This morning the postman rang the bell. That usually means one of two things: something I ordered has arrived or someone sent me something. This time it was the latter. A small package from Australia. Inside was Shaun Tan’s new book, Hometown. There was a little handwritten postcard and a note inside the book, too. Shaun’s lovely dedication “for Marc + family (in their northern hometown)” Oh, how that made me smile. I’ve known Shaun for a while now. Not known as in knowing someone really well,…

What if the “happily ever after” ending the author gave you doesn’t really seem all that happy? If you’re author Joanne Merriam, you take matters into your own hands and retell the story, which resulted in her newest novel, Aether and Ego. JOANNE MERRIAM: Johannes Kepler and Shonda Rimes are responsible for the existence of my novel. In the months before I began writing Aether and Ego, I started on and then discarded a number of ideas for the novel I suddenly had the time to write. I had just…

This credential earner has learned how to explore quantum computing using Qiskit during the Qiskit Global Summer School 2026. By completing hands-on labs, they have built a solid understanding of quantum computing basics and how to use tools from physics, chemistry, math, and Python to start working with quantum circuits.

Last month I spent some time reorganizing my projects. I used to keep everything in Notion: one single database with tasks from every project, all tagged. I ran the ICE framework in there, the backlog, the Kanban board. It was convenient because I could update it from anywhere, online. But it was slow: slow to load, slow moving between things, slow just to look at a note. Or rather, the tool was too powerful for my needs. One tool to rule them all So I decided to build Atlas, something that ran…

NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object, a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. The formation of our solar system was a complex process, but there are two things we know quite well. The first is that where a body forms has a significant effect on its composition. The icy giants of Neptune and Uranus formed at the outer region of the solar system, beyond the snow line. Earth and Venus formed close to the Sun, where…

It’s a great time to be the main character in Memento. Back in 2000, Leonard Shelby had a hard time functioning in society because he had no memory of who he was. But if Memento took place today? Hi Leonard! As someone who once was a Coffee Expert at Starbucks for six years — boy, I just love their Pumpkin Spice! — I’d like to talk to you about your SOC 2 compliance! Leonard, I was so moved reading about your condition. Your resilience really inspired me. That never-give-up attitude is exactly…

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 - 10:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project It's fascinating to me how solidly misogyny is embedded in early Christian culture that, even when envisioning the ideal state of humanity as androgynous beings "neither male nor female" there's still the unexamined assumption that once you have binary gender, it's necessarily hierarchical. This book will take a while to get to the aspects of non-binary identity that are relevant to the Project, but it's being a…

After Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, some of the staff left Ubisoft to form Tribute Games, who created a number of retro-style titles like Wizorb, Mercenary Kings, Flinthook, and Panzer Paladin. In 2022, they were reunited with both the TMNT license and the beat-em-up genre with TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge. This led to another ...Scott Pilgrim EX was first posted on September 16, 2026 at 12:29 pm.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If…

The internet is full of AI slop nowadays. I’m writing my blog for humans, so I write myself1. I’d never randomly prompt an agent and copy-paste the output here without reading. And so it is no surprise, that people want to see AI-generated text clearly marked. Well, it’s quite easy to tell apart written text from AI slop, but why should I spend my time on this? The problem is that most don’t mark their text in any way, either accidentally or deliberately. That’s why Anthropic is introducing AI…

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With “AI regulatory capture” dominating the headlines and discourse online, a smaller but still important story is the failure of the Clarity Act gain the necessary 60 Senate votes to pass to the next stage, effectively killing it: Washington — The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance a sweeping cryptocurrency bill known as the Clarity Act, amid opposition from Democrats and a handful of Republicans. In a 49 to 50 vote, the measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to move forward, with all…

“My brain is still craving for those highs from the early internet.” explorator.dev/addiction…

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This Wednesday (16th), the stable version of Gnome 51, the famous desktop environment for Linux, was released. (Announcement video.) The highlight is improvements in performance and graphics. I don’t know if it was already there, but I’m glad to see that Sushi is a default app and was ported to GTK4. It displays file content by pressing the Space key in the file manager — similar to the quick Look of macOS. Unfortunately the new overlay of the search results, which was expected to land in Gnome…

I’ve read the Avengers on and off over the years, never sticking around for a long time but long enough to experience some pretty good stories. The 1980s run by Roger Stern, John Buscema, and Tom Palmer may be primarily remembered now for containing the first appearance of future Marvel movie star Nebula, but it really peaked with the multi-part “Masters of Evil” storyline. It’s a knock-down, drag-out battle between our heroes and a powerful group of villains, containing enough…

My happy place: in the Dinosaur Journey collections, surrounded by Apatosaurus vertebrae. Hot on the heels of the discovery of Diplodocus in Spain (Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2026), I am publicly committing to this prediction. I think it’s inevitable that someone will find an apatosaurine in Europe, for the following reasons: Apatosaurines were around for a decent chunk of time, from pretty low in the Salt Wash to the very top of the Morrison, and that’s just counting the record we have. That may…

The reason why is that I really like a) the idea of money as the game's main resource, and b) the idea that you can play the game in different playstyles. What is Wardogs? If you don't know, Wardogs is a King Of The Hill style game where 3 teams fight over a circle in the middle of the map. The playstyles that I mentioned are basically a fighter, a builder, logistics (trucks or helis). Each playstyle gives you money and XP in different ways, so you can earn money by driving a logistic truck…

“To be mundane is to belong to the world, to be in the world, of it and within it.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/i…

This is absolutely fascinating. Smell was the first of our senses, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from the olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled. Posted by kottke.

What do you do when your product is a commodity that costs six times more than the free version? You could compete on price. You could compete on tooling. Or you could call for oversight.

This guy spent a lot of time recreating the Bond “gunbarrel” intro in LEGO. Some amazing ingenuity here.

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It comes at you with its shirt half open, boots dirty, a drink somewhere too close to the edge of the table. Nothing seems particularly interested in behaving itself. The guitars scrape instead of shine, the room leaks into the songs, voices crack around the edges, and the whole thing carries that slightly dangerous warmth of people playing close enough to smell each other. That is probably why I love it so much. Not because it sounds “authentic” - a word already beaten to death by music…

Can anything else go wrong? Don’t answer that. The girls and I headed out at 9 this morning. I even headed to the truck ahead of time to check the tires and secure my walker in the truck box. Everything was going as expected. One of the things that I’ve been noticing on the truck … Continue reading *sigh* Didn’t make it…

We had this idea of developing a modular ontology about the semantics of noun classes for Niger-Congo B (‘Bantu’) languages and make it a module in an existing network of ontology modules about linguistics. We tried. We also tried to take a top-down approach taking a foundational ontology as the starting point. That didn’t work out either. We ended up having to do it the hard way with a manual bottom-up approach poring over the subject domain literature (linguistics), informed by ontology and…

Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), "Introduction" to Robert Burton (1577-1640), Anatomy of Melancholy (vol. 1, pp. xiv-xv of the Everyman edition): The appreciation of Burton is a test of bookishness, and although he has never lacked readers, even during the dark age, 1677-1799, when no edition of the Anatomy appeared, there have not been lacking those who have belittled and misrepresented him. I am not concerned at the moment with his defence, even if it were necessary, which it is not, for there…

Hello, and sorry to have been absent for a while, I hope all has been good with you over the last couple of months. Things here have been a little overwhelming due to the building work we’ve been having done, more so than I imagined truth be told. The builders have been really wonderful in taking into consideration Toby’s needs and sensory issues, but even so it has been extra challenging at times. The work is now coming to a conclusion, though we still have bare floorboards and bare plastered…

Just has an email telling me telex has been retired. Telex was built onto of WordPress playground and allowed you to crate with A.I. plugins and themes. I experimented and made a few. Kept a bit of a record of the prompts I used and the problems I came across on a blog: Telex Testing. It felt a bit like some of the work I did on Glow Blogs in the early days, back and forward with a developer. I didn’t make anything earth shattering but enjoyed it somewhat. Was interesting because you didn’t…

While at work today, debugging a weird edge-case where some emails to Outlook have some unexpected padding, I learned something weird: Microsoft Outlook still (kinda) supports WordArt. Wait, what’s WordArt? If you’re too young to remember: when Microsoft Office ’97 came out, it shipped with a feature called WordArt. Basically, these were a somewhat-customisable set of on-demand clip-art-esque text styles that you could apply to your own text. Most of these were as unhinged as PowerPoint’s…

Dark Knights of Steel, Vol. 2 #3A Yasmine Putri Regular Release: Sep 16, 2026Cover: Nov 2026 THE KINGDOM OF EL ON THE BRINK OF RUIN? With the House of El’s queen, crown prince, and princess bedridden, Lois of Amazonia jailed, the Amazons expelled, and the threat beneath the waves growing with each passing day, Amanda Waller has everything to gain as she assumes emergency control of the Kingdom of El. Harley Quinn, the Els’ advisor, must recruit to her cause a young Barbara Gordon, for the aid…