this week’s popular posts
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Shortly following a reversal of government policy seen to have been an abuse of public resources and encouraged waste with free running w... -
Via Kottke, we are directed to a thoughtful essay by Josh Collinsworth comparing the quest for the Philosophers’ Stone (previously here ... -
content without context : think twice before making that AI generated video—especially featuring a cameo of yourself things that aren’t d... -
Having written on the subject of curio cabinets quite extensively beforehand (see here and here ), exhibits public and private exhibits... -
As our faithful chronicler reminds on this day in 1977, the last Christmas special of Bing Crosby aired on CBS on this day in 1977, the... -
Whilst LEDs had been in use since the early 1960s as electronic components, with applications in remote control circuits, converting a pu... -
The misogynist rhetoric directed towards female politicians and journalists is nothing new and Trump does not have a monopoly on using dis... -
Courtesy of the always fascinating Maps Mania that delivers a new and novel way of embarking on a wiki-walk ( see previously ) by usi... -
The always interesting Present /&/ Correct (do check out their sundries), directs our an auction catalogue of antique vending and gu... -
For this first Advent, marking the transition from Ordinary Time ( tempus per annum , that is the countdown weeks of the big seasons of Chr...