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The city is a map of stories, and in them we are both the inhabitants and the explorers. Zadie Smith (from NW) At Psychogeographic Review I write about the books, poems, maps, photographs, paintings, films and music that help us to construct a living map of the places where humans live. The following is my personal and very subjective list of some of the books that have informed this discussion …

(⏱️ ~10 min read) Another month, another collection of shiny objects (stuff I found in the the past month that were valuable/inspiring). See also, previous Signal Boosts for Oct/Sep, Aug/July, June, May 🩸 Kurzgesagt gets to the bottom of a science myth ↪ 😭 Paper: AI poems are now "more human than human" ↪ 🇺🇸 U.S. Election-related analysis ↪ 👄 The Substance ↪ 🩸 Kurzgesagt gets to the bottom of …

I’ve played 186 games of Forest Shuffle this year. I like it a lot. Here are some new games I’ve played during the past few months. Fishing. Friedemann Friese’s latest curious trick-taking game is a lot of fun. This is an evolving game with a lovely ebb and flow to it. The game starts simple. You play a normal game of trick-taking and score a point for every card you …

. Winter brings longer nights and the desire to read by the fireside. Welcome, dear reader, to 19th-century Paris’ vibrant literary world! Let’s explore the various styles and flamboyant authors who penned their way into world-wide fame. Romanticism (from 1790s to 1850s) Romanticism was a literary movement focused on emotion, imagination, and the natural world. It was a time of heightened creativity and experimentation. Writers during this period explored themes …

I’m trying not to borrow grief from the future, as the saying advises, but the terms are so damn attractive.

I thought I should share more pictures from my trip to Venice, some months ago. I recently listened to this podcast from the BBC and I learnt a lot more about the history of such amazing place. I totally recommend it. As always, let me know if you would like a print of any of these pictures ;). Source

The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand.

The road to Dirē Dawa is a long one: an eight-hour drive from Addis Ababa, or so we are told. We left Addis Ababa at dawn, our bus rattling through empty streets shadowed by new-build office blocks. As with almost everywhere currently in Ethiopia, the pavements were piled with concrete rubble, the result of Prime … Continue reading "The Road to Dirē Dawa"

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Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code and on Morse Code with flags. Left, redesigned with a bigger font, for aging eyes. Our website has a …

Now that we have another Noirvember under our collective belts, it’s time to get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Here’s what’s on deck on TCM in the month of December in the pre-Code and film noir departments… Satiny Pick: December 2nd My Satiny pick for December is They Call It Sin (1932), one of the many Loretta Young pre-Codes of which I just can’t get enough. (After 1934, I …

SON OF A ...! You can tell American politics is having a deleterious effect on me because of two behaviors reflecting low mood: In a late-night Wikipedia session I let myself get nerd-sniped into trying to solve an old unsolved geometry problem that's a distraction from my already needless project that is well underway. I'll save the details for a later post or video, but something struck me as "that …

My grandma died in August. She was 98 ½. 98 ½! A phenomenal run. She outlived Castro, but not Jimmy Carter. She was my last grandparent. My mom’s parents died when I was a kid, and my dad’s dad died over a decade ago. That left grandma, but she had a lot left in her. At one point I hadn’t been home for Christmas for a few years due to …