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the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
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General interest blogs covering a mix of topics
the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
Composer, Producer & Developer
Daniel Fletcher shared some very sad news with me. His father—my friend—Ted Fletcher, passed away today. Ted Fletcher...
I can’t help but feel that blogrolls are now suddenly more relevant than they have ever been. I found myself revisiti...
I wrote a book review on Tony Warriner’s Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness. The post Tony Warriner...
Tangled Thoughts On RPGs and Related Hobbies
The option to play a dwarf or elf has been part of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay since its first edition – an inheritanc...
A while back I covered the first wave of products for Free League’s Blade Runner RPG – based off the Year Zero engine...
Dune is, it’s fair to say, a fairly troubled franchise. In terms of the novels, the original book is a landmark of sc...
Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.
Time to check in again on Big Finish’s offerings starring the Third Doctor. As with last time, we’re still in the era...
Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four C...
When Virgin lost the licence to do Doctor Who novels, that could have been it – editor Rebecca Levene could have woun...
Writings by Alexander Harkness
The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hack...
Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error afte...
London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at A...
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A morning of photography walking the streets under the West Gate Bridge. Here the Yarra River meets Port Phillip, and...
Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just ...
I’ve made some changes to a couple of photo albums on the website. southern-mountains features the same grainy black ...
Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.
Once one of the busiest passenger rail stations in the Midwest, St. Paul Union Depot sat without passenger trains for...
Artists Are Essential to Building a Just Future -
Long before entrepreneurship became a buzzword, Sophia Nickerson Starks built one of Jacksonville's most influential ...
Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.
The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present
On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...
Where the leaves are perennially virid
I celebrate the Nintendo 64's 30th anniversary with a selection of my own late-90s N64 memories.
Recapping my 2026 Junited and JulyReply posts from Emu Cafe Social, all in one post on The New Leaf Journal.
A free white printer with a note left out for the taking in Brooklyn Heights reminded me of a Japanese horror visual ...
Writing What I Want
I’m serving as Treasurer for my county’s Libertarian political party. Recently the county board of elections emailed ...
Here in Ohio we can choose our electric supplier… But not who delivers it.
Sometimes I want to do an exercise and record it in MapMyFitness, but MapMyFitness doesn’t have that particular exerc...
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Life is about making memories, and you should document them however you can. With so much to look back on, you may fi...
There have been so many advancements in treasury management over the last few years, it’s hard to keep up. CFOs and c...
Metal roofs can be durable and affordable, but they can also make homes unbearably hot in the summer. Fortunately, th...
Open ubuntu Settings-> Keyboard shortcuts Click on + at the bottom to add custom shortcut and use command ‘flameshot ...
A very lightweight and powerful tool to loadtest any http endpoints is k6. It allows you to run basic javascripts in ...
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“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...
The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...
Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...
croft: traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon
I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I ...
Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder ...
Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and ...
Read Eggs Benedictator Bessie has been working at our hotel chain for fifteen years as the breakfast attendant for th...
Read Put On That Pearl Necklace And Clutch It Customer: "I need to return this pearl necklace." She hands over the ne...
Read We Are Not “Open” To Interpretation I used to manage a party store that closed at 7 PM. You’d think business hou...
Empowering creative people
Evening routines get a fraction of the attention that morning routines enjoy, which is strange, because the evening i...
Learn with AI and you get something students have wanted since the invention of homework, a tutor that is available a...
An autumn reset is the yearly ritual that productive people quietly swear by while everyone else waits for January, a...
The unsupported use case of a disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.
So, the funny thing is that I really did want to blog for the 25th anniversary of Firefly next year because it was my...
Someday all of the posts to Once We Were Browncoats will get imported here as part of the ongoing blog restoration pr...
In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling ...