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Running until 12/1, 25% of this selection of gear. Includes the Rip Ruck, District, Radix, and 2 Day Assault bags — all of which are fantastic.

All the books I read in 2024, ranked. The post What I Read This Year – 2024 Ranked first appeared on Financial Mechanic.

New links… Discussion welcome. “What scares me [is] the rhetoric of AI today that is about gaslighting humans into surrendering their own power and their own confidence in their agency and freedom. That’s the existential threat” — Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh) interviewed at Vox It “should be thought of as a dialogue between [logic and intuition,] between reason and instinct, between language and abstraction” — you thought that was about philosophy, …

Every now and then, I do one of these "Locked and Loaded" posts to read and review mostly obscure, often uncollected short locked room mysteries and impossible crime stories covering nearly a century of miraculous crime fiction – stretching from Charles G. Booth's "One Shot" (1925) to James Scott Byrnside's "The Silent Steps of Murder" (2023). I discuss those two short stories, and everything in between, in Part 1, 2, …

The maps presented here were created by Yanko Tsvetkov from his Atlas of Prejudice series (click here to buy the book). And here the 20 ways to divide Europe based on stereotypes: 1. Euphoric, Melancholic, Depressed 2. Classical vs Modern 3. Revolutionary vs Traditional 4. Sunny vs Cloudy 5. Tomato vs Potato 6. Wine, Beer, Vodka 7. Olive Oil vs Butter 8. Tea vs Coffee 9. Sexually Repressed vs Emotionally …

Alto Tu Barco! You can almost feel the sea spray on your eyelashes in this one. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crews interdict a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, October 2024. Munro is the sixth Legend-class national security cutter homeported in Alameda, California. U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crews interdict a vessel suspected …

Let’s be honest, you could cut the rest of any Thanksgiving meal and serve me a big bowl of mashed potatoes (with gravy), and I’d be set! And The Woks of Life’s simple, comforting Cheesy Mashed Potatoes with Scallions were a highlight of our meal. It’s a classic recipe – russet potatoes, milk, butter, salt, and pepper mashed together with my favorite gigantic spoon, then enhanced with shredded cheddar, grated …

Scouts from the San Francisco, California, area partnered with local food banks to collect donations for families in need during the holiday season. Scouts helped gather donations at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Rafael, which serves more than 50,000 households weekly. With the holidays approaching, food banks are seeing increased demand. Last year, Scouts collected more than 28,000 pounds of food across the region, evidence of the …

Familiar themes to sketch this morning. They feel good. In Halifax the temperature seems to trip from “Why does it need to be so hot all the time?” to “I had all these cute sweaters I was going to wear,... Read More ›

Session 270 was played on 10/28/24Morgana, wizard (Rob)Borumar, Triton Thief (Josh)Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)The party continues their exploration of the sewers, heading to the area the area Morgana marked on the map as “death pits” due to the concentration of ochre jellies in the bottom of it. Borumar checks the room, avoiding the pits themselves, …

2006 Relic Entertainment Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile conversion of a classic real-time strategy game that many of us have lost hours to over the years – including myself on PC over multiplayer. It … Continue reading →

This week’s Debrief features the new Soma Bar-Ins, an electronic shifting survey (for or against), a $16,000 gravel bike, a Dinétah story, Concrete Trails woven bar tape, three events to follow live, and more. Find it all here… The post Friday Debrief: Electronic Shifting Survey, Concrete Trails Bar Tape, Soma Bar-Ins, and More… appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Imagine standing on a railway platform watching a trolley go past. A girl on the trolley drops a bright red ball. To her, the ball falls straight down. But from the platform, you see the ball traverse an arc before hitting the trolley floor. The two of you observe the same event, but from different reference frames: one anchored to the trolley and the other to the platform. The idea …

We welcome YOU once again to Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books 15th Annual Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition! This vibrant event showcases and celebrates the incredible talent and creativity of artists from all around the world. As we continue to foster a love for highlighting the unsung heroes/teams of our favourite book covers. Join us on this exciting journey and spread the word

Warm Currency is the duo of MP Hopkins and Mary MacDougall from Eora. Their first album arrived on Horn of Plenty in 2022, with sparse folk compositions and field recordings that would’ve been typical Altered States fare. Their new LP is also coming out in the UK though. Petals is out today, November 22, on the same label and it’s packed with 12 beautiful compositions that’ll no doubt make the …