Jestress's Forgotten Books and Stories
Nostalgic Children's Books.
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The Mystery of the Runaway Scarecrow
Three Cousins Detective Club #26 The Mystery of the Runaway Scarecrow by Elspeth Campbell Murphy, 1999. Sarah-Jane astonishes her cousins when she tells them that Buster, the scarecrow her mother made, which has been sitting …
Making Book
All sorts of stuff about books and book manufacturing.
By Richard Hollick.
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Burning up time
In a LitHub extract from his essay collection Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas (McSweeney’s 2024), Nick Hornby lays it on the line “Reading a bad novel when you are approaching pensionable age is like taking the …
EJIL: Talk!
Blog of the European Journal of International Law.
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Whose Legal Duty to Aid?
On 4 November, Israel officially informed the United Nations of its decision to cut ties with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) following the passage of …
By Cherry Tang, 1,571 words
Lens Rentals | Blog
The largest online rental provider for photography, videography, and lighting equipment and accessories in the United States.
By Roger Cicala et al.
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A Deep Dive Into Manually Focusing MILCs
This post is of interest to any user of a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC). I’ve illustrated it with images from the Fujifilm GFX 100. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: Use as much magnification as …
Speedysnail
Blazing a silvery trail since 1999. Personal website and weblog with photos, limericks, cartoons, academic papers and more.
By Rory Ewins.
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The Frogs of Chernobyl
The embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags. Researchers have found a lost Mayan city not at all “by accident”. Prince’s advice about being online in 1999. David Bowie’s predictions the same …
Blog Joshua
Joshua Rocky Tuahta Purba's personal blog about everything.
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Li-ion Cells Salvage Again
Salvaging 18650 li-ion cells from dead battery pack of a ThinkPad T530.
justin․searls․co
Where Justin Searls is content to post content.
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🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v24 - Prophylactic Jet Lag
Direct link to podcast audio file TIL that 4 AM is way too goddamn early to record a podcast. Apologies if I'm more chipper than usual, that's probably the coffee talking. Had some great e-mails …
By Justin Searls, 197 words
Beautiful Water Genealogy
Voyages through family and local history.
By Christine McCloud.
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Honor Roll Project: Norwalk, CT – World War II
In recognition of those who have served our country in the military, Heather Wilkinson Rojo of the Nutfield Genealogy blog started the Honor Roll Project. It’s an opportunity to publicly document the names on military …
Pixels At An Exhibition
Celebrates images mostly shot and always processed on iPhones or other iOS devices.
By Knox Bronson.
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Stay & Roam
outdoor life · travel · nature.
By Gemma Evans.
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Around Stockholm, September 2024
September was a month of the first yellow leaves, fewer tourists, people in jackets followed by a blast of heat (28°c), clattering cutlery…
Antarctica Starts Here.
The personal homepage of The Doctor.
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Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. …
By The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510], 1,011 words
Cam Pegg: Digital product and strategy guy
Musings about stuff by someone old enough to know better than to put them on the internet.
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October 1 2024, 10:14am
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.—Enrico FermiReply via email or Mastodon.
joisig gone awol | Posts
By Jói Sigurdsson.
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GitHub and Sentry have perfect invoice filenames
CrankWheel uses Maxio (née Chargify) for subscription management. It’s OK but I’ve never been super duper happy with it (mostly because I chose it for its flat fee structure, then later they switch to charging …
By Jói Sigurdsson, 290 words
Janealogy - Blog
Have you ever wondered what mysteries are tucked away in your family’s past?
By Jane Harris.
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Mapping birthplaces
I’ve been experimenting with the MapChart website to produce maps showing the birth county of people in North Walls and Brims in two censuses, 1861 and 1921. What do you think? 1861 Census And here’s …
Longstride: Trail Journals
Hiking and trail journals from the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and beyond.
By John Bafford.
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A Lazy Day, and Return to Auckland
After 150 days on the trail, I was exhausted. Last week, CareFree and I worked out a plan to take a day off, and then travel to Stewart Island, about 40 km south of the …
By John “Longstride” Bafford, 329 words