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1. Painted Pixels Blog
   Video games, retro stuff, and other otaku and geeky interests. By Toad64. More info

   Updated a month ago

   If I’ve been keeping up with my new Backloggd account I mentioned last month, and I think that I have, I have not played a large number of games this month. But that’s because most …

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1. Beautiful Public Data, 7 hours ago, more info

   A collection of beautiful, high-resolution photolog scans reveals a colorful world of pastel-colored cars and whimsical signage.The very first post of this newsletter back in 2022 was about Connecticut’s highway photologs from the 1980s. Photologs were essentially an early, film-based version of Google Street View. Almost every state had one of these photolog programs with tricked-out vans logging every mile of road in their state, with some dating back to …

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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 5 days ago

   Gay guitars!!!? Yes, you heard me right.And this article has nothing to do with Pride Month. Although I got to say, these guitars are rather flamboyant. And why isn't there a National Guitar Month? But …

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 20 hours ago

   Below is the audio recording of David Chalmers’s presidential address, “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models,” given at the 2023 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on …

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 5 days 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 3 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 a day ago

   Statue Skyrealm (300 dpi promo) This skyrealm has a real name given to it by the current resident, but when a skyrealm is surrounded by a slowly orbiting collection of statues (some more than 20 …

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

   Updated 5 days 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 hours 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 3 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 6 days 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 5 days 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 2 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 3 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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