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An occluded winter’s day when sunlight barely glimmered offered the ideal opportunity for a ramble through Charles Dickens’ London. Employing a set of cigarette cards from 1927 which Libby Hall kindly once gave me as my guide, I set out on a circular walk from Spitalfields through the City to Holborn, returning along Bankside, to photograph those locations which remain today. Dean’s Court, EC4 Staple Inn, WC1 2 South Square, …

A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. As an urbanism nerd, the aspect of California Forever’s plan that I was most eager to hear about was land use and urban planning for the new city. From reading …

Shadows and grey The low angle of the sun highlights just the tops of these snow coated trees; the rest of this scene is in grey shadow.

While it may not be driven by a LEGO computer brain, The Hedgehog by Andrea Lattanzio still means business. This tank definitely gives Raiders of the Lost Ark vibes, with side turrets and a villainous-looking driver. Building in a single color like dark gray can be a risky move, but with plenty of dynamic textures, shadows and exposed studs help to break up the monotone. Instead, the build is alive …

Everyday, there is so much stuff (books, podcasts, long-from articles and blog posts, films, audiobooks, comics, music, games, tv shows, etc.) I want to spend time absorbing. Every. Day.But time and my attention are not unlimited. Both are finite.So I’ve got to make choices about what gets the time and attention that I do t need to invest in work or parenting…I’m going to assume you (whoever you are) are …

[Apparently, it IS the size of your supercollider, not just how you use it.] Not content with a 17 mile tunnel to use in smashing particles together, the folks at CERN are now planning one over 50 miles in length. [T]he proposed supercollider will be three times the size of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The new machine, dubbed the Future Circular Collider (FCC), will allow scientists to smash particles …

News weapons Josh Brolin In Talks To Replace Pedro Pascal in Zach Cregger’s Weapons Horror in the vein of MAGNOLIA, you say? By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 22, 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Weapons&url=https://reactormag.com/josh-brolin-in-talks-to-replace-pedro-pascal-in-zach-creggers-weapons/” target=”_blank” title=”Twitter”> Twitter Facebook Weapons” target=”_blank” title=”Pinterest”> Pinterest RSS Feed We recently got the news that Pedro Pascal will play Reed Richards in Marvel’s new Fantastic Four film. The announcement has excited Marvel …

Last year, cherry red kept popping up in outfits — cherry red socks, cherry red sweaters, cherry red lipsticks. This spring? Baby blue is the accent color of the moment, and I love how soft and calming it feels.… Read more The post The Accent Color This Spring appeared first on Cup of Jo.

Nicholas Blake was the penname for Cecil Day-Lewis, and I don’t think it is stretching credulity too much to regard today’s mystery under review, as a story which was rooted in or at least inspired by Blake’s own experiences. He was a publications editor in the Ministry of Information during WW2 and this setting is replicated in the story under the name of Ministry of Morale. Moreover, in this book, …

The humble LEGO sausage element (33078) has been around since 1998. But is there still untapped yumminess there despite being so long-lived? Personally, it’s one of my favorite oddball parts with a wide variety of uses. Yet, I don’t think I ever actually used it as a sausage, hot dog, or other tubular meat stick of your choosing. I find it so much more interesting. At its heart, it’s really …

It’s been a while since I’ve visited, but I think back on my three campaigns in the world of Sleeping Gods with nothing but fondness. I could probably sketch a rough map of the Wandering Sea: that ivory hive on the map’s edge, the ancient spires stacked like dominoes rising from the seabed, the far-flung deserts. Ryan Laukat’s vibrant brushstrokes establish an adventurous tone, giving the world a sense of …

Hopefully no one saw that minute of f.ink downtime caused by me crashing the server after trying to browse to the end of the accounts list . . .

London, 2019.

In his seminal piece “The Market For Lemons”, renowned web crank Alex Russell lays out the myriad failings of our industry, focusing on the disastrous consequences for end users. This indignation is entirely appropriate according to the bylaws of our medium. Frameworks factor highly in that equation, yet there can also be good reasons for front-end developers to choose a framework, or library for that matter: Dynamically updating web interfaces …

Heather Knight and Amy Qin report for the NY Times (archived) on a problem that I wouldn’t have thought of but that’s obvious once pointed out: In San Francisco, where more than a fifth of residents are of Chinese descent, politicians have long taken a second name in Chinese characters. And any serious candidate knows to order campaign materials in English and in Chinese. But the city’s leniency for adopted …