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  1. Man in Chair, , more info

    John Foreman’s Australian Pops Orchestra: New Year’s Eve Gala Concert 2024 review
    John Foreman’s Australian Pops Orchestra blends traditional New Year’s Eve favourites with a generous serving of musical theatre and pop hits for a thrilling presentation of their annual New Year’s Eve & The Day Before Gala Concert. New Year’s concerts are a custom the world over and Melbourne is fortunate to have its own tradition curated so lovingly by John Foreman. Showcasing three fabulous headline stars, the 60 piece orchestra …
    By Simon Parris, 651 words
  2. Niklas's blog, , more info

    Jimmy Carter is dead
    Jimmy Carter. Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Jimmy Carter is dead. He became 100 years old. He may be known as the 'least-bad American president', which is no small feat. Let's look at what he did, based on some notes I've made through the years; in other words, this is merely a collection of quotes from books, articles, and video …
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  3. The lost outpost – technology, photography, society, and life, , more info

    Finding affordable Air Quality sensors for FOSDEM
    Pick two There’s a well-known project management / product management adage… you have three variables – speed / price / quality – and must choose two. FOSDEM 2025 My friend Chris Adams is, like me1, headed to FOSDEM 2025 – in fact, for the last couple of years, that is the only time I’ve had the joy of seeing him, so I already treasure the opportunity to go there! Background …
    By Andy Piper, 910 words
  4. Toomanywires, , more info

    The Best & Worst Games of 2024
    The Best & Worst of:2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010I bought a GameCube this year. It's orange.I also bought and played things that aren't twenty years old. New things. Whether I was pumping dozens of hours into the latest blockbuster, discovering a charming indie, revisiting an old favourite, or …
    By toomanywires, 5,622 words
  5. comiCSS, , more info

    Argument
    A cartoon coded in CSS from comiCSS.
    By Alvaro Montoro, 8 words
  6. Igor Pak's blog, , more info

    On faith, religion, conjectures and Schubert calculus
    Just in time for the holidays, Colleen Robichaux and I wrote this paper on positivity of Schubert coefficients. This paper is unlike any other paper I had written, both in the content and the way we obtained the results. To me, writing it was a religious experience. No, no, the paper is still mathematical, it’s just, uhm, different. Read this post till the end to find out how, or go …
    By igorpak, 3,637 words
  7. Classic Film and TV Café, , more info

    The Eiger Sanction Is a Tough Climb
    The Eiger Sanction (1975). This action thriller, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, follows a former assassin who is coerced into one last mission. There is some talk about recovering a germ warfare formula, but the mission is really about revenge. Two bad agents kill one of ours, so a shadowy U.S. agency wants them sanctioned--which is apparently code for eliminated. Eastwood's ex-killer now teaches art at a college (!) …
    By Rick29, 351 words
  8. London Historians' Blog, , more info

    2024: Our Year
    This year we enjoyed around 40 events, including monthly pub meet-ups at the Wheatsheaf in Fitzrovia. There were our hardy annuals such as the Big Pub Quiz, Annual Lecture, Picnic and Life Members’ Lunch; among the rest, highlights have to be our visit to Berry Bros & Rudd, the Gas Lamp workshop, the Kennel Club […]
    By Mike Paterson, 59 words
  9. Matt Fantinel, , more info

    Cool Links Vol. 6: December, 2024
    If anything looks wrong, read on the site! Happy Holidays! I have four new links to read while you recharge your batteries from dealing with end-of-year stress or recovering from overeating. They’re either introspective or retrospective, as is the theme this time of year. Care Doesn’t Scale, by Steven Scrawls This is such a good article that resonated very deeply with me. As someone who wished could do more to …
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  10. McFilter, , more info

    Interesting Things on the Internet: December 30th 2024 Edition
    You Can't Rebrand a Class War. This is about America, but the Labour Party seem intent on telling everyone the system has failed over the past decades that it's not possible for it to improve, and will then be shocked when the populist fascists get more votes for their lies that they will improve things; just as happened with Brexit. When the current situation is broken and one party is …
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  11. nyanpasu64's blog | Home, , more info

    How I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
    I dual-boot my desktop between Windows and Linux. Over the past few years, Linux would often crash when I tried to sleep my computer with high RAM usage. Upon waking it would show a black screen with moving cursor, or enter a "vegetative" state with no image on-screen, only responding to magic SysRq or a hard reset. I traced this behavior to an amdgpu driver power/memory management bug, which took …
    By nyanpasu64, 90 words
  12. The Nordic Kitchen, , more info

    Goodbyes and new beginnings
    It’s always a special feeling to say good bye to a year and welcome a new one. When you look back, you realize how fast a year passes by, but also how much you’ve done and been through. For us, New Year’s Eve 2024 will be extra special. Not only are we saying good bye to the year 2024, we are also saying good bye to our apartment which we …
    By thenordickitchen, 743 words
  13. Professional NPC, , more info

    The Magic Item Collection and Generator is now live for sale
    So this is the thing that I made. What's it good for? The Collection contains 30 magic items that I wrote up, more or less original. Some are weapons, some are clothes. Most are weird. Some are almost definitely cursed. The items in the Collection are grouped into five categories. When you need to quickly and randomly give your players some unfamiliar magic loot, roll a d6 a couple times, …
    By Simon Tsevelev, 262 words
  14. Rev Stan's theatre blog, , more info

    Interview: 5 questions with theatre director Madelaine Moore
    Madelaine Moore is a freelance theatre director and artistic director of female-focused theatre company The Thelmas with Guleraana Mir. Here, she answers five questions about their new production, Santi & Naz at the Soho Theatre, gender equality in theatre, what she likes to watch and what making theatre is like...
    By Rev Stan, 58 words
  15. The Homepage of Dave Rupert - daverupert.com, , more info

    Twenty Twenty-Four
    For last year’s check-in, I foreshadowed a year of changes for ol’ Dave Rupert and boy was I not kidding. New job, new car, new pets. But before we get into all that – for accountability’s sake – let’s check in on my resolutions from last year and see how I did… Activate an active lifestyle - Nope. Write more shitty sci-fi - Nope. Draw more - Nope. Write for …
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