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WHEN THE SAME TOPIC comes up in three sessions in the same day, I take note. In this case, it was Ira Glass’ famous “taste gap” story. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s short and worth a watch. But the gist of it is that when you start some new creative practice, you very quickly confront a gap between your taste and your ability. Your taste inspired you to the work, but …

In the Latest Issue Tom Hazeldine gives an anatomy of the pincer movement—working-class desertion of the Tories in the Midlands and the North, middle-class Lib–Lab unity in the South—which produced the seat-slide in the 2024 UK election, plus the unprecedented bloc of radical, Green and Muslim MPs to the left of Labour generated by Starmer’s hardline stance. French politics since 2017 has polarized around three novel forces: Macron’s techno-bourgeois bloc, …

On September 18, 2024, the Library of Congress held a Congress.gov Public Forum that was available in-person and online. This Forum provided attendees with an update on the enhancements that have been made to the site over the past year and served as a listening session to learn more about how the Library can better serve your legislative information needs. Jim Karamanis, director of IT Design and Development for the …

14 Jan 1998

By Realm DiverSelf PublishedBECMILevels 4-6 You opened the chest? You shouldn’t have opened the chest! You are magically transported to a ruined temple surrounded by vast desert. A dragon, driven mad by the slaying of her mate and brood, lies between you and a wish-granting treasure that could mean your salvation, or spell your doom… This 24 page adventure uses about thirteen pages to describe a dungeon with about 35 …

The weather is changing and fall is upon us, and for me that means it’s Zinger weather! Why do I associate Zingers with autumn? It is most definitely because of the commercials and sponsorship deals that they would run with, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Zingers are snack cakes, introduced by Dolly Madison, but now made by Hostess. They come in three tasty flavors. The chocolate and vanilla Zingers …

Here’s a quick list of some of my favourite films to watch during this, the most spooky of seasons (in no particular order): Fear Street (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) - an excellent slasher trilogy, released simultaneously on Netflix Killer Klowns from Outer Space - So bad, so fun Halloween (1978) - Requires no explanation Grave Encounters - Probably my favourite found-footage film, a touch dated now but still …

Visits counter was a critical feature of every website just 20 years ago. In this tutorial, we will implement it with Rust Cloudflare Workers by adding persistence and dynamic behaviors to an otherwise static page. We will also discuss other practical use cases of CF workers edge proxy. Static blog with CF edge caching Visits: [VISITS_COUNT] This blog is a static JekyllRB website hosted on an EC2 behind an NGINX …

What’s up, Internet? The Alchemist dropped his latest project, The Geniune Articulate last Friday and I’ve been listening, almost non stop. It’s a short project, of eight tracks spanning just 22 minutes and finishes with the Bluey influenced single, Seasons Change. The Alchemist - Seasons Change The project features verses from Alchemist himself and features from Schoolboy Q, Action Bronson, Havoc, Conway The Machine, and Larry June. While he’s widely …

As part of its ongoing Shirley Clarke Project, Milestone Pictures has completely restored Portrait of Jason, and is re-releasing the film theatrically, on DVD and via broadcast. Portrait of Jason had its theatrical premiere on October 2, 1967 in New York. After a successful art house run, the masterful film was added to the inventory of several film archives and collections, including that of the Museum of Modern Art. However, …

Earlier in September I was in Stroud, for the first Festival of Commoning. It was a lovely event, full of people working on commons projects in different ways. What is a commons? It's infrastructure for a basic, decent existence, operated and owned outside the market, locally governed and managed by multiple stakeholders. (we also heard a 'more modern' definition from the work of David Bollier and others - "a pervasive, …

Fuengirola in Southern Spain is a town of two parts. Towards the Malaga side is more of a resort, popular with Belgians, Dutch, and some Brits, with its attendant sprinkling of "British" pubs as well as a paseo crammed full of lookalike restaurants. Strolling through at night, you are accosted by "propaganda" types, trying to persuade you in. It is the sort of place that has plenty of buzz, but …

Where we're at: Drovers Brook in the intermediate stage of being on the short trestles while the basic track and wiring went in. This meant I was back to having a layout in the middle of the room again, something that is not in the slightest bit convenient. In some ways there is nothing to see here, and any description could just refer to c2017 when the AoTC was under …

There are very many irrational numbers but proving irrationality of a specific number is not a common event. A few weeks ago Frank Calegari, Vesselin Dimitrov, and Yunqing Tang posted a paper that proved the irrationality of . In fact they proved even more: that and , are linearly independent over . This is, of course, a fantastic result. According to the short abstract, “The argument applies a new kind …