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Team Ratings for Round 4 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season. Current Rating Rating at Season Start Difference Stade Toulousain 9.46 8.76 0.70 Stade Rochelais 5.46 4.85 0.60 Toulon 5.39 5.32 0.10 Bordeaux Begles 4.88 3.96 0.90 Racing 92 2.67 2.75 -0.10 Clermont 1.47 0.41 1.10 …

I love ditching JavaScript for HTML and CSS whenever I can. It’s a core part of the Lean Web Club ethos. In particular, one of my favorite sets of HTML elements are <details> and <summary>, which can be used to create a disclosure or expand-and-collapse component with absolutely no JS. <details> <summary>Show or Hide</summary> <p>This content is hidden by default, and visible when the summary is clicked, tapped, or interacted …

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A bug in Chromium and Safari makes support of proper superscript and subscript characters problematic. See exactly why, and what you might be able to do about it. Read more.

In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a harmful political agenda which legitimizes adult attraction to minors, consistently defends adults accused of and convicted of sexual crimes with respect to minors, and more generally erodes norms of …

Another one Hundred.... er.....songs? from one of the world's greatest ever teen bands.It loiters like a lo-fi Punk Rock version of those heavily stoopid medley records that lurked the highways and byways of the top twenty some decades ago. Such as "Hooked On Classics", "Stars On 45", with the reprehensible Jive Bunny.All of whom saw it,somehow, fit to collect all that terrible music from those 'Not Available in Shops" adverts …

“It’s exciting, feeling you’re on the ground level of something that is new… To me, it suggests so many different possibilities.” Mark Hamill, Behind The Scenes of Wing Commander III Orchestral music swells as we are presented with the game’s title (accompanied by a tiger’s roar) and… actor credits!? Big names too, including Tom Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, and none other than Star Wars’s Mark Hamill as the star. Before long, …

In 2019, the website Thrillist declared the Summer of the Sandwich, with articles celebrating the sandwich in its many forms, anchored by a massive piece called Around The World In 80 Sandwiches. If this opening sounds familiar, it’s because I’ve brought it up before–the piece refers to me as an “enterprising investigative sandwich blogger,” a title that I’m still crowing about 5 years later. But I also bring it up …

Thinking needs space. Without this space, we cannot think. At least not with the depth and care required to achieve good results within a reasonable time frame. We create this space through thinking environments. One of these thinking spaces is the simple walk. A special aesthetic of erudition emanates from this form of walk. I would be surprised, for example, if someone imagined this walk in the industrial facilities of …

What makes an icon an icon? It’s a word that gives many the shivers, feeling it’s thrown around too easily, yet it exists for good reason. A movie star ascends to iconic status when they capture the essence of an era while staying relevant across generations. Think of Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, or Meryl Streep—their charisma, influence, and body of work have left an indelible mark on popular …

We move through the world as surfaces shimmering with the visibilia of our accomplishments, the undertow of our suffering invisible to passers-by. The selective collective memory we call history contributes to this willful blindness, obscuring the tremendous personal cost behind some of humanity’s most triumphant achievements — the great discoveries, the great symphonies, the great paradigm shifts. This is not to say that suffering is a prerequisite for greatness — …

Madison Avenue between 27th and 34th Street in Manhattan, just north of Madison Square Park, is a high end furniture district, with the ground floors of most large buildings hosting the showrooms of (mostly) European furniture designers and manufacturers. Interior decorators come here to buy furniture of the latest style for their well healed clients. If you appreciate traditional furniture and traditional craft, you'll probably be struck how similar most …

It’s been a decade now that I’ve been leading the Houston Foresight Program. We’re preparing the next generation of the program’s leadership. This provides a great opportunity to reflect and really focus in on what to carry forward as we consider improving, updating, upgrading, and redesigning. There are many things about Houston Foresight that “we […] The post Mastery as a Guiding Philosophy first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

When this blog was in its prime it was a reasonably common occurrence to feature artists that had yet to release any ‘official’ recorded music, instead relying on shaky live You Tube clips or dodgy Soundcloud demos. The last band that featured here in that way was The Dinner Party, who a few months on had changed their name (for the better) to The Last Dinner Party and became a …

York CAMRA were holding their 50th Anniversary Beer Festival last week, so I decided to head over to the city and check it out. Here's my reflections on what was a splendid afternoon there in a rather historic setting....The first York Beer Festival took place at the De Grey Rooms in the city centre way back in March 1974. Times were very different back then; it was was the year …