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There are eight people buried in the private grave of Joseph Bonomi in Brompton Cemetery, five of his children, his wife and his mother-in-law. The first four of his children predeceased him, all dying within one harrowing week in April 1852; the eldest still hadn’t reached their sixth birthday and the youngest was, at just eight months, still an infant. The epitaph on the rather simple Grade II listed headstone …

I love these signs: "Shear and Tan are Narcs", "No Killer Robots in SF". Prop. E foes demonstrate outside Y Combinator HQ: Proposition E will reduce police accountability, make San Francisco less safe and disproportionately affect communities of color. [...] "We're here today to tell tech CEOs who think they own San Francisco that we need more transparency not less," said former police commissioner Angela Chan. [...] The measure, which …

ShareThe Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request to temporarily put on hold a bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America while a challenge to that plan continues in a federal appeals court. A group of childhood sexual abuse survivors had asked the justices earlier this month to block the plan, but in a brief unsigned order, without any public dissents, the justices declined to do so. Facing tens …

Content warning: Discussion of hospital stay, procedure, and graphic images in the links. Checking in for 2024-02-22: The procedure went well for my Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. I was a little doppy when I woke up from the anesthesia (I think I said something along the lines of "Teletubby go bye bye" when they were wheeling me out to come back to the room). I was on a liquid diet for …

For years, I’ve had the notion of chicken-fried catfish on my mind. While typically, I eat my fried catfish dredged in a cornmeal coating, I wondered if treating the fish... Source

motel-babilonia:Chewing Gum Meanwhile, just imagine The Banana Splits filling the gumball machines with nickels wholesale, just trying to use such up as there doesn’t seem to be much of anything worth a nickel anymore.

In October 2023 Patently Apple posted an IP report titled "Apple won Patents for a Virtual Online Store Experience with 'Vision Pro,' followed by a report in November 2023 titled "Apple wins a Patent for possible Future online AR Guided Consumer presentations with Apple Specialists." Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a patent application from Apple that relates to users being able to interact with a computer-generated …

Acorn 7.4.4 is out, and it's a free update for anyone with an Acorn 7 license. As previously mentioned, I'm not incrementing Acorn past the 7.4 number ('74 was a good year for me). But that doesn't mean I'm not adding new features, and this release has some. Here are some highlights straight from the release notes: Super Resolution ML resizing. This new option in the Image ▸ Resize Image… …

This is a video from the cabin of Ixonia, Wisconsin Amazon driver Alexander Evans’s truck when an Amtrak train cuts the vehicle in half right behind Alexander’s seat after crossing the tracks. This is why I always look both ways at train crossings, then turn around and go back home. Then Alexander just has to sit there with a speeding train passing a few feet behind his head and wait …

Infrasonic Audio let us know that a limited run of Warp Core - a stereo/dual-output complex oscillator for Eurorack - is now available.… Read More Warp Core Stereo Phase Distortion Oscillator Is Down With The Thiccness

Autumn Market at Les Halles, Marie-François Firmin-Girard; oil on canvas, roughly 33 x 46″ (83 x 117 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons, with access to high-res file. Original is in a private collection. 19th century French painter Marie-François Firmin-Girard (alternately, François-Marie Firmin-Girard) worked in a naturalistic, often highly detailed manner that carried forward traditional values and resisted the influence of the Impressionists that eventually swayed many of …

When nineteenth-century German painter Carl Rottmann produced this dusk view of Hoher Göll, a mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps bordering Germany and Austria, he included two subtle atmospheric optical effects. The first is a diffuse brightness around the crescent Moon. This is a corona, caused by the diffraction of light around tiny cloud particles – perhaps ice crystals in the high layer cloud Cirrostratus or water droplets in the very …

JUNGLE JIM (1948) – Decades before Raiders of the Lost Ark, “Jungle Jim” Bradley, mercenary jungle guide and adventurer, was fighting Nazis, Communist Spies and other menaces while finding lost cities & ancient artifacts, all while romancing lovely ladies. Throw in the occasional dinosaur, giant spider or huge, man-eating eel and enjoy! A modern Jungle Jim franchise could combine the best elements of Indiana Jones, Crocodile Dundee and Allan Quatermain. …

It’s been a whirlwind ever since Fujifilm announced the X100VI, the much-anticipated successor to the much-desired-but-hard-to-find X100V. According to Fujirumors, the X100VI has had the most preorders of any other Fujifilm camera ever. According to Sonyalpharumors, the new Fujifilm camera has 50 times more preorders than the Sony A7cII and Sony A7cR combined. Amateur Photographer states that the “Fujifilm X100VI breaks all records as sales are off the charts.” There …

Okay, Color Spaces Fantastic interactive explanation of how color spaces work by Eric Portis. Via Lea Verou