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After the Skaven, it's now the Stormcast Eternals' turn to receive a massive influx of new models for the 4th Edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. In part 1 of our mega review, we take a closer look at the first half of the new releases, including high-resolution sprue images and all the possible build options. The post Review: Stormcast Eternals Lord-Celestant, Reclusians, Stormstrike Palladors, Iridan the Witness appeared first …

I have a discovery to report. Many of the world’s great treasures are known to have been lost over the centuries. I believe I may have found one of them. What follows is the evidence for my claim. I’m in a difficult position, though. If my claim is not accepted by scholars, I shall look a fool. If it is … then I shall be in a worse position. The …

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Metal. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archinect profiles. ↑ Heungkuk Tower in Busan, South Korea, by Mecanoo; Photo: Kyungsub Shin ↑ …

With the publication of his new book Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of Being, American musicologist Lawrence Kramer explores the history of attempts to capture the soundscape of battle From ancient times to the war-torn present, the experience of war has demanded documentation. Homer’s Iliad is a documentary narrative. It comes complete with a catalogue of ships and a roll-call of the dead, many of whom are mentioned only so that …

The last car I owned with crank windows was a 2003 Toyota Matrix, base model. Even in 2003, it was an oddball. Now comes news that the last vehicle in the US with crank windows standard, the Jeep Wrangler, will offer only power windows from now on. It leads Nick Gerlich to remember the last time he cranked a window — and the last time he did a bunch of …

I popped into The Dilly to see if there was anything left of what was, over 100 years ago, often described as one of the most impressive hotels in the world. I was on the hunt for any of its original 1908 construction or the 1920s revamp when it became one of London's best Jazz Age venues. Suffice to say, I couldn't find much from either period, but I did …

Time for a poem, and as I'm not long back from Venice, here's one on a Venetian theme – one of A.E. Housman's less well known works, published after his death (in the collection More Poems), probably because it is a little too revealing of Housman's sexual predilections. In Venice he had had a romantic liaison (inevitably abortive) with a gondolier called Andrea, who is named in the poem, but …

No notes. As qualitative validation all but erodes, the only form of validation left is quantitative. Miles run. Books read. Movies watched. Songs streamed. Beers bought. Fantasy wins. We have turned competition into connection because it’s the only way we’ve learned that we can get attention — and when you see a continuous decline in relationships outside of your phone because spaces continue to disappear, you’ll cling to whatever you …

I love finding out about what apps other folks use so I thought I’d give a rundown on what’s on my iPhone. Health and fitness Zenitizer - A meditation timer that can play some white noise and throw up chimes on a custom interval. Most of the other meditation apps are junky or have a bunch of courses in them and cost a bunch more. MacroFactor - A calorie tracker …

This blog post is the twenty fifth in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog post is here.Science fiction cinema of the 1980s holds a special place in the hearts of many fans … perhaps because so many of them fell in love with the genre during a decade in which the genre entered the mainstream.Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in Escape …

For this episode I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software developer, he has been part of different chapters of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018. During the interview we discussed how to start a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and how tech ideology as psyoped you to thinking labor struggle can’t work in …

After Liverpool, Conwy. Via Bangor, very briefly. (All I'll say is that if you tell people you're going on holiday to X and their response is 'X? Really?', that should probably be taken as an opportunity to rethink your travel plans.) Conwy is a pretty walled town in North Wales, built around a 13th-century castle built by Edward I. I've been here before and loved it, and even wrote three …

Introducing: clipscreen Using a ginormous 49" widescreen monitor is awesome. Except for when you wanna share your screen in Google Meet or other tools. Sharing a 5120×1440 screen simply makes no sense. Of course you can opt to share a tab or window instead. But for work, I often need to switch between a terminal, my IDE and a browser. If I want to share my workflow with a colleague, …

An end of week recap “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” – Herman Hesse I thank you for your cheerful forbearance while I gallivanted off to York to meet my half-sister and her wife for the first time ever. Our get-together went wonderfully (thank you so much to those who wished me well), and I return to you with these varied collectanea of literary …