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🎉 10 years old today!

1. Boris Dralyuk
   Essays, Translations, and Other Writings. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated a month ago

   The May issue of Poetry magazine featured my little essay on the poetry of nostalgia, in which I characterized myself as being “[m]ore susceptible to the pull of the past than many of those around …

🥳 Five years old today!

1. Stephen Knight Photography
   Articles and Tutorials on Light Painting Techniques. Reviews and Buying Guides for Flashlights, Torches, and Light Painting Tools. 🇦🇺 More info

   Updated 21 hours ago

   My biggest photographic passion is light painting. With over a decade of experience, I am one of Australia's most prominent light painting photographers. This genre of photography can be defined by the "intentional addition of …

🛎 First post in over a year!

1. Logo Design Love, 4 hours ago, more info

   This illustrative logo for a chain of Japanese restaurants caught my eye. It was designed by Egor Zhgun of Art. Lebedev Studio in 2014. The studio’s case study dates back a while but you can catch that here. The triple meaning makes the design — the chopsticks in hand, the red-crowned crane, and the rising sun. The crane is a Japanese symbol of longevity and good fortune, so it hints …

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1. The Unique Guitar Blog
   I love the guitar and want to share my knowledge with as many people as I can. By Marc O'Hara. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 2 days ago

   Young Dean ZelinskyDean Guitars are perhaps one of the most interesting guitar stories that I have run across in the past 16 years that I have been writing these articles. The company was started by …

2. Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA)
   Aims to share a variety of perspectives from a broad array of APA members, to highlight the activities being undertaken by the APA…. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 11 hours ago

   David Bather Woods is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, particularly philosophical pessimism, ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of evil. He has …

3. The Collection Chamber
   Many games and movies are held within the Collection Chamber's vault, unseen by modern means. It's time for them to be released. By Biffman 101, HeroOfAvalon. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated a month ago

   After a chaotic couple of months, I'm trying to get to some semblance of normality come May's close. And so, I bring you the return of the Monthly 5. Pick of the month is the …

4. Asking the Wrong Questions
   By Abigail Nussbaum. 🇮🇱 More info

   Updated a week ago

   Sometimes I make very odd reading decisions. For example, in late March of this year, a time when I was regularly running for shelter ahead of Iranian missiles, I made the inexplicable choice to read …

5. The Strolling Bones
   This and That. By The Essex Scribbler. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated 6 days ago

   Up on the north Norfolk coast again, thirty miles of endless sand dunes, marshes and reedbeds, bursting with wildlife and yes, very, very big skies.I was on the hunt for thick lipped mullet, or at …

6. Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
   A personal view of the theory of computation. By Dick Lipton. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 2 months ago

   The Question I recently restarted working on this CS theory blog. One reason that I took a bit to get it going again is really stupid. Really silly. And perhaps I should not talk about …

7. Dyson's Dodecahedron
   Award Winning Dungeon Design. More info

   Updated 16 hours ago

   Illo by Mikołaj Ratajczak Scavengers’ Deep Compiled 1-32 The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when …

8. Tellyspotting
   Your Home for British Comedy, UK Television and More. By Bill Young. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated a week ago

   The FIFA World Cup 2026 has definitely entered the building here in the U.S. In just the first week, fans across the country have witnessed a near perfect effort from the U.S. team in Los …

9. Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
   The Undiscovered Mythos. By Bobby Derie. More info

   Updated 2 days ago

   Writer Margaret St. Clair (1911-1995) was often described as a writer ahead of her time, as well as one whose work was, in Ramsey Campbell’s words “startlingly original.” Her work is often characterized as ‘weird …

10. Rick's Blog
    Stuff I find interesting. By Rick Osgood. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated a week ago

    Overview A long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with …

11. Retro Arcadia
    The games that made us. All the way back to the 1970s. By stvnorman. More info

    Updated 5 days ago

    Back again for my regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both. Not a huge amount going …

12. Tom The Dancing Bug Page
    The weekly satirical comic strip by Ruben Bolling. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated a week ago

    Here is a 2004 comic I did about the hypocrisy of conservative moralizing. Is it good for humans to act naturally, or not? The post The Natural World of Nature first appeared on Tom The …

13. Abominations
    Where I interview independent artists and occasionally opine on topics related to music. By Marc Schuster. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated a week ago

    Just finished reading Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day. It’s been on my bookshelf for almost twenty years. Still has the bookmark from Borders Books, which is in some ways appropriate because it’s about, among many …

14. Where Were They Now?
    Seeking out Britain's pioneering video games houses. By Sham Mountebank. 🇬🇧 More info

    Updated 5 days ago

    The way in which companies go bust is often telling, There are, of course, very strict legal rules covering the matter, but they are often easy to get around. Bug-Byte's receivers informed all creditors (including …

15. Small Observations
    A notebook of street art I've enjoyed. By Jonathan Deamer. 🇬🇧 More info

    Updated 6 days ago

    Photorealistic mural of a man whose eyes are covered from the sides by a pair of hands, on Jamaica Street. 2026.

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