.: Blogroll Planet

I have previously looked at how censorship bodies around the world deal with sexual content in movies. This prompted a few readers to get in touch and ask about other…

David shopping during his first trip to Hong Kong, 1995 Kristin here: By now many of you have watched the recording of David’s May 18th memorial service, linked in the…

When we think of passion, as an emotion, we think of enthusiasm, fervor, of feeling strongly about or toward something, caring a lot. You can be passionate about a cause,…

A quick look at the movies, television shows, and books that have captured my attention over the past two months. Shrinking TV shows about father-daughter relationships will always have a…

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty…

I accepted an offer for a permanent job in one of the most prestigious British institutes. To get there, I had to first understand I'm not cut for the web…

It was 2015, and I was tired of losing arguments with customers about icon fonts. They were inaccessible, error-prone, and they looked worse than SVG. I poured those feelings into…

So over at my cute little podcast We’re Not So Different we are currently running a book club for patrons. As a part of this I am rereading the classic…

Digital minimalism does not necessarily overlap with privacy.

Keyboard people invest time upfront memorizing keybindings, in order to save time in the long run. At least, that’s the theory. In practice, it’s more like this: What if we…

This month we have a Jelly Roll cake to celebrate two TWD June birthdays– Margaret’s and Kim’s.  Jelly rolls are also called “Swiss rolls” or “roulades” and can have a…

Originally posted on the Terraform Industries blog. Terraform Industries is making cheap, synthetic, carbon neutral natural gas from sunlight and air. I founded Terraform in November 2021 with a clear…

I return from Singapore on Friday morning slightly sick, the last of our family to pass through this particular wave. The two early-morning late-night days on the road did not…

The Ugmonk Gather collection is the best set of desk accessories I have ever tried.It’s time for some post tax season catch up. Back at the end of March, I…

Ten years ago, I got off a de Havilland Beaver, the quintessential bush plane of the Canadian north, and stepped into the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary for the first time—and it…

Travelling is not a high priority on my list. I’m a homebody and that only gets more so the older I get. But I do like travelling at least once…

I got beef, and I’m old enough now to whinge about it. Also, my recent entrance into midlife has unlocked the profuse swearing buff. Fuck. People read books. I read…

Over the summer, I spent about two weeks in Tajikistan, mostly in Dushanbe (the capital) and various points along the Pamir Highway, which borders Afghanistan and later leads into Kyrgyzstan.…

Simone Weil really wanted to go to war, to fight fascism, to be the main character, to die a martyr's death. It didn't go as planned.

Way Station, or Au carrefour des étoiles in French, is an American science fiction novel written in 1963 by Clifford D. Simak. Enoch Wallace, veteran who fought during the American…