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Ashleigh & India Houses, 1848.Houses for professors of the East India Company's Military Seminary.Croydon's Heritage

DARTH VADER STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE (HASBRO) “Inside the Death Star’s detention corridor, Darth Vader is intent on snapping Princess Leia’s defiance. Accompanied by an Imperial interrogation droid, the Sith Lord enters cell 2187, determined to learn the location of the hidden Rebel base from his royal prisoner” Jumping from one caped guy in black to the next, in 1/18 scale no less! So, look, guys, I have …

The word 'ambient' is a misdirection worthy of the greatest illusionist, says John Doran, SAW2 is the work of a modern electronic composer, intent on destroying the boundaries between himself and the material of Cornwall which inspired him Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) by Aphex Twin “Chilling out for me is getting [smashed] out of your head, sitting somewhere totally wasted basically. SAW2 is the stuff I prefer …

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The restless Berlin post punk scene delivers yet another high-class artifact - brought to us by Cincinnati, Ohio specialists Future Shock Recordings - on which they masterfully balance a good deal of dark abysses and atmospheric expanse against an endless succession of concentrated, precise impacts. On one hand, this stuff unmistakably carries the signature of the Berlin scene and groups like Pigeon, Glaas, Clock Of Time, Pretty Hurts, Kalte Hand …

Catch Your Sacrifice by ghost An eerie FPS about discovering the truth about who you are, and the things you must do to find out. Download on itch.io The post Catch Your Sacrifice appeared first on Weird Fucking Games.

About a month or so ago I reviewed a re-release of Aero the Acro-Bat, a 16-bit 2D mascot platformer. I rented the game back in the day and honestly didn’t like it very much. But I was glad to be able to review it again because I’m always willing to give a game a second […]

I've a written a new book. It's a children's book and it's called A Riddle for a King. It's suitable for those aged between about eight and twelve, although it has been rigorously tested on children from six to thirteen (I test all my products on children and animals). The six-year-old had to have it read to him, but he loved it. The story is about a boy called Philo, …

“King County Metro Route 8 | NFI XDE60 | Madison St @ MLK Jr Way” by Han Zheng is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Transit access is frequently depicted with isochrone maps. Given a starting point, time of day, and time budget, determine all the places that can be reached within that budget using transit and walking. These maps are not a new concept, with examples dating to the late …

Increasing the number of steps you take each day is definitely correlated with living longer, and if you raise them you benefit. CC-licensed photo by Timo Newton-Syms on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. It’s Friday, so there’s another post due at the Social Warming Substack at about 0845 UK time. It’s …

Dave Winer’s 2004 definition of podcasting is what I think podcasting is: Think how a desktop aggregator works. You subscribe to a set of feeds, and then can easily view the new stuff from all of the feeds together, or each feed separately. Podcasting works the same way, with one exception. Instead of reading the new content on a computer screen, you listen to the new content on an iPod …

A tiny tool I used for the first time in late September, 2024. A few weeks ago, I was curious what my laptop’s “uptime” was — in part because it was acting a bit funky — and I realized I had no idea how to answer that question, but I also figured (correctly) it should be simple, so I looked it up. This Thursday’s Read the Manual adventure is about …

A new RFC was released for Structured Fields: RFC9651. What is it? HTTP headers have been a bit of a free-for all in terms of how complex values are encoded, with many headers requiring their own mini-parser. A while back an effort was started to fix this for headers going forward, named ‘Structured Fields’. They’re called Fields and not ‘Headers’ because HTTP has both Headers and Trailers! Structured fields let …

🐈‍⬛ and XSLT 2024-10-04T00:00:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 On the last day one could post on Cohost, I put together a repository with an Atom to HTML stylesheet with folks who were on Cohost in mind. Since then, I’ve been playing with the idea of why not just post a feed and a stylesheet? So I created a site at https://dr-mae-space-cat.nekoweb.org/ which is just that: an Atom …

The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers call it “the greatest shot in television” still today, 45 years after it first aired, may take more than one viewing to notice. In it, science historian James Burke speaks about how “certain gases ignite, and that the thermos flask permits you to store vast quantities …