Publishers Lunch informs us that Word is for sale. “Word Bookstore’s two locations in Brooklyn and Jersey City, NJ are for sale by owners Christine and Vincent Onorati, in advance of their move out of the country next year, Shelf Awareness reports. According to Christine, the stores hit record sales in 2025 and are up 25 percent year-to-date in 2026.” She is quoted as saying “It’s a wonderful time to take them over”. Photo: Shelf Awareness With Word’s sales up 25% over last year’s record total,…

The Traitors: New Blood episode 9, "Playing Chess," introduced a fun new possibility, but didn't really give the players a chance to play chess with it.

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets Behold, the end of the Incel Camino.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas, November 10, 1976Yes, that 39-disc Rolling Thunder 1976 Bob Dylan box is out today. But you know what other ‘76 tour I need a 39-disc box of? Neil Young & Crazy Horse in November of that year. Neil released a solo acoustic highlights disc — Songs for Judy — a few years back. And two shows have made it onto the Archives Timeline — Berkeley (from whence that great pic above comes) and Boulder. It’s not enough,…

You in the mood for a seriously meaty 5,000-word celebration of the Corsair? Of course you are. “… I felt very lucky to have flown Corsairs; they were the best… though it took me some time to realise this when so many friends died flying them. They always got me home, no matter how much […]

Salon, the online magazine, has shut down. End of an era. The publication published some of my early journalism, including “Extreme Porn Crackdown,” “Death and the D.C. Madam,” “Those Dirty Girls,” “Stephen Hill’s Dark Life in Porn,” and “‘How Do I Become a Male Porn Star?’” Thanks to all the Salon editors. About I My Book | Consulting I X I Instagram I Newsletter I Email

best pic closest to memory I had a set of Lincoln Logs.I used to build train stations and place them along my Marx brand O-gauge model train tracks. I could NEVER put my set on the dining table! This is very close to the train set I got one Christmas. My toys were always the base editions.I never got the deluxe editions.I never got the box of 64 crayons. My Mother pointed out that I was looking at the wrong set of friends.She instructed me to look at my friends that had nothing. I practiced…

I missed a big anniversary yesterday – what would have been Gram Parsons' 80th birthday, had he not died of a massive overdose at the age of 26, young even for a self-destructive rock star. The first time I heard him would have been on the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo album, but soon after that a schoolfriend who had a knack of getting hold of all the latest, coolest records, often as imports, introduced me to the first Flying Burrito Brothers album, Gilded Palace of Sin, and that was it – I…

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OverviewSeveral of this week’s most important incidents started in systems that administrators are expected to trust: a security product’s update channel, a WordPress core upgrade, a managed switch, a NAS application, and a hosting provider’s file manager. The cPGuard compromise is the sharpest example. A legitimate updater delivered code that collected root-level credentials and SSH material from thousands of servers, turning a defensive tool into a collection mechanism.The response cannot…

DOCTOR DOOM SECRET WARS (MATTEL) Hey ho and welcome to Friday everybody! And isn’t it a great Friday? I like to think so. It’s the end of the week, and I like to wrap them up the way I always do, with a little bit of flashing back. Today, I’m jumping back into Mattel’s Secret Wars with a return look at Doctor Doom! If you asked me who I though the greatest super hero in comics was, I probably wouldn’t be able to give you a single answer. Maybe I could give like a list of five or so, but that’s…

A special Urban Fantasy Fridays today. This would have been great for October, but I didn't get it in time to squeeze in a game for October. My October was already packed anyway.I have a long history with Witch Girls Adventures. I first reviewed the original game back in 2009 and called it one of my new favorite systems. At the time, I said it was a great mix of modern occult, anime, fantasy, and high-school drama, and that the magic system alone was worth the price of admission. I followed…

Jeremy Parish’s NES Works is currently grinding through infamous unlicensed NES publisher Color Dreams, and his most recent video (17 minutes)looks at Metal Fighter, which originally came from Taiwan. As such it isn’t really great, but it’s still better, more technically polished at least, than Color Dreams’ in-house developed products. I am left to muse on why unlicensed, and even some licensed Western-made NES titles, are so badly implemented. I refuse to chalk it up merely to lol baddevs.…

I released a new track today. Its some electronic vibe with a bit of guitar soloing with my new guitar skills. Distrokid Distributor Link This post (New Song - Have a seat) was last edited 1 minute ago.

This year, at the Harvey Awards presented at the New York Comic Con last month, we had the first North American edition of the Sophie Castille Award. This award was created to recognize comic translators. Sophie Castille was a co-founder of Europe Comics, a consortium that sold digital comics online to create a market for translation rights. She passed away in 2022. The winner this year was Montana Kane for True Colors: Growing Up Weird in the ‘90s by Elise [...]

This is a 2D run and gun platformer in the style of classic 16Bit games like Super Probotector. The game retells the plot of Terminator 2, and is full of nice little touches recreating scenes from the film. The animation is particularly good, as is the music. This is a very short game. I think it only took an hour or two for me to finish the entire thing, and for the majority of the levels I received an ‘S’ rank on my first attempt. The final level, however, was a real challenge for me. There…

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Fairphone 1: Still going strong after 13 yearsby FairphoneThe Fairphone team talk through two examples of where the original Fairphone 1 from back in 2013 are "still very much in use", but I think this post is a little disingenuous.Read post ➡ I saw this post on Mastodon, and clicked on it as the title and intro both read like there's people still using their original Fairphone 1 as a daily driver, after more than a decade. This surprised me as Fairphone clearly states that their phones are…

A tale as old as time Bruh. I set out to write about this but ended up waxing philosophical, as I do time and again (lol). Really been feeling full in my embrace of an artistic identity lately. Also feeling that my actions are catching up to my desires in this sense. I never feel more fully content in being myself than when I am at some local, amateur-level music or art event. I love the vibes. No pretentiousness, no gatekeeping, no presumption. Everyone either there just having a good time…

Mariana Gkliati, Tilburg University Marloes Streppel, Leiden UniversityPhoto credit: Francesco Placco, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction On 27 October 2026, the European Commission proposed two new Regulations expanding the mandate of the European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) Agency, Frontex: an amendment to the EBCG Regulation and a new Regulation on the Digitalisation of Returns. The Commission envisages a substantial budget increase for the agency, allocating €11.8 billion for 2028–2034,…

We all know that a plan followed for a decade can change our lives dramatically for the better. It works for health, wealth and mental wellbeing alike. But long-term plans are easy to make and hard to keep. We are hilariously bad at sticking with anything for long, even when it would bring us good fortune. Literally. It's not a flaw of character. It's psychology. We are not built to think that far ahead. We can only plan for the near term: the next day, the next week, the next month at most.…

Salvo Nicolosi, Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in European Law and Migration Policies, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University Photo credit: Rock Cohen, via Wikimedia Commons With the entry into application of the Pact on Migration and Asylum (COM/2020/609) on 12 June 2026, the legislative compass has shifted to the complementary area of the return policy, with the adoption of the Return Regulation 2026/2280 and the European Commission’s unveiling of the proposal…

Not to be confused with the TurboGrafx-16 game with the same exact name (the Sega CD game is actually the third in the series, despite having no number in the title lol), Dungeon Explorer is one of the many games on Sega CD that took full advantage of the system’s Red Book Audio and gave us one of the best video game soundtracks that you probably haven’t heard of. The gameplay is your typical hack n’ slash RPG with a top-down perspective, and you can choose between six different characters,…

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Laura Salzano, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights, Postdoctoral Researcher Photo credit: Asurnipal, via Wikimedia Commons On 27 October 2026, the European Commission presented its proposal for a recast of the European Border and Coast Guard Regulation (EBCGA or Frontex) (COM(2026) 1030 final). The proposal, following the ordinary legislative procedure (Article 294 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)), will be negotiated by the European…

I love these little small-system ambient videos. What appears to be just seven independent synthesizer modules — plus an ornate blank — gathered in a tiny case, the signals doing their thing, finding their way, a few sources, a smattering of processing, a bit of sequencing, and in turn something lifelike, lively even, emerges, percussive sounds shuddering in a misty chasm. There is, we’re informed by the musician — who goes by he_nu_ri, based on the central California coast — some off-screen…