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Photo of the Week: Portable Sawmill at Nichols Arboretum

by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro on lireo.comArticle

For the past few months, our local birding group has seen piles of large felled tree trunks in Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, near the Magnolia Collection. As we walked by last week, we saw piles of lengthwise wood planks finished on two sides. This week we saw a portable sawmill in…

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d100 - Wilderness Resources

by ktrey on blog.d4caltrops.comArticle

F or my Wilderness Stocking – Expanded , we repurpose the “Treasure” results from the standard B/X Stocking Procedures to reflect a Resource that might be useful to the Players. While there are a few prompts included, I decided it might be helpful to flesh this out with a d100 Table of their own for…

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Don’t save the good stuff

by Herbert Lui on herbertlui.netArticle

My latest column for 3 Quarks Daily is live, entitled, “A Creative State of Mind Starts with Curiosity and Pronoia.” I’ve been wanting to explore these topics in a new book, but the way I was going about it wasn’t very useful. In the spirit of publishing before making it perfect the second time, I…

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Timeless Totemic Figures by Izumi Kato Coexist in an Otherworldly Aquatic Realm

by Kate Mothes on thisiscolossal.comArticle

The artist's eponymous solo exhibition opens tomorrow at Perrotin in New York. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Timeless Totemic Figures by Izumi Kato Coexist in an…

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Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics

on justinangel.netArticle

Hi folks, We’re all on constant voyage to better understand Windows Phone 7 and its delicate Consumer<->Developer balance. As part of that education I’ve download all Windows Phone 7 marketplace XAPs, performed analysis on them and am now sharing statistics with you. Downloading the WP7 Marketplace…

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Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition

by Grace Ebert on thisiscolossal.comArticle

There's no question we need to move away from fossil fuels. But who bears the cost of the green transition? Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’…

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Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch

by The Public Domain Review on publicdomainreview.orgArticle

Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly…

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lone wolf

by Nicky Case on blog.ncase.meInteractive

a short story about a werewolf who just wants to make some dang coffee

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