OK, I’ve taken a couple of different stabs at it but I think I’ve got the icon for my next app settled.

[That’s quite a delay.] Since 1998, Karl Bushby has been walking around the globe. The Goliath Expedition is Bushby’s attempt to walk around the world “with unbroken footsteps”, from the southern tip of South America to his home in Hull, England. He left Hull on 5 October 1998 and originally expected to finish the trek of 36,000-mile (58,000 km) in 12 years. Due to numerous delays, the expedition lasted approximately 28 years. After nearly three decades, his journey is nearly complete. That’s…

Wise Vengeance led his People away from the slopes of Only Mountain. Southeast they wandered the Child God leading whither he would not reveal. They travelled so far and found a vast lake. Hill, wood and plain surrounded. Wise Vengeance ordered his People to build a temple near the lake shore. While builders labored Wise Vengeance then taught others to hunt animals. Their meat and their skins, fur, feathers and more would provide safety and food. Clothing and shelter, tools and household goods…

People use the word just a lot when talking about problems. If people would just drive slowly near schools. If people would just pay their taxes. If people would just follow the rules. It's a sentence that sounds reasonable as it's true that most problems would go away if people just behaved. The thing is, they don't...and they probably never will. This isn't a cynical take on humanity (I think most people are decent). It's about designing good systems. The vast majority of people who use Bear…

This headline, tho: Reuters: Trump's tax-exempt diesel draws skepticism from farmers, eludes others Click for details if you like, but I'm not actually here to discuss those.(FN1) I'm thinking about all plans that fall under the heading "exempt diesel fuel from taxes for a short period to deal with current economic pressures." Specifically, I'm thinking: This is what we get when we are only allowed to think in terms of our current political and economic system. This is what we get when any hint…

It's that time again, when I feel various projects piling up; Andrew Marvell said it so much more eloquently, "But at my back I always hear / Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near." Of course, the speaker is trying to woo a woman--or maybe just get sex. I am trying to grade papers and write poems and send work out for possible publication and along the way, write a weekly sermon and finish work for my TEEM requirements.So this morning, when my brain snapped awake just after 3, I gave myself stern…

How about this great PHOTEX featuring the 30,000-ton F-35-equipped Italian Navy aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550), her companion strike group, and the multi-national squadron of Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2), sailing together during Exercise Mare Aperto (Italian for “Open Sea”) ’26 in the Western Mediterranean. The Freedom-class littoral combat ship off Cavour’s port side is actually TCG Burgazada (F-513), an Ada-class ASW corvette of the Turkish Navy, which is almost a dead…

Last week, Federal, Mossberg, and SIG quietly announced new initiatives to arm unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for future air-to-air combat. SwarmShot Federal Ammunition, Mossberg, and the Palladyne AI Corp have teamed up to develop “SwarmShot,” which is being described as a modular, autonomous airborne counter-UAS system. In other words, an armed drone that is capable of shooting down other drones. Designed to counter hostile drone swarms affordably and effectively, the system will integrate…

Check out this great tiger-striped F-35B from the “Fighting Bengals” of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 224 on a highway near remote Tervo, Finland (pop. 1,385), earlier this year conducting hot-pit refueling FARP operations as part of during Exercise Ramstein Flag 2026. U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Keng Lee, from Wisconsin, a powerline mechanic with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 224, Marine Aircraft Group 31, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, salutes Maj. Danny Sorrells, from Georgia, an F-35B…

Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have: A text file cannot embed a spreadsheet, preserve elaborate page layouts, run a presentation, or provide many of the conveniences we expect from modern applications. What it does instead is store text in one of the simplest and most widely understood forms in computing, and that simplicity is a large part of why it has lasted. This is an excellent piece on why Plain Text matters today more than ever.

At a time when software is more advanced than ever and evolving faster by the day, I, a computer science graduate, have made the genius decision to start building things I can actually hold instead.

What are abbreviated copper nanotubes? Cu NTs some slipped past the editors of an academic journal and have provided chemists with a puerile sense of humour hours for fun for many years since. More about Cu NTs here. How do you carry out vegetative electron microscopy? You don’t it’s a phrase that was erroneously generated by OCR software from an old research paper about vegetative cells where later in the paper electron microscopy was mentioned. If you see the phrase used in a modern paper,…

My recent trip to Singapore would be my second visit to Singapore this lifetime. The first visit was a solo trip back in 2017, where I had spent a week furiously visiting all the attractions that I could and enjoying the public transport. While many people are of the opinion that there’s nothing to do in Singapore and a week is already too much, my first visit seemed to prove the complete opposite. This second trip was with my mother, a bit of a bucket-list trip for her, but also a chance for…

Constans II came to the imperial throne as a child, but upon gaining his majority he proved to be capable and even ambitious. His (fruitless) attempt to resolve the Monothelitism controversy has already been discussed, and how he had the Pope himself arrested and sent to Constantinople for trial.Concerned about delays of traffic on the Silk Road, he sent emissaries to China to discuss with Emperor Taizong of Tang China how to better manage the tribal conflicts in the Turkic Khaganate that were…

https://danalogue.bandcamp.com/album/teleportationsA cosmic trip from The Comet is Coming synth player. This is on heavy rotation at the moment (like the solar system) 🪐

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-the-midnight-synthesizer-14th-september-2026This mix is my happy place! Ethiopian synthesiser music from the early 80’s 😙👌

https://spacetypegenerator.com/boxsquadA webtoy where you can create a grid of colourful people, move where their hands and feet grip the edges, and move the grid lines around to squash and stretch the people. Be sure to turn on the “twerk” toggle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q8wZ15ALz4A beautiful and meditative skate through Paris. Andy Anderson basically dances on his skateboard. I first showed my kids this when we were chatting about wearing a helmet while skateboarding - Andy Anderson is a big advocate of helmets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0so3QeYb1AI love this track and trippy music vid from a band fronted by (in their own words) “a wheelchair-using, profanely queer and tiny rapper, with a very distinctly high-pitched sense of humor.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sn6Upf43TAThis has been my favourite track since I first heard it earlier this year. So smooth, yet so deeply funky I can’t stop my face from scrunching.

Daily Drawing 1026

The other day Jen asked me if I noticed anything wrong with our fridge; the milk seemed to be spoiling quickly, which was out of the ordinary. We put a thermometer inside and were shocked to find it above 50˚, which meant something was extremely wrong. Jen and I emptied it out, stuffing the 70-year-old IH fridge in the garage with food and filling the freezers in the basement with as much as we could. Consulting the interwebs, I found a video by a mushmouthed repairman working on the exact…

My notes for the French code de la route, part 3: when to use which lights, parking rules, who counts as a piéton, and speed limits by road. Read the full post on the blog.

from yesterdayThis was the last thing I did in the shop before I killed the lights yesterday. 1/8" plywood I have learned is more than sufficient for a box of this size.hmm......Put the Soss hinges in and checked the swing and how much clearance there was. It is basically 2 frog hairs and beveling either the lid or the box wouldn't help. The hinges are too close the edge - the bevel would eat into the hinge holes.I was going to make a new lid with the hinge mortises inset further in away from…

The good folks at Mokin have sent me their new USB-C hub and it is a beast. This is the MODK2403 - the latest in their line of high-tech USB-C docks. It does close to everything you could want and has an LCD monitor for showing the weather. Errr… What? OK, a quick product shots, then on to the specs. On to the ports: Triple display Either 3x HDMI or 1x HDMI and 2x DisplayPort 4x USB-A 2x 2.0 480Mbps, 1x 3.0 5Gbps, 1x 3.1 10Gbps 2x USB-C 1x 3.0 5Gbps, 1x 3.1 10Gbps USB-C PD input 100W USB-C to…

It’s amazing how many things feel better with a bit more calm, tact, and humor. The problem is rarely the what. It’s almost always the how.

Via @newyorker.com $META[image or embed]— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 19, 2026 at 2:57 PM What could possibly go wrong? Joe Wilkins writing for Futurism:Meta’s new AI agent Muse might come with a cutesy new mascot, but under its fuzzy exterior lies a vast surveillance network under the control of one of the world’s most powerful — and least accountable — tech companies. The flashy new service has gained plenty of traction over the past few weeks, with many reviewers…

Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli by Alan Dugan Hat tip SOM

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