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I’m so happy to live in Los Angeles, where I can eat incredible food. A few of the wonderful things I’ve eaten as of late, from left to right: 1) the biscuit breakfast sandwich with bacon at Calabama in Hollywood, 2) the spinach and cheese borekas at Borekas in Sherman Oaks (they also have a location in Van Nuys), 3) the mangu at El Bacano in North Hollywood, 4) the …

We revisit Dec 30 when we visited tiki bars in the valley that we’ve never visited before. Intriguing to me due to their sushi offerings, we visited Kahuna Tiki and Kahuna Tiki Tu. Both are from the same team but there are significant differences in the restaurant type and cocktails. Kahuna Tiki is in the NoHo Arts District not far from Tiki No and features a large outdoor space anchored …

In the “Just My Type” microgame in WarioWare: Move It!, the player needs to spell a word in order to enter it into a browser search bar. When the word is spelled correctly, a brief victory scene plays where the “search results” are shown, which are a column of heavily blurred video thumbnails.However, to the side of the thumbnails is one clearly visible ad graphic. There are nine different banners, …

by Dennis Crouch In an important opinion exploring the relationship between patent validity and after-arising technology, the Federal Circuit has reversed a district court's invalidation of a pharmaceutical patent covering Novartis's blockbuster heart failure drug Entresto. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Torrent Pharma Inc., Nos. 2023-2218, 2023-2220, 2023-2221 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 10, 2025). To continue reading, become a Patently-O member. Already a member? Simply log in to access the full post. …

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In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz, probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possible the world and co-founder of Common Ground, an on-chain social network. Florian also helped author some part of the MiCA legislation in the EU which lays out the legal framework for cryptocurrences. We spoke about his experiences in the early days of the ICO boom, the unpreparedness of the legal system for crypto, …

As I often say around these parts, my favorite month of the year is August, when TCM serves up its Summer Under the Stars (SUTS) series, where a different classic film star is featured every day and the channel airs 24 hours of their movies. This year, you might recall, for each day of the series, I recommended a pick of the day, but for the first time, I also …

thebristolboard:Classic cover by Bill Everett from Jann of the Jungle #16, published by Atlas Comics, April 1957.

Welcome to the another Global Nerdy Saturday “picdump!” It’s the weekly article where I post the technology- and work-related memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! The post Saturday picdump for January 11, 2025 appeared first on Global Nerdy.

To White Hall, and there spoke with Sir Paul Neale about a mathematical request of my Lord’s to him, which I did deliver to him, and he promised to employ somebody to answer it, something about observation of the moon and stars, but what I did not mind. Here I met with Mr. Moore, who tells me that an injuncon is granted in Chancery against T. Trice, at which I …

Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments, premieres today at 19:00 CET... ...and tomorrow at 13:00 CET, a vintage Sunday Lunch, Everlong:

Some years ago, when I was making some dungeon tiles, a guy gave me these.They'd taken all the miniatures out, but apart from that they appear to be complete.Fortunately, I have large numbers of plastic miniatures sitting around doing nothing, and although they won't match the Warhammerish minis that originally came with the game, they'll do the job just fine.So now, after years of basically doing nothing with these games, …

It's time for another figure from the Dragonfly crew and this time it's Jane "Glenda" Mullighan. Glenda is an interesting figure as she's another character based on a vintage international variant figure. Glenda was originally part of Plastirama's G.I. Joe: Comandos Heroicos from Argentina and was a repaint of Scarlett. Glenda was blonde instead of a redhead and sported a blue and white jumpsuit with a vac-metallized torso. She's similar …

I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.