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This month we published To The Cold Land by J.M.K.E., the most legendary punk rock band in Estonia, in our 33 1/3 Europe series. Its author, Brigitta Davidjants, gave us some insight into why she …

warmbru curiosity explored why, after centuries of wearing hats, the trend fell out of favor in the middle of the 20th century. He explained that while both men and women wore hats for practical reasons, …

Hi everyone! You may have noticed that we’ve slowed down a bit on posting, approving comments, and, well, pretty much our whole end of the deal. We’d like to say we’re just too busy and …

A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal about 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods/services. Of course, if …

Intermezzo Sally Rooney I like the way she writes. I found the first half gripping, then felt it was going adrift, but returned to it with delight, because of her prose and the fresh way …

This week the European Patent Office officially published a patent application from Microsoft that reveals a new foldable device hinge for a different style of foldable that's more in tune with industry foldable smartphone trends.

We’re hosting an event in London in a few weeks to launch Mapped, a project we’ve been working on over the last six months with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. ​Mapped integrates …

An avidly spinning globe for the Commodore PET — and some bit-vectors. Well, I made another thing — in #6502 code and #PETSCII. Continue reading…

This comes from the OSR subreddit (via QuestingBeast’s newsletter) and I think it’s a great idea for adventure writing. The original author was considering this for a table of contents, which I think would be …

“Maybe you should do more than have a plan to create a plan!” – Futurist Jim Carroll My news clipping service recently picked up this gem of insight from a Conference Board leadership survey: “Outside …

Big news for me: after 6 years, I’m leaving Salesforce to join the folks at Socket, working to secure the software supply chain. Salesforce has been very good to me. But at a certain point, …

.NET Blazor has been touted as a revolutionary framework that allows .NET developers to build interactive web applications using C# instead of JavaScript. It's mainly aimed at ASP.NET Core developers who want to build SPA-like …

The Solar Auxilia is receiving a supply drop of new heavy equipment. In this review, we'll be taking a high-resolution look at the sprue images of the Valdor Tank Destroyer and Malcador Infernus, new Malcador …

Cats are known to be the leading predator of birds in the U.S.A, killing somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds per year. It's a major problem.And there's a sense that it's a new one. …

New Year, New Projects!I am taking this spring term off from teaching, partly to re-energize my batteries which have been rather low on account that I've been going full speed (🚌) since 2018; the pandemic …