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The Voyage of Magellan, Chapter 16: The Happy Thieves

Few who end up in the hospital are likely to be thinking about whether there’s a sufficient, readily accessible, and safe supply of blood on hand if needed. Someone who has is Sarah Young, former manager of the blood bank at San Francisco’s Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center. Until she retired in 2017, it was her ... The post Art and science vied for Sarah Young’s heart: Both found a place …

Perhaps the most intriguing product from Burger King’s Addams Family Menu is Gomez’s Churro Fries, fried crispy pastry dough tossed in cinnamon sugar and served warm with chocolate sauce. Wednesday’s Whopper looks cool with its purple bun, and Morticia’s Kooky Chocolate Shake sounds delightful with black and purple cookie pieces and chocolate cake batter fudge. But there have been numerous Whoppers with colored buns, and the shake sounds like it’s …

On the 3rd October I turned 62 years old. Born in 1962. Kind of incredible and mundane in equal measure. Instead of pondering too much on the (limited) joys of getting older, because there is no acceptable alternative, let's just go for a run instead.Mary asked where I would like to go for a birthday run. And instantly regretted it! She is not a huge fan of the NB circuit. …

The cybersecurity expert SwiftOnSecurity, a decade ago, wrote a parable called "A Story About Jessica" and posted it to their (now-deleted) Tumblr blog. I found it moving and insightful. The consultancy Superbloom pointed to it …

Turned on my chromebook this morning to post the hexjeff below, between last night and this morning chrome installed Gemini, its motherfucking AI tool, and chrome pinned the icon to my task bar and is badgering me on screen and in email, here is my response to Every.Fucking.Thing:Serendipitously if unfortunately, three weeks ago the person I'm related to by marriage accidentally and unknowingly knocked my chromebook off the piano bench …

1 million people visit Vesuvius each year. It is a big number which involves a lot of people struggling up the steep and dusty path to the rim. Rather more people visit the more accessible archaeological monument to Vesuvius that is Pompeii: counting those as well brings the total to 2.5 million. It makes it…

The Philadelphia Pipe Bending Company, founded in 1880, is still in operation today. Here we see two workers standing inside some large coils with advertising signage. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.

The distance between us and eternity is growing and it demands more and more effort in our life in order to return to eternity. So we go out of eternity and fall. Time is a kind of radical sin and not a kind of progress; it’s something completely opposite. We should make time something other than it is, and that is precisely why when Christ was baptised the river Jordan …

As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Michel Fiffe’s excellent self-published series Copra will meet its final fate in Death of Copra, a four-issue miniseries that kicks off In January. “The whole thing is bittersweet, which is perfect in a way,” said Fiffe. “The story of Copra is one of duality: brutal but tender, bombast as defined by human nuance, crafted with a love of …

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Ellen Nehr LESLIE FORD – Ill Met by Moonlight. Colonel Primrose & Grace Latham #2. Farrar & Rinehart, hardcover, 1938. Dell #6, paperback, mapback edition, 1943. Popular Library, paperback, 1964. Leslie Ford (a pseudonym of Zenith Brown. who also wrote as David Frame, has often been accused of being one of the leading practitioners of the “had-I-but-known” school. and it is true that a great …

1. How do you create an internet archive of all human knowledge? (NPR). Transcript of a 12 minute interview with Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. The average life of a webpage before it’s either changed or deleted is a hundred days. Kahle realised, back in 1996, that our collective digital memory was going to be a problem. He did something about it. The Internet Archive currently holds 866 …

Brooke & Zone Diem You Watch Me Break Building on the dark synth pop that has defined our BRAT summer, lyricist and vocalist Brooke, and producer Zone Diem, are looking to take us straight into BRAT fall. Hailing from Boston, MA, 20-year-old musician Brooke is now based in Brooklyn, NY. She initially got into music growing up, as a jazz and funk drummer, and started writing, arranging and producing her …

all of this year's XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork #

Arguably, one of the most beautiful villages at the foothills of the Picos de Europa National Park is Potes. This medieval hamlet is nestled beneath the eastern mountain range (Macizo Oriental) of the park and is historically part of the Liébana region. This fertile region is blessed with valleys, rivers, meadows, and forests, all encircled...