There’s a lot of video games set to get TV or film adaptations in the next few years, and even more that seem like they’d be ripe for the picking. Bungie’s Destiny franchise seemed like a viable candidate, especially after the studio was acquired by PlayStation in 2022, but it so … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024 Can you believe these clans? Can you believe the factual claims you hear from our warring clans? You can if you love the "novelization of news." You can believe what you hear if you love soap operas or pro wrestling—if you love Storyline. Yesterday aftern … | Continue reading
Our house came with a 36-inch gas range made by Bertazzoni that sat flush to the counter/cabinets, which looked clean, but an inflexible and inappropriate-for-us set of burner sizes. The cooktop was also a little tight on space and it was sometimes tough to use more than two pans … | Continue reading
Well, not full-on ‘sick’, lest Rishi Sunak denounce me as a participant in ‘sick note culture’, but definitely down with a cold, and too unwell to run in the mornings. Thursday night I did go to the annual parish meeting, where my team rector announced his paln to retire by the e … | Continue reading
The former U.S. ambassador and daughter of the music industry’s ‘Black Godfather’ discusses grief, grace, and her radical response to a shocking crime. | Continue reading
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The company has already made headway toward its goal, slashing pollution by 12% in the latest financial year. IKEA announces plan to curb its pollution by 50% at end of decade: 'It's still going to be challenging and a lot of hard work' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
With influences such as Mac Miller, Still Woozy and Rex Orange County, Jonah Spitz is definitely taking the right steps and making music that sounds organic, new and fresh. | Continue reading
Cheers, I say to the loft floor raising the little espresso cup the Nurse bought me, and I […] | Continue reading
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the features and performance needed at that price point are lacking The post Trek CARBACK Smart Rear Radar Tail Light Opinion appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though. He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachus … | Continue reading
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The well didn't contain gas, but it did burrow deep enough to reach the hotter layers of stone under the ground. Former Shell employees resurrect dead well in 'monumental' move for geothermal energy: 'Big step change for humanity' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Using lasers and metal powder, Australian scientists have created a super strong, super lightweight new “metamaterial” — but they got the idea for this sci fi-sounding creation from plants. The challenge: Materials that are strong yet lightweight, such as carbon fiber and graphen … | Continue reading
Yesterday morning, I woke up with my eye feeling weird. That is not the first time that happened. I have pretty severe allergies and I'll often wake up with crusty, itchy eyes. I chalked it up to that very thing. However, later in the morning when I went to brush my teeth, I noti … | Continue reading
This is the twenty-seventh part of a fiction serial, in 802 words. As the weather cooled down that year, things were hotting up at Craigie House. They now had a whole department supplying and altering genuine French clothing for agents to wear. It was all thought through, even th … | Continue reading
This is the twenty-seventh part of a fiction serial, in 802 words. As the weather cooled down that year, things were hotting up at Craigie House. They now had a whole department supplying and altering genuine French clothing for agents to wear. It was all thought through, even th … | Continue reading
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I’ve said this before, but I need to keep repeating it based on the number of queries I get. nvALT is at end of life, unless someone picks up the reigns and modernizes the (open source) code base. As it stands now, nvALT barely functions on modern OSs. Fletcher Penney and I have … | Continue reading
The tinkering urge is strong, and I saw a website today that made me (somewhat impulsively) go and get rid of the Jekyll links and notes collections I’ve been using for years. Why do this? Several reasons, some more valid than others. Said site had a great minimal look that I wan … | Continue reading
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The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced the nominees for The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy(R) Awards, and The Walt Disney Company has received 39 nominations for its branded networks and shows. ABC’s long-running “General Hospital” received the most no … | Continue reading
Nearly four years ago, we learned Disney was hoping to get a movie about its Space Mountain ride off the ground and into theaters. A lot’s happened since then, but the studio’s apparently still determined to make this a reality, hence bringing on a new pair of writers to get the … | Continue reading
Frank Thorp V, Sahil Kapur and Ryan Nobles, NBC News: The Senate voted to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool the U.S. government describes as critical to combating terrorism, after defeating efforts by civil liberties advocates on the left and right to rein it in. The vote … | Continue reading
John Gruber, in 2020: Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. They talk in circles but their argument boils down to e … | Continue reading
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Koh Ewe in Time: In a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever they can get rain, they’ll take it. United Arab Emirates authorities will often even try to make it rain—as they did earlier this week when the National Center of Meteorology dispatched planes to inject chem … | Continue reading
"And it looks clean, so even better." Lucky shopper stunned after finding popular kitchen appliance for mere dollars at local thrift store: 'Can't pass that up' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Air fryer potatoes are soft on the inside, crispy on the outside, and made for dipping. They're the perfect side for any meal! The post Air Fryer Potatoes appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading
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Chinese government hackers are constantly trying to infiltrate the computer systems of U.S. water treatment facilities and energy grids in a bid to be “pre-positioned” for inducing panic, according to an alarming new speech from FBI Director Christopher Wray. And given the succes … | Continue reading
Our blogging friend Shaily has a new book out on Kindle. Twelve short stories in her great style, and a really good price too, only £2.40. In the UK it is also free on Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback. Please read Shaily’s post for more details. | Continue reading
Our blogging friend Shaily has a new book out on Kindle. Twelve short stories in her great style, and a really good price too, only £2.40. In the UK it is also free on Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback. Please read Shaily’s post for more details. | Continue reading
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Trying this app called Drafts because I’m bored right now. | Continue reading
A review of HG Wells’ Little Wars. The book that changed the way tabletop wargames were played, and paved the way for the development of role-playing The post Little Wars of the Worlds | 2405 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
This came up in a discussion thread a few years ago. In response to some thoughts from Danielle Navarro about the importance of model checking, I wrote: This makes me think of an analogy between the following two things: – … Continue reading → | Continue reading
It was a bad week for Truth Social and the Tesla Cybertruck. Both showed that they might not be as great as Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought. This week also saw a terrifying AI video generator, major complaints about a dog-sitting app, and the retirement of a beloved robot. Che … | Continue reading
Spiro has the largest fleet of electric motorcycles on the roads in Africa. Spiro now has over 13,000 electric motorbikes and 40,000 swappable batteries in operation across Benin, Togo, Rwanda, and Kenya. Spiro says, to date, riders have collectively driven almost quarter of a bi … | Continue reading
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Are you watching For All Mankind? I hope so, because our regular reminders that you absolutely should be culminated this week with the news that Apple doesn’t just want more, but a whole extra show on top of what some of you already aren’t watching. But that’s not all this week—w … | Continue reading
Today we’re going to look at some of the ideas found in The Promise of Access by Daniel Greene. Specifically we’ll look at libraries and schooling and how mere access to technology without fundamental reform in the structures of society will not change much. This is a reader supp … | Continue reading
"It's an ongoing campaign." Home builders tenaciously lobby against energy-efficient updates to building codes — here's why first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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