Raymond “Bud” Overholzer created the Shrine of the Pines near Baldwin. A phantasmic furniture collection of pine! Bud was intrigued by misshapen pieces of pine so plentiful near his Michigan property he turned it into the epitome of rustic, eccentric furniture and nicknames. He worked on the collection from 1920 to 1950. It’s all joined by dowels! No nails.All early 20th century furniture should be so well balanced. One of the more intriguing facts is that he invented his own sandpaper out of…

#WCC NOVEMBER 2026 : threads DATES How much writing are you hoping to accomplish this month? Do you have a writerly "season"? When does it begin? When does it end? When did you last challenge yourself? Do you include a cast of characters at the beginning of a work? What do you get the most pleasure writing? What are you earnest about in terms of writing? How detailed are your plans before you write? How aware are you of yourself while writing? How does the writer you are now compare to the…

The elevated pedestrian walkway at Umekita Park spirals and winds its way across the park. うめきた公園の高架歩道は、らせんを描きながら公園内を曲がりくねって続いている。

Every once in a while, I meet some of my old friends whose jobs – at least on paper – sound extremely similar to mine. Some of them are jokingly saying that I’m simply stupid for not relying on AI more, as it could save me hours. Others don’t, but they are mostly on the “it killed my passion” side… I relate to both feelings, really. If I could do less and have the same outcomes, why wouldn’t I? The point is that I don’t believe that statement; at least not if I include myself in the equation.…

Written by Morpheus KitamiThis appears to be a modified shot of a scene in this very entry, though the scientist girl seems much more concerned than she has reason to be.Welcome back to the strange world of the development duo of Hirono Kenichi and Kanasugi Hajime, much like last time with Count Dracula, we'll be looking at another classic monster movie inspired title in The Invisible Man - Appear Appear. Yes, that is the title, and at first glance everything is going to be very weird. At…

An ongoing series A rad interactive map of every lighthouse in the world. So many amazing control rooms and control panels. From the 100 billion people who have ever lived, you draw one at random from real data. Mamdani and “Richard Scarry socialism.” Blocking the Internet Archive will not stop AI.

A spooky adventure with the Fossil HuntressGather close, curious creatures. Tonight, we’re slipping into the shadows to meet animals whose lives are every bit as fascinating as their spooky reputations.Our journey takes us from a vampire’s roost to the deep ocean, through the forests of Madagascar—and back into the fossil record.Bring your curiosity. Perhaps leave your neck covered.VAMPIRE BATS:

A Larry can change their mind in the face of new information. Commitment takes work, but can yield a better life for us, even when life is really just a series of wicked problems. Be a Larry While it's an older story, it just came across my radar. Larry showed up to provide support for an anti-trans bill but sat and listened to the stories of the LGBTQ community while he waited for his turn. Those stories moved him so far that he apologised to them for his former views and how they were…

Today I turn 49. Yeah, I’m a Halloween baby named Jason. I’ve got one more year left to enjoy my 40s. Then…wow…the 50s! It’s only been four days of recovery from surgery, so any celebrating today will be low-key. Instead of going out, my family will stay home. We’ve got gluten-free pizza and ice cream on the menu. Simple. Oh, I did get an early birthday gift this year, a Yoshi t-shirt. Yoshi!

Fifteen years ago, when Julia and I were living in a studio apartment, she got me a keyboard. It was a used Yamaha P85, and a significant expense for us at the time. I loved it, and unlike the penny whistles, accordion, and stroh violin I was exploring, it had a volume control. Almost immediately our cat knocked a potted plant onto it, and I needed to take it apart to carefully clean it. Since then, however, I've had no issues, save one: clacky keys. Over time the keys were getting louder,…

2026-10-31Hello!I squeezed onto the packed subway train heading to Old City in Philadelphia. With paperwork and unfinished food in my backpack, I escaped the train and went overground to meet the striking yellow Land Cruiser. A camera showcase event had made its way to Philadelphia, and I grabbed a registration ticket in the nick of time.Well, I was marked as being on the waitlist. But they let me in anyway.I had joined a separate photo festival in New York, full of booths and models and…

Contrails thicken into clouds between dwindling patches of pastel blue, but there’s still enough sun to set the crown of the big scarlet oak aglow. A few distant cries of geese off to the north are submerged in Carolina wren song.

"Hebban olla vogala" is not the name of a manuscript in the Bodleian Library of Oxford. It is part of a single line scribbled in the margin of a larger manuscript. In 1933, Kenneth Sisam, professor of Anglo-Saxon linguistics at Oxford, looked at a probatio pennae that had been jotted down on a manuscript page sometime before 1100. The manuscript was from St. Andrew's Church in Rochester, Kent. (Some trivia: one of Sisam's students was J.R.R.Tolkien.)A probatio pennae is done to test a pen (see…

One of the first steps for anyone setting out to reduce their dependence on Big Tech is moving their email away from Google or Microsoft. The process itself isn’t particularly complex. The problem is cultural. The dominance of these two services — Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook — has eroded our understanding of one of the oldest internet technologies we still use, and one that remains important. Email is decentralized, meaning different service providers talk to each other. To take part, you need…

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the 2. Flamin-Go Find It! challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. First lookWe've received a picture Kolina made of a group of flamingos. We have to find the name of the area where they were located at the time of being photographed. As usual I first looked closely at the photograph and made a list of observations. This…

Morning fog on a pasture on the outskirts of McKinney, Texas. The post Out in the Foggy Pasture appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

October 31, 2026Halloween comes with stories of both truth and fictionAnd, so –I offer you my truth without fiction: I suppose that in the spirit of this day, I can expose some of the spirits to which I assume divide the line between good and evil.Therefore, if I am to define both good and evil, then I need to expose myself and all that was evil. Halloween is only one day.At the time, a day in the life saw more spirits of the damned than a night in costumes to play make-believe.I swear. I was…

It occurs to me that some (most?) of my readers may be wondering how it is that, at my age and with a lifetime’s contemplative practice, one way or another, under my belt, I am still at times subject to these odd changes of direction and language. I sometimes wonder myself. Proverbs 20:24 (NRSV) reads: “All our steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can we understand our own ways?” Benedictus Spinoza wrote (Ethics, Prop. XXIX): “Wherefore all things are conditioned by the necessity of the…

Adventurers Character Race Class Description Ainsley Human Ranger level 1 An older gentleman with a groomed moustache and a wooden pipe in his mouth, covered in dark green cloak. Astrid Hunnisdottir Dwarf Fighter level 4 A dwarf with burning hair and a belt fashioned from harpy scalps as a reminder of dangers of friendship and singing. Aurella Elf Fighter level 1 / magic-user level 1 Exiled and chased out of her tree commune, she now wanders the Wilderlands. Bragi Twinefinger Hobbit Fighter…

A TRICK, OR A TREAT? Imagine my surprise at seeing a russet apple among those from the Midwest Apple Improvement Association. MAIA is a modern-day breeding program that develops varieties with commercial potential. ¶ One can say (I would!) that an aromatic russet variety should command market share. Nonetheless, promoting one in today's environment would be a bold move indeed. But not so fast.

I've been digging into bots for the last week and not only am I using them for various tasks at work, I have a group of bots helping with running Finley Shop. Here is what they are currently doing for us. Mercer · Shopkeep Every 2h (6am–10pm CT): metrics Page refresh — Square sales + Fathom traffic + stock pulse; post here only when something changed Square Online store: listings, inventory notes, About/shipping copy, coupons & deals Stock timing with Scout; listing URLs / UTMs with Callum when…

The most common way people experience classical style music these days is via movies and video-games. After seeing The Force Awakens - live in concert, I've become rather a fan of watching movies performed with a live soundtrack. But what about watching a video game with orchestral accompaniment? We travelled up to Wolverhampton to see "The Witcher": A one-of-a-kind live event that transforms the lasting legacy and emotional storytelling of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt into an immersive concert…

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my most recent deck, finished in october 2026 (i'm not sure when i started it. it might have been in 2025 but it was a quick first glance through the materials. i've done a majority of it in summer 2026). having had much success in my very first full tarot deck - an experiment in collage art sourced entirely from one issue of the shadowplay magazine - i decided to replicate the process with an issue of numero berlin: numero berlin that particular issue was devoted to sex, so the imagery was…

As you may know, I made a Bear Halloween theme last year. It still holds up, which is almost a shame, since I love making things like that. So, upvote button to the rescue! Styled for the spookiest season of the year: a jack-o'-lantern that lights up when you upvote a post. And as it turns out, something was hiding inside... Go ahead, give it a try below, if you dare. 🦇 How it worksBefore you vote, the pumpkin sits there unlit, with dark, hollow eyes. Hover over it, and it starts to flicker, as…

Our solar battery wasn't a great financial choice: although it yields some savings, the steep upfront cost means that it will probably never break even. Recently, however, I found out that the Pylontech US2000C modules that it's made up of have come down in price quite significantly - I could add 2.4 kWh of battery capacity for a little under £500. That's about a third of the price of the originals, which feels like an absolute bargain. Such a significant reduction in price would mean that a…

When Log Off came out, it felt like a beautiful crossover: « internet politics » exhaust me I had recently listened to Katherine Cross on the Cancel Me, Daddy podcast, talking about Internet transphobia and why we probably shouldn’t care that much LittlePuss Press is an excellent indie publisher and I recommend pretty much everything they ever published So of course, I had to get it, and I really enjoyed the read. So now, it’s your turn to read (and it’s okay if you hate it!) and share a bit…

I have written many articles over the years about why using git for content is worth considering, but now in the age of LLMs and AI, there are even more reasons to move to git powered content workflows. Here are some of the main ones: Commits as precise save points: Ditch messy file names like draft_v1_final_revised_2.docx for a clean history where every change has an explicit, readable reason attached to it. Everything is a file: Storing content as plain text or Markdown means you aren't…

Launched the new Jinny Street Gallery website. Not going to lie, I’m quite proud of it. Redesigned ttvl.co again. This time it actually looks different. I switched to IBM Plex throughout and made the dates and labels consistent. Built an interactive 3D twin of the Rome studio for Studio Humane and started documenting my ambient computing experiments in a new research journal. Started building Hank for OpenClaw, a native OpenClaw client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and gave it its own stream in…

↬nadjabester.com/blog/indieweb-book-club-october-2026-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built I got the book as epub and found its Libro.fm link in case an audiobook would make things better. I didn’t read the book. The thing is, I read one book by Becky Chambers, four years ago, because she was hailed as the ultimate solarpunk writer and I would have to love it, and, well, I didn’t love it. I was bored to death, in fact; not as disappointed as I was in The Dispossessed, but enough that like with Ursula K.…