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Let's face the facts: I could go on for hours and hours talking about how unhappy I am where I currently live. Trust me, in private, I sometimes struggle to talk about anything but this …

Some very unexpected news this week came via a press release email I received the other day, announcing that Archie Comics was going to enter the facsimile game. You know, the exact reprints, usually ads …

After a disaster left much of the land uninhabitable, eco-pilgrims journey to faraway territories to restore both their village’s habitats and the creatures that once dwelled there. Dani Garcia’s Arborea joins the recent run of …

Hawke The Band Doctor Hawke The Band are an up-and-coming Irish pop rock band, based in London. Having appeared on the Imelda May Christmas Special on Sky Arts, their profile is on the rise, particularly …

A game show for the Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society This is the long story of a frivolous, fleeting creative project that came out of nowhere, completely took over my life for a few weeks, and …

In the late 1990s, I was working at a job writing computer code. It was a nice job, and one of the perks was exposure to other tech-minded people. One day, a co-worker brought something …

ESPN National Hockey Night North American release in March 2001 Never released in Japan Never released in Europe Published by Konami Developed by Konami Scott Gomez! Twice! No wait there’s a faint picture of him …

It's gotten cold out there! Autumn is finally here and with that comes cooler weather and the need to heat homes. Residential wood smoke from home-heating should be expected, especially at night and in the …

My book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature will be published this summer by Editiones Scholasticae. At well over 500 pages, it's my longest book yet. Here are the back cover copy, endorsements, and …

Over the past few weeks, I have closely followed the unfolding events in Georgia from Berlin, experiencing a mix of emotions: fear, anger, and frustration, and a glimmer of hope. Now, having arrived in Tbilisi, …

Do you ever think about how Musky Elmo basically killed the chances of “to tweet” ever genuinely entering the English language as a real life verb

A TEDX talk in which an American ophthalmic surgeon explains how "manual small-incision cataract surgery" (MSICS) with a 50c scalpel is an effective substitute for the standard American-style laser-guided procedure costing $2,000 for the treatment …

Table of contents Definitions Applicability and importance Conclusion DefinitionsWhat is holistic ownership of a project? Holistic ownership. Person ABC, in the projects we have worked together, has excelled at holistic owning the problem (beyond specific …

This year I want to continue my introduction to bodybuilding and round out my fitness regimen with regular cardio. For January and February, I'll finish the "Start From Scratch" series of workouts. I will also …

A tale on why software engineering might not be a team sports after all, despite what eveyrone wants us to believe