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The Modern Macchiato: the way it's been made in North American specialty coffee houses for two decades. Learn how to make your best one! The post Modern Macchiato How To appeared first on CoffeeGeek.

Trevor Warmedahl reports on the marginalised Rabari community in Central Gujarat, India and how a dairy there is working to help support value and autonomy in their pastoral ways through cheesemaking. Two young Kutchi goats are left at home while the larger herd spends the day out grazing. Image © Trevor Warmedahl A man with a thick moustache, dressed in hand-embroidered white cotton cloth, whistles to a herd of goats …

Okay, so I know this is going to shock you, but I've been working on something arcane and impractical. I'm in a new band called Kuwait Grips I made a wrapper for normal HTTP-speaking Rust web apps so their traffic can take an extra round trip through a totally different protocol, before being translated back into HTTP for the outside world. Specifically, I plan to serve Axum-based apps via FastCGI, …

Yesterday, Marvel announced the cast of the upcoming(ish) Fantastic Four film, and the announcement was Valentine's Day themed because... Reed and Sue are a couple? (I've heard that there was a leak imminent and Marvel wanted to get ahead of it.) Anyway, I hope it will be good. A decent film adaptation has been a long time coming -- yes, I know, The Incredibles -- but part of me does …

Fig. 2. Rebbachisauridae indet. (MDPA-Pv 007) from the Sierra Chata locality (Candeleros Formation) Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous). Anterior caudal vertebra in anterior (A1, A3), posterior (A4, A6), and left lateral (A7, A9) views. Close ups showing lateral spinal laminae (A2), accessory bony lamina located inside of spof (A5), foramina in the lateral surface of the centrum, arrowheads indicate the presence of foramina (A8). Abbreviations: acdl, anterior centrodiapophyseal lamina; amedl, anterior medial …

This island in Thailand had everything I wanted in a tropical beach break. Ko Lipe is a Thai island in the Andaman Sea in Satun Province. It’s the most southerly island you can stay at before crossing the maritime border of Malaysia. Ko Lipe is about 3 km in length and 1.8 km at the widest part. There is no port here, let alone an airport. It takes 90 minutes …

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.Choose among the candidates we have and create momentum against the high-polling candidate you least want. Would I prefer a younger, more liberal candidate than Biden? Yes. Is Trump’s coalition a serious threat to democracy, marginalized groups, bodily rights for women, progress against climate change, and on and on? Yes. I’m throwing my vote onto the Biden side of the scale; sometimes …

WowHaus 1960s Malcolm Macdonald midcentury modern house in Lymington, Hampshire 1960s Malcolm Macdonald midcentury modern house in Lymington, Hampshire (image credit: Caldwells) One I covered previously, but this 1960s Malcolm Macdonald midcentury modern house in Lymington, Hampshire, looks much better now. (image credit: Caldwells) Annoyingly, for my own reference, as much as anything, this was back in 2014 – a time when I didn’t use a lot of images in …

In Taiwan, sometimes the government mandates certain Saturdays or Sundays as “make up workdays.” If you get off Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for Lunar New Year, for example, you may have to come in next Sunday, because five days of straight vacation for the working class causes physical illness to the Taiwanese billionaires forced to witness it. Though the government advises which of these days should be “make up workdays” …

It’s time for Mozilla to recognize it is a better non-profit than it is a business—for the sake of the Web as a platform.

Black Crystal by @baumraum_treehouses located in the Catskill Mountains. Photographs by @mo More photos on @cabinporn.

Learning life lessons is why I am here on this planet… like a rider on the storm. In the turbulence, I remember that I’ve seen it before and lived. Yes, I have seen this before and …….. lived.… 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞

*Heart cockles, via the Natural History Museum, London.* Sam Gilliam, "Blue Edge," 1971, acrylic on canvas, The Baltimore Museum of Art via David Kordansky Gallery.*A Rudolph Steiner interior in Dornoch, Switzerland. Photo by Deidi von Schaewen, via Commune.*Victorain shell cameo, ca. 1850, via Sian Harlow Antiques.*An 1817 "cobweb" valentine, featured in "Victorian Romance: The Art of Cobweb Valentines." The recipient would gently pull the string in the center to reveal …

In 1993, in my early 20s, I was working in a giant chain bookstore known as BookStar in Cary, NC. It wasn't a bad place to work, basically a Barnes and Noble (who eventually bought and then closed down the store), although the guys had to wear ties and dress pants, like it was fucking church. Several of my coworkers were horror fiction fans, both of the modern and classic …

About a year ago Mats Danielson from Stockholm Sweden contacted the CPU Shack about an interesting project, documenting the history of Philips Data Systems, a former powerhouse of European computing. Previously we wrote about the SPC16 micro used in some of these, but Mats has done a complete history. His book is available for free at Research Gate: The Rise and Fall of Philips Data Systems. It includes the SPC16 …