Toronto’s Neverminds recently returned from their second Asian tour – impressive for a band that’s yet to release a full-length album – and one of the artifacts that followed them back was live footage from ubiquitous Japanese shoegaze documentarian Angel and one that caught my eye was performance of a specific track that appears on […] The post The Neverminds & Twinotter – “The Snow Will Catch Us Once Again” appeared first on Space Echo.

Why Productivity Is Broken (Interviewed by My Daughter) – YouTube I really enjoyed this video of my friend Mike Vardy being interviewed by his daughter about his new book and productivity and the creative process in general. Also, a reminder: I’m a regular guest on his podcast.

Many people have suggested that macOS 27 Golden Gate is a “Snow Leopard” release. I never believed that for a second. I’ve argued many times that the perception of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as a bug fix release is a myth. Every major OS update introduces more bugs than it fixes, and the software quality of Snow Leopard that people now remember fondly was achieved only after nearly two years of minor bug fix updates. Moreover, 10.6.0 itself arrived nearly two years after 10.5.0. Nowadays Apple…

Trees emerge from the waters of Oklahoma’s Broken Bow Lake. The post Come Out of the Water appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

The Game Boy Advance was home to some interesting technical experiments that pushed beyond the idea of what the hardware was capable of. Some of these inlcluded Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Super Monkey Ball Jr., Driver 3, and a few others. However, nestled within the GBA’s library lies one game in particular that, much like ...Kill Switch (GBA) was first posted on October 14, 2026 at 11:29 am.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are…

Five generations after leaving Earth the generation star ship Archimedes is approaching its destination planet. Alongside it are three other ships. As they come close to their destination wear and tear are beginning to undermine the viability of the ships. On board some of the crew are doubting their mission. Perhaps their arrival will destroy and existing biosphere and civilisation. Maybe they

The Mistake I Made in the Pursuit of KnowledgeI read a lot on the internet—3600 links and counting over six years. I’m around the 95th percentile of curiosity, so finding all these interesting, unique, fun, weird, awesome links is an easy, free, and fun way to satisfy that urge.Documenting them also feels great. Like I’m making progress on something. Like I’m building out and growing my second brain. Like I’m becoming smarter and more interesting and more well-read. And so I document everything…

So let's make it even more difficult, shall we? When I first saw the Top 9 anime that shaped who I am thing on bsky a few weeks back my thought process was "9 shows? Easy"...but then I realized I was leaving out movies. The more I thought about movies, the more I realized I was leaving out OVAs...and shit, dude - this thought process spiraled. The thought of doing three separate lists of 9 was immediately overwhelming so we've scaled back to 9 total, with three from each category. Yet still, it…

C++20 shipped a powerful ranges library, but the set of view adaptors had some obvious gaps. Want to get the output as a container? No luck. At least C++23 helped with that. Want to iterate over two vectors as one sequence? Write your own. Want to avoid redundant evaluations in a transform | filter pipeline? Write a workaround. Want a quick index sequence matching a range’s size? Spell out iota...

Batman, Vol. 1 #227D Facsimile Foil Variant Release: Oct 14, 2026Cover: Dec 2026 A CHILLING BATMAN STORY FROM COMIC BOOK LEGENDS! When a disturbing letter from Alfred’s niece, Daphne, raises concern for her safety, Batman takes it upon himself to investigate her new position at far-off Gothos Mansion–ancestral home of the mysterious Clifton Heathrow. There, the Dark Knight comes face-to-face with the terrifying secret kept by six generations of the Heathrow family and the dark purpose for which…

By now, almost everybody has experienced the thrill of blind firing in Gears of War, peek-and-shoot encounters in Uncharted, or taking cover in Spec Ops: The Line. Yet very few realise that the originator of these mechanics went on to inspire an entire genre to reinvent the wheel. While the concept of leaning against a ...Kill Switch was first posted on October 14, 2026 at 11:18 am.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading…

I’m “every time you favorite music acts from your teen and college years come to town you buy the ticket because they’re all 10-20 years older than you and it very well could be your last chance” years old.

Short notice, I know. Homegrown National Park, the organization focused on bringing nature home, is hosting a free live panel discussion today of The Extraordinary Caterpillar, the 60-minute documentary film about the hidden world of caterpillars. In spring 2026, Homegrown National Park hosted a screening of the film. Now they’ve organized a live panel discussion featuring experts from the film, including: Dr. Doug Tallamy Caterpillar Lab director Sam Jaffe Botanist Laura Reeves What to Know…

Online and offline, we are living through an interconnected crisis of ecological breakdown, economic inequality, political disillusionment and social fragmentation that are not separate problems. They feed into each other, creating #mainstreaming paths that are increasingly unable to meet basic social and environmental needs. The usual response to this now visible mess is to ask the same institutions that created these problems to keep managing the consequences. the chattering classes that run…

SEO, or search engine optimization, is a black box for a reason.

MEGATRON TRANSFORMERS: MACHINE WARS (KENNER) The success that was Transformers in the ‘80s sort of waned as they moved into the next decade, with the Generation 2 rebrand never really finding its footing in the market. The franchise was given new life, however, in 1996 with Beast Wars, which shifted the focus to creature-based alt-modes, and found a solid fanbase, which was a mix of old and new fans. Some of the old fans were still longing for vehicle-based Transformers, and Hasbro/Kenner gave…

By Mx Kris Vyas-Myall If there is one subject that will not go away in the news, it is the decline in Britain’s industrial effectiveness. It is understandable to some extent, because so many problems emerge from it that effect everyday life; unemployment, inflation, national mood, etc. But there has recently been a new piece … Continue reading [October 14, 1971] Reductio Ad Tedium (Protostars) → The post [October 14, 1971] Reductio Ad Tedium (<i>Protostars</i>) appeared first on Galactic…

"What about children?" "No, not children. That would be messed up." Chasing a burglar who stole a holy symbol, Somers the Paladin and Quill the Ranger have been transported to a strange alternate Transylvanish dimension, full of gloom and fog, ruled by a shadowy figure named Strahd von Zarovich. Strahd presides from his gothic castle over a land of thieves, werewolves, and gypsies. A thin remnant of humanity, putatively ruled by a Burgomaster, huddles in the half-abandoned town of Barovia.…

I found the StarCraft map I made as a kid, used an AI agent to make it playable again, and played it to the end. It was smaller than I remembered, and still worth the trip.

From Japan, 1941: Countdown to Infamy, by Eri Hotta (Vintage, 2013), pp. 337-340: DESPITE HIS UNQUESTIONED INTELLECT and experience, Kurusu was an unfortunate choice in a public relations sense. To the outside world, Kurusu was known only as the man who signed the Tripartite Pact, having been photographed next to Hitler at the height of German-Japanese friendship. He was actually strongly opposed to the pact but was obliged to sign it as Japan’s ambassador to Germany in the autumn of 1940.…

I am extremely sorry that I shall not be able to use the music of Thamos, but this piece … is now among the rejected works which are no longer performed. For the sake of the music alone it might possibly be given again, but that is not likely. Certainly it is a pity! — Mozart writing to his father Leopold in 1783, nine years after the first performance of Thamos, King of Egypt I’ve seen the end of the game. I wouldn’t say I “finished” exactly as you’ll see in a moment. My previous posts on…

📷 270/365 - Fire hydrant

First of all, I'm OK. Last week I wrote about feeling overwhelmed, and haven't written anything since. I really am OK; this past weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada and I had to do a lot of driving, other than spending time with my wife's family. But I have been up to some things, so here's a bit of a mishmash of what I've been doing. It's almost a thoughts post but not quite. Life While driving home Monday, I passed a couple of cars and "had" to get up to ~127 km/h to do so. Immediately after,…

An email sent on the SHARP listserv by Dr Giles Bergel alerts us to the release of The Traherne Digital Collator 3.0. The collator was produced jointly by The Oxford Traherne and the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford. The Oxford Traherne, as their website is named, is the homepage of the project to edit and publish a critical edition of the works of Thomas Traherne (c.1637–1674). The 16-volume edition has been commissioned by Oxford University Press, and claims it will be the…

Because the UCI Word Road Championships were happening in Montreal, it wasn’t strange to see cycling fans around the city. While there I had an Opus card loaded up and got around using the Metro and a bus or two. For everywhere we wanted to go there were convenient stations. It was a little dark in the station and the train on the opposite side was approaching so I didn’t have much time to stop, compose and focus perfectly. I saw these two sitting in the two centre seats across the tracks from…

One of the most familiar verses in Hallel is the opening of Tehillim 114:בְּצֵאת יִשְׂרָאֵל מִמִּצְרָיִם בֵּית יַעֲקֹב מֵעַם לֹעֵזA common translation is, “When Yisrael went forth from Egypt, the house of Yaakov from a people of foreign speech” (Tehillim 114:1). Yet לֹעֵז (loez), usually understood as describing someone who speaks a foreign or unintelligible language, appears only once in the Tanakh. The verse doesn't explicitly mention language. It only describes the Egyptians as an עַם לֹעֵז.…

I’m swiping through and setting up an old Kindle Fire for a kid to try out. It’s interesting to see what shows up in their “Appstore” top free list. BYU TV, Yippee TV, Hallmark channel, Hi-Yah! the martial arts channel, Old Westerns TV. Not passing judgment. Just interesting to observe and consider who is mainly using these devices.

i used to talk a ton. not that i loved the sound of my voice or anything like that. it is just that i truly believed i had a lot to say. as i age, it has turned out i don't really have much to say, or maybe i have learned to say more with less. my language is %%red%%scrap language%%. sometimes non-verbal, non-literal, and gesticular-based, or fragmented, aphoristic, idiomatic, composted, and recycled little something's. nada fancy. my forties have seen a great quieting. my louder revolutionary…

17:41 - Time for a quick honk shoo.

Lately some prominent guys in the tech universe have been loudly proclaiming they’re returning to X, after leaving the platform in semi-protest following the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter. Their explanations range from: I can’t make my indie business work without it. All of the AI conversations are there. X is cheerful and inclusive, and has no politics anymore. (!?!?) These are definitely…reasons? Let’s be clear: X is bad and that has not changed. But I’m not here to argue with people making…