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  1. radiojayallen, , more info

    National Panasonic R-2500B AM/SW Radio
    The National Panasonic R-2500B was sold between 1971 and 1974 and is a great example of old-school portable radio design. By that I mean it is SOLID with a heavy steel chassis and all discreet components. It is big and heavy and has no FM but covers AM from 525 – 1605 KHz and SW from 1.6 to 30 MHz in 4 SW bands. It uses 11 transistors and has …
    By radiojayallen, 137 words
  2. Adventurous Kate - The Solo Female Travel Blog, , more info

    14 Fab Things to Do in San Gimignano, Italy
    San Gimignano is a tiny Tuscan hill town just an hour outside of Florence. People come to San Gimignano to enjoy its stone architecture and medieval towers; its museums and views — oh yes, and one particular gelato shop. San Gimignano is as touristy as Tuscany gets — but it’s still a fun place to visit. Planning your trip to San Gimignano last minute? San Gimignano is very popular, especially …
    By Adventurous Kate, 3,854 words
  3. Classic Film and TV Café, , more info

    All That Heavens Allows and Come September
    Rock and Jane in front of the picture window.All That Heaven Allows (1955). My second favorite Douglas Sirk film (after Imitation of Life with Lana Turner) stars Jane Wyman as Cary Scott, a wealthy widow in a New England town who falls in love with Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), a younger man who works as a gardener. Their romance faces the disapproval of Cary’s snobbish children and her country club …
    By Rick29, 484 words
  4. TableTennisCoaching.com, , more info

    November 18, 2024
    November 18, 2024 Tip of the Week How to Loop Against Deep, Heavy Backspin. MDTTC Open and My Books Here are the results of the MDTTC Open, held at my club this past weekend. Winning the Open was Stanley Hsu (2521), who recently turned 16. (He defeated MDTTC coach Bruno, rated 2558, in the final, 9,9,9.) In the semifinals were Mu Du (16, 2376) and Ryan Lin (just turned 15, …
    By Larry Hodges, 3,011 words
  5. my name is mwd: photos, , more info

    Black Swan
    Despite the best attempts to software to stop me, I recorded a take on Thom Yorke’s Black Swan which has been buzzing around my head the last few days. Your browser does not support the video element. I think this song and the rest of the album didn’t land properly for me when it was first released, but now I regularly come back to it. It’s understated compared to Radiohead …
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  6. The British Newspaper Archive Blog, , more info

    Hot Off The Press – New Pages This Week
    Eagle-eyed followers and friends of The Archive will have noticed we have been quite quiet of late in publishing new newspaper pages to the site. This week, we are pleased to welcome new pages from the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection, as we provide an update from the British Newspaper Archive HQ. Meanwhile, in all this week, we have added 5,396 brand new pages to our collection. Register …
    By Rose Staveley-Wadham, 996 words
  7. Paleofuture, , more info

    5 Old Ideas for the Internet That Can Help Us Imagine a Better Future
    Panel from the Dec. 26, 1965 edition of Our New Age by Athelstan Spilhaus (Novak Archive) We often think of the internet as a piece of infrastructure that cannot be changed. But people built the internet and all the devices we use to connect ourselves to it. People made conscious choices about the way we interact with our devices and the way that the internet is structured. And with that …
    By Matt Novak, 279 words
  8. COVA - ARGH!!!, , more info

    Toxaemia – Rejected Souls Of Kerberus (2024)
    Band:ToxaemiaCountry:SwedenGenre:Death MetalYear:2024Buy the original!BandcampDownload
    By Joseph Mayrink, 11 words
  9. Practical betterments, , more info

    Switch off "Raise to Wake"
  10. Idle/Random/whatever Thoughts of a Demented/Idle/Whatever Mind, , more info

    [17th November 2024] Interesting Things I Learnt This Week
    1. Booleans are a trap : Booleans, while seemingly simple, can introduce complexity and limitations into domain modeling. When used to represent complex states, booleans can lead to unclear code and potential errors. To avoid these pitfalls, consider using enums or enum sets. These approaches provide a more expressive and maintainable way to model complex states in your applications.My Take: I wish I had learned this earlier in life. When …
    By 100rabh™, 538 words
  11. Bureboyblog, , more info

    Roachtastic
    In between stuff I've had a few roach off the tidal, lately on corn to get past the runts.Pre corn, and hardly a runt.Topped off by this one at 1lb 3oz. It's not quite so photogenic other side
    By Bureboyblog, 38 words
  12. Annoying Technology, , more info

    Manuel was annoyed
    Your browser does not support the video tag. Amazingly, that was the second fail after I upgraded my work machine to Sequioa. Initially I was greeted by this screen – I didn’t bother making a video, because you couldn’t have seen anything. Literally nothing was clickable: Not the More… links, not the checkbox, not the Cancel button. Nothing in the background window either, of course. I clicked and double-clicked on …
    By Manuel, 112 words
  13. The Savvy Diabetic | Blog, , more info

    Savvy Updates 11/18/24: NovoNordisk Phasing Out Human Insulin Pens, Sequel/Twiist AID, History of Artificial Pancreas
    Novo Nordisk says it is gradually phasing out human insulin pens globally by Maggie Fick for Reuters.com, 14 November 2024. Novo Nordisk is gradually ending production of human insulin pens, as it spends billions to ramp up manufacturing of its popular obesity and diabetes injections. The company declined to comment on the timeline. “Globally (human insulin pens) will be phased out over time and human insulin will be available only …
    By thesavvydiabetic, 89 words
  14. Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings | Blog, , more info

    Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await
    It's been a few years since I wrote about my challenges with async/await-based systems and how they just seem to not support back pressure well. A few years later, I do not think that this problem has subsided much, but my thinking and understanding have perhaps evolved a bit. I'm now convinced that async/await is, in fact, a bad abstraction for most languages, and we should be aiming for something …
    By Armin Ronacher, 5,812 words
  15. String-Or-Nothing, , more info

    RESISTANCE IS NEVER FUTILE, AND OTHER MISTAKES
    I continue my quest for distraction, working on the impromptu doodle sampler I mentioned in my last post. I still haven’t decided what it will bear, but right now I’m leaning towards the single word “RESIST.” Time will tell, but I’m already looking at typefaces. Warm and fuzzy/ultratraditional/edgy and threatening? All nuance the message and are under consideration. In the mean time I go back to my mail and comment …
    By kbsalazar, 1,512 words