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After a summer which rarely looked the part, and often felt more like winter, at least Autumn is putting on a good show of being autumn, enhanced by some welcome late sunlight. It's a season …

Still alive – still feeling ropy, although at least all the chest infections and so on have cleared up. I’ve still been left with a cough that’s just hanging around the back of my throat, …

An update to this blog is severely overdue, it appears. I hadn't realised it had been so long since I had last posted.There's been no big leap forward since the autumn but there have been …

From BBC News, a few days ago: A businesswoman who was arrested after sharing a fake name for the Southport attacker online will face no further action. Bernadette Spofforth, from Chester, was arrested on 8 …

Thanks to Stuart I am now the proud owner of a PlayStation and Playstation 2. (Well, a re-owner of the PS1 as my father threw mine out, and this is my second PS2, but the …

After many months of being like Oh man I gotta do that, my friend recently dug up the copy of Awful Green Things From Outer Space that he first played as a child--originally printed in …

A master list of still-rare options from generations past Violet, Olivia, Evelyn, Vivian. Oliver, Xavier, Levi. The elegant intrigue of the letter V powers many of this generation’s top traditional baby names. Now names like …

We're going back Jack, and doing it again--reading from a paperback edition of an anthology edited by August Derleth and with a cover illustration by Richard Powers, that is. I bought Beachheads in Space, Berkley …

for students | for scholars | for pleasure This blog is no longer being updated regularly with fresh content. Here are some self-study resources (including text and video) for those who would like to improve …

Three decades ago, David Ho set up two pink, dinosaur-patterned children’s pools in the parking lot of a NOAA building in Miami, where afternoon thunderstorms were common. He was 22, freshly done with his undergraduate …

https://www.bram.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ssstwitter.com_1728373297963.mp4Recording of Paul’s demo Dissecting and reworking a very nice demo by Paul Noble. ~ Card Stack Demo Paul Noble created an AMAZING scroll-driven animations demo in which you can drag cards from a card …

Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009). Holy shit this is amazing: Cameron’s World

I’ve tried Notion, Obsidian, Things, Apple Reminders, Apple Notes, Jotter and endless other tools to keep me organised and sure, Notion has stuck around the most because we use it for client stuff, but for …

If, like me, you've been waiting years for the fifth and final volume of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography the announcement of the release of "Turn Every Page" can only be taken as a hopeful …

Season after season, Cavour of Oslo is putting in the work of delivering the real deal quality tailored clothing that stylish men worldwide can invest in, at a price point they could only dream of. …