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  1. Christopher L. Bennett: Written Worlds, , more info

    Looking back on 2024: a quietly productive year
    As 2024 comes to a close, I realize that, due to the unfortunate delays in completing the cover art for Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories, my only professionally published work in 2024 has been the Star Trek Adventures campaign Synthetic Diplomacy, plus its associated essay (yes, I get paid for those). My only fiction publication on my Patreon, “High and Flighty,” doesn’t even count as a “real” publication, since it’s …
    By christopherlbennett, 1,788 words
  2. Separated by a Common Language, , more info

    US-to-UK Word of the Year 2024: landslide
    I've been struck by the lack of election-related 2024 Words of the Year from the English dictionaries (for a list, see November's newsletter). So I am here to repair that with my US-to-UK Word of the Year: landslide...which was much-used in its figurative sense to describe the result of the UK election that ended 14 years of Conservative government.some landslide headlines in UK mediaHere's how it it's been showing up …
    By lynneguist, 630 words
  3. SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD, , more info

    Most Superlative Links of 2024
    Link that made us feel the most stoned. December. Shakespearean: When people speak English but with German grammar. Watching this makes us feel stoned. Most Scooby-Doo. November. From the annals of superstimuli: Why Are Dogs So Obsessed With Lamb Chop? (The article doesn’t really deliver an answer, but it’s a good mystery.) Stinkiest post. October. I can smell “the flu” : r/RandomThoughts h/t Collin Lysford Most medieval. October. Medieval Sourcebook: …
    By slimemoldtimemold, 1,094 words
  4. Graphic Journey Blog, , more info

    HAPPY 2025
    Thank you to all who have dropped by here over the past year. I must apologise for not posting more regularly. But still, you will find on this clumsy-looking old blog that started in 2006 a mass of stories and information on the world of graphics, film, book covers, and much more that reveals my views and passion for the creative discipline we share. Here's to a New Year filled …
    By Mike Dempsey, 78 words
  5. Edward Feser, , more info

    The thread you’ve been waiting for
    Let’s close out 2024 and begin 2025 with a long overdue open thread. Now’s your chance to get that otherwise off-topic comment posted at last. From plate tectonics to Hooked on Phonics, from substance abuse to substance dualism, from Thomism to Tom Tom Club, everything is on-topic. Trolls still not welcome, though, so keep it sane and civil.Previous open threads archived here.
    By Edward Feser, 68 words
  6. ResoluteReader, , more info

    Cyprian Ekwensi - Jagua Nana
    Jagua Nana is a remarkable, but forgotten, novel. Set in Nigeria in the immediate aftermath of independence, it centres of Jagua Nana, a forty-five year old sex worker who retains her skills, beauty and fantastic dress sense. She is an icon of Lagos, a woman whose clothing and makeup sets the fashions for everyone else. And a woman who is desired by many men.Jagua wants to settle down and have
    By Resolute Reader, 75 words
  7. Not a Novelist (Yet), , more info

    Charting the Year
    A bit of a painfully tenuous title for this blog post, basically to have an excuse to have some sort of image to place at the top there - showing that the audiobook version of Pull to Open is still doing well in one of the rather niche Amazon charts in which it features. Top twenty - can't argue with that!But I always look to do a blog post on …
    By Paul Hayes, 454 words
  8. my name is mwd: photos, , more info

    31st December 2024 at 21:24
    I wrote just recently about how I'd accidentally tapped into a nostalgia mine by playing Ride 5, a game that lets you ride modern and classic motorcycles. And whilst it makes sense to me that letting me virtually ride old bikes I've ridden a long time ago might be a cause for fond memories, I was quite surprised by a similar sensation for one of the race tracks modelled in …
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  9. Drew Ex Machina | Posts, , more info

    Top Ten Posts of 2024
    Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see which of the new essays I posted during this site’s eleventh year online, along with earlier published material, proved to be most popular among my readers. In addition to satisfying my curiosity, this exercise is an attempt to figure out what kinds of articles …
    By Andrew LePage, 1,666 words
  10. Carriage & Wagon News, , more info

    REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2024
    As is traditional, the final Blog post of the year looks back on what we have achieved these past 12 months. Exactly a year ago, I wrote about the challenges of adjusting to the post-Covid world of a slashed volunteer workforce which for us had led to a drop in released carriages after we’d reverted to more thorough works, which contrasted with the 2022 quick refresh policy that had to …
    By NNR Carriage and Wagon, 1,603 words
  11. FogBlog, , more info

    1978
    I was recently taken aback by fellow blogger and friend Bruce's (from The Online Darkroom) reaction to a photograph that has been knocking about since about 1978. How can I date it so definitively? Well The Jam's Down In The Tube Station At Midnight came out in October 1978 and I seem to remember getting so fired up after seeing them on top Of The Pops (it is a great …
    By Herman Sheephouse, 837 words
  12. Popular history books homepage, , more info

    New history books in January 2025
    It's the first post of the new year 2025 and unlike every other website on the internet I am going to start with a damp squib rather than a bang. Hopefully we will build to a crescendo over the coming months and experience a few bone-dry rockets along the way... But after searching the web for history books published in the UK in December 2025 I have ended up with …
    By Anthony Webb, 253 words
  13. Wynken de Worde, , more info

    books I didn’t finish
    Is reading ever easy? Is knowing what you want to read possible? The times when the two click—when you find a book that says not what you know but what you need to hear—are the times I remember with the most longing. When a book speaks to you, and you are able to hear it, it’s everything. This year it was a struggle to find that match, to meet with …
    By Sarah Werner, 941 words
  14. Reclaiming Paradise, , more info

    Reclaiming Paradise Awards 2024
    As we reach the end of another year, now is the time to reflect on all the joys and disasters in the garden and allotment. This year I celebrated ten years of blogging. If you like, you can look at all sorts of developments over the last ten years by clicking on the categories or tags. In this review I’ll look at the highlights of 2024. Fabulous fruit Vegetables are …
    By Reclaiming Paradise, 1,131 words
  15. bunnie's blog, , more info

    Name that Ware, December 2024
    The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make out most of the part numbers. Maybe this can help someone else in a similar fix! Warm wishes for a safe and happy new year to all!
    By bunnie, 67 words