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McGurk Mysteries The Case of the Invisible Dog by E. W. Hildick, 1977. The members of the McGurk Organization are having their annual picnic in McGurk’s backyard when, suddenly, a doughnut leaps off the table …

Commenting at The Scholarly Kitchen on the recent London Book Fair, Jill O’Neill relates: “I happened to see an event attendee quoting Cambridge University Press as saying that 85% of their frontlist was currently produced …

Some weeks ago, Nicholas Tsagourias published a piece on Articles of War blog, analysing the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent advisory opinion on Israel’s practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. While other blogposts examined …

When it comes to photography, my love for it is built around my passion for shaping light in new and creative ways. So every now and then, when I come up with some interesting ways …

Tom Ewing has continued apace through the first year of 2000AD. Six Million Dollar Man rip-off Mach 1 is an utterly forgettable strip which—unlike Dan Dare, Invasion, Flesh and Harlem Heroes—I had utterly forgotten. Maybe …

Salvaging 18650 li-ion cells from dead battery pack of a ThinkPad T530.

I'm working on a conference talk and there won't be time for me to detail each and every piece of advice I've accrued for each technical topic, so I'm going to dump some of them …

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 …

We hit that point in the year where we could no longer resist the call of Gotland. I packed two cameras for the…

"Check your ego at the door. No gods, no rockstars. Only n00bs." --thegibson I try to go off the grid every couple of months to get away from everything and free up compute cycles for …

My flight home last night tracked up the Hudson and I was fortunate enough to have a window seat on the right hand side of the plane, so I had an amazing view of the …

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 …

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 …

After 150 days and 3074.5 km of hiking (and also canoeing and cycling), I reached Bluff, the southern terminus of Te Araroa. Today was, I think, the first time daylight saving time changed for me …