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Ah, here we are again. Same deal, a few tunes off youtube and a burning desire for everyone in Spotify’s management to die horribly. A Frankie Knuckles creation, Soulful house at it’s best. Juan Atkins on the mixing duties here, and, well, it’s not that good? There were better versions but both lads are disgustingly handsome so we’ll overlook this. Not to be confused with Cry Sisko – Afro-dizzi-act. You …

The above is a typical specimen of Cliff Hanger, the British comics character who enjoyed a four-year stint in Fleetway Publications' Buster from 1983 to 1987 with a strip that was part comic, part adventure gamebook. Trust me, I'm just as surprised as you that it's taken me over eight years to write about this.When readers first encountered Cliff in June 1983, he was watching his favourite television show, Now …

We explore how the Met Office responded to an accessibility report. We also trialled tandem testing and highlighted the lessons we learnt in understanding mobile apps.

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 …