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  1. Caffeinspiration
    Writing about tech, our minds, and how things work. By Alex Ellis. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests
    Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Lynyrd …
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  2. Balladeer's Blog
    Singing the praises of things that slip through the cultural cracks. 🇺🇸 More info

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    NELLIE BLY STARTED HER TRIP AROUND THE WORLD: NOVEMBER 14th, 1889
    NELLIE BLY (Elizabeth J. Cochrane), one of the most famous reporters in history, set forth on this date in 1889 in her well-publicized attempt to make it around the world in less than the 80 …
    By balladeer, 295 words
  3. Animated Meat
    The junk drawer of the universe. There is at least one useful thing here. By Ed Richter. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Calaveras Big Trees State Park
    An afternoon at Big Trees Dear Reader, I am happy to report that Calaveras Big Trees State Park sits a scant three miles past the town of Arnold, California and is home to two groves …
    By Edward Richter, 1,042 words
  4. useless-catalanfacts
    A place to share the culture and history of the Catalan Countries, explained by Catalans. 🇦🇩 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 More info

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    useless-catalanfacts:Pataqueta is the traditional moon-shaped...
    useless-catalanfacts:Pataqueta is the traditional moon-shaped bread from l’Horta de València, the area in the center of the Valencian country. Since the 17th century or earlier, it used to be baked by the farmers in their …
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  5. The ryg blog
    When I grow up I'll be an inventor. By Fabien Giesen. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Exact UNORM8 to float
    GPUs support UNORM formats that represent a number inside [0,1] as an 8-bit unsigned integer. In exact arithmetic, the conversion to a floating-point number is straightforward: take the integer and divide it by 255. 8-bit …
    By fgiesen, 1,160 words
  6. I Hit The Button - Travel Blog
    Latest blog posts from Andy Feliciotti about photography and travel. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Solar Eclipse 2024 Photos: My Experience & Photography Tips
    Photographing a total solar eclipse is a special experience. On April 8, 2024, my friend Kevin and I set out to capture the eclipse from Perryville Regional Airport in Missouri. This was my second time …
    By Andy Feliciotti, 734 words
  7. door.link
    A curated selection of music for listening and dancing in closed spaces. By Romina Malta. More info

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    159 by Ando Laj
    Ty Ando, as usual, for being part of door dot link. This is 159, featuring: Sequentia, Mansin, Boards of Canada, Toshifumi Hinata, Steve Roach, George Winston, Ensemble Belladonna, Ian Stocker, PMOL Music, Mason Newell Comtois, …
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  8. Synesthesia
    Proactive application of technology to business. By Julian Elve. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Transcribing meeting recordings with OpenAI
    The other day I was sent an audio recording of a meeting I had been part of, but no textual transcript was available. With a relatively small amount of hacking it is now very easy …
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  9. zck.org
    Just this guy, you know? By Zachary Kanfer. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Less: a Survival Guide
    I noticed recently that I was having trouble moving around in less. I could arrow up and down, but that took a lot of work. I could hit space to go a whole screen down, …
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  10. Archive Television Musings
    "To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self! I wonder what's on television?". 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Bill – Episode 6.63 – Attitudes (7th August 1990)
    Written by Arthur McKenzie, Directed by Richard Holthouse Knowing PC Young’s eventual fate, it’s difficult not to look back at any episodes which featured him strongly with a keen eye to see how his character …
    By archivetvmusings, 454 words
  11. Mia Rabbit - Photo diary of a petite rabbit
    A one of a kind handmade plush that loves to travel and eat sweets. By Arielle Nadel. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Down the Canals of Amsterdam
    It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Life has been busy and Mia has been recovering from her journey over the summer. Today marks 10 years of Mia Rabbit and to celebrate, I have one… The …
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  12. ALF Archives
    Keeping track of our favorite Melmacian. More info

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    ALF’s Wardrobe (Season 4)
    In the final season of ALF, Jason Cort brings us the highest amount of outfits in a season. A total of 59 outfits were worn by ALF in his last season and they were a …
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  13. The Solar Pool - Blog
    By Stuart Webb. 🇬🇧 More info

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    TFN 2024 Thoughts.
    My excellent Nick Roche commission. First up, a quick piece of housekeeping for people that don’t follow me on social media: Because writing Revisitation is so time consuming and difficult (and whilst my break for …
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  14. various bits – Blog
    miscellaneous and slightly random thoughts from a 50-something bearded bald guy. By Mike Ellis. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Book Club
    Suggested agenda for our next book club meet-up:
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  15. Backdrifting: Milo Trujillo's Cyber-Nest
    An intersection of social system design, cybernetics, and hacking. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Open Academic Publication
    Open Academic Publication Posted 10/28/2023 I’m currently at a workshop on open practices across disciplines, and one topic of discussion is how to change the academic publishing process to be more accessible to both authors …
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