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The Commodore Amiga Port of Cecconoid -- by Ian Ford [h0ffman] & published by Thalamus -- is out! As you can see, Thalamus have put serious care and attention into the production of the big …

A latex mold filled with paper mache pressed against the mountainBack in September I tried two different methods for making rock castings: 1) filling a mold with papier-mâché and pressing it against the mountain while …

The other day, my good friend Professor Narelle Lemon sent me a link to an academic paper called “AI and its implications for research in higher education: a critical dialogue” because it cited … one …

I may have forgotten to share my quarter 2 wrap up and stats (it’s still sitting in my draft folder!) but I’ve remembered about Q3! These last few months have been a bit of a …

Patrick’s launched his latest Kickstarter, Queen Mabs Palace. In a real plot twist, the book isn’t a D&D module, but a novel. I suppose novels were the first adventures. I’m reading Patrick’s last book now, …

I love this aphorism about visionary leadership paraphrasing Saint-Exupéry: “Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of …

I was watching this video by Nuno Maduro the other day where he was explaining how they are using Composer Scripts to simplify the process of running multiple commands in their flagship product, Laravel Cloud. …

In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation …

From: https://youtu.be/huEtJw7pfLk?si=2gHBKU32xylyZE5y I couldn’t not post this. The music! The DJ-ing using YouTube! The fact it’s been on the internet for thirteen years I’ve only just seen it! Via Kottke.•

Hello everyone! I am still diligently working on the historical fiction novel that I started writing back in February of this year and announced that I was writing in June. Writing the novel has been …

I’ve been writing about eyewear quite a bit this year. And as I mentioned recently, I’ve noticed that more men seem to be approaching spectacles as a collector’s item rather than a purely functional product. …

Typographic glyphs have their moments. The @ symbol was barely used before it became indispensable for email and social media. The creation of the single European currency saw thousands of fonts being reissued to include …

Spook Country by William Gibson, 2007 A '90s indie-music star enters the 21st century as a freelance journalist working on a piece about locative art, interviewing a Los Angeles artist who uses augmented reality to …

Adam and Greg discuss the finer points of the new hoops squad, including the roster and schedule. At the end, some football talk.

"Do we ever truly let go of the people with whom we’ve been intimate on some level? Doesn’t a part of them live on inside us forever?"