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Plans for a new chippy on a North Wales holiday park have met with opposition from the local health board: Plans for a new chippy have come up against a health board's demands for fruit and veg on the menu. Betsi Cadwaladr health board wants the proposed takeaway in Morfa Bychan, Gwynedd, to sell a "good selection" of fruit and veg. It wants the menu to have less fat, salt …

Below are two "knightly orders" in Krevborna that are nothing like knightly orders in practice.The Knights of the Helsing VowThe Knights of the Helsing Vow are a group of templars, witchfinders, inquisitors, and monster hunters associated with the Church of Holy Blood.• Though the Helsing Knights hunt all manner of supernatural horrors, they hold a special enmity for the undead and view vampires as the ultimate expression of evil.• The …

What do temperature, sand and sex have in common?Well, for the Green Sea Turtle—everything. When these cuties are still in their shells incubating, the temperature of the sand surrounding them determines their sex. Boy or girl? Warm sand produces females and cooler sand hatches out male Green Sea Turtles.The Green Sea Turtle, Chelonia mydas, also known as the Green Turtle, Black Sea

Richard Serra, F*** Helms, 1990, 14×15 in. sheet, via NGA/Gemini Election season, when a man’s heart turns to thoughts of Gemini G.E.L. fundraising print portfolios. Or at least it used to. Fortunately, longtime greg.org hero/reader Terry Wilfong emailed a keen observation about Richard Serra’s Afangar Viðey series prints that momentarily distracts from the genocidal, climate, and fascistic calamities afoot. Like me, Terry missed out on getting any little Viðey etchings, …

Nestled in the foothills of the Picos de Europa National Park is the village of Cangas de Onís. While the village is quite touristy, it is worth a stop when planning a visit to Spain’s most beloved National Park, the Picos de Europa. Cangas de Onís is an extremely popular base to explore the Picos...

The word that kept coming to mind when I thought about this was “Dickensian”. And I realize that’s a weird way to describe a 1970s revisionist Western but it still fits. Dustin Hoffman stars as “Jack Crabb”, a white man who was adopted into the Cheyenne tribe when he was orphaned at age ten, and spends the next few decades getting pulled back and forth between Cheyenne and Causasian society. …

❚ HERE’S A REVIEW OF THE NEW OUTLAWS SHOW, written by Franceska Luther King at Facebook yesterday… << Fabulous night at the private view of Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London at the Fashion and Textile Museum on Thursday evening. … Continue reading →

The tomatoes at the allotment this year have been a classic case of one step forward, two steps back. First of all the supposedly blight resistant ‘crimson crush’ seeds refused to germinate. Then a couple of them did so I took the two precious crimson crush plants to the allotment, reckoning that they were needed there more than in the garden. They got off to a reasonably good start and …

Roll out the barrel Rooting around in my vast photo archive what should I find but this? Taken on Boxing Day (December 26) 2008 when a large number of ostensibly sane male residents of Grantchester, a nice village near Cambridge, decided that they would compete to see which of them could roll a barrel fastest along a stretch of village road, watched by many hundreds of their dependents, spouses, neighbours …

Dinosaur golf before it shuts for the season.

I did two entries for the fair this year. My year has been focused on other things. I think the last time I entered only 2 was in Kindergarten. Maybe next year I will make up for it. The Bergère hat was inspired by an original in the MET collection (pictured.) This was my personal […]

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In this tiling of the hyperbolic plane, all of the tiles are the same shape and size (despite their varied appearance), they are not square, and they are not polygons. The right side of the illustration depicts a binary tiling, in one of its conventional views using the Poincaré half plane model of hyperbolic geometry. The vertical sides of the tiles lie on hyperbolic lines, but their horizontal sides are …

I’ve finished the game; this is continued from my last post. Via the Centre of Computing History. ftb on Discord pointed me to one of these mega-shareware discs having a copy of Raspion, but compiled for DOS. First off, RavenWorks cleared something up for me: that SLIT message was referring to the acronym that goes with the “say Lymbar in tomb” in the book; I hadn’t been paying attention to …

(Thanks to James De Santis for pointing the article that inspired this post on Post. The article is pointed to in this post.) What is Emil Post known for? I know of him for the following: a) Post's Problem: Show that there is an r.e. set A that is strictly in between Decidable and Halt using Turing Reductions. He posed the problem in 1944. It was solved in 1956 by …