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Made by Brad Smith between 2006 and 2010 this is an interpretation of Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon' made for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. For the Floyd purists I suspect this might be a difficult listen but for those of you with an affection for electronic music, game music or just the slightly barmy then this'll make your day because it's all those things.You can find out …

Happy Holidays! For many years I have posted the books that the Genea-Santa has put under my Christmas Tree. This year was a big haul of new books to read! I hope that now that Christmas and Three Kings have passed, I can start to read the Christmas books I received this holiday season. I hope you enjoy this blog post, and that you find a book or two you …

Meet the Glide from Glidance: an autonomous rolling robot that guides blind users while keeping them out of trouble. It can help them navigate around obstacles and hazards. It has stereo depth cameras to map its environment. It can locate doors, stairs, and elevators too. At CES 2025, Glidance unveiled the world’s first self-guided mobility aid for people who are blind or have low vision. With cameras and sensors, it …

I bet you’ve had this experience. There’s something you’re not particularly good at; you mention that fact; and someone responds by telling with “Oh, but you can do it if you try”. It’s always someone with the very best of intentions, believing that they’re being encouraging and supportive. But it’s also always someone who’s quite […]

Is there something one can put into the water in a humidifier to kill off things that might otherwise grow in it that is, nevertheless, safe for humans to breathe?I ask not because I have a humidifier, but because I have something just like a humidifier, only considerably worse.I have an active water-based cooling system that operates on the same principle as a swamp cooler, chilling the water by blowing …

(1968) Directed by Hajime Satô; Written by Kyûzô Kobayashi and Susumu Takaku; Starring: Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Satô, Hideo Kô, Masaya Takahashi, Nobuo Kaneko, Eizô Kitamura, Yûko Kusunoki, Kazuo Katô and Kathy Horan; Available on DVD (included in the Criterion Eclipse set, “When Horror Came to Shochiku”) Rating: ***½ “There’s a theory that aliens actually exist… That somewhere, in this vast universe, there are creatures far more advanced than human beings. …

More than 8 years ago I created bibgetter, a tool that fitted perfectly in my workflow of dealing with bibliographies in LaTeX, which is a combination of citing arXiv preprints, papers with MathSciNet entries, and a few other things. I imagine that your workflow might be very different, and maybe you are looking for something like mathbib instead. So, about bibgetter. After the MathSciNet update a few years back it …

Well.... if you want to know what living uncomfortably close to an uncontained wildfire is like, Joy Press has just written a piece about the last week in our lives. Our go-bags are packed and sitting patiently near the front door. Pretty unlikely we'll need to use them at this point - but then again, the winds pick up again on Tuesday, so who knows... Up the road from us …

Fandom is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on topics like video games, TV shows, and movies. If you’ve ever looked up a show or game, you’ll probably have seen a Fandom wiki (formerly Wikia) at the top of the search results. It was founded by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley but they sold it to a private equity firm called TPG Inc. Fandom was always …

Join us for an evening of storytelling and music at Nooks in Lancaster. Books will be available to purchase from the bookstore. Sean will be doing a meet and greet after the event to hug necks, sign books and take photos. The post An Evening with Sean Dietrich–Lancaster, Pennsylvania appeared first on Sean of the South.

Bonegilla is a rural area on the western shore of Lake Hume in N.E Victoria. The nearest large township is Wodonga Vic, 9 km to the west and c12 km from Albury NSW, on the southern bank of Murray River, the border between the two states. Bonegilla primary school opened in 1876, a railway connection (1889) to Wodonga, and 2 hotels in 1910. huts in Bonegilla Rd, BonegillaVHDChildren enjoy the …

Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT Pubs and Taprooms in Peterborough: A Unique Exploration A day exploring various pubs and taprooms in Peterborough, each with unique atmospheres and histories. Starting at The Shed, which features vintage railway memorabilia, the …

Lighting is typically one of the last things people buy when it comes to their miniature painting setup. And just The post Redgrass Creative – R9 Solo Review for Miniature Painters appeared first on FauxHammer.

Oslo City Map Oslo is the capital of Norway and home to the greatest selection of restaurants in the country. The success and spread of the New Nordic cuisine, combined with chefs gathering inspiration from all over the world, has led to a revolution of the Oslo food scene. Unlike the other Scandinavian capitals, the city is more about affordable and accessible places, and less about fine dining and white …

Early January 2024: the blue stain of the tree-killing fungus is all over the big pine's sapwoodMy wife told me she could feel that big pine hit the ground from our house, maybe 200 yards away. I had had my eye on it as a firewood source for several years, and because I had been more the Grasshopper than the Ant during late 2024, I needed more wood now. And …