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This year, our cookie inspiration came from the New York Times, especially Cookie Week 2023, and the book Fabulous Modern Cookies. Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies Neapolitan Checkerboard Squares Peanut Butter-Miso Cookies Pistachio Pinwheels Mango Chutney …

Ahead of next Tuesday’s online Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Jim van der Meulen of Ghent University. On 27 February between 5.30 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., Jim will discuss seventeenth-century Dutch …

This blog is ten years old today - happy birthday, dear I Buy a New Washer! Birthdays, I've found, are a time for looking backwards (what was I thinking?) and forwards (help!) and then for …

Joe Henderson & Kenny Drew Trio - Molde Jazz Festival, Norway, August 1968Before last week’s Yo La Tengo show in Boulder, I stumbled into the great Paradise Found record store (none other than Ira the …

Puppy Love is a loving documentary about a healthy litter of Labrador puppies that suddenly become paralyzed. Their breeder, Cindy, is advised to put them down, but she resolves to make them better, taking back …

Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS from OS X El Capitan 10.11 to the latest macOS Sonoma 14 and answer a …

I wrote here, critically, about the recent IMF report on the impact of AI and jobs. I was doing some research for a report I was writing recently which required me to go back into …

These nymphs have to be the most realistic nymphs I have ever seen. I ordered both patterns. I can't wait to give them a try on the Sipsey and Smith Lake. The bodies of these …

Episode 20 of the 1950’s saga of Filipina superhero Darna versus Valentina is here! Last episode, we saw the entire country react with shock to the terrible massacre of the town of L. Darna vowed …

DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for May 2024, and here are all the ones relating to the Flash. It’s a bit of a quiet month for Flash fans, as it seems the …

I've released a major update to my article, "A deep dive into CRT modelines and EDID editing". I've expanded on getting a VGA output using HDMI-to-VGA adapters (DACs), reading, writing, and editing EDID data on …

How to not get secrets in your bash history

This capsule review will have spoilers.Here's some boring facts about the book up front to avoid diving right into the spoilers. The Curious Conundrum of the Conflagrated Condottiero (henceforth referred to as "4C" for the …

Pre-registration is the best and possibly only solution to p-hacking. Ten years ago, pre-registrations were virtually unheard of in psychology, but they have become increasingly common since then. I was curious just how common they …

To escape the neutral, I had long since forsaken the being for the persona, for the human mask. When I humanized myself, I’d freed myself from the desert. I’d freed myself from the desert, yes, …