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Book Review by Alison B: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is Carson McCuller’s first novel, published when she was twenty three years old. This review focusses on its broad structure and key themes to enable comparisons of these elements to be made with her other books. It is set in a mill town in the deep south of the USA in 1939. The pivotal character is Singer, a man …

1995-2003 Mirage Media / World Software / Horn Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200/CD32, PC and Game Boy Advance It may have been a basic fighting game with simple graphics, but Franko: The Crazy Revenge did pretty well in the Polish games … Continue reading →

originally published on: instagram a waitress saw that i was painting this and she gestured to her colleague to take a look. he joked that he couldn’t recognise what they were. later on he said that he envied that i could paint, because he couldn’t do it no matter how hard he tried despite actually wanting to. it turned out that he was expecting too much out of his work, …

I’ve been listening on the radio to Merope Mills talk about a new rule that is being introduced into British hospitals following the death of Martha, her 13-year-old daughter, in hospital. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68348301 Merope felt that Martha’s condition was deteriorating, but the doctors reassured her and her husband that all was well. After Martha’s death Merope felt awful that she hadn’t kicked up enough of a fuss and had let her …

[comics] Moon and Serpent Rising… John Couthart delivers some insider information on the long-awaited The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic written by Alan and Steve Moore. ‘The Bumper Book may superficially resemble a children’s annual but this isn’t a book for children. The essays include discussion of the use of drugs and sex in magic, and there’s a lot of nudity (also a fair amount of sex) in …

Depending on the source, it is estimated that each American is confronted by 6,000 to 10,000 advertising messages every single day. That immersive media onslaught swelled as we started carrying little video screens around wherever we go, but invasive and obnoxious marketing has bothered Cincinnatians for much more than a century.For example, on 20 July 1871, a correspondent for the Cincinnati Times related an enjoyable voyage he had undertaken down …

“Daniel Pink is the author of seven bestselling nonfiction books [including] New York Times bestsellers “The Power of Regret,” “A Whole New Mind” and “When” as well as the No. 1 New York Times bestsellers “Drive” and “To Sell is Human.” Pink’s books have been translated into 44 languages and have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide… He and his wife live in D.C. and have two daughters and …

Beautiful 15th century Lambeth Palace is a strange London landmark - widely recognisable, with a stately position Thames-side and passed by a number of busy bus routes, it is nevertheless very rarely visited, most of the main structures off-limits as the Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence and despite the existence of an interesting little Garden Museum, the garden itself is only open to the general public two or three days …

DS097: Been a while since I did an animation. I thought that focussing on motion would mean I’d spend less time geting myopic about materials and lighting but no, it made no difference. There’s a lot of daily artists I follow who just seem to through up some simple shapes, add some fog and bam, beautiful render. I’m particularly annoyed today. I had a backlog of news and research to …

We’ve known for a while now that the TV rights package for the NTT IndyCar Series would be up for bid this season. NBC’s current contract runs out after the end of the 2024 IndyCar season. NBC has been the exclusive broadcast partner for IndyCar since the start of the 2019 season. NBC signed a […]

htmx has been pretty loud lately because it moves functionality, like swapping out DOM elements into declarative HTML. Love it or hate it, I think it's a "fresh" approach to the overcomplicated world of JS frameworks. <script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]"></script> <!-- have a button POST a click via AJAX --> <button hx-post="/clicked" hx-swap="outerHTML"> Click Me </button> Add the 14kb compressed file to your sites and create dynamic interactions. Everything's just a hx-whatever …

The Max Planck Institute hired Stamen a few years back to create a website to visualize increasingly complex urban transformations due to immigration for a project called Superdiversity. The site we created contains multiple interactive charts of census data to enable better research, analysis, and discussion of this novel phenomenon. Because diversity patterns in cities around the world change over time, the app needs to change as well to reflect …

A reader writes: We are in the planning stages of a bike trip in Europe – Oslo/Stockholm – Rotterdam-ish in the fall of 2024. We are experienced cycle tourers, so we are good on a lot of aspects of touring. One thing that I am looking into is the best plan for logistics to and from airports, especially when returning. I can figure out how to get to our departure …

As astrology was one of the very first scientific disciplines to be adopted by the ‘Abbāsid in their assimilation of Persian cultural it followed automatically that that they also adopted astronomy; you need astronomy in order to do astrology. Also, the practice of Islam itself required both the determination of the times for the five daily prayers as well as the qibla the geographical direction of the Kaaba in the …