The Full Moon is Sunday September 27. Saturn is rising before astronomical twilight. The Full Moon is close to Saturn on the 27th. Mars forms a line with the bright stars Castor and Pollux. Jupiter is low in the morning sky. In the evening, Venus is slowly sinking and Mercury is close to the bright star Spica in the twilight on the 26th. The Full Moon is Sunday September 27. North-Eastern horizon on the morning of Saturday, September 26 as seen from Adelaide at 4:35 ACST (90 minutes before…

I know that you all love Pins From the Bag, and anxiously await the next installment. Your anxiety and waiting have come to an end!Did you know that 1961 was the year of Kansas' centennial? I sure didn't. I wasn't born yet, so I didn't get the memo. I also didn't know that Olney, England and Liberal, Kansas were rivals in Pancake Day Races (this would be the 12th International event), a sport that would soon eclipse the World Cup. I'm not a big fan of store-bought orange juice (though the…

Listen to this episode here. Further reading Our Lives in the Wood episode 5 This Game Takes Place in Your Home Town Socials Kendo on Bluesky and the web Sam on Bluesky and itch The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show! Dice Exploder on Patreon Credits Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is…

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Dignity in a Digital age is Ro Khanna's attempt to address the economic inequality brought on by tech companies. He wants to see tech empower everyone, instead of disrupting most people while a very few gain crazy amounts of wealth. He breaks the book up into two parts. First he addresses expanding the tech opportunities around the United States. Second he attemps to address the reforms that are needed to ensure that tech doesn't harm the standing of citizens in the United States, and that it…

The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that I said “no” and turned it off.At the time Apple were generous enough to provide a setting to disable this feature.Although they hid the second part deeper, because why should saying “no” be easy?Last week I succumbed to Apple’s harassment and upgraded macOS 15 to 27. I only…

I wrapped up progress on Defiance on Sunday with some card mock ups. Regulars may remember that a similar approach worked well on Denton Road - and for those interested in the specifics, this time used a supermarket own brand wheat biscuits box…I have no dimensions, nor do I miss them. This is a painting in three dimensions and all by eye - do the mock-ups look right against the models, cut and adjust. It is not just about one structure either, but a balance between them…So despite all of this…

Last year I posted about going to Bob Baker Day, a kind of puppet/clown festival at a park in Los Angeles. I went again this year! I had a much more interesting time this year, honestly - mostly because I attended with a friend of mine who actually makes puppets. I got to watch them chat with other actual puppet makers, and I learned a lot about something I don't do at all!! I wish I could talk more about it, but it was really more about my friend sharing puppet passion I don't myself…

Is this what the kids call “cinema”? Developer: Daou Infosys Corp. Publisher: Daou Infosys Corp. Release Year: 1992 (some sites say December 1992) Available On: Sega Master System Genre: Beat ‘Em Up Prior to this week, I had no idea what Janggun-ui Adeul was. This is considered an unlicensed game, so I wasn’t sure if it was an original concept or based on an existing property. It’s common for unlicensed titles to pull from popular things in order to increase the odds of people buying them, but…

We left Huddersfield in last week’s post in 1951 planning for the future. Nationally, the Conservatives had succeeded to power though the party was then endorsing a broad post-war political consensus, social democratic in some respects and still committed to a significant programme of council housebuilding. In Huddersfield, the Liberals were for the moment the majority party though on the cusp of a slow decline. Huddersfield’s 1951 Development Plan portended a brighter future for the borough…

One thing that has been tripping me up with Jev is the difference between choice and score. I keep mixing them up.I finally took the time to debate it with my digital assistant, and I came up with a better way of describing it to myself, which I will share here.They're both actually returning probabilities. So I was like, well, if they're both choices that are scored by probability, why not call them both choice? Or more importantly, why have a score one that's separate from choice, if score is…

For the second part of the study, the researchers relied on detection dogs. They placed cameras where the dogs alerted to possible weasel presence, resulting in 16 new camera locations. The researchers captured 77 weasels on camera in just over 200 nights. That’s a camera success rate of 81% compared with 1.5% without dogs. Not only was the camera placement more successful in detecting weasels, but it also cost about 10 times less than traditional methods. The study is among the first to…

Australia’s favourite and most significant art award opened in Shepparton Art Museum for a Victorian showing of the annual Archibald Prize. Judged by the Art Gallery of New South Wales/NSW trustees, the prize is awarded to the best portrait. Since 1921, it has highlighted figures from all walks of life, from famous faces to local heroes of our times. Australia’s most significant art award is annual Archibald Prize is eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. This touring exhibition is…

A few years ago, I read Hindle’s first book, A Fatal Crossing, and the experience hadn’t left me wanting to seek further titles out. However, I was tempted to come back and give this author another go, after the Puzzle Doctor reviewed it earlier this year. I was also intrigued by the use of Costa Rica as a setting. A Killer in Paradise is another mystery that I have read this year which is centred on the reunion of friends. The Inconvenient Corpse by Elizabeth Fenwick (which I read this year),…

Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends in Christ, There was once a boy, not much older than fourteen, who wandered the dusty back roads near a small farming town at the turn of the century. He was an orphan, left to fend for himself in a … Continue reading Rest for the Weary: Trusting Jesus to Lighten Our Burdens The post Jesus, Our Faithful Friend first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post Jesus, Our Faithful Friend appeared first on The…

There is nothing quite as comforting as a bowl of homemade potato soup, especially one rich with cheddar, garlic, and plenty of hearty goodness. This Easy Cheddar & Garlic Potato Soup is the kind of recipe that comes together quickly, uses simple everyday ingredients, and fills your kitchen with the most irresistible, cozy aroma.Creamy, flavorful, and wonderfully satisfying, it's perfect for busy weeknights, chilly days, or any time you are craving a warm hug in a bowl. If you love easy comfort…

Today's post is a little on the short side, and may be a shade below par. (Z) is still ill, to the point that he had to cancel classes yesterday (which he hates to do). On top of that, the Internet went out, so most of this was written in (Z)'s car (with a cell phone acting as a hotspot; the cell phone gets poor reception in the apartment, due to a nearby skyscraper, so can't be used there). FAFAFO That stands for "Fool Around with the First Amendment and Find Out." At least, that's the G-rated…

Those who saw you being born, their friends, their relatives - all will probably die before you. With them, they will bring their identities, relationships - their shared culture. Left will only be you, and those who came after you. I've always seen society and culture as being steered by the older generation. Culture is something that is placed upon me, for me to embrace or reject. However, I'm not really sure exactly what culture is? I find most eplanations to be quite reductive. Culture…

Love a good “electpic” horn. (And yes, I know it said “electric” before part of the R got rubbed off, but first, for a while after seeing the sign, I thought it said “elliptic,” like a descriptor of the sound running up and down in cycles, or something like that.)

I recently returned from Madrid, which is full of excellent food and splendid dogs and pedestrian crossings that make pee-yooooo noises like Ring My Bell by Anita Ward.There is also, of course, art. Since 1992, Picasso’s Guernica has resided at the Reina Sofia museum, its monochrome depiction of man-made hell as powerful as ever. At least, I think it is; it’s difficult to tell, under the scrum of selfie-takers, even though its proportions (more than twice as wide as it’s tall) don’t easily fit…

Kendrick Lamar’s GNX album reminds me of Kyoto, Japan. Mainly because I was stuck in the Kyoto Train Station because the shinkansen was delayed for 3 hours and I needed something to do. So I listened to that album the day it dropped for 3 hours straight

Bryan TalbotJonathan CapeWith top-hat and cane in hand, Scotland Yard's DI Stamford Hawksmoor shadows the murky backstreets of London on the hunt for a sadistic serial killer. In the dying days of the French occupation of Britain, through gaslit, cobbled streets and squalid alleyways, stalks the great eagle Detective Stamford Hawksmoor in search of the homicidal manic whose killing spree claims dozens of seemingly unconnected victims, from random murders to targeted political assassinations.The…

Alice Girard Guittard: Before recommendation algorithms were a thing, you had to decide what you would be doing on the computer. You didn’t really have one big app that you could open and order it to entertain you. Instead, you had a few dozen of bookmarks to websites, each with a specific idea in mind. A site for video game news, that one website with lots of tutorials, a blog about anime that didn’t update often enough, a wiki about a TV show from the 90s… Of course awful things existed on…

I slept less than four hours last night. So I was feeling sleepy and blue. On the way to work, I listened to this playlist titled 'mood', which I created some time ago. It's something I listen to when I feel unhappy. It never fails to amaze me how songs are able to transport us. A song can be tied to an era. To a place. To a state of emotion. To a person. To a memory. To a version of you. And when I hear these songs, it's always an unbelievable feeling. Sometimes comforting. Sometimes hurtful.…

Fremantle2026 September 22 (Tuesday), 1:22PM· genealogy · Flickr · Who FediFlick Archive Is Actually For, 13 September 2026, by Leo Gaggl: The third is genealogists and family historians, and everyone who travels specifically to the town their grandmother left, the church a great-grandfather was married in, the street that shows up in one faded photo with no caption. It’s the same anthropogeography as the first group, narrowed from a region or a species to a single family’s line. And the…

Here we are at World’s End again, and the passing the narrowboat reveals national treasure Uncle Bob checking out a Nasmyth & Wilson Company Ltd built 2-6-2 locomotiveIt was originally intended for export to foreign climes, but the order was cancelled when the railway it was intended for decided to re-gauge from 2ft 3 inches to 4ft 1 & 1/2 inches. Though looking at the size of it, one cannot but wonder if it could have been re gauged, however I’m no authority on such things. Meanwhile Pick-axe…

Last week, after dutifully opting out of the TSA’s facial recognition and making it through all the scanners, I reached the only line in any airport that brings me joy: the SFO watering hole (as I now call it since it reminds me of animals gathering around a small pond to drink). It's the first thing you see beyond security in the international terminal: two beautiful and simple water bottle filling areas each in the shape of a three-pointed star. Forget clanking your bottle against a water…

Designer Reimar Servas goes further than the usual Border Radius Discourse and thinks about the deeper but often ignored questions of border radii as a system, and about the consequences of such a system that go beyond visuals: […] These redesign efforts suggest ignorance of a fundamental problem: rounded forms have a smaller surface area than angular ones. Used as containers, they reduce usable space. This is fine on most touch-based UIs since they typically feature simple layouts with only a…

The late Victor Brombert writes in The Pensive Citadel (University of Chicago Press, 2023): “[T]here is a rarer, quite precious experience that might be called ‘pre-reading,’ when certain dispositions in our character, coupled with circumstances, make us receptive in advance to an author we have not yet encountered.” Brombert’s example in his own reading life is Baudelaire. As a boy growing up in Paris, attending the lycée, he walked the city streets as an unknowing flâneur, predisposing…

Whilst I was playing trains, son Michael was celebrating 40 years of Network SouthEast. Network SouthEast only ran for 8 years 1986 – 1994, but had a big impact on the railway, and it’s now 40 years since they first cane into service within British Rail. It has not been forgotten (as well as not forgetting passengers opening the slam-doors and jumping onto a moving train). Personally, it is nostalgia, as it shares the same year I came into this world, which meant I spent my younger years with…