On the Amazing Race 39 episode 6, teams faced the Intersection, and we faced a cliffhanger after an Expedia ad but before they face the Double U-Turn.

Pretty good remake of the pretty good 1960 movie, which is to say it’s a terribly disappointing followup to In the Mouth of Madness. At 10:00AM during the harvest festival everyone in town passes out, and a few hours later the women wake up pregnant. This movie’s major update is that in the 1990s you can say the word pregnant. Carpenter couldn’t help himself: Killer Jedi Priest: Kirstie in her evil boardroom: Epidemiologist Kirstie Alley arrives from the government and offers to pay all the…

Our odometer just rolled over 140,000 miles. The Toyota owner’s manual refers to this as the end of the break-in period.

What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to get future editions direct to your inbox. The post Weekend reading: Budget, boom, and bust appeared first on Monevator.

Nytril is a document authoring tool built on its own programming language, where text, data, calculations, and formatting all live in source code that runs to produce documents. In this sponsored Q&A, Shawn McCreight answers 10 questions about who Nytril is for, how it compares to DITA and Flare, how writers get started, where data comes from, output formats, localization, docs-as-code workflows, AI, and pricing. Shawn wrote his answers as a Nytril program, so this post also includes the PDF,…

I encourage people to follow this site and The New Leaf Journal via feed. But while I welcome feed readers, I do not welcome bots and scrapers that fetch my feeds for the purpose of effectively re-publishing my articles without permission, especially for profit. I wrote about blocking one such manevolent crawler, RSS Amplifier’s rssamplifier.com reader, in a NLJ essay. I just added another one to my block list. RSSing sounds like a charming feed reader, but I found that it was scraping my NLJ…

The idea for Svet came from a private repository at work, where checking filename case helps catch portability problems like Logo.svg and logo.svg colliding on a case-insensitive Windows filesystem. These checks are implemented in pure JavaScript. That seemed like a useful job for a reusable repository linter. I went looking for an existing tool. Tool Why it isn’t enough here ESLint Can check filenames with a processor; byte-level checks and Git snapshots need custom plumbing. Oxlint Arbitrary…

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We've just published draft -06 of the Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant (ID-JAG): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-identity-assertion-authz-grant/ It's been great to see so many new implementations of ID-JAG over the past few months, across identity providers, authorization servers, clients and libraries. -05 and -06 are mostly about bringing what we've learned from these implementations back into the spec. The diff looks big, but most of it tightens the wording so…

Photo by Christopher Walters Tomorrow is Halloween - YAY! Today's post begins with coming attractions, starting with Vincent Price in The House On Haunted Hill!Then with psychotronic trailers. . . Tarantula!And THE CRAWLING HAND (1963)!THE CREEPING TERROR The Creature Of The Walking Dead Trailer is so cheesy, it actually shows the ending of the film!Now for some spooky gothic comedy, starting with THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE (1930).The Laurel & Hardy Murder Case The boys dig up dead bodies in…

It has been a hugely active month and an extremely busy one for the department with many more vehicles than usual being involved, this being a correspondingly large update as a result. No doubt things will settle down as we pass through Autumn and hide in the shed as we head for winter!London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866E (GOLD)Externally work has been solely focused on the production of door skins. These have proved very problematic with neither the doors nor the…

GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FACTUAL SURVEY is on Vimeo. Tough watch. Necessary. It’s maybe the worst title ever, and I don’t understand how anyone could ever have signed off on it, but it may have been a working title, since the film, made in 1945, wasn’t finished until 2014. What finally made me watch it was […]

I am trying out a new camera app on my iPhone 16 Pro. It’s called Chromograph Camera and it’s available in the App Store. You can read more about this awesome little app right here (like to AppleInsider). Here are two snaps I captured during the sunrise this morning. One with the regular camera app in iOS 27, the second with the Chromograph Camera app. iOS 27 Camera app Chromograph Camera app. I really like the look and feel of the second photo. The app bypasses the Apple infused trickery in…

Kate Mulgrew posted this touching tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart on social media today. He passed yesterday and is best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and associated shows. Fun fact, Patrick Stewart and share the same birthday. Ms. Mulgrew is much more articulate than me; this is eloquently stated.

Today has been a day of quiet rest and recovery for most of us. The girls took care of the usual outside cat stuff. The yard cats are unhappy with their cat soup. We are out of the donated cat milk and canned cat food we’d been using, so it’s basically just softened kibble. We … Continue reading Quiet

Halloween, 1957. Josephine Sable has a brand-new doctorate in high energy physics, several problems to solve, and no job. For ECTOCOMP 2026, I am releasing a new, small, free game: First, Second, and Third Persons. A short piece of interactive horror-comedy about death, the stupid side of dark academia, and that feeling one sometimes gets that one has gone to the wrong party, and would very much like to kill everyone in attendance. Happy (early) Halloween!

What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t follow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from October. Enjoy. Bit of a theme this month, the old web was messier and more fun, and running a site now keeps getting harder. Jenny O’Connor on why the embarrassing internet was the good internet. My old fan pages agree. Winnie Lim on why running a personal website is not fun anymore. Rough read. Between AI bots scraping the fuck out of the open web and hackers using AI agents to find…

It’s day two of the Star Trek weekend on Film Four. Can I start by saying that, only days after I wrote this entry, I’ve heard the awful news that Patrick Stewart has died. After Walter Koenig, it looks like the curse of the blog is back in force. I’m so very, very sorry. Back to the recordings. First, Leonard Nimoy introduces Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I know a lot of fans really love The Undiscovered Country, but watching it again, for some reason, I just wasn’t feeling it as…

I saw new things available from Vit’s of Malaysia so I decided to reach out. They said they’d send some varieties over and here they are! Big thanks to Vit’s for going the extra mile to send me great new stuff! Let’s check it out. Vit’s Malaysia Sends New Products! The post Vit’s Malaysia Sends New Products! appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

I believe I was born with a medieval imagination. It is the only way I can explain the explicit gothic terrors of my childhood. Even lying in my cradle, I recall observing the monstrous face that emerged from the ceiling lampshade once the light was turned out. This all-seeing creature, peering at me from above, grew more pervasive as years passed, occupying the shadows at the edges of my vision and assuming more concrete manifestations. An unexpected sound in my dark room revealed its…

For once, I am actually on time and really reliable. Happy All Hallow’s Eve Eve, ye goblins and other, more different goblins.#1:Unconfirmed Contact Reports(Tuesday Knight Games, 2023; writing by Izzy Bull, Luke Gearing, Fiona Maeve Geist, Alan Gerding, Tyler Kimball, Wendy Pippin, Donn Stroud, David N. Wilkie)Friend of the blog semiurge beat me to the punch on this one, and I’m glad he did because his post is why this post got done.I think UCR is a bad monster book by most standards, and a…

The GP32 was, as far as I know, the first emulator handheld, and having owned one during its heyday, it was very exciting. Streets of Rage 2 looked incredible on its 320x240 LCD screen, even without a backlight! It also had a bunch of games commercially released for it, on pre-written Smart Media cards. However, I couldn't afford any of them, and as far as I could tell, no-one was dumping the ROMs back then, either, so for decades, I was completely unable to play them, because though the games…

things are finally starting to click at work. my worth is being recognised and i truly feel like a valued part of the team. i actually feel for the first time ever that i actually want to stay at my job and progress. the confidence i’ve gained this week is like night and day. i’m great at what i do and i have real job satisfaction. everything is good. i spent my evening playing a new videogame called “forever ago” and boy did it make me feel. husband goes through bereavement goes on road trip…

From 2020 to 2022, I've encouraged a steady stream of students to pursue their education in computer science. Tech companies were hiring like crazy. I would interview 3 candidates a week on some occasions. The future of tech seemed to be paved with gold. Any day now, several of those students will graduate. I dread opening my inbox and get an email from them asking: "So... about those jobs?" Things have changed since those crazy old days. Hiring has come to a stop. Those graduates will step…

Twelve years ago, the team behind my beloved reading app Readmill announced that they were closing shop. It was the first time that I’d felt bereft at the loss of an Internet service. I wrote a post about the joy it had brought me, and my quest to find something that would fill the gap. The Readmill platform and apps had a lot of class in their design, and it was lovely to use them for reading. They had an API that allowed developers to create apps such as ReadMore, which let you track reading…

Ever since I left Twitter, back in 2022 when the world's saddest loser bought it, I've had a fraught relationship with social media. I was pissed that I put so much time and effort into something one jerk could buy outright one day and ruin instantly, so I moved most of my posting energy to this blog and then my mastodon account.Mastodon is my first choice because it's distributed and no single shithead can ruin it for everyone. It also lets you post up to 500 characters as well as endlessly…

In my “Mathocalypse” post, I mentioned that my wife Dana—who’s been working on Subhash Khot’s Unique Games Conjecture since ~2009, for the entire time I’ve known her—has for the past few weeks (while on sabbatical at the Simons Institute in Berkeley) been spending essentially all of her time laboring to understand OpenAI’s recent proof of the conjecture. Having now studied the proof closely in collaboration with Subhash Khot himself, Johan Håstad, Dor Minzer, and other colleagues, and…

You know the script. An organization-wide announcement promises that innovation is at hand, a change that addresses a longstanding problem, saves time and money, increases security, choose your menu items. Read further, and the truth emerges. Nobody has innovated. They signed a contract with a company that promised to solve their problems. You’re reading a press release. At a high level, it’s understandable. Depending on the system, your organization might have done its due diligence, maybe…