Personal blogs

I keep reading things, thinking “I should link to this on my blog,” and forgetting about them. Here are some I remembered. Adri Joy reviews John Wiswell’s Someone You Can Build a Nest In A …

Suppose every day I punched you in the head for fun. Portrait of a man who getting a punch from someone Then you offered to pay me to not punch you in the head. For …

I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020) by qntm. The premise is that our world is full of things with antimemetic properties. …

We have known for four years that the NHS accounts for around 5% emissions of greenhouse gases, but we don’t know the carbon footprint of the heath research system. The research community has been slower …

Three of these poems, are short, poem-sketches of moments in time. Brief, lyrical, imagist observations about people and places. The fourth, is an attempt to address wider world events, the drum of bad news, war …

It's 2024, and it's time to move on from Bearblog for the moment. It's a great place to write, and Herman has been a very gracious host, but recently I've found myself wanting something different. …

I've still got a backlog of 2023 reviews to write, so for the next little while I'm gonna end up breaking the boundary and posting a mix of stuff from this year and last year. …

⤳ In the middle of the week, we schlepped up to Camden, to the Roundhouse to see Brett Anderson and the Paraorchestra do their Death Songbook show. It was a really good show, very different …

Moonbound for nerds; AI science. Read here.

A game show for the Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society This is the long story of a frivolous, fleeting creative project that came out of nowhere, completely took over my life for a few weeks, and …

Astro just released Astro DB, a fully managed database integrated with the framework itself. I created a views counter for my blog, and loved the experience.

The world US colleges are experiencing a wave of pro-Palestinian protests demanding Universities cut their ties to Israel, etc. Some authorities have responded with militarized police forces breaking up protests and arresting protestors, giving everyone …

The view from our apartment.

This is a smart and thoughtful piece from Steve:

[R.C.] Benedíctus es, Dómine, Deus univérsi, quia de tua largitáte accépimus vinum, quod tibi offérimus, fructum vitis et óperis mánuum hóminum . . . [CofE] Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation: through your …

I spent a lot of time in TV studios in my yoof. My dad was a sound engineer, and I took any opportunity I could to bunk off school or use the holidays to go …

Details to come. The post Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center–Townsend, Tennessee appeared first on Sean of the South.

I’m not sure if I’m misremembering but my brain says there was a time when blog posts did not have “post titles” by default. Coming up with a post title is one of my least …

A common complaint amongst the old guard bloggers is that the old web as we knew it is dying. This is false.The old web has actually been dead for many...