Etched and sketched into the spider web recesses of our brains are all kinds of cold storage items and garage sale knick-knacks we don’t really use anymore. But once in a while it’s fun to reach back, back, way back, and discover that our creaky treasure chests are holding bits of buried gold. Realizing you still remember old phone numbers gives a great smile-and-sunshine vibe. Lips curl, eyes twinkle, and memory reels start whirring on the rusty projector as you remember dialing those digits,…

(1943) Directed by Jacques Tourneur; Written by Ardel Wray and Edward Dein; Based on the novel, Black Alibi, by Cornell Woolrich; Starring: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabell Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Tuulikki Paananen, and Ben Bard; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: **** "Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath or as long as eternity. Don’t linger. The gates are locked at six.” – Cemetery Gatekeeper (Brandon Hurst) Horror manifests itself in…

We're getting closer to Halloween and I hope you're enjoying these reviews from Trick or Treat Studios' Day of the Dead toyline. Today I'm checking out Dr. Tongue, the first zombie shown in the film. He's a creepy character with one of the best designs in horror. This guy might not be an iconic character but I think he's definitely a recognizable zombie. Even folks who neither know his name nor what film he's from can still recognize him based on his popularity. I've seen many masks based on…

I have been rewatching Community lately. For the most part, the show still hits. If I ever get around to writing that book of essays about television I must remember to write one about the insane series of storylines that closed Season 3 and gave way to the gas leak season (which still had its moments). Related: I am still slowly making my way through Jessica Helfand's Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture which I first mentioned last month. It's a bit of a slog, but…

I’m doing an Ask Me Anything on r/rpg and it is filled to the brim with discussion of the new Microscope, West Marches, and a mess of other things too. I’m Ben Robbins, the creator of Microscope and West Marches. AMA! by u/benrobbins in rpg It’s wrapping up soon but it’s not too late to get in there. If you’ve got questions about the new Microscope (or really anything else), I am contractually obligated to provide answers

I was interviewed (in Chinese) by Feminine magazine, a Malaysian lifestyle magazine that has been around for many years. Several other local game designers were interviewed as well. More links below. Teaching Malaysian Holidays Buddhima's interview article, in which he talks about boardgames, education, and children. Buddhima is part of the

A couple months ago I came into possession of an old Russell Jennings auger bit box. Somewhere along its life, someone had altered the box by removing from the first two tiers the grooved shelves that held the auger bits safe from rattling around.The old boxThe top tier with grooved shelf removed and ugly compartments installedMiddle tier with grooved shelf removedBottom tier with grooved shelf still intactThis got me thinking about how to repair the box. A few years ago I made a different (but…

ESLint catches code quality issues. Typecheckers ensures variables and functions use the correct data types. Prettier automatically formats code for consistent style. But how can we start incorporating security testing into this GitLab CI/CD pipeline we have built? GitLab repo: https://gitlab.com/tjmaher/bun-create-playwrightFor this blog post we will be looking at one way to do Static Application Security Testing (SAST), adding SonarQube to our project.What is Static Application Security…

added two social features to the site tonight a /friends page of people I like and admire FollowSpec, AboutSpec, and ContactSpec from SocialSpec, so tools can find where to follow, read about, and reach me

A song that reminds you of a particular friend. I’ve known this person since I was 15. I met her through a mutual friend. We are still friends today and have been through the full gamut of life experiences. Ohh and for a while we were married. Louise and I met as teenagers, married at 21, and have now been divorced for mumble mumble (16?) years. We’ve been through a lot both as a couple and as friends, and I’m so glad she’s still part of my life. It’s telling that, the night my younger sister…

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Collect Pond House – New York, New York I’ve certainly photographed converging buildings and a big open sky. I’ve shot plenty of those in Austin, now that we have a half-decent skyline. However, this is slightly different. While not super tall, a mere 12 stories or so, the density and visual heft of these stone buildings create a substantial urban canyon. The comparison is quite apt. Imagine that in nature you saw sheer stone cliffs like this on either side of you. It would be an impressive…

I remember attending one of these last year… it was probably my first ever IndieWeb event?! I worked on building what is now my main Internet home, BurgeonLab. I enjoyed the show-and-tell aspect (much like the two IndieWebCamps I’ve attended remotely). It’s in the middle of the night though for me, but I’ll try sleep early and get up for it! Visit BurgeonLab.com for the latest content (XML feeds are not updated in real-time). Topic-specific feeds are available. Thanks for keeping feeds alive! 🤓…

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Nicole Noren: I'm not going to have blood on my hands. What troubles me most is the disconnect at the ESPN executive level between making money and caring about the human impact of constantly bombarding fans with betting odds and talk. It’s become impossible to escape—during live games, studio shows, podcasts, etc. But just because there aren’t yet laws here banning some of this during live sports broadcasts—as there are in some other countries—doesn’t mean they should be doing it. I still find…

This article defines what a platform strategy is or isn't and provides an opinion on how to write one.

In my last post, I described some of my prep for a Chronicles of Darkness / Fate Core game about ghosts, necromancers, and the use of history for political ends. The players gave me permission to share their notes, so here they are. I'm not sure how much sense they'll make to you, but maybe you can reconstruct something between the notes, the prep, and the posts associated with it? At least, maybe you'll be able to extract something useful for your own games. Source: Massimiliano Sarno, 2022…

Always a joy to be at HWC: US Pacific hanging out with true IndieWeb enthusiasts. Thanks Joe for hosting as always! Visit BurgeonLab.com for the latest content (XML feeds are not updated in real-time). Topic-specific feeds are available. Thanks for keeping feeds alive! 🤓 Reply to this post by email or use other methods.

On Survivor 51 episode 4, Jeff Probst declared, "Day eight, Survivor 51, a brand new start!" BUT WHY?! Things were going so well.

The next HWC: AP is just one week after the last one, instead of the usual fortnightly schedule. See you there! Visit BurgeonLab.com for the latest content (XML feeds are not updated in real-time). Topic-specific feeds are available. Thanks for keeping feeds alive! 🤓 Reply to this post by email or use other methods.

Is it really an October Horror Movie Challenge without some sleazy Italian Giallo film? No, not really. But I am sticking with my theme of 1985-1986, though calling this one "Small town" is a huge stretch. Released in America as "Nothing Underneath." It is one of the few Giallo movies from the time I have not seen.Sotto il Vestito Niente (1985)This one falls under the theme of "an American has to search for a missing relative in Europe and strange things happen." In this case, our American is a…

Something I didn't mention that made the last couple weeks even more annoying than I already mentioned is that our AC broke at the beginning of a heatwave! I kept trying to blow air past frozen cold packs and convincing myself it was making things better but it didn't. On Friday we got a new AC installed and now it feels like a proper Autumn outside. I don't even mind the irony because I love this weather so much! Our old busted AC getting lifted off the roof I probably already mentioned that I…

An 11-minute video from MattKC documenting huge effort to revive a backup tape from a 2000 game Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge: This is a pretty harrowing story of restoration, including an extremely obscure backup tape made by a short-lived Dutch company, attempts to reverse engineer a poorly documented data format, a data recovery company that damaged the tape instead of restoring it, and a mad hack to trick the drive into reading it anyway.#games #preservation #youtube

We doing player advice blogwagon time. But I figure I just tell you how I play, or how I try to play if the system/table lets me. How I play also informs my favorite type of game to run, which is a longterm player driven sandbox campaign. This post is just me trying to crystallize a few things that drive me as a player, and if I don't have them in some form I'll likely be bored after a few sessions. It all starts with me taking "play to find out" literally and seriously. Ok, so actually let's…

[This is a guest post by Deanna Needell and Hayden Schaeffer – T.] AI systems are playing an important part in mathematical discoveries, and several recent preprints describe results reached with their help. What makes these results possible is often a rich partnership between human insight, expertise, and earlier work combining with new AI capabilities in ways that move the field forward. We are interested in documenting and highlighting this collaboration, so the community can better…

Old Inis Mór life | Published 2026-10 Their taunts they hurled at him But his face was unflinching as stone.

Now, this following message affects the tiniest fraction of Junto members, but unfortunately I have to mention it prominently, so no one can experience what they might otherwise feel is a surprise. As I mentioned last week, there are rules on the Lines message board (aka llllllll.co) regarding AI usage, among other forms of participation. The Disquiet Junto community is a guest of the Lines message board, and I would like for us to remain guests in good standing. You don’t have to post to Lines…

The Contents of My Pockets When I leave the house every day, I check my pockets to make sure I have some importnant things: wallet, keys, phone—and a little A6 sized notebook and pen. It’s useful to have. I mostly use it for shopping lists and todos and small reminders like that. The Contents of My Feeds I like notebooks . I am a stationery nerd. I like to read blogs about stationery and watch videos of reviews and recommendations, and ideas for what other people are doing. There are quite a…

The book Impro by Keith Johnstone is described as a ‘landmark work’ by the blurb on the back of my copy. It describes techniques and exercises he developed for theatrical improvisation classes he ran. Notes There’s a lot in this book, too much to summarise easily. But some of the points that stood out most to me were: Many people who want to become professional actors are unwilling to take risks when they start improvisation classes, perhaps out of fear of revealing too much about themselves.…