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1954. Your browser does not support the video tag. Another favorite is A Face in the Crowd (1957), which explores the danger of social media influencers becoming Populist politic figures.

Intermezzo Sally Rooney I like the way she writes. I found the first half gripping, then felt it was going adrift, but returned to it with delight, because of her prose and the fresh way she writes about people. Especially in sexual relationships. I keep going despite several breaks because she can really write. However though I have re started many times I still haven’t finished it so I must …

Been to the movies lately? With so many channels and streaming choices these days, going to a movie theater seems a bit archaic, but we still enjoy seeing a movie on the big screen. I know we could wait till it’s streaming, but there’s a certain feeling you get when you settle into your seat, the surround sound envelops you and you become totally immersed in another world.In our area, …

Freya Stark – Caroline Moorehead A very slim biography: large(ish) type, well spaced lines, 9 chapters. A speedier, easier read than Queen of the Desert. I don’t think we would have got on….. Publisher page: Freya Stark – Caroline Moorehead

I think some of my early thoughts on the CEO killer have panned out. The story of Luigi’s Mansion has become even more ridiculous as time has gone on. The news concerning drones is laughable dribble. As 2025 has started out, we’re greeted with an exploding Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel1, along with someone driving through a crowd in New Orleans2. Whether these events were truly random acts or they …

Addison finished washing his hands, flapped his fingers in the sink, tore a length of towel-paper from the dispenser on the wall and dried his hands, looking at his face in the mirror, and behind his face those of the ladies Anne and Hattie, observing him while passing their hand-rolled cigarette back and forth, and behind them all the other ladies, chattering and laughing and smoking. Scrunching the paper in …

I have been relying on Github actions to publish my plugins to the .org repositiory for some now. It feels magical – you publish a release and it builds, zips and uploads the plugin wherever it needs to go. With WP Playground, you can take that process to another level – the moment you hit publish, new version of your plugin will be immediately available for testing right in browser, …

Before the new year gets into full swing, time to recap the year gone by.Like many before it, a morning in early January began with breakfast at Moe’s, the friendly, art-filled coffee shop at the end of my street, albeit one declining into a smoke-filled, greasy spoon (it’s now Curio, a fancy cafe-come-wine-bar).It was here that, upon hearing 1234 by Feist I fondly remembered This Is My Jam and wondered …

Adore. Adore. Adore — Sprints set the year ablaze last January with their blistering, barnstorming & breathless debut Letter To Self. A record, like the cover art, full of red swirling fire — young & hungry, they know… Like I knew, when I heard the Dickies for the first time as a teenager — that if the Ramones pointed to NY & the Dickies to Los Angeles then my heart …

Thoughts on 2024 The Big Stuff:Family life in full flow. School going well. House coming together. Kids settled and happy. Meanwhile, a year of wintering at work. Slow sign-offs, hard decisions, unpleasant conversations. But pockets of brilliance to be found across the agency – something to grow from. Wist moved from her London agency and started working remotely. Pottery slowed down, as busyness took hold – some Tuesday mornings and …

Interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be fun and sometimes useful, but the next level of everyday AI goes beyond answering questions: AI agents carry out tasks for you. Major technology companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce, have recently released or announced plans to develop and release AI agents. They claim these innovations will bring newfound efficiency to technical and administrative processes underlying systems used in health care, …

This post documents a saga of speaker design dating back to 2019. Since then, I’ve been gradually working on a CAD model for a new set of what started as (yet another) subwoofer, but became some compact 2-way office ribbon speakers.

Computer Game History | Computer Game Reviews | Amiga Game Reviews1996 PC GamesThis is a list of PC games that came out in 1996. The PC games are listed in alphabetical order. Both MS-DOS and Windows PC games are included. I will expand on this list in the future.Hardware and software technologies that gained ground in 1996:Pentium and Pentium Pro CPUs (100-200 MHz)256-512K level 2 cacheXMS RAM (32-64 megs of …

This comes from the OSR subreddit (via QuestingBeast’s newsletter) and I think it’s a great idea for adventure writing. The original author was considering this for a table of contents, which I think would be a misstep. It is a really nice, evocative piece of work though. From u/Raphael_Sadowski on Reddit.

So far as I know, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author of such magisterial fantasy stories as "The Aleph" and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," mentioned Tolkien only twice--and not favorably. I wondered why, for it would have seemed, knowing Borges's other interests (from Anglo-Saxon to Lewis Carroll--Borges was especially well-read in British literature), that he might have been a fan.