Douglas A. Anderson
I've just posted a new piece at Tolkien Oddments substack. Here is the beginning. You can read the entire piece freely at this link.More on MadlenerLast summer, I published a piece in The Journal of Tolkien Research on “Josef Madlener’s ‘Der Berggiest’: Not the Origin of Gandalf.” It is freely...
prasangika-matters
Rory
Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired. “We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles. Mistakenly, we thought that by...
AY
I am writing this post after last night's kerfuffle, just another day of trying to help Windows home users. I happen to be writing this while installing ProSeries on a new computer for one of my clients, which somehow has an installation process that is even worse than Adobe. Thanks Intuit, good...
Unknown
I could pull pretty much any random passage from a Boyle video and strike gold, but this one in particular caught my attention.The first story was told by the Leave campaign, who drove a large red bus around the UK with the words, "We send the UK £350 million a week. Let's fund our NHS...
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where we wish our fellow Americans a happy 250th birthday!The unveiling of the Victoria Cross.A handy reminder that Robin Hood was no hero.One really freaking long tennis match.The motivations of Richard, Duke of York."Somebody's father" at the battle of...
george tannenbaum
This being erev July Fourth, aka Independence Day:I hold these truths to be self-evident, that I am not "owned" by giant corporations. Neither my data, nor my permission to be marketed to on every device, on every flat surface, at every opportunity, no matter where I am or what I'm doing.I hold...
admin_007
1. Kindness is only proven when the conversation becomes difficult A few weeks ago I wrote that kindness is the most important quality in a leader because, without it, everything else eventually breaks down. Competence matters. Intelligence matters. Decisiveness matters. But none of those...
alanb99
It’s well-documented that Gen Z / Gen Alpha are not exactly fans of AI1. And that older professionals can’t live without it. My own 9 year-old kid has told me that games made with AI are terrible and that “we can’t ask AI, it lies” (in the case we were talking about, it did lie). Marc...
joeychung
Nige
I'm off to London today, so here's a post from some years back, in which I marked the July 3rd birthday of the actor George Sanders...Born on this day in 1906 – in St Petersburg, whence his family wisely returned to England in 1917 – was the actor George Sanders. With his good looks and crisp,...
Dave @ Accidental FIRE
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #175 Here are some things I really like and that you might too! Financial Independence/Work Life/Retirement Articles & Content The three biggest challenges following extreme early retirement (Early Retirement Extreme) “These... The post T.G.I.F....
Challenger Tom
The Hacienda Bridge was constructed by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in 1914 at the Russian River near Hacienda siding. During the mid 1930s the rails atop this structure were removed from this span and Sonoma County would repurpose it was part of River Road in 1945. This truss was widened...
Luigi Guarino
Do you work in a national genebanks? If so, you might want to take a survey on your “molecular characterisation capacity, infrastructure, policy environment, and interest in future DSI collaboration with CGIAR.”
Christian Arzu
I'm trying out emacs, and I've been really confused as a beginner, I don't know whether to use Vanilla Emacs, doom emacs, or something else, what packages to install. So I need someone with experience to hold my hand and guide me through the process
EI3LH
…Now That’s What I Call Jamon Volume 1. I’m bored. I’m the chairman of the bored. So, with boredom deeply-rooted within my psyche, I decided to give myself something to do…by having a bit of a giggle and making a silly amateur radio-themed video. You can take a look, if you feel so compelled, by...
Hels
A 2023 survey by Travel + Leisure invited readers to vote on the world’s most beautiful cities. Clearly the answer differed for everyone, but see their non-exhaustive list of the world’s 25 most beautiful cities. I chose Palermo.transport from Southern Italy to SicilyOn Sicily's Nth coast the...
angelgrowsup
years later i still find photos of my lil bro i haven’t seen. Always a trip. look at this happy fellow.
draggle
Like the title says. Another villainess show, but with the slight twist that it’s told from the perspective of the prince who’s fated to be with the heroine. It was adorable. They are all too precious. Storytelling – B – Well told. Voice – B – Certainly we’ve seen shows with the same premise,...
Brett Holman
It’s the last day of AHA 2026, though the only things on the program for today are historical tours and as I decided (for reasons) to attend online this time, that means the conference is over for me. Though it felt rushed and a bit garbled, I think my talk on London’s air raid shelters in 1917-18...
Mr. Karswell
Time to ring in the new month with a clingy classic about a corpse that just can't stop hangin' around! This is a real nice quickie crime corker filler from Mort Meskin, and can be found in the back-up pages of the Feb - March 1954 issue of Frankenstein #29. Lots more on the way too as THOIA is...
chris
I am still around. It’s been a longer break than I had anticipated (for many reasons). My health is the main one. I continue to struggle with the progressive side of my neural disease. It’s the constant losses [of usually little things] and the new challenges that are getting harder to ignore. My...
Andrea Corinti
Lo scorso aprile ho comprato una Nintendo Switch 2. E sì, mentre lo scrivo mi sto dicendo da solo e sti cazzi?
82MHz
I recently had a "phone support" call with my parents, where they needed help with their computers and smartphones and the internet router. They regularly ask me for help, because they're completely overwhelmed and out of their depth when it comes to modern technology, and it makes me sad to see...
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Byron Knoll
I made a 3D sequel to Dirtnoodle: https://byronknoll.com/dirtnoodle2.htmlHere is the original 2D game: https://byronknoll.com/dirtnoodle.html
Chris Weigant
Once again, it is time for my annual remembrance of the actual facts, rather than the myth that everyone in the country celebrates (a myth that was actually created and endorsed by the Founding Fathers, but no matter...). So join me in lifting a glass in honor of John Adams (and his letter to his...
Patty Moliterno
Washington: The Early Years I have been known to cry every time I hear the National Anthem or “God Bless America.” Furthermore, I always stand when veterans pass by in a parade. I tear up and take pictures of flags when I see them; these things are expected. What I did not expect was to […] The...
Scott VanderPloeg
The complete inked pages of the first issue of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, along with Evely’s breakdowns and character designs. The lettering has been added to the pages with some opacity to allow the text to be read and the art underneath to be visible. Evely’s art is very clean, but we are...
Amit
In the last post I described how chat interfaces to LLMs are giving a limited view of what the LLMs could do. In this post I wanted to compare this to graphics pipelines. Graphics pipelines used to be "fixed function", where the graphics system (such as Silicon Graphics hardware) would offer...
Mike Farley
There are situations when one owes solitude to other people, if only not to bother them. But more than this, the multitude needs solitaries as it needs postmen, doctors and fishermen. They go out and they send, or bring, something back—even if they send no word and vanish finally from sight. The...
admin_007
1. A disclosed bias I spent twelve years writing algorithmic trading software before any of the cloud infrastructure work. That is where the bias actually comes from, not from EC2. Trading systems taught me that being quick and being good are not separate goals you trade off against each other,...
Anwesha Das
A Mortgage lawyer had dream to work full time in technology and policy, The journey started long ago with a new mum reading "Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code" by Van Lindberg, to her keep entertained during breastfeeding sessions.Then from meaning of...
alienlebarge
first dip in the ocean at La Torche in Brittany
Blacksteel
Around here we've had a lot of talk comparing DCC and other old-school rules to D&D 5E and our recent Tales of the Valiant campaign. It has a very different feel from 5E D&D and its variants which tend to rapidly develop into superheroic levels of power. While that's fun, some of the group...
anureet
I'm really thrilled and so grateful to be selected to be featured in IONTAS Magazine. Issue 1: Bloom
addshore
I bought a set of 3 eero Pro 6 mesh (Wi-Fi 6) routers back at the end of 2023, and the first one of them died in the last few weeks. Trying to power the device via USBC no longer does anything, and eero support didn’t have much to try other than the reset button and a new power adapter. So I...
Mark Rzepczynski
Should we be surprised by the rise of socialism in the US? No, if you look at the numbers. This is important because changes in the regulatory or tax environment will affect the return on capital, which will, in turn, impact the valuations of all companies. In an already overvalued world, a change...
Adrian Vila
Galicia, June 2026. From the video Always be ready, and luck will follow.
michael-graeme
dignitybydesign
Why the left keeps losing moral arguments it should be winning, and what the other side needs you to never notice.
anthonysdesk
My previous website was filled with all manner of congratulatory back-patting. And that was after repeated attempts at humility-smithing. I'd write, wince, sand it down even more. And yet it continued to quietly shout "Look what I've done!" The failure interests me more than the vanity. Egotism is...
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Akshat Jiwan Sharma
2 Jul 2026 Great honor to be a part of discussion led by Prof Vasi,Electrical Engg,IIT Bombay on industry academia collaboration. Research has always had to and will always have to balance funding from government and industry while pursuing something that is truly novel ,yet can have practical...
alecm
The first reaction of any government to increased freedoms for people to communicate: panic and then attempt to control it The notice cites provisions of India’s Information Technology Act and the country’s technology rules governing intermediary due diligence, identity theft and impersonation...
Paul W. Homer
Decades ago, our project had a convention where we never directly used ANSI C primitive types, unless it was trivial in a loop. But for any and all other variables, everything had to be typedef’d explicitly. Everything.Some people would see that as excessive and way over the top, but it actually...
prasangika-matters
andrei
In an alternative universe where Superman establishes a new world order under his iron fist, Batman and other heroes must fight back against Superman and those that have pledged their allegiance to his dictatorship. After all the fun had for a lot of time, it was time to move to the next...
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
These three small mixed-media paintings showed up in my studio carrying bright October skies, cotton-candy pinks, spinning leaves, looping lines, and the unmistakable feeling of lights coming on at the county fair. I’ve been calling them Bumper Cars, Carousel, and Tilt-A-Whirl. They are all 4×6,...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Imaginative play is the backbone of most of the play we see in our preschool classrooms. It might be making art or building with blocks or playing house or putting on costumes and creating entire worlds. It's the opposite of our cultural...