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Illustrator in Bristol, England. I blog local interest, poetry, wildlife, travel, and art. Also LGBT and gender politics!
By Dru Marland.
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the 2025 Kennet and Avon Canal calendar
The new calendar is here! This year I've gone back to people on the canal; so there's incidents from daily life and history, like the workboats - here's John Knill in 1950, delivering a cargo …
By Dru Marland, 153 words
Martijn Grooten – Blog
I am a consultant, a researcher and a writer with a holistic view on digital security.
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Kite
Thirteen years ago, my wife Dimitra wrote a children’s story about a magical kite for the teacher training course she was doing in England. Today is Clean Monday, a day when Greeks traditionally fly kites, …
Flaming Pablum
Hopefully an Interesting, Informative and Amusing Experiment and Not A Slavishly Masturbatory Exercise in Abject Time-Wasting.
By Alex in NYC.
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Things I Learned This Week
In the futile interests of creating space in my brain for things other than withering contempt and existential dread, herewith a short list of non-horrific things I learned this week. Sonny Curtis, the guy who …
By Alex in NYC, 195 words
Error Statistics Philosophy
By Deborah G. Mayo.
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Neyman-Pearson Tests: An Episode in Anglo-Polish Collaboration: (3.2)
Neyman & Pearson November Cruise: 3.2 This second of November’s stops in the leisurely cruise of SIST aligns well with my recent Neyman Seminar at Berkeley. Egon Pearson’s description of the three steps in formulating …
Xi'an's Og
an attempt at bloggin, nothing more...
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The Patron Saint of Superheroes
Chris Gavaler Explores the Multiverse of Comics, Pop Culture, and Politics.
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How I Make Non-Crappy Art in MS Word Paint
I made this drawing in Paint. I’m guessing it took about four hours spread over three days. If I were a more experienced artist I assume it would take less time, but maybe not radically …
By Chris Gavaler, 1,066 words
Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations
Records the investigatory work of Garson O’Toole who diligently seeks the truth about quotations. Who really said what?
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Quote Origin: Peace Has Its Victories, But It Takes Brave Men and Women To Win Them
Ralph Waldo Emerson? Mary Allette Ayer? Young People’s Weekly? John Milton? Kin Hubbard? Anonymous? Peace dove carrying an olive branch from Pixabay Question for Quote Investigator: Here are the first and last sentences of an …
By quoteresearch, 1,352 words
PostSecret
You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project.
By Frank Warren.
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Sunday Secrets
The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
News From ME
About TV, movies, theatre, comics, news, politics and other forms of fantasy.
By Mark Evanier.
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ASK me: Juggling
From Phil Rushton… I guess there are as many ways of writing as there are writers but I was interested to hear that you are currently writing two books at the same time (does the …
From a Glacier's Perspective - AGU Blogosphere
Glacier change in a world of climate change.
By Mauri Pelto.
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Glacier Retreat on Yakutat Foreland, Alaska Generates Fastest Lake Growth in United States
Yakutat, Alsek and Grand Plateau Glacier retreat from 1984 to 2024 has led to the three lakes expanding from 130 km2 to 240 km2 as illustrated by this pair of Landsat images. Fastest lake expansion …
Eric Bailey – Writing
Inclusive design advocate, writer, developer, and speaker.
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Don’t forget to localize your icons
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended. What he failed to …
David Darnes
Designer, Front-end Developer & Writer specialising in Design Systems, Eleventy, Ghost and Jamstack.
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duration-property Web Component
duration-property is a bit of a quirky component compared to what I've made before. I always try to make them very low level, versatile and utility based. In this case though I just went with …
By David Darnes, 418 words
Chen Hui Jing
The chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer.
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Chill day just HTML-ing and CSS-ing
I have not had as many chances to build websites lately because for a little over the past 100 days, I’ve been in a non-developer role at work. It’s not really my cup of tea, …
In Custodia Legis
Law Librarians of Congress. A blog from the Library of Congress.
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Law Library’s Newly Published Legal Report Titled, “Climate Change and Historic Preservation”
The following post is a guest post by Foreign Law Specialist Eduardo Soares. Eduardo has previously published the following posts: Law Library’s Newly Published Report titled “Spain: Civic Space Legal Framework,” The Law Library’s New …
By Taylor Gulatsi, 392 words
The Urbanist
Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life.
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Op-Ed: Abandoning Seattle’s First Avenue Streetcar Is Still Foolish
With rising costs and waning support, Seattle’s Center City Streetcar project is clearly in a fragile place. This budget season, the Seattle City Council took to the issue like a bull in a China shop. …
By Doug Trumm, 1,566 words