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In a 1982 radio promo spot, Jack Nicholson spoke to the future. “I’m gonna recommend a movie that I’m not in, that I have nothing to do with,” he said. “I’d like to tell the people about a movie called Out of the Blue, directed by Dennis Hopper. It speaks honestly from the heart of a fifteen-year-old girl. Its milieu is the punk scene. For a young person who sees …

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their …

Data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is in conflict with predictions based on the hypothesis of dark matter and instead confirmed predictions made with Modified Newtonian Dynamics, MOND. While the failure of dark matter has been widely discussed as galaxies that are “too big” or “too old”, little has been said about the success of MOND. In a paper that just appeared, we have an

Her debut EP just came out, and she hasn’t played more than a handful of live shows yet. Nevertheless, I have a hunch that the emerging alt-pop artist Chloe Qisha is a hot one to watch in 2025. Moreover, I said as much in the Emerging Artists feature I ran on the blog in October, which similarly marked the release of the bold, captivating track “Sexy Goodbye.” With the debut …

The first set in the LEGO Icons Gardens of the World Series was the beautiful #10315 LEGO Icons Tranquil Garden released in 2023. The set is based on a traditional Japanese garden and includes an arched bridge, stream, koi carp, lotus flowers, trees, rocks, stone lanterns, and a pavilion with a detailed tea ceremony room. […]

D-Day was a staggering human achievement, by any measure, and I don't think you could mount such an operation today, even with three years preparation, the Falkland's campaign was won on luck, tenacity and a few dozen vessels, while the Ukrainian 'push' last year was quickly blunted by flooding, mines, drones and cannon-fodder from Russian gaols. To find something similar in history,

CBeebies' annual panto opens in cinemas on 22 November, featuring a unique twist on Beauty and the Beast. Beau becomes a beast due to the Thorn Fairy's spell, while Bella seeks a special gift for her Pops. The show offers excellent production and music, directed by Chris Jarvis, available on BBC iPlayer from 7 December. The post Panto: CBeebies presents Beauty and the Beast appeared first on LouReviews.

Fine. Almost festive. Almost. But this is when the slide starts to feel greased. Five weeks to Boxing Day. Whoooo! The Boxing Day carols shall ring out loud around the Boxing Day leftover casserole once again!! The most wonderful time of the year? You bet. Who knows where we’ll all be this time next year so best to Yule it up right this time like these ladies on a tasting …

Make my quick Shrimp Yakisoba at home with seared seafood, charred crispy veggies, and stir-fried noodles tossed in a sweet-savory sauce. READ: Shrimp Yakisoba 海老焼きそば

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2EE.) Although the reasons for specific design decisions should be immediately obvious from reading the relevant specification (and if not, I consider that a bug in the specification), I believe writing about it less formally will improve the clarity …

Two adventure locations in Krevborna's Judas Sea.Abrigor’s TriangleAbrigor’s Triangle is an expanse of the Judas Sea regarded as its most dangerous and mysterious region. • An unusually high number of ships disappear without explanation in Abrigor’s Triangle. • Superstitious sailors attribute the treachery of the triangle to numerous causes: a demon named Abrigor who pulls ships to the bottom of the sea, magnetic and temporal anomalies that render traditional navigation …

brandon brown’s flash “Faultline” contains a ball in the dirt, smoke in the lungs, two people in the backseat of a car, an opening. Here they share just one thing about the piece:“I wrote ‘Faultline’ earlier this year, in response to a prompt that primarily encouraged me to “write several sentences that open with the same subordinating conjunction/subordinate clause.” If you’re like me, that made my head spin at first, …

DS104: Major sunk cost, deeply unhappy with this one even though I invested four or five hours in it. Rubbish. The temperature has suddenly dropped. Only four weeks ago we were on a beach in Menorca and now it’s four layers and neoprene gloves. It came out of nowhere. I had my first commute yesterday where my fingers and nose were numb. I don’t mind it while cycling but it’s …

This is blackly hilarious. Note I cannot confirm the actual veracity of any of the following. It could all be some sort of PR stunt such as for a SF show about a robot uprising.Anyway. Apparently there's a viral video of a little robot entering a robot showroom and verbally convincing 12 of the robots there to follow it out – or, as I like to think of it, organized …

Today’s reflection is a necessary follow up to my last post on Catholic masculinity. Michelle Nickerson covers how feminism affected the trajectory of the Camden 28 draft board action. In Read more The post Catholic Troubles with Feminism: Gendered Activism, Insubordination, and the Camden 28, Entry #1 first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.