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Whoa – this has been quite the week. We’ve been working with [redacted] to get something ready to launch in time for [redacted] and it is the kind of high profile activity that has a lot of important eyes on it (as well as opinions). It has got ye olde heart pumping but I have to be honest I’ve quite enjoyed it – it is the most I’ve felt like …

Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards project targeting Medley Interlisp. The RC2024 announcement explains the point of the challenge is to do something new, learn, and have fun with retro systems: In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The goal of my RC2024 project, WebCard, …

Agatha All Along (2024) s01e01 “Seekest Thou the Road” D: Jac Schaeffer. S: Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Debra Jo Rupp, Aubrey Plaza, Emma Caulfield Ford, David Payton, David Lengel. Direct(ish) sequel to WANDAVISION has Hahn playing a prestige series detective, except her latest case starts throwing her. There’s Plaza’s FBI agent, come to help, only Hahn can’t quite remember their history. And then suspect Locke is pretty sure he knows …

Happy autumn! Did you find any September Ale yet? Nope, me neither. But as I probably say this time every year – it was a thing! Whatever it was. Defo. A certain thing for a certain time: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples …

As an extension of last week’s A Historical Summary of My Music Tastes, I kept thinking about the many ways hip-hop and other genres I started getting interested in intertwined. You’ve got your conventional hard rap tracks and the more gentle ones I already laid out a few years ago and for some reason keep going back to, meaning it must somehow be worth it to remix that. Hip-hop is …

Happy "new song by The Cure" day to all those who celebrate. This is like hearing from an old friend again after all these years. I can't wait for the album.

This week, we are giving away the Girologio Leather Zipper Pouch that we reviewed awhile back. This pouch was used for photo purposes only so its darn near brand new. We have just one to giveaway, just so you know. TO ENTER: Leave a comment below and let us know what you’ll store in this lovely pouch if you were to win it.. Play along and type in something. It …

I recently read this short post by Kev Quirk. It’s about removing content from the web. While Manuel Moreale is against deleting content from the web, Kev thinks he would probably delete things if he feels bad about them. Today, I implemented a feature on my blog that lets me easily set posts to unlisted or private with the press of a button, so only people with the link, or …

Everything is kinda shitty and stressful right now, so here's a little look at something that's neither. I wasn't allowed to have videogames when I was a kid, so I chose my friends based in part on who had a game system at home. Alan had an Atari and a pile of games. Geoff had an Apple II and Kareteka. A kid who moved out of town in third grade …

1. Teen Vogue talked to independent bookstore owners about their concerns about book bans, and the books they wish everyone would read instead of banning. 2. Approximately a third of former NFL players surveyed think they may be suffering from CTE. 3. A number of statues in London are getting baby slings (which honestly, why don't we decorate statues more) as folks push to get paternity leave recognized. In addition …

'Chain Letter' invites a sign painter or lettering artist to share a piece of lettering that has influenced or inspired them, before passing the baton to someone else, in a never-ending chain.In the last one, Marie Pressmar nominated Guido de Boer, a visual artist and educator in Utrecht in the Netherlands who works freehand with brush and ink to create large, monumental installations.What have you selected?Published in the 1860s, Hector …

There’s a consistent element of the surreal in the everyday experiences of Native Americans. Whether regularly facing racially insensitive mascots at sporting events, moving through spaces that have Indigenous names but are absent of those languages’ original speakers, or being met with surprised reactions from strangers who realize they have never before met someone aboriginal in the land they call home, Indigenous people in the United States constantly navigate the …

Visiting a renowned brewery in Yorkshire recently involved a tour around its Victorian architecture and equipment that reminded me of the scenario facing many retailers in the UK in ensuring they are not hidebound by legacy infrastructure. Gavin Scoresby at Samuel Smith Brewery The impressive copper brewing vessels date back to the early nineteenth century and are evocative of the era but this comes with the downside that they are …

Extremophiles, or microbes that live in the most seemingly hostile environments, are the darlings of astrobiologists, who study the potential for life beyond Earth. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with astrobiologist and cave explorer Penelope Boston about how life finds a way — and whether it might have found a way elsewhere in our solar system or around a distant star. The post What Can Cave Life Tell …

Genre: Black/DoomCountry: NorwayYear: 20241. Howling Primitive Colonies2. Eon 33. Black Dawn Affiliation4. And In That Moment I Knew The Answer5. The Bird People Of Nordland6. The Heavy Hand7. The Lone Pines Of The Lost Planet 21st album by Darkthrone. The group once again utilizes their well-crafted black metal with a lot of heavy, speed and doom metal elements mixed in together, all of which flow through the heavy mid-tempo riffs …