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A stopover in Leeds for a gig with a few beers in a mixture of pubs and bars, which with some decent food to be had made for an enjoyable time predominantly wandering around a former edgy part of the city....I caught the train over to Leeds from Halifax, arriving in the city just before 5.30. I popped in to one of the several drinking places close by, the Friends …

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Chameleons* are among the most distinctive and charismatic of lizards, and a long list of anatomical features make them very unusual... Caption: Jackson’s chameleon Trioceros jacksonii in profile, one of the most famous and familiar of chameleon species. I’m one of many people who grew up knowing of this species as Chamaeleo jacksonii. Image: Benjamint444, CC BY-SA 3.0. Yes, here’s another effort to rescue a squamate article from the Tet …

There were a ton of 64DD games we didn’t get in the West for the Nintendo 64 but one that intrigued me the most was Mario Artist, is a suite of games and an app, including: Paint Studio Talent Studio Polygon Studio Communication Kit The suite transformed the N64 into a multimedia hub with Internet access and released in stages from 1999–2000 in Japan. In the above video, DidYouKnowGaming traced …

Welcome to Bees in the News, an irregular newsletter that is even less regular than it should be due to my house move, and is only available to sponsors of The Apiarist. Each contains short(ish) newsworthy articles and comments on a range of bee and beekeeping topics. Some might justify a full post at some point in the future, others you may never hear about again.Inevitably - reflecting my bias …

I’m not sure there’s been any product I’ve had a more mixed relationship with than the AirPods Max. I returned my first pair…then missed them just enough to buy a second, which I’ve kept. Rarely a day goes by where they don’t piss me off in one way or another…yet rarely a day goes by where I don’t use them anyway. What I like If I’m buying headphones, I’m buying …

Wally is enjoying a (very adventurous) vacation in Skartaris with his family. Meanwhile, Wally is…waitaminute…ALSO in the Watchtower? That’s where we left off last issue. Don’t worry, all will be explained, although it will more than slightly blow your mind. There are all sorts of dangers for both Wally and…Wally in this issue, and there are still plenty of mysteries to be explored. Wanna know more? Follow us after the …

Offrez des évasions livresques ! La fin de l’année approche à grands pas et, avec elle, l’obligation d’offrir des cadeaux à la famille, la belle-famille, les amis. Difficile d’échapper à cette pression consumériste sans passer pour un rustre. Tenter le cadeau réutilisable ? Le Cadeau réutilisable (ploum.net) Mais le meilleur cadeau réutilisable n’est-il pas un livre qui peut se partager, se prêter, se perdre, se retrouver ? Alors voici quelques …

Are you entertaining this season? And do you have vegetables to get rid of? Although these questions may seem unrelated, the historical newspapers have the perfect recipe to squash boredom and turnip the fun. Read on for nutritious party games your friends will talk about for years to come. . . even if they stop Read More

Perry Anderson brings a peculiar gift to the work of criticism: he can step into a book and inspect it closely, even sympathetically, scrutinising its structures, immersing himself in its style and atmosphere; then he can step out of it again and size it up coldly from a distance. It’s surprising how rare this is. Historians rarely attempt it.

hello twp blog, long time no see. i don’t know where i’ve been so i won’t bore you with filling in the gaps. etc. here’s a lil round up of the book related press that has come out so far – interviews, features, reviews. bc we will forget, the internet is enormous, the white pube is FOREVA and it’s nice to have everything in one place. 8 best new books …

This is a video from runner and filmmaker Duncan McCabe, who ran precise patterns around Toronto and tracked his routes with the Strava fitness app to create a flipbook style animation from the 121 runs, totaling 1,105km (687 miles) of drawing. That’s impressive. Strava must be pretty accurate to be able to identify the nuances of where exactly he ran. My GPS is always super inaccurate, especially when my girlfriend …

(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) Lots of fun and interesting holiday-themed rides the next few days. Check out a few I’ve heard about below… Thursday, November 28th Un-Thanksgiving Ride – 9:30 am at Irving Park (NE)Join veteran ride leaders Max and Tom for a recognition of National Day of Mourning and an “Un-Thanksgiving.” They’ll bike to Whitaker Ponds and then venture to the nearby Native American Youth Association headquarters to hear native …

There’s a post on htmx.org about why htmx wasn’t the right fit for a particular project (which is dope, we need more websites that admit their thing might not be the right thing all the time). The bit on AI being unfamiliar with their tool choice piqued my interest: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx, due to the lack …