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My early morning walks continue, although since these photos were taken about a week ago, it's now pretty dark at 7am. I guess we are rapidly coming towards the end of the autumn season now, as the Winter Solstice (the shortest day) is just over four weeks away. Autumn has been especially charming this year, well, maybe I should say that it's me that's felt charmed more than usual by …

Axios: Apple is selling Apple News ads directly for the first time. Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It's pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for itself and its publishing partners. I've been meaning to write about this for a while now, and since this popped up on Axios, now is a good …

A few months back, I played in SFPursuit, a San Francisco challenge hunt. Uhm, where "challenge hunt" is a phrase I made up just now for "Something like a puzzlehunt, but most of the activities aren't puzzle-y, but they are still challenging." One of the activities involved looking over a physical book that had been created for the hunt. A few bookstores across San Francisco had one copy each of …

‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows you’re there’I was following orangutans in Borneo with my wife, Cheryl Knott, a primatologist who has spent 30 years working in Gunung Palung national park, in the Indonesian part of Borneo. I am a biologist by background, and did my …

Hello you fine Internet folks!We are here at SC24 in Atlanta and there is a new TOP500 list that has just been announced and to celebrate the occasion, we have a video and an article for y’all and I hope that y’all enjoy!For a bit of background, every year there are 2 TOP500 lists, the first one of the year is usually announced at International Supercomputing which is usually in …

The communities of Alexandria, Hilltop and the Kingdom have joined forces to oppose the Saviors, but they have been betrayed by one group of potential allies whilst another, Oceanside, tries to stay out of the fighting. An early victory isolates the Sanctuary and allows Rick's forces to go on the offensive against the isolated Savior secondary bases, but Negan remains a dangerous and resourceful foe. As the tides of war …

Even though I love, and use, RSS daily to read things from the human focused web, also known as the indie web, I’ve been taking some time to dive into alt media. By alt media, I mean the 1990’s definition of alt media, where people actually stood against injustice instead of bowing down to their billionaire investors. I consume more podcasts than the average human, and I listen to a …

I love how Bear blog deploys its lean analytics (cleverly via CSS) for users of the platform — Herman Martinus details it in a post, albeit from a year ago. (I’ve been digging into a lightweight homepage solution, and reacquainted myself with Bear — curious if there’s anything else that’s similar).

• 4-star hike • 3 mile out-and-back • Easy | Gain 400 feet • Agawam, MA | Pioneer Valley . MA Fire Towers Views from the derelict 1959 fire tower. Provin Mountain is peak of marginal prominence on the Metacomet Ridge - a long rocky range that spans the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut west of the Connecticut River. This hike boasts some of the best features of this range, …

We learned yesterday that we lost game designer Kory Heath. Sad news—my dear friend and collaborator, Kory Heath, after enduring years of chronic pain and depression, ended his life. He was a genius, also funny, kind, patient. I'm so grateful we could spend so many years, laughs, and tears together, and that he knew he was deeply loved by all of his friends. [email protected], Nov 19 Photo by Andrew Petrarca, …

Boo! Prepare to be terrified as I take you on a journey (probably in a hearse) around the new GBG pubs I visit at that thrilling time of year when the veil of life & death is thinner than that wafer thin ham you get in Sainsbury's. Oooooooh. We start on Hallowe'en itself, a #BloodThirstyThursday where I want a curtailed one-pub-stop BRAPA trip out. I'm desperate to celebrate later that …

Out bright and early one morning and while wandering along a headland above a dyke a hen Sparrow Hawk lifted up out of the dyke and flashed by. Lucie and I on the early morning walk had disturbed her finishing her breakfast. There were feathers scattered all round the dry mat of reeds at bottom right where she'd consumed a pigeon that she'd taken out in mid-air and that's all …

A rebuilding of the back catalogue of an art gallery, Garage Rotterdam, from Django, to WordPress.

I'm thinking about war this morning, specifically Russia and Ukraine. Many people seem to write off the nuclear possibilities, I don't think they have a clue. Do people really want to push someone with more than enough capability to use it? I really don't get it. Don't get me wrong, I feel for the Ukrainian people, I really do. But at some point peace must be made. I feel they …

Anora For all its anxiety inducing set pieces, the most masterful thing about Sean Baker's electric "Anora" is that all the controlled chaos only makes the quiet, reflective moments that much more powerful. As the title character, Mikey Madison gives a ferociously alive portrayal of a woman caught up in a spiral of very messed-up hide and seek when her newlywed Russian husband goes missing, and his very powerful family's …