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Just two weeks on from Les Elephants greatest ever triumph, the Ivorian women’s national team is at its lowest point. The Ebimpe municipal pitches where Athletico Abidjan trains. Credit Alasdair Howorth © 2024. This weekend begins the third round of qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympics in women’s football, but Côte d’Ivoire will not be one of the eight teams vying for a spot. The reason for that is they …

Logo Rhythm by Jamie Ellul. Haven’t backed a Kickstarter in years. This might get me out of retirement.

Who knew that Edward Gorey designed the sets for the U.S. revival of the 1924 stage play Dracula ? I certainly did not, but this fascinating article on the terrific CrimeReads blog does a deep dive into the story. Andy Weir’s The Martian was released in bookstores ten years ago. To celebrate, he wrote a new “lost” chapter of the book. Like many readers, I know of M.R. James for …

Fallout from the “Spulu” announcement from Disney, Fox, and WBD continues; picking apart HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” YouTube strategy; and what does Peacock have in common with the New York Jets? Go to the podcast page.

If key Biden “corruption” and impeachment witness Alexander Smirnov spectacularly implodes and nobody in the Fox audience hears how big a deal that is, does it really make an impact? I’m only half joking.

I have the motto for the Biden campaign: Old enough to know better. Uncle Joe, sit down with a reporter you can relate to, and explain what aging is about. How there's good and bad that come with getting on, and Repubs (of course) have been focusing on the bad but the journalists aren't getting the other side. One thing is for sure, it's hard to put one over on …

Hundreds protest as Biden fundraises among his wealthy promoters

Here I present a digest of four scientific linguistics papers from the latter part of the month of January, 2024 to show that our field is very much alive in diverse subfields at the beginning of the new year. "The Semantics, Sociolinguistics, and Origins of Double Modals in American English: New Insights from Social Media." Morin, Cameron et al. PLOS ONE 19, no. 1 (January 24, 2024): e0295799. . Abstract …

Found an old Life Magazine (July 11, 1949) last week. The cover with Bob Mathias got to me right away. Inside a spread about his return home to Tulare, CA to compete in US National decathlon the year after his 1948 Olympic decathlon victory in London as a 17 year old high school phenom. Two Life photographers Bill Wasson and Michael Rougier were there to cover the event. No credit …

elsewhere in the digital media apocalypse, Yahoo laid off Engadget's leadership and BuzzFeed is cutting 16% #

💬 "The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it." - Stanley Kubrick Since I heard this quote for the first time a few weeks ago, I couldn’t let go of it. It encapsulates a moment in design that makes me feel like a hack every time it happens.I’m a stern believer that software design is a craft, not an art. There …

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My ol’ Burgundian Home If I had a house en Bourgogne (which, alas, I don’t), I’d like one like this. And then I’d ask Randy Newman to do a variation on this for me. Quote of the Day ”My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.” Errol Flynn Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Maxwell Quartet | Cill Mhuire Link Long Read of the Day …

I hung an owl box. 10 years later on a sunny February morning an owl finally came to roost. This is that owl's story ... ... as told in his own words. Hello. Pleased to make your acquaintance. My name is OHMYGOD but everyone calls me Snacks. I'm an Eastern Screech Owl. Karen and I...Read More