David Bowie A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982)Get It At DiscogsThe third installment in a comprehensive deluxe reissue series of David Bowie's entire catalog, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) chronicles perhaps the most artistically ambitious phase in Bowie's career -- one that began with 1977's Low and concluded with 1980's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). Only two other studio albums arrived in this period -- Heroes, which also came out in 1977, and 1979's Lodger -- which means…

Gina Trapani Once upon a time, the web was mostly a text-based medium. If you were an introverted writer who wanted to share your ideas with the world, it was the perfect place to thrive. That time is no longer. This is part of the reason Chris & I have launched our new podcast Make Great Software (with video!). It’s a discussion show about the timeless, practical principles behind making software that works for people. One principle per episode, each anchored by a story. Plus lots of joy.…

The “math vs. AI” wars are continuing to heat up. I predict things will become more intense in the coming months. OpenAI and Anthropic will likely release new proofs, possibly including solutions to remaining Millennium Prize Problems or another batch of unsolved problems. This will lead to a new round of intense debate. In a viral article this week, Derek Thompson published “I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep“. The tweet below quoting mathematician Terence Tao also went viral. He proclaims…

The other day I was walking in Gloucestershire again, with my brother and walking friends – this time a stroll beside the Severn from Deerhurst to Tewkesbury and back. Deerhurst (a name that sounds more Kent than Gloucestershire) boasts a very remarkable Anglo-Saxon church – a large, complex building which is still not fully understood, but is unmistakably an impressive survival from those times, with later changes and additions. I'm no fan of Anglo-Saxon architecture, which seems to me…

got a bouquet of bread today

So a nine hundred gram bag of Argyll Blend, which is my go-to coffee when I’m not getting fancy with single origin stuff, is about sixty bucks (plus tax, but we’ll ignore that for this exercise). I use a twenty gram dose with my 9barista Mk 1., which comes out to forty-five cups of coffee at about a buck forty a cup, rounding up.1 At the shop an equivalent Americano would run about four bucks and change plus tip, so we’ll round up to five.2 So using my machine at home saves me about three fifty…

As I’m about to get ready to head to Essen, I thought it might be nice to bring Behold Rome along for the train ride. But I never liked the pre-existing scoring app, so I thought I’d vibe code my own and include the fan-made campaign as well. Enjoy! Click here to open app The post Behold Rome Scoring App appeared first on Talking Shelf Space.

It’s here! Just in time for me to shape up a super secret project during my week off.

For those who know me, or follow along with my posts, you will know that I generally do not watch much TV. I can go days without looking at anything on the big screen; I've even gone weeks if I am home-alone. During the summer I spent many weeks in Spain and never once had the TV on. My other half is a TVaholic (probably better to say a noise-aholic). The TV in the house is always on, blaring out some nonsense. What do I watch?I could count on one hand the shows that I seek out. They are…

We’re down to the final four segments, but we only have three walks left to do. The plan for today is to walk segment number 7 and also attach to it the beginning part of number 8. 23km, 870m of ascent, 1250m of descent. Next time, we’ll finish 8th and attach 9th to it, but that’s a problem for future me. I’ll be honest with you, I’m kinda tired of these walks. Especially because this second half stretches across trails I walked countless times before. But I also want to walk the whole loop and…

The sign of the historic Plaza Theatre in Downtown Durant, Oklahoma. The post Plaza Noir appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

The baby stayed strapped to my chest on this one as we clambered down the rocks to taste a bit of the salty spray. 21780 Coast Highway, Jenner, California 95450, United States

Learning programming language still a thing?

DOLMENWOLVES - WEDNESDAY #1 The group chose to start at a dungeon. I took the bones of a popular small dungeon, ripped it apart and molded it to fit Dolmenwood. I placed it near the Woodcutters' Encampment and we were good to go. They found their way inside through an old oak and almost immediately heard someone calling for help from a well in the first room. The man in the well turned out to be a Drune called Andramath. The water had dissolved everything he owned. The players weren't sure…

This morning, I shoveled today's batch of political flyers out of my mailbox and into the recycling bin. I'd had enough, so I took action to make them stop. I walked back to my apartment, finished filling in my ballot and turned it in. This trick works in #SanFrancisco, I ?guess? other parts of California and probably other places too. When the elections folks receive your ballot, they make a note of it. Companies that print+mail political flyers get their mailing list from the elections folks;…

I have heard this track before but I haven't seen the video. This is one the most disturbing music videos I have ever seen. How long before this happens here? As it has happened in other countries.

read the e-zine versionHERE...

We are heading towards Black Mirror reality one day at a time. This week, I visited Majestic metro station for the first time since moving to Indiranagar. And I was greeted with this: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1-yDu_bpatQ?mute=1 FUCK YOU BMRCL. There are ads already on metro trains, on stations, with big LEDs and tall posters and now you won't let passengers stand in peace right at the docking spot. Bengaluru metro is the most expensive metro backed by bonkers ridership numbers,…

The Uniden CR-2021 is an early digital radio introduced in 1983 and, although it is a solid and impressive, it is one of the quirkiest models I have seen. While many early digital radios had some unusual characteristics by today’s standards, this Uniden leads in the strangeness category, with one weirdness I’ve never seen in another radio. Read the Uniden R-2021 Review: Jay Allen

A song you’ve seen performed live, or would really like to see performed live? Nnaaaaaa na na naa na na naaaa This track fits the brief perfectly. I was lucky enough to be lying near the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury one sunny afternoon. I was fairly stoned, and just enjoying the grass under my feet and the blue skies over head. Between bands the PA pumps out music and it was from here that I heard it performed live, by several thousand people, a choir of the great unwashed, murmuring their way…

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DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of Absolute Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Ray Palmer telling his story of the discoveries which led to him becoming the Atom, and his connection with several important people in the Absolute universe. Check it out at the link! ABSOLUTE FLASH #20 Written by JEFF LEMIRE Art by HAINING Cover by NICK ROBLES Variant covers by DERRICK CHEW, MARCIO TAKARA, and RYAN BENJAMIN $4.99 US | 32 Pages |…

Life Darek the increasingly flakey builder failed to visit on any of the four occasions he’d said he would. I don’t mind too much, but the kids could really do with a bath at this point. Still, he says he’s definitely coming tomorrow… Αα appears to be friends with the lady she previously had non-specific beef with at nursery which will hopefully equate to drop-offs no longer being quite such a ball-ache. Now that we have a functioning oven once more, I finally got round to begging some sodo…

He might not be a spooky action figure but Zartan is definitely dressed up! A master of disguise, Zartan always looks a bit different and his 1993 Ninja Force variant (known to A Real American Heroes as Zartan v2) gave the Dreadnok leader a black leather vest, neon green pants, and a bright orange mohawk. At the time it seemed like just part of the neon craze of the early 1990s where action figures were trying to capture the attention of kids with brighter colors and popular themes, but really,…

I enjoyed this episode of Frodeno Going Mental, in which three-time Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno interviews six-time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen. Allen’s mindset and mindfulness truly resonates with me; I really needed to hear this after my last race. I could quote the entire thing, so just give it a listen.

I have been thinking about writing about my full name for a while, especially after this incident in which an AI hallucinated my full name. Now that I have a post titled with my full name, it should help our future overlords! Yes, my name is 3 first names. Mine, my fathers and mothers. Apparently, when I was being admitted to school, my mother was adamant that her name should be part of mine. Strangely enough, her colleagues (other teachers and the H.M.) discouraged it, not anyone else. But she…

My first ever “blog post” (though not in this blog) was about how to write a research paper. I wrote it after reviewing a batch of badly-written papers for a conference, probably ITP or CADE. Later — a couple of years ago — came the campaign to oust Claudine Gay as President of Harvard on the grounds that she had committed plagiarism. Allegations of plagiarism were flying about on social media. Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, one of Gay’s main opponents, discovered that alleging…

I've been singing the praises of the officeParser library for a while. It's an open source JavaScript library that can parse, extract, and convert between PDFs and Office documents, as well as OpenOffice, ePub and more. My demos have all focused on client-side examples but obviously the library would work great in a server side workflow as well. I haven't worked at Adobe for years now, but I still get strangely excited working with documents. I'll just add that to the long list of reasons I'm a…

Working on my writing on weekends is an impossibility. Even on our "chill" at home days, the moment my kids perceive my silent attempts at sitting down with my notebook, they conjure any possible excuse to drag me away into play again. Then we play, it becomes fun, and I am ignored. I decide to write again, and the day becomes a loop of fail attempts.#writing #parentingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

Book 36 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year – I did it, and early! I will continue to read books through the rest of the year to see how far I get. My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. It’s nice that the final book of my goal for the year is the latest book by my friend Jendia Gammon, whose work I’ve featured several times on my blog this year! This time I read her most recent Appalachian horror…