We are making a necklace craft today! This camp necklace craft is so easy to make and such a fun… The post Cute and Easy Camp Necklace Craft For Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
by Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico This article was produced in partnership with Source New Mexico, which was a member of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in 2023. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon a … | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, you could still get away with calling Redmond, Washington, an equestrian town. White fences parceled off ranches and hobby farms where horses grazed under dripping evergreen trees; you could buy live chicks, alfalfa, and Stetson hats in stores downtown. It wasn’ … | Continue reading
This is the tenth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones and the Center for Investigati … | Continue reading
Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate cost | Continue reading
You might remember Ratika Deshpande from my PenPal series with her. During that month, we often shared how the sky outside our windows looked, separated across the globe as they were. Well, Ratika has finished her related project, The Sky Zine. There are excepts from it on her bl … | Continue reading
During the last four weeks, I've been to a few conferences. Sick of wearing the same t-shirts and jeans, I've been experimenting with different outfits. By far the most successful t-shirt (yes, I know, I said I was sick of wearing t-shirts) was a new one I designed for the Develo … | Continue reading
Reading Bob Doto’s recent book on his note making and writing practices, he explained how he uses his Luhmann-style alphanumeric numbering of notes as a way to spot where a richer grouping is emerging as a possible starting point for his writing. It made me ask, how to spot simil … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2024 The obvious question not answered: With apologies, we're going to quote sacred Thoreau one more time. Once again, we refer to his longing to be transported to a type of distant land: Walden; or, Life in the Woods [...] I should not talk so much about myse … | Continue reading
Illustration by Joseph McDermott (https://joemcdermottillo.com/) First, the delivery of 5,000 pairs of shoes was four days late. Then six days late. Then there were mysterious text messages with the supposed driver with promises that he would show up... eventually. And that's how … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Fire weather in California has prompted intentional power cuts for more than 5,000 PG&E customers • Large parts of central and northern Italy are flooded after heavy rains • The eastern U.S. will see “tranquil and near seasonable” weather this weekend. THE TOP … | Continue reading
Remedy Entertainment, the creators of Alan Wake and Control, are trying to go outside their norm for the first time, as they announced on the recent Xbox Partner Preview Show, a new three player co-op game that’s set in the Remedy Connected-verse, with the players being the FBC a … | Continue reading
Remedy Entertainment, the creators of Alan Wake and Control, are trying to go outside their norm for the first time, as they announced on the recent Xbox Partner Preview Show, a new three player co-op game that’s set in the Remedy Connected-verse, with the players being the FBC a … | Continue reading
Every now and again I start listening to music on MacOS through my headphones and the audio is tinny and crackly. After some dicking around with quitting Apple Music, reconnecting the headphones, even rebooting the Mac nothing fixed it. I finally worked out the fix[1] - changing … | Continue reading
by Andy Kroll, ProPublica; Phoebe Petrovic, Wisconsin Watch; and Nick Surgey, Documented ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as … | Continue reading
We may appreciate living in an era that doesn’t require us to travel across the world to know what a particular work of art looks like. At the same time, we may instinctively understand that regarding a work of art in its original form feels different than regarding even the most … | Continue reading
In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the Biden administration has awarded a total of nearly $2 billion in new grants to help harden, expand, and modernize U.S. power grids. Friday’s awards , the third round from the Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Pa … | Continue reading
by Jeremy Kohler ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in you … | Continue reading
More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated Freedom River. And while it shows signs of age, the animated film, a parable about the role of immigration, race, and wealth in America, still resonates today. Actually, given the cynic … | Continue reading
Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across… Tags: color | Continue reading
For years, Duke Energy has studied the threats that climate change poses to its power grid. It has produced tomes forecasting the risk to its power lines, substations, and power plants from fires, heat waves, and floods. But the scope of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in the util … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column. In the lawn-care aisle at Home Depot, alongside traditional gas mowers and leaf blowers, you’ll also … | Continue reading
Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged… Tags: buildings, Gaza, Reuters, scale | Continue reading
?si=azZbGLEr_9EFWypL We’re living in the age of data and artificial intelligence (AI). Every second, vast amounts of data are being generated, processed, and analyzed. And increasingly AI plays a central role in how that data gets managed. For companies, governments, and individu … | Continue reading
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, the next spin-off game with action combat in the Like A Dragon series, is getting a reverse delay. The game previously was set to sail on February 28, 2025, but has now moved one week earlier to February 21, 2025. In a video announcement, R … | Continue reading
A new trailer for Yellow Brick Games’ Eternal Strands emerged during the Xbox Partner Showcase livestream. It’s a gameplay that highlights the main hook of this action-RPG: the magic system that interacts with the environment. Eternal Strands allow players to set fire on the envi … | Continue reading
An update has gone live on Sega’s free-to-play MMORPG Phantasy Star Online New Genesis Ver.2. NGS Ver.2 has updated the Stia Exploration Sector: Mediola Area 1 map. The map will now feature floating islands mid-air surrounding the laval fields. Enemies appearing in this map start … | Continue reading
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration. In my piece last week about five new thinking styles for working with thinking machines, I wrote about why it is important, in the age of AI, to think in terms of sequences rather than essences: learning to cope with d … | Continue reading
The following JEP is targeted to JDK 24: 475: Late Barrier Expansion for G1. | Continue reading
Link should start at 17:52, interview this week by Pat Johnston of the Left of Lansing Podcast. | Continue reading
Microsoft is warning enterprise customers that, for almost a month, a bug caused critical logs to be partially lost, putting at risk companies that rely on this data to detect unauthorized activity. [...] | Continue reading
Ten years ago, I was a barfly. I was out almost every night. And, going you go out that much you meet people. One night, I met Thomas Ngigol, and Karole Rocher, two French actors, that, today, who now share their lives. Karole Rocher, I discovered her in Braquo, a French crime dr … | Continue reading
Die Wintersaison naht. Am vergangenen Samstag wurde wieder ein Teilabschnitt der Wexl Trails eröffnet. Karl Morgenbesser und sein Team der Wexl Arena sehen Mountainbike zunehmend als ganzjährige Aktivität. Bei unserem bisherigen Hybridbetrieb in Niederösterreich – klassische Somm … | Continue reading
'Agatha All Along's flashback episode finally let us in on what really went down in 'WandaVision.' | Continue reading
A new ClickFix campaign is luring users to fraudulent Google Meet conference pages showing fake connectivity errors that deliver info-stealing malware for Windows and macOS operating systems. [...] | Continue reading
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2024 A review of what happened last night: We'd planned to show you what we meant when we referred to the "doctored-adjacent" videotape of What Trump Was Asked and Said. We refer to something Trump was asked when he appeared with Maria Bartiromo last Sunday … | Continue reading
When I linked to this post about DNS, Dave replied and mentioned he uses DNSControl for managing this kind of stuff. I'd heard of it before but never actually looked into what it did so I jumped into the getting started guide. I'd recommend reading that if you want a more in-dept … | Continue reading
Welcome to the sisterhood. 'Dune: Prophecy' just dropped a new trailer teasing the beginnings of the Bene Gesserit, centuries before Paul Atreides. | Continue reading
Imagine you’re a corporate sustainability exec and your company is planning to build a new data center. You’ve managed to convince the higher-ups to pay extra to use low-carbon building materials, lest the project blow up your brand’s emissions goals. But when you meet with the g … | Continue reading
Moving from a spirit level to a laser level brings vastly better UX, as you now have both hands free. But laser levels do introduce their own UX issues in that they need to be tripod-mounted. Depending on your jobsite, the tripod can get in the way, and you yourself can block the … | Continue reading
While hammering nails isn't difficult for those of us with average dexterity, it can be tricky for others. And junky though these nail-holding pliers look, they actually hew to form-follows-function admirably.The two cylinders on the butt end of the handle, along with the flat ba … | Continue reading
As an architecture student, Marcio Sequeira wanted to better understand structural behavior. Seeking a more hands-on way than equations and diagrams can provide, Sequeira began building structural models using elements connected by magnetics. He started off with wooden dowels, an … | Continue reading
Belgian filmmaker Vincent Bal refers to his work as "Shadowology." The artist uses found objects and light to complete doodled illustrations: Bal has posted more fun videos here, and sells his work as both prints and postcards here. | Continue reading
Despite the name, Swiss company Model Group makes paper, not models. (It's a family-run business, and Model is their last name.) For several years, the company has been experimenting with creating injection molded products derived from paper.They've developed what they call Paper … | Continue reading
Everyone knows what a car seat for children is. But this little-seen safety object is for the expecting parent before the car seat is needed. "INSAFE Seat-Belt Guide redirects the lap belt away from the belly of a pregnant woman. It eliminates the danger of putting too much pres … | Continue reading
'Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero' is a bold new entry for the franchise, but it still can't escape the biggest downfall of both Dragon Ball and anime games at large. | Continue reading
When 8BitDo announced they were selling a new keycap set that matched my keyboard I got from them I ordered immediately. I didn't need new keycaps for it but I really wanted to get rid of that pesky windows key. They arrived this morning in nice little trays: At lunch I swapped o … | Continue reading
This week, I heard that stats are for losers. I had to check it out, because I've always thought stats were for winners. Tags: analysis, sports | Continue reading