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I was cheered this morning to see a story about Historic England's listing of an 'exceptionally rare' group of 17th-century chest tombs in the churchyard of St Clement's, Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. This is 'my' period, …

The recently published book The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World is published in 2024. It is written by Nathan J. Robinson, mainly based on what Noam Chomsky has written …

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Slight traces can be half-guessed, half-gathered to compile a crude biography. Weil was initially published in the United Kingdom, so we can guess that her translator may well have been British. Craufurd was active as …

I think we should also look at the stories we tell ourselves about how to solve systemic problems. In Hollywood, it’s the lone-wolf vigilante or rogue C.I.A. agent who breaks the rules, takes revenge and …

“When using AI in your work, just make sure it’s never the first or last thing to have input on the outcome. there is immense value in facing a blank page alone as a human …

When was the term mullet first used? Late 70s? Mid 80s? Late 80s? Later? The correct answer is probably 1994. The Decoder Podcast and the Oxford English Dictionary have gone deep down the rabbit hole. …

Bev and I fly off to the, sun-soaked, island of Corfu on Wednesday afternoon. Gatwick isn't a particularly pleasant airport from which to start our latest adventure, yet is certainly better than the Luton alternative …

You are asking, “Where are you? Are you okay? Are you still blogging?” In TikTok parlance, “Great questions. Let me tell you.” First, this standard TikTok pattern is one I find really interesting. It fills …

Let's get these out of the way! Bookmarks related to tech and web development Likes* are the best by Hagen Terschüren. Paged.js. Making Math Accessible by Dan O’Mahony and Ricky Onsman. My Eleventy site setup …

Year 15 in teaching, another post on grading. I'm still using standards based grading and I'm still thinking (overthinking?) how to represent student progress on each standard. I've gone through several scoring style changes. Most …

After I shared my initial thoughts on PyCharm, I moved more and more of my projects — personal and work related — to PyCharm. So far, it works out pretty nice, and I am getting …

This story is about Hong Kong and mountains and ferries and food and beer. What happened was, there’s a thirty-year-old picture I wanted to share and it brought the story to mind. I was sure …

In Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, ‘backstage’ is a metaphysical realm existing in parallel to the physical world. It’s a hidden dimension, a transitional zone, where gods and mythological beings can reveal their true forms …

I went to pick up a prescription. Name: last, first. Date of birth. Picking up one prescription. And the question: “Just the one?” Just the one? Meaning merely the one? Or the one alone, the …

The Mycelium Parish News for 2024 has been printed, and will be launched in Sheffield on Saturday 14th December. The zine is now listed on etsy for pre-order with copies for just £2.30 (£5 outside …

Monday, January 4, 2021 keeping a log: 9 months / ~1k entries in Previously: org mode, vimwiki, timeslice. Mechanisms inspired directly by: A demo & talk from Lars Wirzenius on his ikiwiki-based external brain and …

A chapter about the kinds of investigations/inquiries designers put together in their work, in the book by Atelier Luma, celebrating their ten years of design research.Nova, N. 2023. Les designers-enquêteurs et leur singularité, Pratiques biorégionales …

My grandma died in August. She was 98 ½. 98 ½! A phenomenal run. She outlived Castro, but not Jimmy Carter. She was my last grandparent. My mom’s parents died when I was a kid, …