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Howdy Captain, Thanks for your work and for cat photos. All players in this story are mid 20s. I (call me Emm, she/her) have been in a wonderful, spellbinding relationship with Ell (he/him) for about a year and half now, and we’re getting engaged in a few months! He has gotten along swimmingly with all the people I care about in my life except…I’ve been unable to get May (she/her), …

This month we published To The Cold Land by J.M.K.E., the most legendary punk rock band in Estonia, in our 33 1/3 Europe series. Its author, Brigitta Davidjants, gave us some insight into why she wrote about this album, the connection between punk and political defiance and how we can explore soviet history through music. By Brigitta Davidjants Shortly after Estonia regained independence in 1991, my generation found itself in …

The first Soho Radio show of 2025. JON ‘MOJO’ MILLS goes baroque, plays some excellent new tunes, and throws in some garage-punk, mod-beat and prog to round things out Track list Dave Richmond ‘Baroque Theme’ (B) The Stone Poneys ‘Different Drum’ The Stone Poneyys ‘Evergreen (Pt One)’ The Zombies ‘Care Of Cell 44’ Quiet World Of Lea & John ‘There Is A Moutain’ Sunchariot ‘You’re Lovely’ Barclay James Harvest ‘Galadriel’ …

We all know that one of the juvenile pleasures of Wingspan is calling out the birds that sound like human anatomical features. Abbott’s Boobie! American Woodcock! Truly, I will never age past thirteen. Finspan is the second spinoff of Elizabeth Hargrave’s unexpected smash hit, following last year’s Wyrmspan by Connie Vogelmann. Designed by David Gordon and Michael O’Connell, Finspan drops us into the sea. It also changes the nature of …

The Great Smoky Mountain Council is celebrating 110 years of service in the Knoxville, Tennessee, area with a series of events over the next year. The council has upheld the core values of Scouting in East Tennessee for more than a century, shaping young men and women into productive citizens. The council has produced numerous leaders, including a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, and continues to impact local communities in …

Copenhagen duo snuggle drop a woozy and mercurial experimental pop gem, with a radiant, clear-eyed, softly anthemic chorus that would've absolutely killed on '90s alternative radio... Continue reading…

I did my first Maine railfanning today at Northern Maine Junction in Hermon, Maine just outside Bangor. Posted 16 years ago today.

Though I own Bois de Violette and the original Dolce Vita, I really only have eyes for Feminité du Bois. I think this is because it is the only one that achieves a perfect balance between sparkle and gloom. God, the opening never fails to rouse me. Have you ever watched a downpour so sudden and violent that the raindrops bounce right back up off the ground? Here, the flirtier, …

I'm beyond honored to say that my playable essay, "individualism in the dead-internet age" is a nominee for this year's Nuovo award at IGF. This means I will be showcasing at GDC!

There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’m lucky enough to work somewhere that has it — but it seems to have been outpaced in recent years by the endless charge toward efficiency. This seems a shame. We can’t optimize our way …

Back in 2020, while sorting out some old papers, I found an article in a gardening magazine from 2010, listing the three major changes we should expect in our gardens for the following decade or so - that is, pretty much, now.They warned us to expect long, hot, dry summers, mild winters, and prolonged periods of flooding, which would mean three major changes to how we garden, here in the …

You have for sure heard about the new CSS Anchor Positioning, right? It’s a feature that allows you to link any element from the page to another one, i.e., the anchor. It’s useful for all the tooltip stuff, but it can also create a lot of other nice effects. In this article, we will study menu navigation where I rely on anchor positioning to create a nice hover effect on …

Leave No Trace and its predecessor, In the Blink of an Eye, are “inventive thrillers,” a description that barely encompasses the unusualness of Team Kat and Lock. Meet Detective Chief Superintendent Kat Frank of the Leek Wootton Police Department in Warwickshire, England. Leave No Trace opens with Kat verbally briefing her boss, Chief Constable McLeish,…

A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal about 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods/services. Of course, if you just said "affirmed" you'd be right about 89.5% of the time. Anyway, here are three Board decisions issued early this year. No hints this time. How do you think they came out? [Answer in …

With the technology, economics, and markets for computers having changed so drastically over the last quarter century, individuals now have very few reasons for building their own computers. Will that ever change?