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What word do you hear in this clip? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you heard "prison", you agree with me, and with Google's speech-to-text algorithm. But…

Deadline is reporting that Steven Caple Jr. is being eyed to direct “I Am Legend 2.” The film is set to star Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan. Caple Jr.…

Martha and I drove over to Fairplay to check out its museum with particular emphasis on the Burro Days event happening this weekend.Most of the events, such as the International…

Sitting on the balcony, listening to America by Simon & Garfunkel, and drinking a glass of rosé. Almost Famous comes to mind. Great film. It's all happening...Thinking about lost friendships.…

We report: good morning, we are feeling a complicated blend of emotions; the sun is rising, the moon is here, it is raining. Our expert has brought us some tea…

At home all the morning, and walking met with Mr. Hill of Cambridge at Pope's Head Alley with some women with him whom he took and me into the tavern…

The US is increasingly on its own with Israel. Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders | The Guardian Labour has announced its biggest step yet…

Ooof. Okay, off to New York for a few days. #journal #tsg

It is well-known that the comic book character Batman was inspired by the pulp character The Shadow. The very first Batman story, "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate," published in…

This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part…

Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier, Lawfare: Today’s internet systems are too complex to hope that if we are smart and build each piece correctly the sum total will work right.…

I’m reading a beautiful, touching and life affirming book called  The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy, now one of my favorite writers. The book, said one critic, is…

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent email verification needed to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder to…

After the previous introductory article about the former channel port of Folkestone, here’s the post you’ve all been waiting for, namely some narrative about the pubs and bars my friends…

Eggs and moons and a small girl smelling giant flowers surround these rabbits and chicks.  There’s women and nature, regeneration, rebirth, and those mysterious stamps.  Maybe for all the unknown…

I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously underappreciated, is coming to love someone who loves it. As we enter each other’s…

[Carl Sullivan at Flipboard]"Flipboard has worked with local papers and websites since its inception. Now, as part of the gradual federation of our platform, we’re bringing some of those publications…

What's part of this exciting realm at the edge, is Genevieve Sovereign's soft, but highly potent voice guiding us through the shapeshifting landscape. Her lyricism is as striking as the…

For years we've travelled south to explore the Mojave. More times that I can count, we've cruised south - and north again - along US-395 through the Owens Valley or…