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On a recent trip I saw this pair of Latin phrases tattooed on the back of a flight attendant’s arms: Left: Deo absente. Right: Deum culpa. I took Latin in middle school, and could guess what the combination might mean. It’s not a common construction, and a search seems to confirm my guess. Both Google and Bing take you to a couple of Reddit posts in r/Latin. Would this be …

Who are you, and what do you do? I'm Miriam Suzanne, and I make (mostly collaborative) things. I like working with creative teams. Around these (online) parts, I'm mostly making things with HTML and CSS. 20 years ago my theater needed a website, so I learned to make websites. Then another for my band, and it snowballed to become OddBird – a small web agency that's been doing some pretty …

My dear wife, Kathryn Farley, just woke me this Friday the 20th from a nap with something that she said was amazing. She told me it was the top most viewed video of the entire day—over a million views. It was indeed terrific—especially for a video by women who work in complexity theory. A Result From Simons As part of their flashback series, they are sharing one of the most …

Syncing Obsidian over iCloud is a lot less painful now that iOS 18 is out. I can individually set folders in iCloud to stay downloaded, and setting this on the Obsidian folder had great results: Obsidian now takes 15.11s to become interactive on a cold open with no community plugins. If you think 15 and .11 seconds is a long time to wait before you can write notes, consider this: …

5/5 golden merles America’s heart is effectively vestigial, the body running on delusion alone. But every now and again it beats, startling and amusing us. Folk rock, alt country, freak folk, anti-folk; whatever dendritic subgenre Casual Technician’s “Dark Matter Falling” roughly fits into beyond Rock, these are things that exist in a state of defiance to the grotesque bulk of another definition. Please remember that the heart is also an …

Heritage Open Days trip to the Fulneck Moravian Settlement Back to weeknotes after a hiatus brought about by – variously – a change of government, the summer holidays, and a house move. Song of the week: Yard Act – Fixer Upper. I had planned 10 days off for the move, but ended up taking a full 2 weeks. I’m glad that I did. I’m writing this on the sofa in …

Today marks the last day of summer—at least, in the Netherlands, where we follow the astronomical calendar to define seasonal changes. I recently discovered – much to my surprise – that other cultures observe this differently. Naturally, this also depends …

How to buy Laos-China Railway tickets, including buying tickets online, by mobile phone app, ticket offices, and travel agents. The Laos-China Railway is a modern and efficient semi-high-speed railway system, but buying tickets isn’t as smooth as the train ride. The official website at www.lcrc.ltd doesn’t sell tickets, and there are rules and time restrictions for buying tickets. Here is how to buy tickets for the Laos China Railway. Buy …

Our friend Geoff Hardy disappeared at the end of April - our, because he was your friend too, whether you knew him well, a little, or had never met him. Geoff was friend to a society, a man in search of greater justice, fairness, acceptance, love, and joy. He was generous with his enthusiasm, his righteous anger, his sense of fun. We miss him.Fred D'Aguiar, who Geoff taught at Charlton …

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QuickTime My first look at QuickTime came before it was publicly released. I was working at Apple in IS&T in 1990, and we had a session one afternoon showing everyone the world of the future. Of course, Knowledge Navigator took pride of place, but also shown off was an early version of a revolutionary new multimedia technology which would allow you to play video, in real time, in colour, on …

In the 1967 film Doctor Doolittle Rex Harrison ended the Oscar-winning song 'Talk to the Animals' with the verse:If we could talk to the animals, learn their languagesThink of all the things we could discussIf we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals,And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to us.I talk to our dogs, but there's little …

So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the idea even came up but it quickly snowballed into a curious expedition. The result from the journey was a set of custom elements that provide extra functionality and information about the text being typed into a password input field. I shared my CodePen demo in a Mastodon post and soon after decided to …

We have, frankly, an embarrassment of riches when it comes to Mexican food in the Chicago area. There are of course cities in the US with better and broader Mexican options. There’s Los Angeles, of course, undisputed as the top spot for Mexican street food in the US–as my friend Titus has claimed repeatedly, “LA is bar none the best city for tacos in the States.” There are also cities …

A look at the Salomon X Ultra Pioneer hiking shoes, Call them the "Subaru Outback of hiking shoes." Read More ... Continue reading Gear Review – Salomon X Ultra Pioneer hiking shoes at PMags.com.