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Verso Fiction: uncompromisingly intelligent and beautiful books, with an international focus. See all our fiction here. The Destructive Force of Romantic Love: read an excerpt from Vigdis Hjorth's new novel, If Only. "I want to read about women who can’t make things": read an excerpt from Hannah Regal's debut novel, The Last Sane Woman. Roughage: read a short story from India Ennenga on the Verso Blog. 2024 Highlights [book-strip index="1" …

Tap to view at full size. Mine’s going through its greatest era. (And no, there’s nothing secret or security-compromising on my laptop screen in these photos — in fact, it’s documentation that I wrote for Writer, and you’re supposed to see that.) Tap to view at full size. Tap to view at full size. The post What does YOUR workspace look like? appeared first on Global Nerdy.

Instead of adding document.startViewTransition at various places in your JS, use a MutationObserver to watch for DOM mutations. In the Observer’s callback undo the original mutation and reapply it, but this time wrapped in a View Transition. ~ # The need for automatic View Transitions Today on BlueSky, Cory LaViska wondered the following about Same-Document View Transitions: I wish I could opt certain elements in to View Transitions so all …

Migrations in Laravel are a great way to manage your database schema. From the ability to easily create and drop tables, to the ability to add and remove columns, migrations are an essential part of any Laravel application. And though migrations covers everything related to a database schema under the sun, there might be a few things that might be missing. Like when you upgrade your application to use a …

On 25th November 1974, Nick Drake passed away in his parents home in Tanworth-in-Arden. His work was not well known at this time and it would take until the end of the decade that his profile began to rise. By the mid 80s, he was being mentioned by a number of musicians as an influence and in the following decade, his gained further exposure due to the BBC broadcasting radio …

This is a guest post by Ryn Cole, who was an intern this summer in the Office of Communications. It appears in slightly different form in the November-December issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. The fourth Thursday in November today means family, food and giving thanks. The national holiday of Thanksgiving, however, did not come quickly or easily. The precedent for a national Thanksgiving holiday can be attributed, in …

As you probably know, it's a tradition here to look at the Thanksgiving Day listings on Thanksgiving week, and this week's listings come from the Wisconsin State Edition. All three networks preempted substantial parts of their daytime schedules for parades and football, but if you need something to keep you awake after all the foot, you might want to stick around for NBC's Kraft Suspense Theatre and "Graffiti," a WWII …

Some of us are lucky and sell out our concert, or have to close our choir to new members. photo by Pacopac It’s a nice problem to have, but I hate turning people away, so are there alternatives? It’s inevitable that when you offer something good, there will come a time when you become over-subscribed. Your concert or singing workshop sells out, or you reach capacity with your choir membership. …

In this episode we interview Condemner, their history, their latest album ‘Male Patratis Sunt Atra Theatra Parata’, what’s in store for the future, and the health of underground metal.

Music Review – November 2024 The Wirral, where I was born and bred, has an incredibly rich Viking heritage and is the only place in mainland Britain to have documented evidence of Norwegian Viking Settlers, from 902AD. This album is a homage to that heritage and the many place from around the peninsula whose names are born of Viking tongue. The Wirral and Chester’s city walls are two of my …

Little pasta-dough gnocchi from Sardinia, these are malloreddus. Fun to make and great with a pork ragu. Malloreddus Pasta is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.

Written by MichaelThat sandwich is well guarded. So, after my last session, I took a break, had a sandwich (or two or three, it has been a few days since that last post) and I’m ready to hop back into the game. When we last controlled the young mystic, I was wondering how to pay for my cruise trip and even how to spring my suitor stalker friend co-worker Marko …

A Moon-bound lunar lander is being shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida next month under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas announced it has wrapped up the Blue Ghost’s rigid environmental testing for a projected launch in January of next year. “While we know there will be more challenges […]

The Art of Selling Movies #1 --- Carolina, The Country Doctor, and The FanCAROLINA (1934) --- At left is what they used to call a “mini-window card.” Sample shown is apx. 8X11, a blank margin likely trimmed off at some point. Idea was to print or hand-write playdates in the white space, then post cards on cooperating store windows. Merchants used to assist one another that way. A Fox Films …