Nige
It isn't often that a sermon turns up in my inbox, but today – the 4th Sunday after Pentecost – one did, and it's rather good. Here's a link...https://www.rememberingsion.com/p/foundation-faith-sermon-4th-sunday-pentecostAnd of course this led me straight back to Les Murray's great poem of faith,...
Hunter Allen
ROBIN HOOD2018Directed by Otto BathurstWritten by Ben Chandler and David James KellySpoilers: moderateIn the mid-10s, Hollywood had no fewer than three Robin Hoods in development, and that's mysterious to me, given that only a few years earlier, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood had posted losses measured...
Christof
Arija A.
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admin
Avogadro’s number — the count of atoms in a mole — is about . The number of stars in the observable universe is, depending on whose galaxy survey you trust, somewhere between and . These are, to within the squint of an order of magnitude, the same number. Sean Carroll asked if this is a...
beyondborders
There comes a moment when you begin to feel a strange hollowness even in a successful life. That is when many of us start the quiet shift from chasing ambition to wanting something that actually feels alive. Here is the gentle art of making that change.
afraidofencounters
Gonzo and Weird Fiction seem to be synonymous with the classic TSR era D&D games (pre-AD&D 2e) and some OSR games. From my perspective, Gonzo encapsulates the bizarre, off-the-wall strangeness, and sometimes silly. While Weird Fiction encompasses Fantasy (specifically Sword and Sorcery),...
anonymous-wanderers
Some time ago I vented about A.I. in a post named Assistive Incompetence. All my posts are written from a humanist and disinterested perspective. I have no control whatsoever about what people do with what I write, good or bad. I have the power to withhold my thoughts, but I feel I have the duty...
AlabamaYesterdays
Well, here we are at my 1000th posting on this blog since March 2014. Scary. I thought I would devote this one to a bit of family history. In July 2016 I wrote a series of five blog posts about a cedar chest full of personal items belonging to my Dad's older sister Beulah Vee Wright. Part One...
michael-graeme
alex
Big week. Got mostly good news. Made some principled decisions. Graduated to a retainer. For my first non-technical post on this blog, I published a short speech in Japanese called “The Same Hobby”. There’s a story behind the speech, and another behind the column layout (check it out on...
joeychung
Andy Bromberg
Over the past few months, I’ve increasingly felt the need for an interface that combines the real-time human collaboration model of Google Docs with the ability for users’ AI agents to edit, suggest, and comment on the doc. I want this for editing public content with a team, or drafting reports...
Hels
6 English farm labourers who were sentenced in March 1834 to 7 years’ transportation to an Australian penal colony for organising trade-union activities in Tolpuddle Dorset. Leaders George & James Loveless created a Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers’ lodge during the national wave of...
stefanawakening
Alessandrina
IN PROGRESS Revisiting “wisteria” 3D shapes and their possible automation, reviewed a collection of blog posts, including repeat options that formed open, highly textured knits, with ladders, eyelets, and sometimes added patterning. This repeat forms a more compact, textured surface with none of...
abagond
Remarks: This came out in 1976 reaching #3 on the US R&B chart and the top-40 on pop charts throughout the Anglosphere. It is one of those songs that I assumed I had already posted. I especially love the long version (posted above) where the violins come in at the 4:31 mark. See also: songs:...
Andrew Doering
Back in early 2024 I wrote about getting Device Trust working on our Azure Virtual Desktop estate. The gist of that post: because no user is assigned to a pooled VDI host, you can’t deploy a user-scoped certificate, and non-admin users can’t read the device-scoped private key, so Okta FastPass...
Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas
When someone says "write it in POSIX shell for portability," they mean well. POSIX is a specification. Not a program. The thing that actually runs your script is bash, dash, ash, ksh, yash, or one of a dozen others. They each implement POSIX with their own gaps, extensions, and historical...
strongest
I’m not sure if it’s a New York thing or not, but I love that small business owners have artists paint the sides of their trucks with absolutely outlandish graffiti scenes. These panel trucks roam the city with just some hand applied vinyl lettering on the cab doors with the business name, address...
Andrea Badgley
We stopped in St. Louis on our way home from a family wedding this weekend and spent an overcast afternoon at the Missouri Botanical Garden. If you are into plants and ever find yourself in St. Louis, go. Go to the botanical garden. The beds burst with blooms and lush...
robotkinz
These finishes off the present day scenes for Chapter 2. The title of this chapter is "An Age of Reason."
jesusrrodriguez
¿Cuánto de aquello que llamamos mérito pertenece realmente a nuestras decisiones y cuánto proviene de circunstancias que nunca elegimos? El extranjero de Camus explora esa distancia entre la vida que ocurre y las historias que construimos para explicarla.
ian holloway
Like one, that on a lonesome roadDoth walk in fear and dread,And having once turned round walks on,And turns no more his head;Because he knows, a frightful fiendDoth close behind him tread.Samuel Taylor Coleridge“The Rime of The Ancient Mariner”Bookended by Tom Baker's recitation of the above...
alecm
Start arresting the teens and then see what happens: Australia to double penalty for social media ban breaches to $99m as tech giants accused of ‘not doing enough’ | Social media ban | The Guardian...
aeryn
I guess this is just a little update. Re-reading and editing this has been tricky. I began with voice-to-text, and then edited. But to me it feels disjointed and a bit weird. Anyway.. Content notice: health, food, nutritionIt's a Sunday morning, and I've just had a nice latte. I'm sitting here in...
anureet
I've been sharing my art on social media for over ten years and many people have asked if I can create colouring pages with my floral pattern. I wasn't sure, probably a a control thing in that I like my art to be what I create...but then thought, it's actually flattering and also a way for people...
jlmc
mrgreen
Just a quick update…. Have started the rebrand for Fruitbang to ArchBang. Iso image will look and run with Mango rather than Labwc. Still testing image but hope to release on July 1st. Then once everyone is happy can start to make changes towards an Autumn release [mostly theme/look/wallpaper]....
adventuringalone
Warning: There are references to slavery, and violence in this one. Round 2 ResultsDie Roll: 2 Cards: 9 Clubs, 9 Spades Prompts: Shocking, A Visit to the Countryside Because two cards of the same value were pulled, Jon's actions will lead to a change in the city. Because a double value was also...
Amaldev
There has been a lot of hue and cry around AI data centers. I think a good part of it is valid, because big ones can stress the local power grid and water systems. The energy side is harder to solve as every calculation needs electricity. The water side is more interesting, because water is often...
Alex
As my first foray into CUDA programming I set myself a challenge to experiment with different methods of finding the total sum of a large array of numbers, trying different strategies exposed via CUDA to see how different approaches compare and what comes out fastest. A lot of my GPU experience...
Albert Sikkema
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels Every time I read that Europe will “never catch up” in AI, it annoys me. The distance is too large, the gap is permanent, we should just accept American dominance and move on. I keep hearing it from commentators, from tech media, from people who should know better. It...
birdmilk
(Header image from Ben Griffiths on Unsplash) The Recommendation I think this is a must-own game. This gem is concise enough that you can probably read the base rules in less time than it will take to read this review, so you may as well go buy it, read it, play it, then come back and see if...
ClassicHasClass
Behold: the Guru of GNU! (Photo by Habib Mhenni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.) True enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably! And while there is no nerd who lacks an opinion on Richard Stallman personally, likewise let none claim he does not practice what he...
Steve Ruberg
Randomization and complete data on the randomized experimental units are needed for cause-and-effect inference. What happens when that logic is broken? Introduction For those who follow this blog, you may have noticed a rather long hiatus in blog entries. I have been absorbed in writing a...
SIMON REYNOLDS
A flurry of recent debate on the topic of cultural stagnation versus "the future is alive and well actually!"Here's an interesting article by Gabriel Szatan at Resident Advisor from a few weeks agoIt starts with a electronic dance festival experience that feels blocked and static:But by some...
Klaus Philipsen
During my time studying architecture the architect-engineer and Pritzker Prize winner Frei Otto was a full time professor at my alma mater, the University of Stuttgart and his Institute of Institute for Lightweight Structures was a flagship for innovation. He designed structures guided by gravity...
Alexander Weiß
A few days ago I faced the requirement to create a versionised DocC based documentation of some SPM library. I recalled my earlier work with DocC, which lacked…
Alex Leighton
A feed of the music I've been listening to.Published on 2026-06-27Tags: changelog, static-siteThere's now a Listening page: a feed of every listening-to-tagged post, showing the track title, artists, my commentery, and a link to play it. Like the Photos page, the feed is assembled entirely from...
alienbob
Recently, and unexpectedly, I noticed a lot of errors in the output of the script which populates the git repository for Slackware. Specifically, when it updated the “15.0” branch which tracks the updates in Slackware 15.0. I did an evening of troubleshooting and fixing. Somehow, the root user had...
Aurel Manea
Exploring the divine: What is God? The post What is God ? appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art.
prasangika-matters
Jacob Wren
. Keep doing the same thing versus Try doing something new. I wrote this down after seeing The Ex play a few nights ago. I had this feeling that they just keep doing the same thing and it just keeps on being good. That for them "doing the same thing" might be the right choice. But I'm not...
maragalli
Marcin Wichary
One keyboard bug three decades in the making. (New version of an essay originally posted in February 2015. 1,800 words.)
anthonysdesk
I built my first app over forty years ago. Using BASIC. On a Radio Shack TRS-80. It was an app that displayed a Christmas tree with blinking lights. I somehow convinced the RS sales guy to let me play on their one computer. In return I'd build something they could put in the store window to help...
Adrelien
Picture the scene. You're three miles into a trail. The group split an hour ago to take different routes. Your phone says No Service. You need to know if the other half made it to the ridge. You open every app you have Google Maps, WhatsApp, Find My and they all stare back at you with the same...
michael-graeme
Vincent Iannelli, MD
If you have ever doubted the importance of real public health experts, you saw their importance during the recent hantavirus outbreak. During the hantavirus outbreak, Secretary RFK, Jr enforced a mandatory quarantine in a Nebraska facility over the recommendations of public health experts for a...