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This summer, a new video game came out that changed the way we think about comedy in games, becoming an instant smash hit in the process. That’s right, I’m talking about Thank Goodness You’re Here! from Coal Supper. Ok, yeah, sure, I work for Panic and we published the game, so I was contractually required to write that opener, but I assure you, it’s very good and very funny. Thank …

For once, I have managed to continue on with the ongoing craft projects without starting any new ones for, ooh, must be nearly a couple of months now. Most of the crafting time has been devoted to the cross-stitch project I mentioned back in July. Despite a break for my holiday—because it’s too large to go in the luggage—I’ve got on quite a way with it. Here’s the progress to …

September is a month of fullness in the garden and the pantry with the crops at their peak and all … Harvest time Read More »

After reviewing some recent posts about Jung and his anagram on Jungian fanboy sites, I do now think a solution has been found to the Seven Sermons to the Dead topic. In German, you can put date descriptions together in different ways, much like we can describe "1916" in English as "one thousand nine hundred and sixteen" or "nineteen hundred sixteen". And using "I" for "J" follows medieval German usage …

Charli XCX and Lorde's 'The Girl, So Confusing Version with Lorde' is the winner of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Charli's first Twenty Quid nomination was in 2014… The post Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize appeared first on Popjustice.

Week #707 As one project wanes another waxes. The amount of time we’ve been spending on the Miami project has decreased. They’re in good shape; onboarding customers and prepping for raising a round of investment. The features, bugs and tasks are at a minimum as they want to be stable and get customer feedback. Which means we have more time for some VR projects. The video team has handed over …

‘NO WOMAN’S LAND’ has been awarded the prestigious 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award and will be exhibited at the Réfectoire des Cordelieres in Paris this autumn. A few months ago, photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and researcher Mélissa Cornet travelled to the Mawoud Academy school in Kabul. It was a heavy journey – Hayeri had previously visited the school under heartbreaking circumstances. “I first reported on it for the New York Times after …

Last year, I joined the crowdfunding campaign for a neat little 7-inch, open hardware laptop called the MNT Pocket Reform. After much anticipation, I finally got it in the mail a couple days ago, and absolutely love it so far. Here are some first impressions. Why this device As someone who uses computers every day for work and life, I’ve gone through many devices over the years. I’ve taken old …

Welcome fans and devotees of old school mattes, models and clever trick photography. It's time once again for another giant of a blog post, and I do emphasize, giant! I never do these things by half-measures and always try to cover all possible bases when examining and illustrating these amazing hand rendered moments of movie magic.I have a vast collection of shots here, from a very broad cross section of …

Lower Inver morning view upstream from the Scrambles Over the years I have been privileged to fish in many beautiful places, but nowhere else moved me as much as these two small Highland rivers. As I walked up the Lower Inver on the Monday morning of our week, I found myself humming the song "Dancing Cheek to Cheek" from the 1930s musical Top Hat, produced and directed to showcase the …

I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does, instead of sleeping), and one particular slide jumped out at me: It’s a little graphic advertising the different kinds of modeling software that are part of something called the SIERRA framework, as part of a pretty standard “overview” presentation on computer modeling …

Acknowledgements The code in this post is indebted (and in some cases wholly ripped off from) work by the glorious Finn Lindgren, who emailed me some code to do this probably a decade ago. Yes I am behind on my emails. Finn’s code can be found here as part of the glorious INLAbru project. Code availability The code from this post can be found in my github repo. The time …

Featuring sessions from Papa Wemba and Pavement.Listen HerePutters - Muscle Car (Empty)Pavement - Secret Knowledge Of Back Roads (Session)The Moles - What's The New Mary Jane (Ringers Lactate)Papa Wemba - Madilamba (Session)The Fall - Arid Al's Dream (Volume)Zubbizeretta - Don't You Do It (Bass Sphere)Kill Subil - Lucid (Empty)Babes In Toyland - Sometimes (Volume)Cobra - Hearse (Penthouse)Flophouse - Right Now (Harp)Pavement - Kentucky Cocktail (Session)Aquastep - Oempa Loempa Instrumental (Wonka …

Contributed by Stephen ColesSource: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License: All Rights Reserved. The Kamala Harris 2024 campaign identity, designed by Wide Eye Creative, is built around Sans Plomb, a condensed gothic not unlike the Bureau Grot used by Wide Eye for Harris’s 2020 primary bid – in turn inspired by Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 campaign. This time, though, the typeface is from a French foundry, rather than from Anglo-American origins …

Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.