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The Architectural Review Competition: Nové Bazaly football stadium, Ostrava An architecture contest is being held to create a new €83 million (CZK 2.5 billion) football stadium in Ostrava, Czechia (Deadline: 24 January) The post Competition: Nové Bazaly football stadium, Ostrava appeared first on The Architectural Review. Merlin Fulcher

🎉 Eight years ago today, the #IndieWeb Webmention protocol was published as a W3C REC https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/As a social web building block, #Webmention was designed to work with various other building blocks. Small pieces, loosely joined. Every year developers find new ways to work with Webmention, and new subtleties when combined with other building blocks.The primary uses of Webmention, peer-to-peer comments, likes, and other responses across web sites, have long presented …

Left, a 1964 Italian edition. Right, a 1970 US editionThank you for attending another of our Ted talks. Today we finish up with my DAW 1978 edition of Theodore Sturgeon's 1958 collection A Touch of Strange. The book has nine stories, and we discussed the first three here, and the middle three here. Today we deal with the final three. I have already read the first of today's three stories, …

I was mildly startled, during the coverage of the lynx being released in Scotland, to hear more than one broadcaster explain, often with an annoying mini-chuckle, that they meant a kind of big cat, not a brand of deodorant. But surely there’s a large constituency, especially among listeners to what’s now known as legacy media, who don’t have day-to-day contact with stinky, surly 14-year-olds, but do have a bit of …

• Global (non-US) Rapid Transit Projects planned to open in 2025 (TransportPolitic) • Matthew Somerville pulls Live Underground Train Tracker due to possible legal action (CLondoner92) • How Madrid built its Metro Cheaply (WorksInProgress) • Ambitious High-Speed Rail Plans in the Baltic (CityLab) • It’s Time to Start Removing Highways, for real this time (FastCompany) • Miami’s new Underline linear park partially opens: Bioswales, bike paths, & more (SmartCitiesDive) • …

They say even a broken clock is right twice a day. In the same way, the Sun is “right” four times a year; the analemma shows how. What time is it at noon? What a silly question! It’s 12pm noon, at noon, right? … Right? Actually, not really. Picture this: you take a photo of … Continue reading "Analemma answers the question: “What time is it at noon?”" The post …

Finished “Chained Echoes” yesterday, after 45 hours, off and on since August! It took some time to grow on me, but I loved the game in the end – what a fun twists-and-turnsy storyline 😄 I wrote up some further thoughts on Backloggd (external link) if you’re interested.

Remarkable wet-to-dry transition combined with extreme downslope wind event yields dual wildfire catastrophes in SoCal It’s never good feeling when a dire weather or disaster risk prognostication comes to fruition; that “pit in your stomach” sensation has been described by many meteorologists, climate scientists, emergency managers, and disaster-focused researchers over the years. It certainly encapsulates […] The post Following historic wildfire disasters in Southern California, a statewide dry spell intensifies …

I do work on Wikipedia sometimes. Since I’ve been working for the Flickr Foundation, my life overlaps more with free content. Sometimes I try to combine work and play and add things to Wikimedia Commons, or to Wikipedia, or both. My username in the Wikipedia extended universe is Jessamyn, so it’s pretty easy to see what I’ve been up to. Here’s my wrap-up of 2024 Wikipedia stuff I did. – …

I have a ritual I do most every time I'm in Los Angeles. I make my way to the end of the Santa Monica Pier at sunset. The Pier is loud and filled with tourists; there's a ferris wheel and a roller coaster. It's not the type of place I'd normally seek out. But I go because the Pier is the end of Route 66, the fabled highway that originates …

A return to a five day working week this week. This brought with it the inevitable struggle to get into a working rhythm and I spent a lot of time second-guessing my own work. On Tuesday I played in Worthing D&D White's 65-123 away win against Horsham Hawks Black. I finished the game with 12 points, making four three-pointers which set a new season high in points for me. I …

THE FIRST BOOK length study of the work of Poison Girls will be published this November by PM Press. Written by the editor of this site Rich Cross, designed by Alex Dunn and edited by Erin Yanke, This is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls traces the history of the band “from their first gigs in Brighton, through their years of touring DIY venues across Britain …

Sitting here in the Seattle airport in the midst of a very long travel delay. We are working in Anchorage this week and flights there have been delayed and cancelled all day due to a massive windstorm. Our flight was due to leave an hour ago. We have another six hours to wait. All good. Travelling in northern North America in the winter requires endless patience and the occasional bout …

Greetings in the New Year, Everything is ramping up around here now! Kaila started back to work last week and there was more than enough to fill her time. I’m so grateful to have her help now as things are getting busier and that will only increase going forward into spring. Her first days back found her sowing a massive amount of seeds into 128 count plug flats. There will …

Yesterday, I received the following email, forwarded to me by Bill: Yes, you read that correctly. They allegedly made an AI say something, and are thus claiming that it is true, because AIs never lie, I guess?Large Language Models are improving all the time, and both Google and Microsoft have free AIs that you can use for several purposes, including generating text on request. For instance, I asked an AI …