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Luce Luce is like a plain girl whose face suddenly transforms when she smiles. Full of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments that shuffle so quietly underneath its sweet, minty beeswax skin that you’d be forgiven for writing it off as an amber, this is a scent that rewards close study. My first impression is of sugared aniseed and vinyl set against a dark green backdrop of fir trees, underscored with a touch of …

White sand beaches, turquoise waters, otherworldly rock formations, this is the Cíes Islands. This little slice of paradise is found in Galicia Spain. The Cíes Island archipelago consists of three islands: Monte Agudo (Norte), O Faro (del Medio), and San Martiño (Sur). The islands work as a somewhat natural barrier to protect the Vigo Estuary...

This is the third novel in Alison Weir’s Tudor Rose trilogy, following Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose and Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown. You definitely don’t need to have read the previous two books before starting this one, although if you’re not very familiar with Tudor history it would probably be helpful to read them in order. The novel begins in 1525, introducing us to nine-year-old …

Waiting for dinner Cote d’Azur, 2010. Quote of the Day ”The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. “ Bertrand Russell Thanks to John Seeley for spotting it. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto) | What is life? | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck Link This is a remastering of a 1946 recording of Gluck’s Orpheo that stopped me …

5/5 golden merles Variety’s “Plover” is Texan avantpop rock composed of compelling narrative subversion, sticky melody and tone. The hook is a compacted material derived from descriptions of naturalistic imagery, the conflict of the domesticated and undomesticated in comparison to the authors interpersonal dilemmas. It’s thoughtful and pretty dang fun. I need my streams and mountains tempered by the grim specter of death. Gluck and Johnson, Bly and Ruefle. Some …

In 1973, an author named Alan Lakein published a book titled How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life. It wasn’t the first book about professional time management — my library contains a first edition of James McCay’s 1959 classic, The Management of Time — but it’s arguably the first book to talk about the topic in a recognizably modern way, with a focus on personalized tools like …

What makes reality TV producers smile? Read on, because this stock image doesn't have the answers (Photo of TV by Kam Idris and inset by Count Chris/Unsplash)

We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0 we’ve focused on making it simpler to use at any scale, whether you are deploying your app to 50 servers or deploying 5 …

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By Will MoczarskiThe last time I ended my narration on a cliffhanger, promising a grisly death scene - however, that was only half true. But more about that in a while. When we last left the game we were busy collecting items to build a Leyden jar and subsequently conduct the famous Kite/Key experiment in order to get Ben Franklin out of his cozy hot tub. On the surface of …

Sorry, “opposite of more” doesn’t tell me much. The summary provided by man less is “opposite of more”, and the description opens with “…a program similar to more(1), but which allows backward movement in the file…” Not that helpful — especially since more is aliased to less on a lot of modern OSes, including macOS. A better summary: less displays a file in your terminal, page by page — thus, …

source unknown (Record Mirror?)date: spring 1984? Tracie Responds (boom boom)

When I saw news of the upcoming 9.9 CVE, I was thinking it was something significant, like a buffer overflow in the glibc DNS client, a ping of death, or something actually exciting. Nope, it's CUPS, the printing stack. The most vulnerable component is cups-browsed, the component that enables printer discovery. CUPS is not typically installed on server systems, but cloud expert Corey Quinn claims his Ubuntu EC2 box has …

This is the second in a series of posts on the reasons I will not be voting to return the former president to the White House. My focus here is not to support his opponent but instead to explain why I believe that Donald Trump is manifestly unqualified for the role.When I started writing this post, the presidential debate between Vice President Harris and former president Donald Trump was only …

NASA SVS/Ernie Wright and Michaela Garrison For the 2017 solar eclipse, NASA published eclipse maps that took the irregular umbral shadow of the moon into account: the umbra is neither circular nor oval but irregular—more polygonal—thanks to the uneven topography and elevation of both the moon and the earth. Not accounting for that introduces errors into the map that could make the difference between observing a partial rather than a …