MARKED WOMAN (1937) is a terrific exemplar of '30s Warner Bros. style, featuring an excellent cast in a gritty crime drama.As the movie begins, crime boss Johnny Vanning (Eduardo Ciannelli) has taken over a nightclub which is actually a clip joint, taking customers for as much money as possible through highly questionable means.The club's "hostesses," including Mary (Bette Davis), are expected to help lighten the guests' wallets and must also turn over some of their tips in return for…

the world makes much more sense when you realize that value is subjective there is no intrinsic value in anything… …not even humans. that might sound harsh, but i think it might be true i am not saying humans have no value. it is just that nothing has intrinsic value

Not been entirely convinced this idea I had of a small supernatural snippet everyday on the run up to Halloween has entirely worked, but its mostly been fun for me. Some of the posts were blog ideas that never got off the ground (Hartlebury Wizard), a couple were off the cuff writing (ghost, witches), and one actually developed far more than I thought it would, (Devil) as I got interested in the literature around the legend and was able to put that into the blog. So for completeness sake, I’ll…

I took some time and tried to make a "nature" environment, with rock cliffs and a cave. This ended up being a lot more laborious than making a hallway. This screenshot is extremely unimpressive but it took me forever to make, lmao: I then played a few modern games made in similar tools and realized I was being overly detailed with my cliffs and shit. You can be super non-detailed and get away with it due to the scale of a space, features that draw the player's eye, a focus on navigation instead…

Unauthenticated users can take down the user interface on TP-Link WR-841N routers with malformed HTTP requests4. 248 days after my initial report, TP-Link assigned CVE-2025-9014 and released a patch on January 15, 2026. This denial of service vulnerability affects the /usr/bin/httpd web server and user interface on the WR-841N router. The router firmware's /usr/bin/cos init process that's responsible for launching the web server fails to restart it. This means that once an unauthenticated user…

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Source A small seal and a huge elephant seal have more in common than they first appear! Both belong to the pinnipeds, together with sea lions and walruses. This image illustrates adult males measuring 1.7 m for a harbor seal, 2.3 m for a gray seal, 2.4 m for a California sea lion, 3 m for a Steller sea lion, 3.3 m for a walrus and 5.5 m for a southern elephant seal. The comparison uses the length of an extended body, rather than its height when sitting upright. Differences between males and…

It’s time to close out this year’s RetroChallenge project. Since it’s October, why not use the Forth interpreter that I’ve been slowly building up all month to do a sort of demo? I hear decorative squash is hot this time of season. The goal My mission was to augment my nascent CamelForth interpreter with a Halloween-themed demo, and I wanted part of that demo to be 16x16 sprites. The TI TMS9918A video chip at the heart of the Sega SG-1000 supports these enormous sprites1, but I’d never worked…

Saturday 31st October 2026 Another potpourri of miscellany from the past month’s travels….. Slow going on the main lines You couldn’t travel anywhere on either the West Coast or East Coast Main Lines very quickly on the weekend of 17th/18th October, as I found when travelling from Euston to Warrington on the Saturday and back south from Eaglescliff to King’s Cross on the Sunday. Network Rail’s orange army was obviously hard at work as passengers enjoyed a change of scenery to avoid the closed…

There's something special about a recipe that's been passed down through the family, especially when it arrives with a story attached. This Pumpkin Bread recipe is just that. One of those treasured recipes, it's moist, warmly spiced, and studded generously with sweet raisins and tart cranberries.Perfect with a hot cup of tea or coffee, or even some hot apple cider, this easy pumpkin loaf has been a family favourite for years. Do make the homemade Spiced Maple Butter to spread over slices of the…

We will have a posting today, but it's a biggie, and stamina is low after the late post on Friday. So, this one will have to be late, too, so we can rest up a little. For now, at least we have today's new polls. Click here for full story

Happy Halloween! Here’s a little of what I got up to in this spooky month. Things I did in October I moved this site from an Apache-powered VPS to CDN-frontend object storage. This means I pay less money, I do less maintenance, and my site loads faster in most parts of the world. Hopefully nobody noticed this change, except that things should be a little snappier! (Also, my old site had a small amount of PHP, which I’m happy to have removed given PHP’s remote code execution vulnerabilities this…

For most of my readers, this is a season for heavier and usually more tenacious perfumes. But we all know our collections well enough to discuss different aspects of them regardless of whether they’re appropriate for the weather. Saturday Question #306: What Is the Most Fleeting Perfume That You Still Love? Do you reapply […]

went to the Seattle Japanese Garden to celebrate my birthday! Win of the week: compared health plans and completed Open Enrollment — astonishingly our health care plan is only going up $5 per month 😯 Looking forward to: upcoming trip to see my family! Stuff I did: 0.75 hours consulting 8.75 hours outline voted and dropped off my ballot! (If you’re in the greater Seattle area, The Urbanist has endorsements for the Eastside as well as the city proper!) researched and wrote up ideas for stuff to…

Final Fantasy Resonance This game has some good looking scenes. We're back at it, making it to the final(?) island. Or are they continents? Anywho, immediately upon getting there, I immediately abandoned the main plot to do a bunch of side quests. The side quests are mostly pretty sweet, especially the party ones. I was a little surprised the follower quests don't have any combat, but that's made them a bit of a nice diversion. Like the ears didn't tip that. I do wonder where they're going with…

Readers are faced with one of the most complex decisions: to read a physical book or to read an ebook. Now, both probably have their pros and cons. But, I am here to tell you physical books are far superior to ebooks and as someone who owns over 3 books and a Kindle, I know I am a trustworthy source.To put it simply, you can do a whole lot with books that you simply cannot with ebooks.Books can be touched and felt. Books can be sniffed. Books can be annotated with a pen. Books can be copied and…

After hiking Mt Hayachine, Mt Iwate and Mt Hachimantai, we decided to devote the third day of our Morioka trip to the city itself. I didn’t really know too much about Morioka, but was curious to see how it would compare to Hakodate, a city with a similar population count that we visited earlier this year. From a quick Google of what to do in Morioka, one page I read mentioned quite honestly that there actually isn’t that much to do in the city centre itself. One of its main attractions is…

Let's head back to the good old days, when TV used miniatures to help explain things. Miniatures built, and presented by Matt Irvine.

Arundhati Roy recently published a sweeping essay on artificial intelligence (AI) in Equator, arguing that the technology is drastically changing the way people work, write, and think as well as how power is distributed in society. In her accurate telling, the AI development industry is dominated by billionaires who appropriate human knowledge, exploit labour, and consume enormous amounts of natural resources while increasingly entrenching themselves within governments and militaries. Drawing…

Damn I love Midnight Mass. What a miniseries. every time I watch it, I end up thinking about it for the rest of the year. And the more times I watch it, the more things I catch. It really does reward rewatches. www.netflix.com/title/810…

Harry Houdini, magician, escape artist and obsessed with talking with his dead mother and in pursuit thereof, debunked hundreds of spiritualists and mediums, died exactly 100 years ago today … Hallowe'en! So, to learn more about his death, and celebrate it with one of his favorite desserts, bread and butter custard, you might want to watch “The Mysterious Death of Harry Houdini.” Happy Hallowe'en, everybody!

The fallout from the deliberately inflammatory Rebellion PAC ad continues, as it seems to have created a massive rift between Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, and his vanquished primary opponent Haley Stevens. Stevens, whose fiancé Jason Turkish already publicly announced he was endorsing AES' Republican opponent, came out with a lengthy list of demands for El-Sayed before she'd deign to appear with him. El-Sayed, who'd already disavowed the ad and was reportedly ready to…

Mmm, cookie. I am terrible at drawing cookies.

It’s Halloween in Reykjavík! I've only been here a couple of days and I’ve already managed to see some Icelandic theatre. Nýtt eldhús eftir máli (A New Custom-Made Kitchen) A play by Friðgeir Einarsson, directed by Bjorn Thors Daníel (Hilmar Guðjónsson) is married to Soffía (Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir)… He manages the household with passion—something we witness the moment we enter the

The feuilleton is an attractively flexible form, part journalism, part essay, that has seldom successfully crossed the Atlantic. The name is derived from the French feuillet, meaning the leaf of a book. Though spawned in France, the feuilleton achieved mastery among German-language writers, specifically Austrian, more specifically Viennese, even more specifically Jewish. Among its most accomplished practitioners are Alfred Polgar, Karl Kraus, Peter Altenberg and Egon Friedell. Clive James…

Another 3-gig weekend. DJ set Friday afternoon with an English Teeth gig Friday night. And then an all-day tailgate thing on Saturday, of which I had about a 2.5-hour DJ set. I still think there’s no other way to learn how to do it, other than to do it. Meaning if you need to learn how to do something, go get a gig. Maybe learn a few things, some rudimentaries, but then go find a gig. Nothing gets you prepared like having a gig. There’s no better pressure, really, in the world. Like, especially…

The Mission District early evening a few days ago, on my way to an event at Gray Area with a friend, due to meet up with other friends. It’s great when a photograph captures precisely what you see, and then later when you look at the image (no subsequent processing on this), your decision to have snapped the shutter at that moment is confirmed by elements, symmetries, and contrasts of which you weren’t even conscious when you did so. I was careful to get the vertical edge of the wall just…

Steven Levy, Wired, interviewed John Ternus, the new CEO of Apple: “Everyone has an opinion—I really like where we’re at,” he said. “I would hope people recognize that the work we do is building incredible products that make their lives better. We’re absolutely going to leverage AI to do that. We don't want to ship AI for AI's sake. When we're doing it right, people won’t have to think about whether it was AI that made this happen or more traditional software. What matters is, did we build…

Rusty Foster, of the excellent Today in Tabs newsletter you should probably be reading: Neat! There’s a remote-exploitable kernel memory race condition in the Linux IPv4 TCP code. A bunch of other linux kernel vulnerabilities were accidentally posted to a public mailing list before patches were ready for them. The official Claude Code extension for VS Code on Cursor has been dropping “a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows.” The Department of Homeland Security was hacked.…

In the final days of April 1945, as Soviet troops fought their way into central Berlin, Adolf Hitler remained underground in the Führerbunker, a reinforced concrete shelter beneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery. The German capital was collapsing around him, the Nazi leadership was in disarray, and the war in Europe was nearing its […]