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Red Fern Booksellers, Salina, KS (Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X)Regular followers know that I can be swept away in any bookstore and perhaps inclined to exaggeration. Trust me when I say that Red Fern Booksellers is not beautiful, it is truly gorgeous. The work that owner Harley H. and his team put into this space is impressive. As he told …

Very excited to share that applications are now open for the speculative fiction work/shop! This five-week program is for anyone who feels stuck and unfulfilled in their work and who wants to open up some space to imagine different futures. If your work feels like it’s at a dead end, if you’re struggling to imagine what comes next, if you want space to think both differently and in community—this is …

It looks like it might be a fun kit to build. I recently found a couple additional laser cut wooden kits that deserve another look. This will be my second item listed under the new label of boat.

Peanuts fans have had a number of podcasts to listen to over the years. Currently, there’s Unpacking Peanuts (working its way through the Peanuts canon four months per episode), Talking Nuts (working its way through the canon one month per episode), and It’s a Podcast, Charlie Brown (focused on, but not solely about, Peanuts in animation.) In the past, well, the AAUGH Blog Podcast was around for sixty interesting largely-book-themed …

It's the day before Thanksgiving here in the US, which means that (as longtime readers know) I will be preparing a chocolate pecan pie, as I do every year. The recipe is here, and I've been making it the same way for nearly thirty years, so I think I can put this one in the "reliable" category. That's it at right! I'm also in charge of preparing the turkey around …

This is the title of my new draft paper on SSRN. Here is the Abstract:This Essay explores the most remarkable constitutional argument ever forgotten. In 1871, Representative William Loughridge dissented from a report by the House Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee rejected a petition by Victoria Woodhull claiming that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments gave women the right to vote. Representative Loughridge replied with a defense of women’s suffrage that …

There are a handful of flashlights/torches with the flexible Anduril user interface (UI) that are suitable for light painting photography. Undoubtably the smallest is the 14500 battery format Wurkkos TS10 SG, with the throwy Luminus SFT-25R LED. This review takes a look at how the TS10 SG performs for light painting photography and general purpose use. Disclaimer The Wurkkos TS10 SG was purchased with my own funds. Product links in …

Weekly, Regional Policy Director Dan Reed and DC Policy Director Alex Baca will share with you an action you can take in the immediate future that has the potential, sometimes great and sometimes small, to increase the number of homes in our region, decrease the trips people take by car, make all of it safer, and not screw people over in the process. This week: it’s one year of Do …

Today, I wanted to share a little Web Component I made for expanding or collapsing all of the <details> elements on a page. Let’s dig in! Why do you need this? Over on the Lean Web Club, I host a massive, searchable collection of courses and tutorials on a wide range of front-end topics. I originally just had them all as one giant list, but the page got comically long …

You are asking, “Where are you? Are you okay? Are you still blogging?” In TikTok parlance, “Great questions. Let me tell you.” First, this standard TikTok pattern is one I find really interesting. It fills in he politeness / nicety gap that has become common in the last decade or two, where people jump into answering questions. This nod to thanking the person asking encourages questions and puts people at …

[vaccines] The Impact of Vaccines … Astonishing infographic showing the effectiveness of vaccines against common diseases across time.

The following is a guest post from Andrew Reiter, a legislative data specialist in the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. Andrew previously blogged about an Update on the Congress.gov API, Modernizing Congressional Data – Treaty Documents on Congress.gov, and Modernizing Congressional Data – Senate Legislation and Amendments on Congress.gov. In the fifth installment of our series on modernizing the legislative data exchange behind Congress.gov, we look …

The evocatively named Allie Catt is used to rising above her circumstances. Whether it’s her indifferent parents’ absurd choice of name for their only child or the heartbreaking end of her engagement, Allie has grown to be the kind of twenty-something woman who learns from adversity and shapes herself into someone stronger, wiser, and, most…

There’s been a lot of stories about benzene contamination in personal care products over the last 4 years. This year, benzene was discovered in benzoyl peroxide, a staple acne treatment. How concerned should we be? Petition and original paper I’ve written about the background behind Valisure’s benzene analyses before, as well as questions about the accuracy of their data and ... Read more Source

I'm thinking about the USA election, and I'm thinking about Ukraine, and I'm remembering how the "Berkut" snipers shot journalists in Kyiv in 2013, and of course I remember Linda Tirado. And here's an article, an interview with her. She's crazy and beautiful. And here's a story she told a couple days ago. I don't know how long she can live like this. Brain's a tricky thing. There's not much …