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Original airdate: September 29, 2024 The premise: Conan O’Brien hosts a star-studded gala in honor of The Simpsons long-awaited series finale, as written by an AI programmed with every series finale ever made. In the episode, Bart is eagerly awaiting his upcoming birthday, but is made increasingly uneasy as everyone in Springfield seems to be going through major life changes and personal revelations. The reaction: How will The Simpsons end? …

An interesting book I got recently is The Weird Tales Boys by Stephen Jones. Published in 2023 by PS Publishing‘s paperback imprint Drugstore Indian Press, it is available on Amazon. It’s part of the “Stephen Jones Masters of Horror Series” and is #15 in that series. It’s a nice volume, coming in at about 250 […]

If you haven’t already, I strongly encourage you to take a closer look at NotebookLM, a new(ish) Google tool to explore documents via a chat interface, based on a Large Language Model. It’s worth noting that NotebookLM does allow you to “chat” with documents, it does not train the LLM on those documents, though, so it all lives in the LLMs context window. I tested NotebookLM a bit over the …

[As with Shining the Holy Ark I will try to use official English names wherever possible, however as I’m playing in Japanese there might be some slight differences/slip-ups/personal preferences along the way. You can read through the official English script here. One last thing: Here, “Shining Force III” refers to the trilogy as a whole. I’ll always use “Scenario 1” when talking specifically about this game.] CONTENTS ~Chapter 1: Nightmare …

Retail Insider held its latest event with guest speaker Andy Harding, CEO at NiX by Nicola Harding and MD at NH&Co., at Hedonism Wines in London’s Mayfair followed by a tutored tasting of wines. The event sponsored by BetterCommerce involved senior executives from Jigsaw, Ribble Cycles, Henderson Design Group, Heal’s and Stuart Trevor hearing Andy tell the story behind the creation of an interior design business and how it has …

The ECWtravelogue returns to Essex, a county about as far away from Chateau KeepYourPowderDry without getting your feet wet, or having your passport checked.But first, for other Essex Civil War related locations please see:-ColchesterCombined Military Services MuseumEssex was Eastern Association territory, so it barely saw any disquiet during the Wars, apart from the the events that unfolded in 1648 in Colchester.Audley End House was the home of Royalist, James Howard …

Seal Spotting at Angel Bay5 years since a still memorably wet walk on Great Orme. Might as well tick off its smaller brother at the promenade's other end, Little Orme.Little Orme from the Free Parking PromThree things that appeal to the walker;1 - Views - over Llandudno bay and Snowdonia's mountains.The Climb Rewarded at Little Orme TrigA second climb to Mynydd Pant for Snowdonia Views2 - Wildlife - As we …

I’ve probably mentioned here before how I’m a great fan of autumn, and September is a favourite month in many ways; I love to watch the season changing and the colours of the trees turning to red and gold. It’s also a month which hints at cooler, darker evenings and being able to hunker down under a blanket with a book, so that’s all good too! This September has been …

It’s not easy to find an old-school store sign in Manhattan anymore. Sans serif typeface, glorious neon, a phone number without an area code—they’re a vanishing breed. But the hunt is easier in the outer boroughs. Here, development in many areas isn’t as furious, and neighborhood shops don’t face the kind of competition that forces them to refresh their look and logo so often. Case in point is the signage …

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

The following guest post from humanities scholar Katie Livingston is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. My Grann’s edition of The Grady County Extension Homemaker Council’s cookbook Down Home Cookin’ is missing its front and back cover. Once made of thin, flimsy pieces of plastic decorated with an old barn and windmill, the cover has long since fallen off …

Given a hash value, can you determine what algorithm produced it? Or what algorithm probably produced it? Obviously if a hash value is 128 bits long, then a 128-bit algorithm produced it. Such a hash value might have been produced by MD5, but not by SHA-1, because the former produces 128-bit hashes and the latter a 160-bit hash. The more interesting question is this: given an n-bit hash, can you …

Red Squirrel Awareness Week runs from30th September to 6th October 2024 Managing grey squirrel populations is important to ensure the recovery of our native reds. Find out from APHA’s Sarah Beatham how her team are developing a contraceptive to reduce grey squirrel numbers. --------- For Red Squirrel Awareness week (30 September to 6 October) the UK Squirrel Accord will be hosting webinars on red squirrel ecology and conservation, supporting one …

STS: Rudy Resplendent, Preacher Powell Gone Over the Line, and Sacrosanct StrandRUDY AND HIS BLACK AND WHITE DREAM COAT --- What becomes of clothes when we pass? I’d like mine to tour on mannequins as Rudy’s should have, perhaps did for all I know. Surely this stunning overcoat with fur collar and cuffs went somewhere other than Goodwill. Might a derelict on soup lines have ended up with it? Valentino …

Luigi Lucioni, Iris & Carnations, 1928. He was the first and youngest contemporary American Painter to have a work purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.