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The CW premiered its new Thursday game night, with two new game shows revivals: Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit, hosted by Raven-Symoné and LeVar Burton. Here's my review of both.

In the popular TV series Vikings, it’s Ivar the Boneless who perhaps steals the spotlight with his peculiar personality, reminiscent of the classic – and stereotypical – image of Caligula or Nero. However, Ubbe, Hvitsärk, and Björn also have their moments. In this article, we will focus on Björn and, more specifically, the expedition he […]

Good morning, friends. As noted in my comment on yesterday's post, mere hours after my suggestion that Bill and Steve were neglecting to post their most recent video out of fear of our mockery, it appeared online (on a new-to-me Rumble account with one follower and only this video; I suspect they used this account to post it, thinking I wouldn't be able to find it - but then Bill …

Today’s London news round-up: Today’s round-up includes community efforts against an invasive bug, political updates, a dog attack, local projects and closures, roadwork disputes, health milestones, bike parking expansions, political transparency, and the anniversary of a major train collision. — Volunteers are searching for an invasive species of bug which poses a threat to plane trees lining streets and parks in London and other cities. BBC News Camden’s recently-installed new …

I have nearly finished reading a book by Hannah Jane Parkinson called "The Joy of Small Things", a collection of her columns of the same name for The Guardian, which were inspired in turn by J B Priestley's "Delight" - a book with which I am not familiar, despite having played the odious Ernest Beevers in Time and the Conways. I remember delivering the line: "You've done a lot of …

by Gideon Marcus For the last decade or so, the term "wargame" has been virtually synonymous with Avalon Hill. That Maryland game company has come out with one or two new titles every year in this exciting genre (along with a handful of other, more general releases). But now, there's a new player in town. … Continue reading [October 4, 1969] New kid in town (Strategy and Tactic's wargame, Crete) …

Two of my favorite children's book authors have started a Substack called, aptly enough, Looking at Picture Books. Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett will be exploring how picture books work. This is a total dream collab for anyone interested in kids books. Fangirling hard on this one. Their first study is on Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. Subscribe and do not miss! (You can follow me over there, too. …

Paolo Pedercini is the guest of the fifth episode of the podcast series I did with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. Molleindustria, The Best Amendment Paolo Pedercini is a game developer, an artist and an Associate Professor in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art in Pittsburgh — where he is also running LIKELIKE, a space …

With Alexander Rossi moving over to Ed Carpenter Racing (ECR) next season, there is another driver that is now on the market seeking a new home for Rinus VeeKay.There were already more available drivers than there are available seats for 2025, and things just got a little more crowded. VeeKay joins a field of confirmed […]

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Map published by Mark Ovenden via Big Think The map above is an East German transit map showing U-Bahn (Underground) and S-Bahn (Suburban) train lines in Berlin. However, if you look closely, you might notice something’s missing. And that something is of course West Berlin, which had it’s own U-Bahn and S-Bahn lines (although you wouldn’t know from this map). The reason of course is rather simple, East Germans could …

Which old boxed editions of PC games can still be activated on Steam? If you got a sealed or unsealed box of a game from 2009-2016 then this list if for you – there are plenty of old games that can be activated on Steam and the cd keys are going for crazy prices. What is a CD key and where can I find it? The CD Key is a …

Julian Baggini. How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. Granta, 2024. 443 pages. I did a blurb for this one: How the World Eats is an enormously wide overview of how people throughout the entire world–from hunter-gatherers to NASA astronauts–view, exist within, manage, and try to improve their food systems. Baggini’s philosophy makes sense. We need sustainable food systems to feed the world. When I say “enormously wide,” I’m …

This is my first entry to an IndieWeb Carnival, and the topic this time is especially interesting: multilingualism in a global Web. As you may or may not know, I’m from Germany. My native language is German – it’s the language I grew up speaking, thinking, and communicating in. Most of my daily life is conducted in German, except at work, where I speak English as part of an international …