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Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stickSelfies are by no means an exclusively modern phenomenon. During the Middle Ages artists would portray themselves, even realistically. The person seen here made two selfies of himself and even …

This map, created shortly after the end of World War I, shows the different connections in the province of Utrecht The legend identifies the different types of lines on the map: railroads tramways paved roads …

Channel Calendars This month, celebrate Noirvember with a dazzlingly dark lineup of hard-boiled pleasures: Columbia Noir pays tribute to the studio that made a virtue of pulp seediness; a retrospective dedicated to the tough-as-nails Ida …

Jellephant & The Phantoms may be no more, but frontman Jelle Haagsma continues to create under the Jellephant moniker, and Undead marks his 14th (!) album. Haagsma, a multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented artist, cites influences like …

After 7 long years, Linkin Park is back with their new lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, new song "Emptiness Machine", new album "From Zero" (out on November 15), and a new tour.

What to do after if you accidentally lock yourself outWhen messing around with my NixOS config, I managed to accidentally log myself out of my system by setting my hashedPassword to a string that was …

Google Maps “Location History” is now called “Timeline” and is no longer available on desktop. Gone as well is the method we all used to back up the Location History, which involved downloading the history …

Life has been even more hectic than usual for me these last few weeks, so my productivity has declined further. Sorry. I blame it mostly on the fact that I have eight foster animals in …

Blade Runner: Black Lotus is an animated television series based on the Blade Runner franchise, which itself is based on the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The series …

All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/01 BELOW DECK, PRINCE ANDREW THE MUSICAL, THE BEST OF COMEDY 2022 …

Since the launch of the Fujifilm GF series in 2017, the company has been building on its popular medium-format lineup. The company's popular lineup, such as the GFX 50R and the GFX 100, has captured …

Frankenstein Moved In on the Fourth Floor by Elizabeth Levy, illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein, 1979. Sam lives with his brother and mother on the 19th floor of a large apartment building. One day, when he …

I’d never heard of this tax scheme before learning from The Bookseller that under its provisions the Cambridge University Library has become the home for the proofs of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, as well …

For many years, the United States has been sending warships through the Taiwan Strait in a corridor it considers to be “international waters”. The transits, which are regularly announced by the US military, are intended …