Skip to content

Recently added blogs

Or see recently updated blogs

  1. Arriba blog NEW
    Chronicles the sailing adventures of Arriba, a Lightwave 38 sailing catamaran based in South Australia. By Alan Noble. 🇦🇺 More info

    Updated
    Cruise: West is Best
    When I lived in California, we used to say “West is best”, and I think the same is true of the West Coast of Australia. After a two-week intermission, we were excited to be back …
    By Alan Noble, 1,618 words
  2. Just Needs Varnish! NEW
    My ongoing wargames projects! By John. More info

    Updated
    Made In China Too!
    Following on from my last post are more steampunk/Victorian Science Fiction automatons. The picture above shows the Chinese automatons featured in the last post, but equipping a Japanese unit. New figures here are the automaton …
    By John@justneedsvarnish, 506 words
  3. Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire NEW
    🇬🇧 More info

    Updated
    Water Water, Celine Dion and a Boy with Heavy Bones
    Erm, what to write? Apologies, did I say that out loud? Well you can see by the photos that it has been raining a lot, with the sun seemingly on a sabbatical. It’s quite remarkable …
    By Test Valley River Keeper, 1,083 words
  4. Ancillary Review of Books NEW
    literature, culture, power, speculation. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated
    Meander, Curate, Lose: Review of Crystal King’s The Happiness Collector
    Susann Cokal Under Review:The Happiness Collector. Crystal King. MIRA, December 2025. “Humans have always fed themselves on a diet of fear,” declares Sophie, the enigmatic benefactor in Crystal King’s gleeful new novel, The Happiness Collector. …
    By susann cokal, 1,332 words
  5. Comet Over Hollywood NEW
    Home for classic movie lovers. By Jessica Pickens. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated
    Musical Monday: Stars on Parade (1946)
    It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share …
    By Jnpickens, 50 words
  6. Carol Peters poems
    🇺🇸 More info

    Updated
    Jan 13 2026
    the two gray squirrels might be puppet strungbound bound bound halt on two back feetnose at ice-furred snow survey stubbled fieldbound bound bound
    By Carol Peters, 23 words
  7. Molecular Design
    Controlling the behavior of compounds and materials by manipulation of molecular properties. More info

    Updated
    Hit to Lead best practice?
    I'm now in Trinidad and I'll share a 180° panorama from Paramin where I walk for exercise. This district in Trinidad's Northern Range is renowned for its agriculture and the most excellent produce is grown …
    By Peter Kenny, 7,986 words
  8. One Starry Night
    A cozy constellation of stories, stardust, nostalgia, and chronic illness adventures. Still sparkling since 2001. By Sarah DiLullo. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated
    Still Alive a Year Later
    Today marks one year since my rare cancer discovery. Since that diagnosis and massive life-threatening surgery, only my best friend, her daughter, my teenage son, and, to a lesser degree, my oldest son have given …
    By Sarah, 568 words
  9. Infinite Regress
    Clinical trials, cancer research, book reviews, coffee making, photography, and the like. By Miloš Miljković. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated
    2026-02-16 16:49
    🍿 Sinners (2025) was as good as it gets, particularly if you are into horror-lite, From Dusk Till Dawn-type action movies that carry an added poignant message or three. What was it about 2025 that …
    45 words
  10. Carlos Roldán • Blog
    Technology or anything else. By Carlos Roldán, researcher, entrepreneur and hobbyist. 🇪🇸 More info

    Updated
    Tensei: a teleportation sokoban
    Two weeks ago, I participated in the Seville Global Game Jam (GGJ), developing a game in 48 hours with @Pabletos: The theme was mask, so we built a Sōkoban-style puzzle game centered on pushing statues. …
    205 words
  11. Every Day Is Like Wednesday
    A freelance writer and long time comics blogger based in Ohio. By J. Caleb Mozzocco. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated
    How Detective Chimp got so smart and solved his first case (at least according to 1989's Secret Origins #40)
    In a previous post about Detective Chimp, we learned how it was that he and his fellow 1950s animal hero Rex the Wonder Dog gained their remarkable longevity (Spoiler: It was the Fountain of Youth). …
    By Caleb, 941 words
  12. theHigherGeometer
    …higher geometry, a kind of an amalgamation of geometry/topology and category theory. I also dabble in topos-theoretic foundational issues. By David Michael Roberts. 🇦🇺 More info

    Updated
    PSA: a category satisfying all but the smallness condition from Giraud’s theorem…
    …is called an infinitary pretopos. Once you add the existence of a small set of generators then Giraud’s theorem applies and you know you have a Grothendieck topos. A pretopos can even have a subobject …
    By David Roberts, 474 words
  13. prior probability
    Hey, where did you get your priors? By F. E. Guerra-Pujol. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated
    Adam Smith, the Bank of Amsterdam, and the folly of trade balances
    Happy Lunar New Year! Tucked in between Parts 1 and 2 of Chapter 3 of Book IV of The Wealth of Nations is Adam Smith’s “Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of Amsterdam” …
    By F. E. Guerra-Pujol, 642 words
  14. roughghosts
    words, images and musings on life, literature and creative self expression. By Joseph Schreiber. 🇨🇦 More info

    Updated
    The church that falls again will rise again: A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness
    This is the story of a church, one that exists whether it is standing or not. Standing high above the Mosfellsdalur Valley in southwest Iceland, not far from the nation’s capital, Mosfell Church has, at …
    By roughghosts, 85 words
  15. tonsky.me
    Here I write about programming and UI design. By Nikita Prokopov. 🇩🇪 More info

    Updated
    Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше
    С Ильей Бирманом провожаем Алана Дая, вспоминая, в чём состоят достижения Мака, Джобса и ХИГа (но и Винду добрым словом тоже вспоминаем).
    By Nikita Prokopov, 31 words

See more, or see recently updated blogs