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The comparison of these two images is indicative of the types of image files I made to compare the full frame 45.44mp Nikon file to an upscaled (to same pixel dimension on the long side) Micro 4/3 20.11mp file from the OM-1 Mark II. The is the full image from the Nikon Z8. It is 45.44mp. (click to enlarge)This is the upscaled 20.11mp image from from the OM-1 Mark II. …

8018/20959I hope that when I die, I am principally remembered for twatting a bloke who chucked an egg at me.Hasn't happened yet, but if anyone feels like chucking an egg at me and doesn't mind being twatted in return then go for it. Make sure there's someone filming it though. Let the games commence.And being remembered for twatting a bloke who chucked an egg at you is better than not …

Muriel SparkGalley Beggar Press‘Perhaps you don’t know how repulsive and loathsome is the ghost of a living man. The ghosts of the dead may be all right, but the ghost of mad Johnnie gave me the creeps…’ So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark’s haunting tale, ‘The Leaf-sweeper’, before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain ‘madman’, Johnnie Geddes – a man hell-bent on …

Underground Heritage InformationMaida Vale StationListed as a building of national significanceArchitect: Stanley Heaps The Bakerloo line extension from Paddington to Queen's Park opened in February 1915, although Maida Vale was not fully completed until 6 June that year. Architecturally the station design closely follows the format of the tube stations designed by Leslie Green in 1906/7 and seen throughout London. It is a sad irony that although Green was born …

In an April 20, 1975 letter to Railroad Modeler editor Denis Dunning, E. L. Moore had this to say about his recent cataract surgery:Right now I'm trying to get used to wearing cataract glasses . . . had one eye castrated, (and at the price, $1250, the expression is apt), and now one to go.I recently had cataract surgery on one eye. I'm fine. And now one to go.And speaking …

Blue Lug is probably one of the only online shops (let’s face it, they’re shaping a lot of the bike culture in Tokyo too) that can make a handlebar with Nitto and immediately sell out of them. Not unlike a limited Nike drop or an ultra-limited vinyl pressing. The Nitto Jam Bar ($57) is a case in point. Super affordable, comfy, and strong… The initial run of hundreds of Jam …

This is a guest post by Hannah Ostroff, a public affairs specialist in the Library Collections and Services Group. It appears in slightly different form in the November-December issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. When you sit down for a traditional holiday meal, does your cranberry sauce resemble the fruit or retain the outlines of the can’s ridges? Does the stuffing — or is it called dressing? — go …

The Flood (2024), aka Le Déluge, is opening in late December in France. It tells the

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 …