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November 22, 2024 It’s snowing like the end of the world here in Chicago – I’m very happy! Of course, it will last an hour, and then melt… sigh… More heroines than you might expect are committed to wearing navy, grey, and accent colors that vary with the seasons. I hear from you often, and I can entirely agree that your choice is an elegant and pretty foolproof way to …

FAUX PRIX, the new indie rock project from Bradley Hanan Carter (NO, 5 Billion in Diamonds), drops their latest track ‘Chasing Sunsets,’ a haunting reflection on resilience and staying true to your dreams. With a thrift store Casiotone drone setting the mood, Carter channels a blend of nostalgic indie rock vibes and anthemic energy. He describes the song as a journey through personal struggle, urging listeners to hold on to …

This is one of those topics which is just soooo much easier to demonstrate than to describe... but I've have five people ask me about Tree Peonies in the past few days, so - as I still haven't managed to get a Go-Pro sorted out - you will have to bear with my descriptions, instead of a quick five-minute video. Sorry about that!Right, Tree Peonies: these are actually small shrubs, …

Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you use movies as a progress bar for life expectancy. Enter your birthdate and expected lifespan. Then select a movie from the list. The percentage of your life that you’ve lived is translated to the percentage through the movie you would be, which gives you the frame in the movie. I swear this was made just for me. …

Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson will discuss our polycrisis, and the swift and holistic reform of global governance institutions that is needed to respond to these urgent transnational and planetary challenges we are facing.We are living in an age of exceptional complexity and turbulence. What distinguishes this period in human history is the confluence of forces— political, geo-strategic, economic, social, technological, and environmental, as well as the interactions amongst …

It's been a long time since I last wrote about a hair care product on Bonkers, but my recent quest to find something to give my fine, limp hair a bit of a lift in the crown may be of interest to any other seekers of volume, oomph, or anything vaguely resembling an artfully tousled look.In recent years my hair had been steadily growing, and I rather liked it long. …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: Call me weird, but I was quite looking forward to this hearing of the Commons Public Accounts Committee this week. The National Audit Office report was so damning, I was … The post Commons committee lets the Department for Education off the hook—so we’ll do the scrutiny instead appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Rachel Filmer ⓒ Special Needs Jungle 2008-2023 All Rights reserved

Related Images invites readers behind the scenes and into the sketchbooks of working filmmakers to learn more about their creative processes.Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches is now showing exclusively on MUBI.Witches (Elizabeth Sankey, 2024).Title cards are an underappreciated art and a powerful tool for every director. They can punctuate a moment, make it more comic, shocking, or beautiful. They can hold your hand and lead you sweetly down the garden path of …

The spork’s continued existence, in the liminal place between useless and annoying, remains baffling. CC-licensed photo by Karl Baron on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. It’s Friday, so there’s another post due at the Social Warming Substack at about 0845 UK time. A selection of 9 links for you. Cutting edge. …

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When you need to know a bit more about how the system identifies a given user. Assumed audience: People interested in learning how the command lines tools on their computer work.This week’s Read the Manual is about id: a tool I only learned the existence of while researching last week’s entry on lsof! It gives you users’ user names, group names, and numeric IDs for a given user. This is …

We have an election a week from today. In Ireland, certain categories of people are excluded from being candidates.Otherwise there is low no bar. In Dau.I&II's constituency Gerry "The Monk" Hutch has returned from exile in Spain to run to represent His People. In 1995, we were living round the corner from Veronica Guerin when she was shot and wounded at her front door, the day after writing an article …

Thinking about the scene early in the movie Tár, where the ghastly Juilliard student Max announces that because he’s a pansexual BIPOC with an overactive leg (I paraphrase), he doesn’t feel able to love Bach because he had 20 children and maybe didn’t do his share of the housework (I paraphrase further) and I wonder how many people who watch the scene think, yeah, fair point, awful Juilliard bloke.And then …

I had high hopes for this one. I love the 1992 original, came away from this modern take’s playable prologue feeling positive about it all, and am generally predisposed to liking horror games in general. So I happily approached Alone in the Dark‘s 2024 remake in the spirit it was intended to be taken in “…reimagining the iconic game that set the benchmark for the genre“, picked Edward Carnby (the …

Something a bit different today, as Kirsten Lawson summarises the recent Lancet Public Health series on suicide prevention, which looks at public health interventions, addressing the risk factors and determinants of suicide, and the transmissibility of suicide. The post Suicide prevention: expanding the narrative to preventing the crisis, not just treating the crisis appeared first on National Elf Service.