Binocular Shot
A tribute to movies that misrepresent how binoculars work.
By Javier Arce.
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Updated 6 months ago
Hi! I’ve moved all the content to my own blog. See you there!
Hi! I’ve moved all the content to my own blog. See you there!
TableTennisCoaching.com
Your Worldwide Center for Table Tennis Coaching.
By Larry Hodges.
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October 21, 2024
October 21, 2024 Tip of the Week Adjust in One Game. Weekend Coaching and Training This weekend was lazy feet day, as I was all over a number of players who weren’t moving their feet. …
By Larry Hodges, 2,597 words
Coding with Jesse
Web development blog about Svelte, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
By Jesse Skinner.
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Does your web server scale down?
Are you paying for servers sitting idle in the middle of the night? When we talk about scaling a web server, we often focus on scaling up. Can your server handle a spike in traffic? …
Fonts In Use – Blog
A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.
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Harris/Walz 2024 US Presidential Campaign
Contributed by Stephen ColesSource: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License: All Rights Reserved. The Kamala Harris 2024 campaign identity, designed by Wide Eye Creative, is built around Sans Plomb, a condensed gothic not unlike the …
By Stephen Coles, 593 words
I Will Dare
a little bit of heaven & a whole lot of hell.
By Jodi Chromey.
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Schrödinger’s Meatloaf
Hiya Darling Ones, It’s roughly 823º in Supergenius HQ at the moment and I am not a fan. Seriously, I’m breaking a sweat just typing, The oven’s been on for an hour and there’s nothing …
By Jodi Chromey, 352 words
Henrique Dias - Home
Henrique is interested in web infrastructure, decentralized systems, and makingtools for developers and users. He likes coffee and tea alike.
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Styling My RSS Feeds
Styling my RSS feeds is something that has been on my infinitely long list of things to do on this website. Sometimes I removed it, sometimes I added it back. However, I recently came across …
Geotripper
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section.
By Garry Hayes.
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What We All Think We Know: Myths and Misconceptions about California and Earthquakes for the Day of the Great Shake-Out!
Today is the Great Shake-Out in California: At 10:17 AM, around 10.5 MILLION people will participate in a statewide earthquake drill. This is also the 35th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake that caused so …
By Garry Hayes, 4,010 words
The History Blog
It’s a blog. About history.
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Updated 17 hours ago
Tiny house frescoed like mansion in Pompeii
The excavation of the insula (block) along the main street of Pompeii has uncovered the remains of a house that it small in size but as opulent in decoration as much larger, luxurious villas on …
By livius drusus, 884 words
Medieval manuscripts blog
The Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog is written by curators in the British Library's Department of History and Classics.
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Medieval Women well and truly open
Fanfare, please! We are thrilled to say that the British Library's major new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, is now open to the public. The first ticket-holders are starting to go through the …
By Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Manuscripts, 56 words
Africa Is a Country
…a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left.
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João Lourenço, seria um fantoche americano?
A aproximação do presidente angolano com as nações ocidentais não ocorre no vácuo, nem deveria ser surpreendente. João Lourenço as Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, May 17, 2017. DOD photo by U.S. Air Force …
By Cláudio Silva, 862 words
corvusfugit
By Jon Curtiss.
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1846: The Temple of Time
Emma Willard was a pioneer in Women’s education, opening the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York in 1821—the first institution of higher education for women in the United States. The school was later renamed …
Rotten Menu
Exploring the microbiology of food fermentation.
By Elisa Caffrey.
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15 EXPLORING FERMENTATION: a zine “This guide is designed to outline the basics of food fermentation and flavor, providing a framework of how microbes transform foods and encouraging you to start your own fermentation journey." …
By Rotten Menu, 153 words
Piper Haywood — If lost, please return
I’m a web developer with interests in the open web, art, ethics, and many other things. This is my notebook.
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A postponed postpartum story
This is a mega-post about our daughter AB’s arrival a little over two months ago, with a bit about BB’s birth three years ago thrown in. I wanted to note some of that at the …
By Piper Haywood, 3,395 words
JimmyBramlett Dot Com
This Site Is a Mess And So Am I.
By Jimmy Bramlett.
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‘Chevengur’ and the Silly Soviets
I don’t know why I like Russian literature. Maybe it’s the difficulty? Maybe I like the challenge of their length? I have no idea how I found out about Andrey Platanov’s Chevengur. I think it …
JazzWax
Marc Myers writes daily on jazz legends and legendary jazz recordings.
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Backgrounder: 'Zoot Sims Plays 4 Altos' (1957)
Multi-tracking has a long history. One artist who pioneered the form—recording a main part and then slipping on headphones and recording additional harmony parts—was tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims. For more on this, see my 2018 …
By Marc Myers, 1,060 words