Chris Cid ∣ CJCid
XD/AI strategist and inclusive designer.
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CJ Solid Kibera
A wooden cooking spatula that’s balanced and comfortable to use. Hand‐carved wooden utensils is an area that I was looking to experiment with. Solid, natural wood are my preference because of their durability, safety, and …
Tor.com
Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
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Read an Excerpt From Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution
Excerpts Southern Reach Read an Excerpt From Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution A new novel in the Southern Reach series—one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time. By Jeff VanderMeer | Published …
By Stefan Raets, 2,420 words
Store Bought Is Fine
I’m the store-bought version of Ina Garten. Cooking my way through all 1,200+ of the Barefoot Contessa’s treasure trove of recipes.
By Trent.
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Jeremy Salamon’s Carrots & Crispy Speck
I like carrots, but I LOVED Jeremy Salamon’s Carrots & Crispy Speck! This bright, colorful dish bursts with fall flavors: a bed of carrot puree topped with roasted carrots, crispy speck, and fried sage, finished …
News from Norfolk
The occasional diary of someone who lives in an old house in East Anglia but also sometimes in an old house in Soho, London.
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A Doubtful Attribution
On that afternoon when I first learned of Lucinda’s death, it was as if some sort of filter had fallen between me and the rest of the world. The bright September sunlight was suddenly dim, …
By Barendina Smedley, 4,345 words
Pedestrian Observations
For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution.
By Alon Levy.
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Why Texas High-Speed Rail is Stuck
I’ve been asked on social media why the US can’t build a Shinkansen-style network, with a specific emphasis on Texas. There is an ongoing project, called Texas Central, connecting Dallas with Houston, using Shinkansen technology; …
By Alon Levy, 2,259 words
Teaching Made Visible
Hallway conversations about teaching and learning.
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Don’t make the same mistakes I keep making
If you teach high school or introductory college physics (or just know the subject well), I wonder if you can tell what I’ve done wrong here: OK, well, I haven’t given you a lot of …
By Scott Seagroves, 64 words
Tetrapod Zoology
Discussion of all things tetrapod and vertebrate palaeontology, and many things not.
By Darren Naish.
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The Inaugural 2024 TetZooTour of Southern England
If you read the previous article – recapping the events of TetZooCon 2024 – you’ll know that things went well. But what was that cryptic mention toward the end of a tour? Caption: basic ingredients …
By Darren Naish, 4,218 words
Silent-ology
Uncovering the silent era.
By Lea S.
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Thoughts On: “There It Is” (1928)
Haunted house films in the silent era tended to have a caveat: no matter how spooky or surreal the gags, there were always rational explanations. Buster Keaton’s creepy ghouls in The Haunted House (1921) were …
leonie wise
Photographer . Adventurer . Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
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the every day // recent vignettes
circular economya few years ago i donated my kinfolk magazine collection (every issue up to vol. 15) to a local coffee roastery & café. yesterday, when perusing the shelves laden with free books at the …
By Leonie Wise, 562 words
Living with Machines – Latest
…historians, data scientists, geographers, computational linguists, and curators have been brought together to examine the human impact of industrial revolution.
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Outreach and marketing for crowdsourcing tasks
Imagine you’ve set up a shiny new crowdsourcing project. How do you let people who might potentially want to volunteer online know about it? Here’s how we did it for one of our final crowdsourcing …
Sidewalken
Simon Evans' personal website.
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21 October 2024
I listened to Smog’s Knock Knock album through headphones for the first time today it was a revelation. I’d previously only listed to it through speakers at low low volumes. Almost twenty years of living …
NewsHounds
We watch Fox so you don't have to!
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Fox & Friends Helps Trump Pretend He’s A Regular Guy In Touch With Working Class
“You guys are the same as me,” the supposed billionaire told barbershop patrons in the Bronx.
Robert Kingett
A fabulously gay blind author.
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Hexodius [Xbox 360 Review]
The website that hosted this review is no longer online so I would like to keep it here. The below review was written when I was sighted. I am fully blind now. Side note, nearly …
By Robert Kingett, 714 words
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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c. 1891 Queen Anne in Kensington, KS
$225,000 - Victorian 2.5-Story Circa 1891 |A beautiful and well-maintained Victorian foursquare with two amazing porches, all situated in a picturesque rural Kansas small-town. This well appointed home has been beautifully maintained! The bones and …
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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Appreciate Everything Endlessly
I've watched this absolutely delightful talk from Panic's Cabel Sasser a half-dozen times since it was released last week. It's a story of finding an unexpected world inside, of all places, a McDonalds, and the …