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The Green Kingdom By Cornelia Funke & Tammi Hartung Caspia’s summer is transformed when she discovers a bundle of letters containing ten plant-based riddles in this enchanting adventure. Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities, especially New York. So, she isn’t thrilled by the news that her parents are taking her to Brooklyn for the whole summer. All right, she had to admit it: it really was an adventure to be in …

Moon’s Milk: Images By Jhonn Balance Compiled by Peter Christopherson & Andrew Lahman Foreword by Andrew Lahman Afterword by Gavin Semple Limited to 1,000 Copies Debossed Hardcover with Dustjacket 170x190mm 224 pages Full Colour £45.00 PRE-ORDER HERE In 2002 Coil released Moon’s Milk, a double CD collection of four EPs comprising improvised performances recorded over successive equinoxes and solstices (recently reissued by our friends at Dais records). For friends and …

It looks like sometime in the past few weeks the PTV/GTFS feeds for Metro trains has subtly changed, so that through routed services are now linked together – at least in some cases. (HT: Rod) For instance, Frankston line trains mostly run through to Newport/Werribee/Williamstown (the green line on the train map). But until now, if you’d planned to travel across town from say Hawksburn to Seddon, most journey planners …

Thorpeness Meare is the centrepiece of the holiday village created by Ogilvie early in the 19th Century on the Suffolk Coast. Shallow, weedy and and extensive at 60 acres it's a lovely place with it's colourful hire boats and the iconic Head in the Clouds which is clearly visible from Aldeburgh.It has fish, and they're free to fish for which is more than can be said for the hire boats. …

The headline of this NBC News chart (link) tells readers that Phoenix (Arizona) has been very, very hot this year. It has over 120 days in which the average temperature exceeded 100F (38 C). It's not obvious how extreme this situation is. To help readers, it would be useful to add some kind of reference points. A couple of possibilities come to mind: First, how many days are depicted in …

Today marks the 866th consecutive day that the rolling 365-day mean has been above 12C, a level that is nearly a degree above the average annual mean temperature for this region. The next longest period, back to 1960, was 499 days starting on June 9th 2003. The graph below shows that since around 2015 this 23,644 day period has been stuck in a high rut. Looking at months on their …

The design work on the National Theatre’s Coriolanus is exceptional but it isn’t a production that ever really ignites “Well, mildly be it then. Mildly.” Between set designer Es Devlin and costume designer Annemarie Woods, Lyndsey Turner’s new production of Coriolanus is simply stunning to look at in the vast space of the National’s Olivier Theatre. An intricate network of columns rise and fall to suggest Roman fora, museum spaces, …

Tropical Storm Helene is now Hurricane Helene, and its closest approach to Tampa Bay happens tomorrow, which means the grocery stores today look somewhat like this (perhaps with fewer mangled AI faces). The post Meanwhile, in Florida… appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

I couldn't resist the juxtaposition with the hurricane post above. I'm getting ready to start season 5 after having thoroughly enjoyed the first four seasons. Helena has become my favorite clone.The topmost video is the least NSFW of the group (re gore). And all contain potential spoilers.For those unfamiliar with the Orphan Black series, go to Seeking Advice on Orphan Black and watch the trailer for season 1.

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 …