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by Ben Miller It should come as no surprise that director Zach Cregger knows how to blend horror and comedy together successfully. Even when taking a piece of well-established IP such as Resident Evil, the director delivers a thrilling blend of fun and entertainment in a way only he can. While this film serves as a reboot of the franchise, the spirit of the games in well intact. Characters reference the Umbrella Corporation, while Racoon City is one of the main settings. It might be a big idea,…

This originally started as a commentary on a link for the Weekly Thing and then got so long it became a blog post of its own. Many themes in this article start from my Software is Liquid article from April. The craft of building software is in the largest state of disruption I’ve experienced in my 30+ year career. AI is changing everything. All the inputs and outputs are in flux. And the fundamental patterns we’ve worked on are all being redefined. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen major…

Well, well. By including Bran-Berry Muffins in a book about cake, Dorie confirms what I’ve suspected all along. We call baby cakes “muffins” when we want don’t want to admit we are eating cake for breakfast. I actually eat muffins for dessert because there’s no way I’m getting up early enough to have them made in the morning. These muffins were easy to make and didn’t leave a full sink of dishes. If you are a morning person, they are probably pretty do-able. They have whole wheat four, plus…

Twenty years after walking parts of the Lewis and Clark route on the Continental Divide Trail, I revisit the expedition through Craig Fehrman’s "This Vast Enterprise", a broader and more nuanced history that restores many of the voices missing from the familiar story. Read More ... Continue reading Book Review – This Vast Enterprise a New History of Lewis and Clark at PMags.com.

I hope you will be joining us for the Hubba Hubba Revue 20th Anniversary show this Sunday, Sep 20! Main floor seating has sold out, but some balcony seats remain. Broke Ass Stuart has a nice retrospective: How did this all get started? Kingfish: "I got a call from DNA Lounge, asking if I could book a show on a Saturday night in September of 2006. My friend, Eddie Dane, and I scrambled, put together a line-up of our friends in the Bay Area burlesque community, signed-up our pal, Lee Presson, and…

Big Brother is watching and listening. I have noticed an increasing number of small black cameras (with an attached solar panel) perched high on light poles through out my home city (Canberra, Australia). Once you start noticing public cameras you see them everywhere…from traffic monitoring cameras at many intersections, to safety CCTV cameras in public spaces, to peoples public facing home personal security systems (sending their data to the system providers).These things are everywhere! The…

Doing the RE8 reminded me of this, the BE2c.It was an excellent aeroplane for its day, stable, reliable, and easy to fly. Unfortunately its innate stability, along with the crew positions, made it an absolutely terrible fighting machine, and they suffered very badly against the Fokker monoplanes with their forward-firing machine gun. It stayed in service far longer than it should have, and killed a great many young men of the RFC.The Fokker itself was not a very good aeroplane, but its…

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Act II: “Bloodletting” (Glasgow College, 1760) [*] The next direct evidence of Smith’s encounters with the “absurd prescriptions” of doctors are two pieces of correspondence–one dated March 10, 1760 (Corr. 45); the other, Nov. 11, 1760 (Corr. 52)–both of which are addressed to “Lord Shelburne.” [1] At the time, Adam Smith was a professor at the University of Glasgow as well as a private tutor to Lord Shelburne’s son, Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice. [2] The first time the young aristocrat became ill…

Book title: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice Author: Shunryu Suzuki Rating: 4/5 "You just sit in the midst of the problem; when you are a part of the problem, or when the problem is a part of you, there is no problem, because you are the problem itself. The problem is you yourself. If this is so, there is no problem!" So, no problem! (Reread this since I started meditating again.) Where to buy Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation…

In my last post, The hidden cost of mpsc channels, I discussed a common pitfall with Rust mpsc channels using more memory than intuitive (and subsequently got roasted by people pretending they read the footnotes of the documentation of every transitive dependency they use 🙂). I recently stumbled upon a similar surprising cause of memory utilization in Go, this time in sync.Pool. sync.Pool's "purpose is to cache allocated but unused items for later reuse, relieving pressure on the garbage…

When you enter the classroom of an elementary school, you might expect to hear laughter and yelps of excitement. But at the former Yuya Elementary School in Gifu, you’ll instead encounter hundreds of beads hanging from the ceiling by fishing line. As you walk through the classroom, the beads slowly align, forming translucent and haunting […] Related posts: Echigo Tsumari Art Festival 2018 Fujiko Nakaya Covers the Sapporo Art Museum in Fog A Forest Made From Washi Paper by Takashi Kuribayashi

As you’re probably aware by now, you can easily transfer Fuji X Weekly Recipes straight from your phone to your Fujifilm camera. It’s quick and easy, and makes the whole Recipe experience even more of a breeze. This article is a quick-start guide for transferring Recipes from the Fuji X Weekly App to your phone. This new feature is available for both Apple and Android. We need to get a few things out of the way first. The Recipe Transfer feature is compatible with all X-Trans V cameras, all…

Today’s recording is Dinosapien – Rescue. The kids are going on a scavenger hunt, and because Lauren and Kit are too busy trying to find a way back underground to find if Eno survived the cave-in, Courtney is out planting the prizes for the hunt, Unfortunately, she’s half-arsing it a bit and leaving loads of prizes in random places. One of the Diggers has found a way out of the caves. Lauren thinks they should ask Kit’s uncle Ten Bears to help them find Eno. They visit his house, and while Kit…

There’s a future secret weapon here for those of a Balearic bent. Especially for spots such as Casa Lhasa’s “Mezcal Mondays”, who love a wonderful cover. This new 10”, Bandcamp exclusive from Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfes opens with the original number “Urhavet”, which begins as a spiritual swirl, sorta Pharoah Sanders meets Miles Davis’ “Sketches From Spain”, before hitting a funky drum driven groove. With a solid bass-line as its foundation, a variety of virtuoso electric keys, and the…

I've been enjoying, "Avengers: Armageddon." It discusses the usual interesting, "Why don't superheroes actually do anything?" concept that various famous mini-series have done, but we see less in ongoing comics because, well, if the heroes change too much, the comic quits working due to a lack of conflict. When you have a comic where the superheroes end up taking over or solving the World's problems, there isn't much to do from there. You can tell a story about the heroes trying to hold onto…

Last week I opened Edge to test my Internet connection, because that's the only thing I use it for, and noticed something new. Right beneath the address bar was a new bar with a button offering to let the browser launch automatically whenever I start my computer. That was strange. Yes, I open the browser the moment the computer starts, but why would they want to do that for me? And just now, I opened Chrome, and saw the exact same message but for Chrome: It looks innocent enough. We all start…

Bird illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (Public Domain Archive)A slightly extended version of the drabble I wrote for Writing Battle. My prompts are: Magical Mishap - Safari Guide - Shackles His royal face has turned purple; his knuckles are white as he clings to the arms of his throne. I stand still, waiting for the explosion. “You are supposed to keep my prizes safe!” he bellows. “You failed!” I drop to the ground and prostrate myself. “My deepest apologies, my liege! The shackles that…

Rodrigo Ghedin on the Audio Intelligence features in the new Apple Watch models: And… it doesn’t matter. The message that sticks in people’s minds is that the Apple Watch has become a constantly listening device. And although the new feature only works on the just-announced watches (Series 12 and Ultra 4), the distrust extends to every Apple Watch in use, since they are visually indistinguishable. In an announcement lasting just a few minutes, Apple threw in the trash a decade plus effort of…

TL;DR: Most slug libraries only allow \p{L} (letters), \p{N} (numbers), and \p{S} (symbols). In Indic scripts like Malayalam, vowels are often combining marks (\p{M}), not letters. The fix is simple: add \p{M} to your allowed character class. I’ll show you exactly how. I recently fixed this memos PR #6051. The bug was simple but devastating: Malayalam tags like #കവിത were being truncated to #കവ. The last two characters — ി (vowel sign I) and ത — were rendered outside tag.

2026-09-17: Big site update, including a new theme! Check out the blog post for details.

Four Games in 13 Kilobytes I’ve been participating in JS13K since 2019 and this year I wanted to take it to a new level. So I didn’t make one game, I made four. Each game fits in a 13 KB zip, and each one is a totally different experiment. This year’s theme was “Unicorns and […]

What’s missing Arles, August, 2026 I’m pedantic about apostrophes, so of course this struck me. And since it generally indicates that a word is contracted, I wondered how the owners of the café came up with the name. But then I looked it up, and discovered that it can also mean “a figure of speech by which the writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent of present”. Example: “Milton’s apostrophe to Light…

I saw someone literally hugging a tree in the park just now. The world is a parade of wonders.

The blog ticked over to 1,050 posts recently. At ten posts per page, this means I have 10,500 posts. That’s quite a long fence. Wait, what? 1,500 is one of those numbers I’m sure statistically doesn’t appear in my life any more than others, but once you’re told to look out for green cars, you see them everywhere. For example, just then. It was a Mini. That tracks. Wait, no it doesn’t, it’s a car. A rail car? Off the top of my head: I wrote a post in 2026 about how I remembered all these times…

Click here to book Today we preview the annual Pearly Kings & Queens’ Harvest Festival, gathering in Guildhall Yard this Sunday 20th September at 1:30pm followed by a service at St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside On the last Sunday afternoon in September, the Pearly Kings & Queens come together from every borough of London and gather in the square outside the Guildhall in the City of London for a lively celebration to mark the changing of the seasons. On my visit, there was Maypole dancing and Morris…

I started a photoshoot of a skull puzzle at the studio, but while exploring the pieces it warranted deeper consideration and shelved for another day. Driving home I realized visual opportunities were dwindling to document the day, and so this Renaissance Festival billboard got a snapshot. Currently Listening: half•alive “Billions ”Reply via email

tried a new (to me) sandwich from Dean & Deluca, honey curry chickenI like that it had lots of veggies in itpumpkin chocolate bread/cake?! from Dean & Deluca was kinda dry, and could've been more chocolateythe price of white rice has come down! well, at the place I buy our brown rice from anyway...I bought this 2 kilo bag for 1450 yen (plus tax)I'm all for lower prices as long as the