The Wertzone
SF&F In Print & On Screen.
By Adam Whitehead.
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Further allegations against Neil Gaiman emerge
Last year, allegations of sexual assault and non-consensual behaviour were levied against Neil Gaiman by five women, reported through several venues. Through spokespeople, Gaiman denied these allegations, stating that all of his relationships have been …
By Adam Whitehead, 441 words
Khaled Abou Alfa
I’m Khaled Abou Alfa, a Chartered Engineer living in Toronto.
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When we have the ball, it’s a game and when we don’t, it’s a fight. — Manuel Ugarte Love this quote and why this player is quickly becoming a cult hero.
Sean Boots
Technology, public services, and people. But mostly people.
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Published in Canadian Public Administration: “Breaking All the Rules: Information Technology Procurement in the Government of Canada”
I’m really thrilled that our research article on government IT procurement was recently published in Canadian Public Administration. It’s a bit over two years since Prof. Amanda Clarke and I began this research project, and …
Paul's page
My blog.
By Paul Tötterman.
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VictoriaLogs on NixOS
Searching for VictoriaLogs on search.nixos.org gave me no results, so I ran victorialogs from Docker. But at some point I did search for victorialogs on nixpkgs and realized that the binary is built with victoriametrics.
David Mytton
David Mytton is CEO of Console (the best tools for developers) and an active devtools investor.
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When security & sustainability meet: don’t try to change user behavior
Last week William Woodruff wrote an excellent blog post about the implementation of PEP 740 on PyPI: digital attestations for Python package releases. Apparently the release of this feature was controversial because of decisions like …
By David Mytton, 353 words
JimmerUK.com - Home
I do photoshops. I do words. I do other stuff.
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The McDonald’s Fries Theorum
As a family, we don’t get McDonald’s that often, mainly because I think it’s shit and there are better life choices to be made, but occasionally it will magically appear at our door, often when …
By Everyone's Favourite Jim, 765 words
BRAPA | Blog
On 5th April 2014, I had a dream. Or was it a nightmare? To tick every pub in the Good Beer Guide!
By Si Everitt.
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BRAPA .... TWIXTMAS WAR OF THE ROSES (WHICH COUNTY IS BEST? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT .... PUB!)
Thursday 26th - Saturday 28th December 2024 With Christmas done for another year in the BRAPA family household ..... .... it was off to Preston on Boxing Day to watch Hull City lose ..... AND …
By Si Everitt, 1,461 words
Bright Lights Film Journal
Pop reviews and in-depth analyses of current and classic films from around the world.
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Cruising: The Boys in (Black and) Blue
“I don’t make a film because I’m against something. For that matter, I don’t make a film because I’m for something — don’t make propaganda. If anything, all the films[...] The post <em>Cruising</em>: The Boys …
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Brandon's movie memory – Deeper Into Movies
This is not film criticism, just my thoughts on what I’ve watched, how I felt about it, and what other interesting information and opinion I found elsewhere.
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The Movie Year in Review, 2024
Happy New Movie Year! Once again I made a letterboxd list of all the must-see movies released during the year. I’ve watched about 60 percent of these, which is good, for me. We went to …
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
a personal view of the theory of computation.
By Kenneth W. Regan, Richard Lipton.
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A Common Reader
A way to sort through my thoughts about what I read and organize my notes. I hope it can provide readers a resource for classics, hard-to-find books, and non-fiction works.
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Mikhail Shishkin interview at Asymptote
I finally got around to reading Mikhail Shishkin’s interview at the Asymptote journal. He goes into some depth on his writing of Maidenhair, his view of Russian politics, and the launch of a new literary …
Goethe Etc.
Mostly about Goethe and the 18th century.
By Goethe Girl.
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Goethe and the Elegiac Tradition
I subscribe to the TLS, which does pretty good coverage of German literature and history, including Goethe. (I have even written a few reviews in the TLS on Goethe, which you can check out online.) …
By Goethe Girl, 1,084 words
Sharon Lohr — Blog
Sharon Lohr researches and writes about statistics: where they come from, how to interpret them, and how to tell the good statistics from the bad.
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How Many People Attend Religious Services? Part 1
I knew there were serious problems with at least one of the statistics as soon as I skimmed the newspaper article. Paragraph 2 of Magruder (2024) states:But since 2000, church attendance has dropped in the …
By Sharon Lohr, 2,752 words
West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology.
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Mundane Monday
I had lunch outside on Monday. Airnow.gov said that the air quality was good so I took the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine and walk down to a neighborhood restaurant not far from my place …
Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)
Comments on how data science, algorithms, software shape current events.
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Know your data 40: omnipresent listening
Apple markets itself as the tech giant that is most protective of user privacy. One reason to believe this claim is that unlike all the other tech companies, Apple charges premium prices for its products …