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Essential Japanese Cinema: A Journey Through 50 of Japan's Beautiful, Often Bizarre Films.This year in Serious Eats' Starch Madness bracket, rice dishes from around the world go grain-to-grain. Some personal…

This morning I woke up and I went on Twitter to read the news for the day. There is,of course, the rumor of this Tuesday, that the former president would…

Yesterday was the first day of spring. Check out our spring garden! 😄😄😄 It’s going to be a while before we can start building the trellis tunnels (we will be…

1. Is the human brain just a matter of scale?  For a while now, I’ve thought that whales might be smarter than we are.  And how do sperm whales talk…

When a giant metal hand is found, a team of scientists race to find the other pieces of the body around the globe and unlock its secrets. Neuvel tells the…

A selection I found online. Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh. 1850s. Lake Como, Italy. 1870. A lady sleeping in a train, 1880. The Shambles, York. 1890. A British official in India, with…

In a world that's pretty keen on moving backwards whenever it gets the chance, Penelope Pettigrew brings a new focus on celebrating the Bi+ community and your authentic self. Embrace…

Over time, I’ve greatly admired the geese who fly over our farm in significant numbers in the late Fall and early Spring. Nothing stops them or slows them down. They…

📷 Tiny {people} (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @jasonmcfadden) It was Luna’s turn to decide what we had for breakfast. Her choice? La Esquina, the cafe…

What if there were a social network for two people. So the messages wouldn't be mixed up with everything in a chat app or an email client. If the point…

I saw this Myna at Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach Park. It was standing just as you see, before moving to do a bit of preening. Then it resumed this position.…

I've been writing a lot recently about what Mara Garza and I, since 2015, have been calling the Design Policy of the Excluded Middle: Don't create AI systems of disputable…

Philip K. Dick once asked if android’s dreamed of electric sheep; author Blair Austin wonders about the dreaming habits of another entity entirely in the Big Idea for his first…

That snowman keeps giving.  This morning I took this picture through a hole where his arm once was. Portals and windows liminal spaces that can take you someplace else.  That’s…

Last summer, a mystery person sent me a box filled with rolls of expired 35mm film.

Today's links Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing: Finally, the non-tech sector can hire technical workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003,…

Well for whatever reason, sitting over a delicious home cooked dinner of white fish from Tonle Sap Lake and potatoes and carrots sautéed over coal, we looked at the temperatures…

“William Faulkner wrote two failed novels (his words) before he famously gave up writing for other people and began to write just for himself. The books he wrote after that…

A cloud-free morning, the sun through the trees just bright enough to fool my body into feeling warm. A mourning dove’s song sounds reassuring: There. There. There.

1. Background: Comparing a graph of data to hypothetical replications under permutation Last year, we had a post, I’m skeptical of that claim that “Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases…

I planted some seeds I found and a forest grew, filled with strange birds of many colors. I sprouted feathers and built a nest deep in that forest. I gave…

In 2011, law prof Leo Katz published an interesting book, Why The Law is Perverse. Katz first lists many ways that the law is perverse, especially rulings that reject win-win…

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Recently, one of our toilets stopped flushing: the chain that connects the tank lever to the flapper had broken. I cycled to the hardware store and…

Making the case for a feed reader + read-it-later solution as an online reading alternative to social media and services like Google and Apple News.

You can't really root for either, but it's still fun to sit back and enjoy the spectacle.2022 was a remarkably bad year for conventional wisdom pretty much across the board…

Responding to "Transcriptional Chinese animal imagery for English daily greetings" (3/13/23), Mary Erbaugh, using Yale Cantonese romanization, writes: ———— I've never seen it done with animal names, though probably easier…

I have been keeping an eye on the progress of the cherry blossoms.  For as long as my family lived in Northern Virginia and Maryland, I've never been here when…

Detail of one of the rocky spires at Colorado’s Garden of the Gods.…

It’s amazing to me. Technology is growing so fast. Or maybe this all growing too fast, no?Cell phones are the new thing to have. It’s true, there’s a line between…

I was planning to take down the shutters sometime between yesterday and Easter, depending on the weather.  But on Saturday it was so nice and warm I just decided to…

Ted Lasso – Season 3 Official Trailer – Apple TV+

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Ever wonder how people get up close shots of tiny objects and surroundings? They use a probe lens! Tiago Catarino used a Laowa probe lens to film the inside of…

I have been listening to radio theater the past few days. It’s a medium that I haven’t much experience with. I wrote a short radio play in verse years ago…

This Junto Profile is part of a new series of short Q&As that provide some background on various individuals who participate regularly in the online Disquiet Junto music community. What’s…

Before I started writing this, the buffer in this text editor was empty. I wonder what it could have held? By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-03-21.

Forever a scene.

Josh Hill: During a Europe trip in May 2022, I uploaded over 6,000 photos and hundreds of videos to the cloud. Upon editing and deleting some of the photos, I…

Admired the colors on a shot by Maique and he told me it was a Kodachrome filter 👀   Gradient map – with complementary colors Curves – I rarely use…

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While sitting at the dinner table this evening our youngest daughter came up with best excuse I’ve ever heard for why she couldn’t help her sisters with something: “I’ve got…

A general rule of thumb that has helped me maintain perspective is that, given enough time, you are either proven to be an idiot or a genius. A corollary to…

Hey, JAGS users and would-be users, be warned that registration is now open for the annual JAGS workshop on probabilistic modelling for cognitive science. The tenth instalment of this workshop…

This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in a little order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (the weather still very…

It was a busy but fun week. I’m writing this in Malta where I am spending most of the next working week. Last week I Participated on the first day…

Jenny Odell “This book is my panoramic assault on nihilism,” writes Jenny Odell in the introduction to Saving Time. That assault consists of a wide-ranging meditation on many aspects of…

I’m a firm believer that a searchable analog database requires color. Two colors, to be precise. And a threaded keyword system so I can search notes by topic. All in…

We returned from our west Texas adventures for Spring Break to much greener pastures here. Yes, there were some plants blooming in the Davis Mountains but as we lowered in…

I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic…