Recently updated blogs

This is 163⋆*･ﾟ:⋆* by Tony, featuring: Stina Nordenstam, Durutti Column, Reymour, Pretty V, Archy Marshall & Jack D'Cruz, Juliana Hatfield, 6 pigbaby, Baba Stiltz, UA, Joseba Irazoki, Raphael Roginski, Taylor E. Burch, Salon Music, Mori mori, Belong, Mouse on Mars, Frank Zappa

In her work exploring notions of plant intelligence, Zoë Schlanger speaks to Tony Trewavas, emeritus professor of plant physiology at the University of Edinburgh, who says: “Everything is intelligent. When people say they can’t see it, they’re talking about academic intelligence. They assume what they’ve heard in school about IQ and human intelligence is what it is.…[But that] academic achievement, that’s not about survival. What I’m talking about is not …

In physical descriptions, you may come across the terms el, palm, duim, and streep. You may see these in military records, prison records, or other types of registers that recorded the person’s height. The English translations are: El (abbreviation: e.) – ell Palm (p.) – palm Duim (d.) – inch Streep (str.) – line. How much is meant by these depends on the date of the record. Before 1816, measures …

An avidly spinning globe for the Commodore PET — and some bit-vectors. Well, I made another thing — in #6502 code and #PETSCII. Continue reading…

I have updated the Phraser word and phrase lists. Those of you who find these lists handy for solving/designing word puzzles, rejoice! This update incorporates an epiphany! (It also has updated content from Wikipedia, etc, but you already expected that.) tl;dr I fixed many many mistakes, and I like the quality improvement. If you want the details, read on… You may recall a quandary: Crossword constructors have hand-crafted lists of …

Some writers track word count to see how much work they’re getting done. I spend as much, if not more, time erasing things I’ve already written. And then *maybe* rewriting them. Maybe.

Looking Under the Street Light

Have I said on here that I’m doing Project 24 again in 2025? I think I’ll do it ever two or three years, to try and stem the flow of books into my house – and to read more books from my shelves. For those not in the know, Project 24 is simply a self-imposed rule to only buy 24 books throughout the year. Well, for myself. I can buy …

Thank goodness this book exists. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been attacked at a suburban backyard barbecue by some crazed IT guy with a wrench and thought, “Damn, if only I had studied techniques for severing his femoral artery with my drop point knife!” It’s like a heart-pounding form of l’esprit de l’escalier. Well, next time I’ll be ready.

Blazing fast implicit surface evaluation

Tracklist NRG I Love You, But / Everything's GoneBrenda i Funky Proste życieJazz Vost Canal CoolWhiphouse SleepFuturo The NormWhippets C-ThruDadgad PirupiruThe Ghoulies Magnetic ScumWWW Odio HumanoideGurk UneasyFeeding Tube Fashionites Hugayz SweatnessRaya Un despertarWax Minds The PainPower Pants SwitchbladeSpam Shine (Las Pelotas)The Pancake Haus Turn On Yr HopeVacation Armory of BaysProto J'étais prevenuHeather The Jerk ParasitesSnow Caps Broke BaySoup Activists Black and White Television Screens Tracklist Ballistix Day In Day OutSilo …

In this episode, I look at making the bridge and tailpiece and then the final assembly. There’s also a bit of as surprise for you??

Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? All I could think of is how Orwell’s Ministry of Love is about hate. So what are we creating here? The Ministry of Empowerment to ensure the oppression of the most vulnerable? Lovely. But maybe you, dear reader, …

We still have iced snow here, with - 9°C expected tonight, and even colder temperatures tomorrow. Several hundred feet below...

Back in 2023, I belatedly jumped on the bandwagon of people posting their CSS wish lists for the coming year. This year I’m doing all that again, less belatedly! (I didn’t do it last year because I couldn’t even. Get it?) I started this post by looking at what I wished for a couple of years ago, and a small handful of my wishes came true: Subgrid support Nested selectors …