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Look at how this protective mamma bear holds her cub in her arms to give him a bit of a wash. Her gentle maternal care is truly touching. This mamma has spent late Autumn to Spring in a cave, having birthed them while still hibernation and staying in the den to feed them on her milk.Black bear cubs stay with their mamma for the first one to three years of …

I have not decided yet what this structure is - maybe will later. It was scratch built based on a sketch I drew. It is two stories with an outside stair case. I put a plastic kit carriage on the right side under the upper porch. Above is a front view of the structure. On the upper porch is a figure and a chair. Below the porch is the carriage …

Dan Hancox has written a great piece on 'Debunking the weird myths about London's 24-hour party people' in which he rightly takes to task some dubious claims made in the Times and elsewhere that London nightlife is in terminal decline. He rightly critiques some very dubious data, such as relying on Google Maps to show venues with late night licenses. Specifically he skewers a map included in the Times article …

I've noticed a fair bit of chatter about syndicating to other platforms material that you've published on your own website from the likes of Molly White, Dave Winer, Manuel Moreale, and even n3verm0re. Molly White is singing the praises of what the IndieWeb people call POSSE. Dave Winer gave up on POSSE in 2017 because catering to platforms that didn't support links was making him a worse writer. n3verm0re finds …

Two weeks ago, I published my article UV – I am (somewhat) sold. Since then, a lot has changed for me. I switched all my personal projects to uv from poetry. I have set up a plan how and when to convert our company projects to uv. I am a fan. (And I still hope that I don’t get stomped by the elephant.) After my post, I received a lot …

This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus. Translated by A. Raid. The Hero's Ride. Tallinn: Estonia. (90 p.) 1963.I think the translated title is : "To the Moon with …

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth documentation of Conway's programming language out there. Now Lie In It, a look back at what has happened with Uxn since its creation 4 years …

I often think about writing a feature like writing a story. If I do my job well, it is coherent and easy to read, write, and maintain. When there's a lot of indirection, it feels like a book with its pages out-of-order. There seems to be a lot of similarities as well. We have readers, it just so happens that our readers are machines -- as well as our colleagues. …

Delia returned to the intimate By Our Own Hands We Make Our Way for its Fourth Happening. The evening began with ambient bliss from C5&C6, followed by a fascinating talk from Caroline Locke about her sound artworks. Headliners, The Low Drift, performed an evocative set of songs about land and place. As ever, host Simon Rudkin tied things together with poetry and storytelling. I love being a part of this …

In the waning minutes before the Orioles postseason begins I ought to mark down, as is my habit, some notes on games I saw; by complete chance I was visiting Harvard CMSA (where I talked with Mike Freedman about parallel parking) the same week the Orioles were at Fenway, so I caught a couple of games. Tiny notes: No amount of upgrades can make Fenway not feel old. The building …

A detail from another shot in the Lamia photoshoot Two weekends ago my studio in my flat here in Hastings got its first proper use: a session of life-drawing (drawings below) followed by the Lamia photoshoot (prints of which are available here). Although I felt a little out-of-practice with the life-drawing — I haven’t done any since the beginning of June — I was fairly pleased with the results, although …

The BBC has released a terrific investigative report about a tax dispute before the Liverpool City Council regarding a downtown office space. It’s a dispute that turns, as so often happens, on answering the question “when is a vacant office business actually a legitimate snail-farming operation”? Liverpool (like many jurisdictions) taxes domestic (residential) and commercial property at different rates. An owner of non-domestic property not only has to pay much …

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]If you have to know the answer right away, it’s no; or at least, my goal with this video is to convince you that the world is not running out of sand. But if it were that simple, I wouldn’t be here (right?) and you probably wouldn’t be either. In fact, I was really surprised by some of the …

I always thought that the opening question in the song “Little Fluffy Clouds” by the Orb (music video) was a sample of LeVar Burton, maybe from his show “Reading Rainbow, but apparently, it's not! (link via Jason Kottke) Upon relistening to the song, it's now clear to me that it's not Levar Burton. It's very close though. And while I like the song, my favorite one from The Orb is …

Looking back at the year 1954 - some 70 years ago it was pretty much the same top stars from the year before. After 1954 though the movies were changing, and the next generation of youth would soon be taking over the box office...1. JOHN WAYNE2. DEAN MARTIN/JERRY LEWIS3. GARY COOPER4. JAMES STEWART5. MARILYN MONROE6. ALAN LADD7. WILLIAM HOLDEN 8. BING CROSBY9. JANE WYMAN10. MARLON BRANDO