Pegs and 'Tails
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English and Irish furniture &c.
By Jack Plane.
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Green Movement
It looks like that Orson Cart has been playing with his caravan again. Jack Plane
Second Glance History
Forgotten Stories, Rediscovered through a Modern Lens.
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Tabloid Typecasting
Longtime Second Glance History readers no doubt remember what happens when Americans go abroad. (Reminder: They get accused of being German spies.) But what does the rest of the world think of Americans back home? …
The Pulp Super-Fan
Commentary from the den of a pulp super-fan.
By Michael R. Brown.
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‘Weird Stories’ by Gary Lovisi
A new collection from Gary Lovisi is out from Ramble House: Weird Stories: Shudder Pulp, Horror, & Lovecraft! It contains over 20 stories, most reprints from various small publications from the 1980s on, along with …
Born In Space
The World's First Internet Spaceship.
By Geekologie Writer.
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Self-Driving Taxi Can’t Compute Broken Fire Hydrant
This is a video from San Francisco of a Waymo self-driving taxi encountering an open fire hydrant and being unable to assess the situation. It doesn’t want to drive through the water, but it doesn’t …
TV-VCR
movies and television, together at last in one clunky package.
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TV-VCR has reached its end of tape
Hey. Thanks for reading this. And, more so, thanks for reading and commenting on everything else before this on TV-VCR. But, I’m sorry to say, this is all there will be to read. This is …
ZeroAir Reviews
A site for things that interest a flashlight fan!
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Loop Gear SK-05 Helm Flashlight Review
🔦 Loop Gear SK-05 Helm Flashlight Review on ZeroAir Reviews 🔦The Loop Gear SK-05 Helm flashlight offers so many things. Throw and triple flood and side RGB as well as USB-C charging and a Pro …
The Time Bum
A blog about affordable wrist watches with reviews, guides, commentary and more.
By Loren Sciurba, et al.
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Prevail Onward Future Field Watch
Watches and the military have a long, intertwined history dating to at least the 19th century, when deck watches adorned the wrist of naval officers. The associations more commonly drawn… The post Prevail Onward Future …
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Lee Maguire – Blog
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Person of Interest S5E13
Notes for season 5, episode 13, “return 0“ 08:26 Even with HR removed, it’s apparently not hard to find a bunch of cops at the precinct that would execute fellow officers for “a nice fat …
SUSANNAH BRESLIN — BLOG
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What I'm (Re)Watching: True Romance
I’m re-watching True Romance, one of my all-time favorite movies. From Wikipedia:True Romance is a 1993 American romantic crime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. It features an ensemble cast led …
By Susannah Breslin, 93 words
whygodwhy
idk! fine! whatever! who cares! shut up!
By Kevin Fanning.
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The Two Women I Briefly Worked With
One was at Subway. Call her Kelly, which may actually.have been her name. She was at least 15 years older than the rest of us. Raspy voice, smoked. Chatty, but fun, not annoying. Slightly broken …
Pierre Marshall - Blog
Some occasional thoughts on politics and tech.
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Failing foobar
Earlier today I got a surprise invitation to Google Foobar,1 a series of coding tests presented as a text adventure. You’re presented with a normal terminal interface, and a few familiar commands like ls, cd, …
By Pierre Marshall, 148 words
RonJeffries.com
The combination of new articles, XProgramming, SameElephant, and perhaps even some new items never before contemplated.
By Ron Jeffries.
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Block?
I believe that the client-side code includes a Block class. I further believe that we have no use for it. Even further, I suspect there are tests that use it, which should not. Let's sort …
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A Blog, A Website and A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, india, photography, kannada, friends and other interests.
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Amphere EV – Reo Li Plus
My father turned seventy recently. He used his scooter to get around the neighborhood—at most, about 40 km in a day and not more than 10 km one way. Scooter allowed him to visit his …
Moments in Graphics | Blog
I strive to make graphics research more accessible by providing additional information. It is about interesting works of others as well as my own work.
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Finding Real Polynomial Roots on GPUs
A recent paper of mine performs an intersection test in a ray tracing shader. To this end, I had to compute all real roots of a polynomial of moderately high degree (10 to 26). Overall, …
Jarrett House North
Second verse, same as the first.
By Tim Jarrett.
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Herbie Hancock, V.S.O.P.
Album of the Week, October 19, 2024 What comes after a career arc like the one Herbie Hancock had from the early 1960s through 1976? We’ve talked about many of his Blue Note Records albums …
By Tim Jarrett, 1,586 words