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(click on the image to see the full issue) Cover: Annie Lennox Back cover: Free stickers offer Interviews: Eurythmics; Roddy Frame; Shakatak; Rod Stewart; Malcolm McLaren Lyrics: Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.; Tesla Girls O.M.D.; She Bop - Cyndi Lauper; Big In Japan - Alphaville; Sunset Now - Heaven 17; Master And Servant - Depeche Mode; Talking In Your Sleep - Bucks Fizz; You're Never Too Young - The Cool …

You probably have to be Jewish to appreciate the full and bitter irony of this sentence: Nearly 11 months into a devastating war, a serious new challenge has emerged in Gaza: polio. Growing up, there were two uncontested heroes in the Jewish-American pantheon: Sandy Koufax and Jonas Salk. If you were really in the know, you’d add a third: Albert Sabin. Salk invented the polio vaccine, Sabin invented the oral …

the problem: My main computer is a Linux/BSD desktop, but I also use a Mac laptop for recording and travel. This created a problem keeping them in sync. I don’t like that the MacOS user’s home has directories like Movies and Pictures that we can’t delete, or that ~/Library is filled with Mac-only crap I don’t want on my other computer. Also, why did Apple make it /Users/me and not …

Ugh. Drew’s blogging about Rust again. – You I promise to be nice. Two years ago, seeing the Rust-for-Linux project starting to get the ball rolling, I wrote “Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?”, penning a conclusion consistent with Betteridge’s law of headlines. Two years on we have a lot of experience to draw on to see how Rust-for-Linux is actually playing out, and I’d like to renew my …

By: James ConnellFor many young people in the UK, the dream of owning a home has never felt more elusive. Soaring property prices, stagnant wages, and a shrinking supply of affordable housing have turned what was once a common life milestone into an increasingly unattainable goal. Being one of these young people myself, the housing crisis is a highly personal issue. As a result, I was determined to use our …

She said, I don’t think I can do this anymore. I love you but I can’t do this. I said, But if you love me, why can’t you try? She said, It’s over. I said, I know we aren’t perfect, but who is? She said, It’s over. I said it’s over. I said nothing. But later I thought about what I should have said. I should have said, But we …

Submitted by Jace, who says: A while ago I saw your review of the Cercanías Madrid [our 2022 review is here – Cam], and, as a regular user of the system, I too find the map quite bad: Uneven distances between lines, mismatched fonts in the route bullets, and overall lack of quality. So, I took it upon myself to make a better map. I’ve centered it around the central …

This is a result I must have re-derived at least 4 times by now in various ways, but this time I’m writing it down so I just have a link next time. All right. If you’re encoding a BCn or ASTC block and are trying to find optimal endpoints (in a least-squares sense) for a given set of weights, you are led to the linear least-squares problem where A is …

Muzyka: Eugeniusz Rudnik Józef Robakowski "An integral part of Robakowski's work are his statements and self-commentaries, as well as numerous programming texts and manifestoes, e.g. Calling Once Again for 'Pure Film' (1971), Video Art - a Chance to Approach Reality (1976), or Manipulating! (1988)."Robakowski made his first experimental film in 1962, 6,000,000, a compilation of fragments of Holocaust-era documentaries. Photographic activity dominated the early period of his practice, also as …

(for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer Night's Scene" We The People -- "You Burn Me Up and Down" The Byrds -- "Everybody's Been Burned" Pink Floyd -- "Paintbox" The Doors - "The Soft Parade" Love -- "You Set The Scene" The Stooges - "Ann" Scott Walker -- "Boy Child" Miles Davis -- "Bitches …

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Get the higher resolution PWYW PDF here It’s been a little while since I made a Hex Flower, so I thought I’d make a new one. I’ve seen quite a lot of webposts looking for a good mechanic for mass combat, this is a Hex Flower version which I hope might be of interest to some. Mass Combat Victory Tracker Hex Flower – this Hex Flower is intended to be …

I have 4 (rounded up) beefs with language-y AI bots that have resulted in me sort of avoiding them altogether: They have the personality of a middle manager who writes Google Docs all day that nobody wants to read They’re reallllly good at guessing but not actually that smart, which leads to very convincing lies (see: the “how many Rs in strawberry?” saga). If I had the inclination to double …

Recently I took a trip down memory lane and explored my logo design archives from the ‘90s. I’ve been designing logos since then—almost 30 years ago, before the internet was even a thing. In this article, I’ve gathered some of those early logo designs, along with background information from the client projects I’ve worked on over the past three decades. Finding inspiration was perhaps more challenging then, but there was …

Today the postman surprised me with a card-backed envelope which contained a true ‘blast from the past’. The message came from a kind lady in Riegate, Surrey and contained a publicity leaflet of an advertisement in The Essex Countryside magazine from 1991. Sarah Ballingal wrote “My mother used to live in Walton-on-the-Naze and we have come across this article amongst my late sister’s belongings.” I remember the leaflet well and …