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The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe You’re cringing already, right?

Built in 1899 by the Czech architect Dušan Jurkovič, known as “the poet of timber” for his woodwork, the cottage and hotel are a lively combination of Czech-Slavic heritage and the Art Nouveau style of the time.

If a baby pigeon is found within 50 cubits of a coop, it is presumed to belong to the owner of that coop.

I’d provide readings in various aspects of medieval astrology.

(the proper DOI link) I’m partially linking this just because it was so irritating to find that my old annotation now pointed to a paywall.

I have been pondering what use I could make of a typeface designed to emulate the little pixel text used on tiny, tiny displays or icons.

On the memorial page to my dog Heloïse that it’s intentional you can’t find from the top level of my website, the MIDI the gramophone plays – rollicking!

I walk by a Holzer installation as part of my commute, sometimes stop, pick a maxim for the day.

The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on.

Rituals?

I think I’ve pointed to Elliott before.

This is all done by a Quirky Personal Site Haver (really: don’t miss the main site!)

In short, science classes pair a description of our best knowledge at the present with a story of discovery of how we came to know what we know now, with the clear implication that this method is how we will continue to discover new things.

If you make your phone interface more annoying to navigate, you use it less.

16 years of commenting has made me zero friends.

As an example, I recently wanted to subscribe to the RawTools newsletter.

I’ve pointed to Jillian’s website indirectly before, but go and enjoy this idle game!

There are four cards, a simple rule, and all you’ve got to do is to work out which cards you need to turn over to see if the rule has been broken.

One of the first material scientists I spoke to about making things that last for thousands of years offered a compelling insight: “Everything is burning, just at different rates.”

Poetry is no less a mystery than anything else on earth.

This is a review of a manifesto associated with a learning program.

The styles that defined Sailor Moon personal shrines and Cardcaptor Sakura LJ icon edits and so forth reached me before Animal Crossing (I was dropped out of college before meeting the latter) and are probably most formative in my sense of what letterforms

I don’t know how much we ought to trust this source but I’d definitely believed the included myths without any sources at all, so this may be of interest to others.

The ILC developed a database of tens of thousands of dissidents living in the Eastern Bloc and carefully targeted the books it sent.

Female velvet spiders exhibit a remarkable type of maternal care unique among arachnids.