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I like riding bicycles. The Tanglefoot Moonshiner is a very, very weird bike. It's also an excellent bike. It might just be the perfect bicycle for Northern New England in 2024. moonSHINin' When we lived …

The world’s birds gathered for their conference And said: ‘Our constitution makes no sense. All nations in the world require a king; How is it we alone have no such thing? Only a kingdom can …

Hot Chips isn’t just a conference where companies give in-depth presentations on the architectures behind high performance chips. It’s also a place to talk to the engineers who worked on those products on the sidelines, …

"Get or create" is a very common operation for syncing data in the database, but implementing it correctly may be trickier than you may expect. If you ever had to implement it in a real …

Lower Inver morning view upstream from the Scrambles Over the years I have been privileged to fish in many beautiful places, but nowhere else moved me as much as these two small Highland rivers. As …

Thanks again to my brother Paul for the scans, cheers Paul! Aphex Twin: The soldering iron becomes an instrument Who is Richard James, or what is he? Jimi Hendrix of Techno? The Beach Boys of …

This post comes from London where two roundabouts have been redesigned to add protected cycling space.The first is the Old Street junction which is right on the border of the boroughs of Hackney and Islington, …

If you keep bees in temperate latitudes your beekeeping year is more or less seasonal, depending on how far from the equator you are.The spring and summer are busy, with colony expansion, swarm control, queen …

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 …

David Friedman recently created a daily word puzzle called Gisnep! I’ve been hooked on it ever since I discovered it last week. As a non-coder, he created it using a form of guess-and-check programming with …

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 routes from 1894. Understanding the major connections between cities may help you understand migration patterns. People who travelled along these lines may have met partners in …

The Long Good Friday whisks audiences across late-1970s London, taking in everything from the Concorde landing at Heathrow Airport to the desolate undeveloped Docklands, from the chauffeur-driven cars at the Savoy Hotel to the beat-up …

Kicking off 2024 with a bang, capsuna made their mark with a self-titled debut album that quickly positioned them among Europe’s brightest up-and-comers. Now, their latest single continues to stoke the flames of excitement. On …

The summer is almost over, time to reflect on how it all went. I hiked a bit, worked a lot, read even more, went to a couple of concerts, traveled a bit. All in all, …