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Cloud 11 is a mixed-use development on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok that is being styled as a creator economy hub. The complex is comprised of four towers on top of a mega podium that will include an elevated urban garden. Cloud 11 is opposite True Digital Park, and this area in Phra Khanong is being promoted as a digital innovation district.. Location Location: 888 Sukhumvit Rd, Phra Khanong, Bangkok, Thailand. …

I read A Global Design System by Big Medium’s, Brad Frost recently and it’s inspired thoughts that have been swimming around in my brain for quite a while: the precarious safety of web documentation. I think we’re sleepwalking into a disaster. I want to start an earnest and serious conversation about how we, the web community, can fight back and preserve some of the most valuable content we need to …

I was really taken with this, which @scy (Tim Weber) posted on Mastodon the other day: The Mastodon post is very clear, so to quickly summarize: The device has crashed; it’s shared its stack trace optically, using the LED button matrix on the device. To share that stacktrace with the development team, the end-user only has to post a photograph of it to the development Discord, where an image-analysing bot …

I got an email the other day from Pencils of Promise out of the blue. It was a general quarterly email or so, but at the end – Carly lets know about the schools update: Furthermore, I wanted to share some thrilling news regarding the enrollment of students at the school projects that you have... continue reading >

I like taking pictures, and I like sharing pictures wherever I hang out online. A problem with this is knowing that the pictures will very rarely look as good in other people’s browsers and apps as they do to me in Lightroom on a big bright 4K screen. Thus this piece, a basic investigation of how photos are processed and transformed on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads. I was never that …

Review by Rob Spence This is a curious little book, which shouldn’t really work, but does, offering the reader a delightful series of fresh impressions gleaned from the writer’s engagement with Italy, and in particular with Venice and Rome. The writings collected here consist of two longish essays, one on Venice and one on Rome, together with two shorter pieces, one on the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi, and …

DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for May 2024, and here are all the ones relating to the Flash. It’s a bit of a quiet month for Flash fans, as it seems the Speed Force series is not continuing, and there’s no hint of Wally West in the Titans solicitation. But Si Spurrier’s solo Flash series continues, and there are plenty of reprints to read, including the surprise …

huffylemon:this is so cute 🥹 Wonderful example of the Boomer Ellipsis as a feature of casual handwritten style from the pre-internet era (probably pre-boomer as it’s OP’s grandpa, but currently primarily associated with boomers since the earlier generations were less likely to be online). I bet this person is of an era with the man named Don who unlocked the stylistic use of ellipsis for me in Because Internet and …

David C. Baker is a no-fluff specialist in how to run and grow marketing agencies, and I’ve been enjoying his newsletter and books over the last couple of years. Today’s instalment – Working With A Maverick – struck a chord with me: [A maverick] is someone who operates on the inside of the corporate (or […]

In 1894, during Budapest's golden fin-de-siècle era, a grandiose fa­cility was built in the city centre. Al­­­ajos Hauszmann was comm­is­s­ioned to plan the design and along with Flóris Korb and Kálmán Gier­gl, he created a lavish, 4 st­or­ey­ed palace with a ground-floor café. The New York Café soon be­came the centre of Hung­ar­ian cultural his­t­ory, the favourite meeting place of art­ists, writers and poets. Front of NY Cafe, Pinterest Tables …

Original airdate: February 18, 2024 The premise: Homer has a job interview at Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant, but manages to navigate getting hired thanks to Professor Frink’s help, via an earpiece and special techno-glasses that allow him to see and speak through him. The reaction: Professor Frink is a goofy side character the show has made a few attempts at putting in the limelight, but much like Cletus or Sarah …

Ahead of next Tuesday’s online Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Jim van der Meulen of Ghent University. On 27 February between 5.30 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., Jim will discuss seventeenth-century Dutch provincial assemblies in East Asia, North America and the Dutch Republic. The seminar takes place online on 27 February 2024, between 17:30 and 19:00. Details of how to join the discussion are available here. When …

The Propstore auction house is back again with another round of Hollywood production artifacts — and while they’ve offered Star Trek props and relics in the past, this March brings one of the most eye-catching item from the franchise in many years. In their next Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction on March 12, Propstore will be putting up for bid the hero Captain Picard command chair from Star Trek: The Next …

Team Ratings for Week 11 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season. Current Rating Rating at Season Start Difference Leinster 12.12 10.73 1.40 Bulls 10.67 9.00 1.70 Munster 9.64 10.54 -0.90 Glasgow 6.68 4.19 2.50 Stormers 6.42 8.93 -2.50 Ulster 4.54 7.80 -3.30 Connacht 4.10 3.17 0.90 …

While looking for something else, I came across this rather incredible photo in the Imperial War Museum collection. That's a seaplane stuck 300 feet up a 350ft tall radio mast! If that's not amazing enough, the pilot was rescued by three men who climbed up to retrieve him. And he survived. Here's the IWM's description: A British seaplane, whilst carrying out exercises, emerged from a cloud at high speed and …