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This is a writeup of research into using satellite imagery to track mining operations, funded as part of Bellingcat’s 2024 Technical Writing Fellowship, and is a more in-depth version of a short guide published on their online platform. The accompanying Multispectral Satellite Imagery Explorer tool is available here. This guide is intended as an overview of my research, and a starting point for these techniques. a false colour satellite image …

I recently encountered the following party game: Mumbo Jumbo, based on trying to pronounce a word while wearing a mouth-stretcher. Basically, you wear a mouth-stretcher, and then you are asked to read out a phrase. Your teammate has to figure out the phrase you're trying to say. The mouth-stretcher means that you cannot make labials. Of course, the words are selected to take advantage of this limitation as much as …

I needed to do something. My family's new house had sprung a leak, as in the outside air (-28C with the wind at one point) was gushing into a room in our house, making things very unpleasant. I have been wrestling with many renovations to our new house, which has been neglected for years and is in need of some TLC.But on Wednesday night, I had had my share of …

Elon buys accounts someone else spent the hours developing, doesn't know how to play them

After clocking out from my day job, I usually look for games that help me unwind. Fast Food Simulator had a different plan. The game perfectly captures the hustle and bustle of a fast-food joint, placing you in the shoes of a manager who has to handle everything from taking orders to balancing the books. It’s a frantic, fast-paced experience that mimics the real-world stress of working in fast food—but …

While the new year has just kicked off, we are excited to share the most viewed blog posts of last year. We published 192 new posts on this blog, In Custodia Legis, in 2024. These posts are authored by staff, both on the blog team and guest bloggers, as well as intern bloggers, from across different parts of the Law Library and the Library of Congress. The blog team features …

Really. And no, I’m not about to follow that statement up with something annoying like “…Because I love it! Haha!” either. I know the general term has its uses but I could do without the retro gaming mindset entirely, if I’m honest. I think we’d all be better off chucking that artificial distinction in the bin. If I happen to say I like a game made in 1981, or for …

My favorite songs of 2024.

It’s now 2025, thank God. And if you’re a chick, wiith the coming of a new year comes, of course, horoscopes. I am a Libra (Libra sun, Libra moon, Libra rising), so it’s not exactly my year. But my horoscope … Continue reading →

I haven't been doing much work on my model train layout. However, I do like to stop by my favourite train store, Ware House Hobbies, now and then.

Reading Time: 35 minutes New year, new worries, same old Web Curios! Even in the maelstrom of moderately-unsettling uncertainty that is Q2 of the 21st Century, rest assured that I am once again here to greet you with open arms, a tear-streaked face and a hug that you will initially find welcoming but will, as it continues without showing signs of stopping, begin to make you feel uncomfortably like I …

In my last post I said that I ought to write a guide to helping those caught up in a disaster. I truly hoped it would be a long time before this type of thing was needed, but unfortunately I … Continue reading →

I think not!This is a modern 80s built house, and the ivy has been allowed to grow right the way across the upstairs window (the house had been unoccupied for a while), covering it completely, and heading on upwards into the gutter and into the roof.I sent my colleague up the ladder (I'm not daft!) to pull it off, and we found that the ivy had forced a way inside …

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Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) • View trailer4.5 stars (out of five). Rated PG, and needlessly, for mild rude humorAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick Bang Filmmaker Nick Park already had won two Oscars, the second for Wallace & Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers, when American viewers finally got to see that hilariously clever claymation short via a Wednesday evening PBS screening on March 20, 1995. That’s how long it took to cross the …