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I've not posted in a while, just thought to mention the reason. My elder son, Mark William Hardy, was hospitalized on Nov. 3, and died on Dec. 3. I spent that time sitting in one or another ICU and was too distracted to blog. I still am.

Arndale Shopping Centres were amongst the best-known post-war developments in Britain, symbolic of progress and economic rebirth. However, they were routinely scorned by architectural critics and developed a tawdry reputation. Arndale House, New Street, Huddersfield (Gerald H. Baxter; 1958). (© K. Morrison) Most of Arndale’s artificially lit and air conditioned malls have been revamped since the 1980s, chiefly to admit more natural daylight and ventilation. They have also been rebranded …

It is now possible to add individual flights and Instagram posts, in addition to collection objects, to your shoebox. The goal is to slowly (and then quickly) add the ability to save any of the “first class actors” involved with the SFO Museum websites to your shoebox: Twitter posts, individual terminals and gates, airlines, aircraft and airports. Anything, really. Flights and Instagram posts are just what we’ve started with and …

3 AM thoughts on hope and gratitude in the time of the decline of the US empire

Switzerland? Famous for Toblerone's,Nazi Gold, at least a dozen Mona-Lisa's locked away in some vaults in Geneva, all that plus a preponderance for driving below the speed limit!?One has to question how this noisy duo ever managed to get out of a sensible career in corrupt neutral banking to make electroacoustic nightmares such as these seven overtly digital tracks which define themselves as "Earflash".Like the Swiss, i'm neutral on most …

As usual here’s a round-up of what I got up to during November. Borrowed Out Of Time album launch Every creative year usually has one or two constants, and my album, Borrowed Out Of Time (De La Catessen Records) was the big one in 2024. What began as motes of activity in January, gradually accumulated volume and momentum – often in conjunction with adjacent activities – and gradually took form. …

Dear First Name Will you help us? It’s getting late. Do not ignore the horror in your inbox. The situation’s stark.

PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS I thought I’d reached a point of cynicism. You can’t just take Slay the Spire’s roguelite framework, and replace the cards with just anything! That’s just silly. Except, no, it totally works every single time, even when it’s pachinko. Heck, does this mean Bookworm was the earlier version of Slay the Spire, but with spelling instead of cards? Anyway, point is, turns out it also …

State-sponsored rape, lies and deception – then a cover-up operating right across official life. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th November 2024 It’s the testimony we’ve long been waiting for. On Monday, at the undercover policing inquiry, the man whose cruel and disgusting deceptions have come to epitomise the “spy cops” scandal will be questioned. Many of us are hoping for answers, not least because his story suggests …

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I’ve always wanted to find great case studies from people building things. Not high level blogposts dictating “this is how you should do X”, but “here’s the 20 things we tried and the data we had at the time, and what we learned.” I started a side project at some point to aggregate them, but I literally couldn’t find many examples online. Came across two of the best examples I’ve …

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Via Languagehat, here is an essay by Michael W. Clune about War (1934?, posthumously published in 2022) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961), recently translated into English by Charlotte Mandell. There is a nineteenth-century Russian connection. For Clune, satire is when a writer compares something bad to an implied or express better thing, while dark comedy, or at least a tradition within it, relies on the “Universal Downward Comparison.” That’s when you …

Cats are known to be the leading predator of birds in the U.S.A, killing somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds per year. It's a major problem.And there's a sense that it's a new one. The Scott Loss paper cited about came out in 2013, and seems to have marked a turning point in the discourse. "Did you say billion?" A growing number of people talk about the problem, and …