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“We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.” — Anne Carson, Antigonick The fourth wall is, very simply, a testament to fictionality; ergo, the characters cannot see the audience. It’s an opaque mirror on the side of the dramatis personae and a transparent window on the side of the audience. As a result, when the fourth wall breaks, the characters acknowledge the presence of a camera …

CSS container queries are spectacular!And I keep being mislead by the same mistake. It’s starting to irritate me! In this blog post I document a bad code pattern to avoid.The MistakeConsider this example with a <div> and two <p> elements inside:<div class="box"> <p class="query-less">Less than 600px</p> <p class="query-greater">Greater or equal to 600px</p> </div>With the CSS below I’ve made box a named container. The two child elements are hidden by default..box …

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a duo of brand new titles to our collection, the Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser and the Newport Pagnell Citizen, as we explore the Northumberland tradition of the kern dinner, which is held to celebrate the harvest home. Meanwhile, we have added 146,333 brand new pages to our collection in total, whilst we have updated 21 of our existing titles. …

1. The Genius Behind the Quantum Navigation Breakthrough - This is the World's First Unhackable Quantum GPS. Using the coldest atoms in the Universe, it may revolutionise the way we navigate. This Youtuber to got to go behind the scenes and see their device up close to try and understand just how important this breakthrough is.My Take: This video goes into more details about how quantum navigation works as well …

Pauline Rivart summarises a national cohort study of ethnicity and suicide in England and Wales, which presents a "paradoxical finding of a lower rate of suicide in almost all minority ethnic groups compared with the White British majority". The post Ethnic disparities in suicide mortality: what’s going on? appeared first on National Elf Service.

all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has served Tokyo’s Yanaka neighborhood for over 150 years. The flower shop is located near the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery and is surrounded by traditional homes and businesses, including a headstone supplier, that harken back to older times. Just […] Related posts: Miyanoyu: a 70-Year Old Tokyo Sento Renovated into an Art Gallery and …

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic '80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial.

Now that all electronic issues are resolved, it’s time to update the PCB for my expansion board that adds a W65C22S Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) to my Commodore 64....

Hat tip to my friend Keith (aka The Song Sommelier) for turning me onto this 2024 record a week or so ago. Between this album and the latest from Hinds I haven't been listening to much else these days.* Beach Day has captivated me like no other record has in recent memory. For me, it's the type of record that has required multiple listenings just to be able to wrap …

Today I read “The Cartesian Theater” by Robert Charles Wilson for our discussion group. That Facebook group is reading one story every Sunday from Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2007 edited by Rich Horton. I got a big kick out of “The Cartesian Theater” and wanted to hear it on audio. But when I went looking for an audiobook that included it, I couldn’t find one. Bummer. My …

When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!” In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening. If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences, your users, etc. — there are undertones of something being said collectively. If you can hear it, write it …

We’re taking a dive into the bizarre world of sigma male affirmations and the disturbing but also very silly “sigma male industrial complex” on YouTube. From the origins of the dubious sigma male concept in the manosphere to its current online popularity, I examine an assortment of the often ludicrous sigma male affirmation videos on YouTube, their claims, and the psychology behind them. I argue that while affirmations can work, …

There’s absolutely no mistaking the fact that I’m a dyed-in-the-wool beer-lover and have been so since my late teens. Beer is my go-to drink, regardless of situation, location or occasion, with the obvious provisos that I don’t mix beer drinking with work, early mornings (the sun needs to be at least peering over the yard arm, before I reach for a glass), and I don’t have a beer either if …

This week, the rain didn't last as long as the previous one. But that's ok, I guess.Officially, spring started today here at the Southern Hemisphere, even though the cold weather was long gone already. I gonna miss the winter, like I always do. Cold weather are so much better, for me.Anyways, this week I've been devouring a lot of information from the FZDSCHOOL YouTube channel.There are TONS of valuable material …

It’s always a problem when I start researching the ‘next’ place to go because it always ends up that we want to go everywhere. It started out with a gift shop picture of West Quoddy Head Light which looked appealing with its red and white horizontal striped tower. Where was it? Reading a bit further I remembered that it’s located at Quoddy Head on Campobello Island. We stopped there briefly …