age of austerity. By Fiona. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Hope Of Independence – Ten Years On
    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. …
    By Graniteandsunlight, 1,053 words
  6. Josh Collinsworth | Blog
    Writings on development, design, and random thoughts. 🇺🇸 More info

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    A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress"
    I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads …
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  7. Humanizing The Vacuum
    Alfred Soto's blog about arts and politics. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Election Day 2024: Awful but Cheerful
    A dude who prides himself on his immunity to denial, I recognized the signs an early Sunday afternoon in late July when Joseph Robinette Biden dropped out, whom I’d endorsed in 2020, and Kamala Harris …
    By humanizingthevacuum, 1,031 words
  8. The Aperiodical
    Occasional(ly) mathematical blogging. By Katie Steckles, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Peter Rowlett. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 9
    Double Maths First Thing is like a diet MathsJam, some of the flavour but only a hint of the joy. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread …
    By Colin Beveridge, 564 words
  9. Peter Follansbee: Joiner's Notes
    Seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Finished the next box
    [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) …
    By pfollansbee, 370 words
  10. sjhoward.co.uk
    Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Voting doesn’t solve everything
    On this morning of all mornings, it feels like I should write something about the elections in the USA. As you might have gathered, though, I write most of these posts in advance, and so …
    By sjhoward, 449 words
  11. EvermoreStudio
    By Andrew Crawford. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Jack-O-Lantern 2024
    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.
    By Andrew Crawford, 36 words
  12. Life, Technology and more…
    I'll know where I'm going, when I get there... By Mark Cathcart. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Whither archive.org books?
    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 …
    By Mark Cathcart, 1,282 words
  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

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

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    Log: Wednesday October 30th
    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 …
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  15. Oliver Andrich
    A software developer from Koblenz with a passion for code, coffee, punk rock and a good conversation. 🇩🇪 More info

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    Two weeks with uv
    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 …
    By Oliver, 472 words

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