Hey, Dreamwidth folks... I've syndicated Universe Factory, the blog of the Worldbuilding Stack Exchange community, here on DW. We started the blog late in 2015; you can see a complete list of posts, including some from me.

Some specific links:

- Fight Earnestly and Hit Them in the Gaps, two articles from a HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts) ( Read more... )

The g'mara spends a couple pages discussing tzedakah and ( Read more... )

Cool! I made the Stack Exchange Year in Review. :-)
If you enjoy analyzing data about the Stack Exchange network, 2016 was your year. Community member Monica Cellio wrote a tutorial about our data explorer, which is maintained by another community member, Tim Stone. A resident data scientist, David Robinson, released StackLite, a lightweight ( Read more... )

We now begin the last of the "Bavas", a trio of tractates related to torts and property claims. (I've been told that they were originally one very large tractate.)
Bava Batra begins by talking about fences ( Read more... )

We previously (2 days ago) learned in the mishna: if a man lends money ( Read more... )

Last week I went to the first session of Kulam Pittsburgh (warning: website design has, um, issues). "Kulam" means "all of us", and the goal is beit-midrash style learning for Jews of all flavors. I've experienced this style learning at Hebrew College, at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and select other places, but it hasn't been very available to ( Read more... )

A Glassdoor review of a former employer includes these two bits: Pro: You can get lost in the masses with over 90,000 employees. Great for under-achievers.
Con: Lots of dead wood.
C'mon, pick a side. :-) Originally posted at http://cellio.dreamwidth.org/1994519.html.
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If somebody wishes to sell his field, the talmud applies a law of ( Read more... )

Dear Brain Trust,
The (local, paper) newspaper that I subscribed to recently shut down its print operation. I basically subscribed for three things: local news, grocery coupons (paid for the subscription easily), and the comics page. I'm looking for an online replacement for the comics page.
I've been using comics.com, which has many of the ( Read more... )

A lot of us now have OpenID accounts at Dreamwidth, which means we can log in to Dreamwidth using a Livejournal credential. This allows a Dreamwidth user to give a Livejournal user access to locked posts. These IDs are of the form "name.livejournal.com". For example, here is mine.

A lot of us also have native Dreamwidth accounts, which we log ( Read more... )