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Charlie Chaplin’s 1916 film One A.M. begins with him portraying a wealthy drunk struggling to exit a taxicab. Filmed on location, this setting has been a mystery for over a century, until Sarah Lagrillière, a …

Original poster art for 'The Lost World' (1925).This weekend takes me to the fair city of Cleveland, Ohio, where I'll accompany 'The Lost World' (1925) at this year's annual Sci-Fi Marathon at Case Western Reserve …

Combo Up Designer: Katja Stremmel Publisher: Amigo Players: 3-5 Age: 10+ Time: 30 minutes Played with review copy provided by publisher Who has the best combo? Outbid each other with your card combos and improve …

18XX. This has been a year of 18XX games. Things started slowly in the Spring, but then 18 India hit us by a storm. I ended up playing various 18XX titles over 20 times this …

Nine Tiles is from Japanese publisher Oink Games, but the designer is Jean-Claude Pellin from Luxemburg. The Sanrio characters version I have is not the first edition. The very first edition uses just generic abstract …

In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see things, India’s …

A small article in the Honolulu Star (March 27, 1900) made the announcement … “Hibernia block will probably be the name of the new sky scraper to go on Hotel Street, between Union and the …

For years now I have had a boilerplate rejection notice for review requests from Elsevier journals. (See the Cost of Knowledge pledge for why.) I include it here, feel free to remix and reuse: As …

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formalization of the idea, with Chris Sims and Michael Woodford …

This episode is released exclusively on Pushkin+. Episodes are released on the main feed each Friday. Lying on the cold metal table, Voyne Ray Cox knew the drill. This was his ninth round of cancer …

It does, actually. In Firefox. Sometimes. A major risk of using ARIA to define text content is it typically gets overlooked in translation. Automated translation services often do not capture it. Those who pay for …

My @container scroll-state() article is live! developer.chrome.com/blog/css-scroll-state-queries Stuck state: Triggered when an element is stuck.Snapped state: Triggered when an element is snapped.Scrollable state: Triggered when an element is overflowing.

Keen frost this morning. Both the burners on red. Having a lot of trouble with muck in the oil. Cleaned Mr T car. In a very dirty state. Mr Key got a new car yesterday.

When this blog reached its five-year anniversary in 2018, I wrote a summary of the conclusions it had reached so far, and I vaguely thought at the time that, should it run for another five …

. After Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie, and the Prince Imperial, let’s add yet another profile of a Bonaparte who imprinted their personal style on 19th-century Paris: Princess Mathilde. If you were to design the exemplary …