Some more Morrissey Mullen, but jumping ahead several albums to the late 80s. Definitely much more of a late 80s sound than their first collaboration. Interesting seeing them lean much further into synths, too. Some tracks like That's Jazz are definitely pointing towards the laid-back smooth direction fusion would be moving into in the early 90s.

I am pretty sure I got my first smartphone (an android) back in 2011 or 2012 (my personal instagram has pictures from 2012, and that was when they added the android app). Since I’ve deleted my social media apps off my phone, I’ve been wondering what I used to do pre-smartphone. I definitely used my laptop A LOT. It was just more dedicated computer time to use social media. List of things I think I was doing: I was in college - so probably had IRL friend stuff DeviantArt still had a very active…

The final Halloween weekend of my 30s is upon me. And..... I'm going to a live Rocky Horror Picture Show! It's been a minute since I've done one of these.

During the Covid lockdowns, like millions of others, I watched YouTube to kill time. This included fitness content. I was among the 40–60 percent of people who gained weight during the lockdowns (in their infinite wisdom, the “experts” decided a virus with a ~100% survivability rate for healthy adults necessitated shutting down the economy). I finally lost the weight, and more, around early 2023. This got me into studying metabolism. I had already written a ton about IQ when I started my blog,…

Just published a short story I called “The Second Visit.” It’s a nod to Isaac Asimov’s “Silly Asses,” a story I’ve always liked.

Nets hang from a fishing trawler spotted in Galveston Harbor, Texas. The post Nets appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

💡There is basically One Main Loop in AI, and it applies to everything from building software to managing pretty much anything.⛰️I call it General Hill-climbing.Here are the main components:🖼️ Know what you want✍️ Be able to articulate it📐 Be able to measure progress🧪 Do the work / test your ideas⇧ Adjust / Iterate / Climb / Repeat ♻️In 2026/2027 modern language that means:1. 🧭 YOUR TELOS (Purpose) You want to start with clear articulation of your current state, your ideal state, your goals,…

The sun burned bright and hot against the black vastness of space as a small, pill-shaped spacecraft appeared against its glare. You would need to know what to look for to notice it. Its navigation systems were already locked onto the third planet—the only habitable world in the system.As they drew closer, the ship began searching for the planet’s information network. On their last visit, there had been nothing to connect to, so they had to land. This time, Sol-3 was broadcasting constantly.“Is…

For the past few years, I’ve been looking back at creative and business decisions I made, and wondering how wise they were. This is the story of one of those decisions. In 2008, A List Apart, for people who make websites reached its tenth year of independent publishing. Looking back on ten years of the magazine’s web standards advocacy, I decided it was time to broaden out ALA’s mission. It was time, in short, to take a more holistic approach to web design, covering all the skills required to…

The mighty Wil Overton is back on key-art duties for Eggnob. Considering the complete lack of direction that I gave him -- "a farting egg, legally distinct from Dizzy" -- I think he's done a eggcellent job! And now that's in place, all the final bits and pieces have been filled in on the Steam page, and pushed into review with Valve. Hopefully, I'll be able to share the links in two or three days. Release is pencilled in for the Easter weekend: 26th March 2027. Progress on the game itself has…

Been wanting to get rid of Authy for a while now as they are slowly enshittifying. The catch 22 is as they enshittify it makes it harder to move. They removed the option to export stuff a while back so I thought guess i need to bit the bullet and get out of here sooner rather than later. Well turns out with root you can just import them into Aegis and than export them to your new 2fa provider of choice. So that's what I did,I am happily moved over to Ente and using the Ducky extension for…

By K.E. Roberts / October 29, 2026 Chiller Directed by Wes Craven CBS (1985) Those of a certain age know of cryonics because, for many years, we believed Walt Disney’s head was frozen when he died so that one day, God willing, medical science would advance to such a degree that his brain would be reanimated and attached to some kind of fantastical Imagineered puppet-body, perhaps 10 feet tall and dressed like a pirate, in which the fun-loving Übermensch would endeavor to remake our drab and…

You can’t say Apple hasn’t been busy. That’s certainly the case given the slew of new products announced and released this fall, with some yet to still hit store shelves later this month. In some ways it feels like it’s an inventory clearing of hardware products that have been waiting for the software side of things to catch up. In some ways it points to a more diversified product lineup and broader user base in the future. Either way I’m glad to see products like the iPhone Duo and the…

They walked down the hallway into the darkness, and then they bumped simultaneously against what seemed to be a wall."What the deuce," said Livingston. "Could Pompey have given us a bum steer?""Livingston," said Harry, "I don't mean to cast blame, but you said that Pompey told us to make a left at the end of that other hallway, but when we came to its end, you made a right.""I did?""Yes, I'm pretty sure.""Why didn't you say something?""I don't know.""You don't know.""No, I suppose I'm not very…

CLONE TROOPER — 501st LEGION STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (HASBRO) “The clone trooper forces are gathering together for their next mission – and they want you to join them! With your own Republic Army Identification Card, you can become a member of the most elite fighting force in the galaxy. Your destiny awaits – join today!” Listen up, here’s the story, about a little guy who lives in a blue world, and all day and all night and everything he see’s is just blue, like him, inside and outside. Oh,…

As 2026 hurtles towards the holiday season and then on into 2027, I took a moment to canvass opinion from some of y’all as to the shape of this newsletter.

Anna and I are working on a project (well, mostly she's working on it) to make it possible for me to spend a night in her bed without ending up with two days of back pain afterwards. To make that happen, she's replacing her whole bed and buying not one but two mattresses. So I get the same one I have at home, and she gets one that's absurdly hard and should not be legal to sell. Win-win! I'm very grateful that she's going through all the trouble of replacing her whole bed just so I can sleep…

Valaverse launched a new toy line this year that is connected to Action Force: The Black. The Black features a group of modern day "pirates" who are made up of former Navy Seals. Blackbeard is the moniker taken by Austin Moore, the commanding officer of the group known as The Black. The Black don't seem to be straight up good guys or bad guys in the Action Force/ Valaverse lore; instead, they're just kind of their own faction.. Yes, they're protecting the coast of the now divided US from…

1Bot knows no place beyond the shop and no time beyond the clock. That is how Bot was raised⁠—if that word can be used⁠—by Company-Father.Company-Father looms over Bot and his brothers every evening, a giant arachnid-like bot raining legs down from the ceiling, eight search beams as eyes scanning the room for disrepair. During the day, cars roll into the shop–the easy cases sun-bleached, the hard cases road-beaten. Company-Father presses his legs into each one and lifts up; the bots scurry…

The Avatar is a bit slow. Plot check: The Avatar has been stranded on the world of Pagan by the Guardian, who continues to taunt him with hints about the devastation he is inflicting on Britannia while the Avatar tries to find a way back. (How are we supposed to regard these jeers? Are they audible to others? Just in the Avatar's head?) The Avatar has learned from a thaumaturgist named Mythran that to escape Pagan, he will need to master the native forms of magic, each aspected to an element,…

After dark on Shanhang Street. Wuze Temple is neighbourhood shrine on Shanhang Street (杉行街) in Lukang, which is named for the merchants who once traded in Fujian fir along this laneway leading to Lungshan Temple. Its principal deity, Xufu San Wangye (許府三王爺), the Third Royal Lord Xu, was carried over from Quanzhou by ancestors of the local Shi (施) family and kept for generations in private homes. Donations organized by Shih Hsi-chuan (施溪泉), father of the novelist Li Ang (李昂), funded the present…

Me: I need a notes app to hold all my work things in one place. Universe: Org Mode. But I want it to store all my stuff in plaintext files. Like Org Mode. And also sync over iCloud or Dropbox or whatever. Org does that. I definitely don’t want to pay a subscription, or lock into a proprietary app. Uhhh… Org? But I still need rich tagging and project grouping and all that. My dude. I’m using Emacs anyway. Maybe I should check out Org Mode! Were you dropped on your head often? Oh hey! This is…

Jason Snell on Six Colors links to Jason Torchinsky at The Autopian (which he found viaPaul Lukas’s Inconspicuous Consumption) who writes about a Threads post by Sin Or Gospel that points out the typographical error: On the space shuttle Discovery, the S in Discovery is upside down. As a typography obsessive this gives me an odd thrill. Wild.

We played the twenty-sixth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human fighter 3 (Maya)Rhonodel, NG elf cleric 1 (Jack)Egbert, human necromancer 1 (NPC)Brazile, halfling hound master, his dog, Ripper, and the party's three war dogs, Huey, Dewey, and Phooey (NPC)Bilodeau, man-at-arms (NPC)Graves, man-at-arms (NPC)Lendeborg, human…

Today we have a large oblate apple, its yellow ribs blending gently with the spring-green valleys between. ¶ It wears a swath of coppery russet like a bicorn hat radiating from the well where sits a short stubby stem. ¶ There are crackles of russet on one side, some darker green streaks, and dark grey lenticel dots across the field. There's a smattering of harmless flyspeck (which has nothing to do with flies) as well.

TELL ME THIS ISN’T A GOVERNMENT OPERATION: A Typography Geek Pointed Out Something About The Space Shuttle Discovery And Now I Can’t Unsee It

From The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (Harper, 2013), pp. 190-193: In France, there was a different but broadly analogous dynamic. To a much greater extent than in Russia, the foreign ministry, or the Quai d’Orsay as it was known on account of its location, enjoyed formidable power and autonomy. It was a socially cohesive and relatively stable organization with a high sense of its own calling. A dense network of family connections reinforced the ministry’s…

The Browser Company of New York has decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026. You may know Arc as a browser. You may also know it as the dictionary illustration for “generational fumble.”Arc is the reason I fell in love with vertical tabs, and as often happens in love stories, BCNY broke my heart when they moved on to AI and Dia. The number of vibe-coded browsers has increased tenfold since I posted what turned out to be my eulogy for Arc back in April, and it’s fascinating to see how closely…

In 2021, Rails 7 rewrote its frontend story with Turbo and Stimulus, promising SPA-like user experience from the comfort of Ruby on Rails. This announcement, bundled together as Hotwire, cited HEY as an adopter: You can follow the HTML-over-the-wire approach as merely inspiration for your own tooling, or you can use these Hotwire designed frameworks created by the team at 37signals to power HEY. Here we are, five years later, and DHH announces that HEY is migrating its backend to Rust and…

Odd publication when you think about it, though one rarely does. I can almost see them out of the corner of my eye, a plump row of big red books on a library shelf. Maybe I consulted one once — I can’t remember. What now makes me think of it is The Economist‘s bringing me the news that Bloomsbury, who by owning A & C Black, are publishers of this peculiar beast, have announced they are selling it. Who’s Who has been under way since 1849, and A & C Black have been its publishers since 1896. It…