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Earlier this week I was in Manchester for a conference. I didn't have time for a proper look around at what's new, but I did manage to jump on a tram to Stretford before it …

As I slurped my second - desperately needed - coffee on Wednesday morning I watched a covey of partridge percolate out of the field margin and delicately pick their way through the neatly drilled, shoulder-high …

I don't love how this painting turned out, but I enjoyed every moment of creating it. (I did the best I could on the photography with a tripod, my phone, and my office lights.) I …

On Thursday Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024. From Apple Newsroom: CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, …

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 week we are looking at a map of Drenthe in 1933. It is a tourist map from Sleeswijk’s pocket atlas for the Netherlands for walkers, bicyclists, and automobile drivers, made in 1933. The whole …

Channel Calendars This December, spend the holiday season with America’s most beloved purveyor of underground filth: our John Waters retrospective collects the best of the Pope of Trash, and the latest installment of Adventures in …

Last year, The Circulators’ self titled demo hit the punk rock underground like a bolt of lightning, sparking a fevered guessing game: lost gem from the ’70s or a contemporary band channeling the golden age …

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 …

There are a lot of things that factor into what review I decide to write next. First of all, I have a very long queue of dolls that have caught my eye over the years …

John Lurie (born December 14, 1952) is an American musician, painter, actor, director and producer. He co-founded the Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble, has acted in 19 films, including Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law; …

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 …

An admiral, several intelligence officers with Top Secret, classified clearance, a former NASA administrator (amongst others) all testified on 11/13/24 (and previously) before members of Congress that there are craft moving about in our air …