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Paul Linebarger (aka Cordwainer Smith) was an interesting guy. Among other things he was heavily involved in developing psychological warfare techniques for the US military. He was also a close adviser to Chiang Kai-shek and …

In the six years that followed, Darden and his studio created about a dozen retail type families, including Birra Stout, Corundum, Dapifer, Halyard, Jubilat, and the very popular Omnes, a pillowy soft sans serif used …

Singapore is the only country in the world where it’s legal to sell “cultivated” (lab-grown) meat for human consumption, and Huber’s Bistro in Singapore is the only restaurant in the world that actually sells the …

I am driving home at night hands gripping the wheel empty tarmac surrounding me fertiliser stinging my nostrils The engine shaking all the space between my scattered atoms as white lines converge scattered atoms of …

We all know how the internet works—lots of “hot takes,” polarizing opinions, trolling, and ignorance. Recently, everyone has opinions on AI and LLMs/GenAI in particular. I won’t focus here on “gold rush” influencers, bad grifters, …

An 1851 San Francisco paper described a city of immigrants… I found a lovely line in an 1851 San Francisco newspaper that celebrates the diversity of Gold Rush San Francisco—a boom town whose residents included …

Few people I know still have an RSS reader, ever since Google did us all dirty and essentially killed the entire idea of RSS; as such, I keep an oldschool bookmark list of comics that …

Here's something fun. If you sign up for my free mailing list, not only will you get updates when I post new comics (Issue #2 of Incredible Doom - Eternal September is about to drop!) …

Helldivers 2 is a fun game. That is when it works. It has a bad habit of crashing when you don’t want it to. Matchmaking is also a little borked as it is right now. …

Semlor olåsta! Den här gången vi gjorde vår egen mandelmassa, använder mandel vi rostade. Detta år vi använder Camilla Hamids recept. Semlor unlocked! This year we made our own marzipan filling, using almonds we roasted. …

Every Saturday we round-up the best writing about beer from the past 7 days. This week we’ve got pessimism, optimism, and pure Belgianness. First, there’s been a flurry of news about brewery closures and changes: …

A recipe for making carob bars that are not chocolate but resemble it somewhat

NEW RESOURCES Simon Fraser University: Digital repatriation of Tse’k’wa archive democratizes 50 years of archaeological and cultural knowledge. “Fifty years of archaeological knowledge and scholarship from one of British Columbia’s most significant cultural and archaeological …

The Killers (1964), directed by Don Siegel

February 19, 2024 Tip of the Week The Laziness of Simple Serves. USATT’s Illegal Chair, USATT Assemblies, and Those Pesky Bylaws I sent another email to the USATT Board regarding this. (I blogged about the …