NewsHounds
We watch Fox so you don't have to!
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LA Times Owner Bends A MAGA Knee On Fox News
Patrick Soon-Shiong promised on Fox News to make his Los Angeles Times Trumpier.
Robert Kingett
A fabulously gay blind author.
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Updated 3 days ago
So you want to be my pen pal?
For the folks that just want the address and don’t want to read the below, You can write to me/send me packages at the below address. Robert Kingett 1321 UPLAND DR PMB 17504 HOUSTON, TX, …
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Old House Dreams
Specially selected historic & old houses for sale: Fixer-uppers, time capsule & move-in ready. Join the OHD community!
By Kelly.
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Updated 2 days ago
dansinker.com | my blog
This is a place where I can think out loud, work through ideas, and talk about stuff that doesn't fit cleanly into the type of freelance writing I do.
By Dan Sinker.
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Updated 4 days ago
Hope in the Rubble: a birthday request
Today is my birthday, a big one, and the world is shit. After last week's gutpunch of an election, I don't feel much like celebrating, but I do feel like trying to do something hopeful. …
Buried Treasure
Reviewing the indie games everyone else missed.
By John Walker.
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Updated 6 days ago
Freenergy
PC I have a particular love for games that take one element of a larger genre, and just hone in on it, let it be the only element of the game, and allow me to …
By buriedtreasure, 997 words
Literary Britain – Blog
Travels through the literary landscape: a guide to places of literary interest in the British Isles and beyond.
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Updated a year ago
The Beatles
I was late. The minibus was already at the stop. I did something I very rarely do and broke into a run. I was the last one there. I was shown into a minibus that, …
By Literary Britain, 1,554 words
Carnivorous Plants - Botanical Photography - aldrovanda.com
Field reports about carnivorous plants and botanical oddities in their native habitats. Photos of wild specimines of Drosera, Pinguicula, and Darlingtonia.
By Forbes Conrad.
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Updated a year ago
Stylidium debile in Cultivation
Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this …
By Forbes Conrad, 209 words
Lucas da Silva - Blog
Just my random thoughts and other random things that you may or may not find interesting. :).
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Updated 2 days ago
Japanese lessons - week 04 and 05
Week4に行く / に来る / に帰るTo add a bit more of nuance when indicating action, use the に particle.[Location]に[purpose]に[motion verb]Instead of writing this:公園に行きます。本を読みます。You can combine everything on a single quote:公園に本を読みに行きます。Offering Assistance~ましょうか (with rising intonation).英語を教えましょうか。Week 5Te-formru-verbDrop the …
By Lucas da Silva, 120 words
Wesley’s Notebook
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Updated 6 months ago
Hardly Baked 2 - my drivel blog
replacing Hardly Baked … "Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno.
By Simon Reynolds.
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sugared hiccups (UK rock 'n' roll 1 of ??)
"He didn't have much of a voice either, he was all nose and tonsil, a poor man's Buddy Holly. What he did have, though was... a certain persistent oddity, a real individuality. His first number …
By SIMON REYNOLDS, 266 words
Thinkige Kru 2
successor to Thinkige Kru … vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity.
By Simon Reynolds.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
2024-11-02 21:21
Audio musicam ergo sumMusic supplies us with a first clue. What part of me hears music when I listen to it? My body trembles, dances, kicks up its heels, perhaps jumps with joy; music innervates …
By SIMON REYNOLDS, 172 words
Shock and Awe 2
successor to Shock and Awe … the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
anti-theatricality + politics (the finale?)
A wise person once said: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” Donald Trump is a clown. Let’s prevent the presidency from becoming his circus.- …
By SIMON REYNOLDS, 2,374 words
Webstory
Peter Webster's blog.
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Updated 2 days ago
Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century
Regular readers will know that I’ve become interested in the history of publishing, both as an exercise in the history of technology and as a way of seeing how communities of thought and discourse organise …
By peterwebster, 58 words
The Research Whisperer
Just like the Thesis Whisperer - but with more money.
By Tseen Khoo, Jonathan O’Donnell.
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Updated 6 days ago
Perils of Peer Review
Image from Cindy Tang | unsplash.com Peer review, like many things, sounds great in theory. When you submit a paper for publication, qualified experts objectively review your paper, comment on its suitability for publication and …
By Research Whisperer, 976 words
DJ Adams
I've been hacking on SAP enterprise software for more than three decades, and am still enjoying it.
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Creating the new Tech Aloud intro and outro music
Today I revived my Tech Aloud podcast1. Since the last time I published an episode, the infrastructure has changed, in that the Anchor FM platform I was using has been subsumed into Spotify. While in …