Sampleface
A music sampling blog. From loops and hip hop breaks to reviews and news, we discuss all genres and the art of sampling in music.
By Luke Davis.
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David Bruce on Dilla as “the king of microrythm”
What time is it?! The post David Bruce on Dilla as “the king of microrythm” appeared first on Sampleface.
A Pilgrim in Narnia
a journey through the imaginative worlds of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings.
By Brenton Dickieson.
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2024: My Year in Books: The Infographic
In a New Year message, the author shares their Goodreads "My Year in Books" infographic, reflecting humorously on their reading accomplishments and a lack of compliments. They met their goal of reading 120 books and …
By Brenton Dickieson, 81 words
Sly Flourish: Helping Dungeon Masters run great D&D games.
Weekly articles with tips, tricks, tools, and advice for the ffth edition of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) written by the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.
By Michael E. Shea.
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Rolling Lots of D20s? Assume One Quarter Succeeds
When you need to adjudicate a whole bunch of checks — say rolling two dozen saving throws for a bunch of skeletons hit with Turn Undead — simplify the situation by assuming one quarter succeeds. …
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering.
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Moon
In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In …
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
Hank Shaw's website featuring more than 1200 wild game recipes, fish and seafood recipes, foraging tips, fermentation, preserving, and pasta.
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Turkey Black Bean Chili
A lighter, brighter version of chili. This chili uses ground turkey, black beans, corn, tomatoes and dried chiles. Turkey Black Bean Chili is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.
Clamsplaining
I'm Dan Killam. I'm an environmental scientist studying clams, climate, pollution, and conservation.
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Environmentally, you’ve got to hand it to Sauron
And now for something completely non clam-related…a speculative essay about LOTR as an environmental allegory, drawing on my posts to social media last week that clearly struck a nerve. I’m the first to admit that …
A Photo Editor
Former Photography Director Rob Haggart.
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The Daily Edit – Ashok Sinha: Art of Looking through Windows and “The Fight to Save Googie”
The Arby’s cowboy hat sign on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles still remains while the location is now a Prince Street Pizza pop-up America’s oldest surviving McDonald’s dates to 1953: Architect Stanley Clark Mesoninitially outlined …
By Heidi Volpe, 1,341 words
Jason Preu
Devious Bloggery.
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Moving away from WordPress
Hello. Over the coming year, I’ll be moving away from WordPress to jpreu.com using bearblog, a simpler and more intuitive blogging platform. Feel free to hop on over there and grab the RSS feed if …
Stumbling and Mumbling
An extremist, not a fanatic.
By Chris Dillow.
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A defence of the triple lock
Ben Ramanauskas wants to abolish the pensions triple lock. As a longstanding advocate of it, you'd expect me to disagree. And I do, but not violently. Ben proposes replacing the lock with simply raising the …
cRPG Blog
Index to the cRPG blog on cRPG history, reviews, rankings and design.
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PC Games 1996
Computer Game History | Computer Game Reviews | Amiga Game Reviews1996 PC GamesThis is a list of PC games that came out in 1996. The PC games are listed in alphabetical order. Both MS-DOS and …
Fup Duck Photography
Percussive learning in a world of automation.
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The Photax III camera
This is an Art Deco styled bakelite medium format camera made in France. Mine is a series III model made from 1947 to around 1956. This one is the deluxe or blindé version, meaning that …
By fupduckphoto, 1,260 words
Sheep.Horse - The Blog of Andrew Stephens
I am Andrew Stephens, a New Zealand programmer living in Boston, USA. This is my site, where I put various projects and musings.
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On Micropayments
Micropayments, microbilling, microtransactions, call it what you will; it is one of those ideas people say they want but actually do not. In particular, micropayments are not a viable replacement...
Swizec Teller
Swizec shares software engineering lessons from production in his books, articles, talks, and workshops.
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Build the abstraction first
Hardcoding logic when you're tight on time doesn't need to make a mess. You can build the abstraction first!
Almad's Changelog
I share my experiences with technology, startups and getting through life.
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On Reducing Problems to the One AI Thing
We are now living in the age of OpenAI narrative, and a lot of problems are to be aligned to fit it. What are going to be side-effects of its implementation is going to be …
Pearls and Irritations – Public policy journal
Read progressive, liberal commentary on issues that impact Australians. Our daily articles focus on politics, public policy and world affairs.
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Under the spell of denial: the Khmer Rouge in New York and Netanyahu in Washington
Few alliance nations would ponder how the cadence of Netanyahu’s speech inside Congress put them under the spell of denial. This is akin to the Khmer Rouge (government in exile) that was invited to hold …