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Broaden your horizons by eating someone else’s comfort food There’s a theory that for any foreign cuisine to take root and become popular in the UK, its various traditions, flavours, ingredients and dishes have to …

I love it when you only have to change one word. Low calorie, low effort subvertising. More here: subvertising.co.uk I'm slowly making a series of one-word Pepsi ad alterations. See previously: Subvertised pepsi ad, words …

A bit of cheap and cheerful JV-Wave for Bandcamp Friday tomorrow:https://helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/protootles

Currently reading: Godeater’s Son by Noah Van Nguyen 📚

One of my favorite views of tall buildings, again: in the fog. New York Bay has more than it’s fair share of fog, and sometimes it creeps back up into the city. We had one …

What has Balaam to do with Josiah? Ancient stories are not always what they seem, and different biblical passages often intersect with each other in unexpected ways. In this article, I examine a speculative theory …

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The art of preventing errorsThe Poka-Yoke principle in UX design — UX Knowledge Piece Sketch #59OriginsThe Poka-Yoke principle was originally applied by Toyota’s industrial engineer, Shigeo Shingo. The term “poka-yoke” means “error-proofing”, the main goal …

This terracotta statuette from Babylon is one of very few images of a woman in the ‘Elamite robe’ or Faltengewand from the Achaemenid period. Photo of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, object VA Bab …

I must maximize the silent time and remove as many activities as possible for a while. Writing is a non-negotiable for me, but public writing is not. I hope to one day resume writing here. …

A VERY long post unrelated to the image of soda where I provide an overview of my surfing, journaling and sharing practices on The Internet thanks to an RSS (only!) post by Chris McLeod.Currently Listening: …

Esta primera conferencia empieza explicando la función de la ciencia, en qué consiste y cómo se van encontrando nuevos descubrimientos y modificando las leyes conocidas. Plantea un ejemplo que me gusta mucho. La masa de …

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There are so few mystery comics out there — not thrillers, not blood-soaked serial killer books — and one of the all-time best is The Maze Agency. I gave a brief history of the series …

Every game makes you a promise: the game will be about this thing and will support you this way. Some games wisely under-promise and over-deliver. That’s just good life advice. But under-promising is hard to …