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1. Mia Rabbit - Photo diary of a petite rabbit
   A one of a kind handmade plush that loves to travel and eat sweets. By Arielle Nadel. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 3 months ago

   Earlier this month, we ventured off to Amsterdam after being in France for three months. Not too far from the city are the windmills in Zaanse Schans. We couldn’t ask for better weather to see… …

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1. Adam Greenfield's Speedbird, 7 hours ago, more info

   As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed that. Here, then, is a reasonably complete roundup of things I’ve published in all the years since I was SPIN‘s worst and most teenaged staff writer, back at the tail end of the foul Eighties. …

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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

   Updated a day ago

   Noir Nook: Noir’s Scariest Characters October is a month for ghosts and goblins, bats and jack-o’-lanterns, black cats and skeletons. Not necessarily the characteristics that come to mind when one thinks of film noir. But …

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

   Updated a week ago

   This friday I am giving a colloquium for the UQ Physics department.2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry: from biological physics to artificial intelligence and backThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John …

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 14 hours ago

   The previous post found me wandering the streets of Marylebone and visiting four pubs with wildlife-themed names - Eagles, Jackolopes, Stags, and Horses (do horses count as wildlife?)My plan for the rest of the day …

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

   Updated 2 weeks ago

   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 …

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

   Updated a month 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 a month ago

   I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.

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

   Updated 10 hours ago

   Glimmering, stuffed with awful placeholder lyrics, “Unforgettable Fire” is a beautiful U2 song, the only moment when producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois approximated Trevor Horn: triggered orchestral samples, click tracks, vagueness as grandness. This …

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

   Updated 4 days ago

   A conversation about mathematics inspired by an area the size of Wales. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.

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

   Updated 3 days 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 4 hours ago

    Still visible in Redcar is a former local newspaper office, for a paper that has had quite a few different titles over 155 years. From 1869 to 1938, it was The North Eastern Daily Gazette. …

11. EvermoreStudio
    By Andrew Crawford. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated 2 weeks ago

    Chibitronics asked me to participate in a #LightUpPopUpTober project they are coordinating with prompts from @5am_popup. My prompt was “reverse.” Thus, the switching mechanism for this card works by reversing the covers of the card, …

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

    Updated a month 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 a week ago

    Our Lord In The Attic Is The Building on the left of the lane. Photo by Jean Robert Thibault A highlight of any trip to Amsterdam for me is going back into the hidden church …

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

    Updated a week ago

    Woah, I missed September! That's what I get for leaving the house, I guess. I've been giving astrid a tour of the real world, which has been fun and sometimes disheartening when everything breaks down. …

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

    Updated 3 weeks 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 …

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