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Ogg (behind the scenes)

Behind the scenes with Ogg and Blender

Last summer, my youngest and I created our own muppet character as a pandemic project. Ogg is a muppet-style caveman character, complete with muppety ...

A comic look at the history of typos
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Plot Yoyos – You Can Never Go Back
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The first-page idiot test
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For Readers

Soft-serve Sci-Fi

Over the course of my lifetime, science fiction has gone from a niche-market storyform aimed at geeks and propeller-heads to a cultural juggernaut con...

Reports from other lands: The Haunting of Hill House
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When memory fails
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Gnomileshi boy in Gash-Garnok village
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Announcements

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Ogg Celebrates A Milestone

They say the first step in battling an addiction is admitting you have one, but why are people constantly quoting that at me lately? It’s true t...

Ogg is moving to YouTube
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Ogg at the art gallery
A caveman comments on the modern world
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The snarky llama is back!
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Creativity Hacks

FlipGrip in the hand

FlipGrip: Read books while running. No, seriously.

Guitar string vibrating

Vibrating a guitar string in Blender

the cable wrangler

Cable Wrangler for the DM6000AR multimeter

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Dopplerender: A turbo boost for Blender animation render...
August 8 - 12 comments
Exopod in action
Exopod: The flat-pack display stand for books
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NordicTrack without keyboard
NordicTray: an integrated keyboard table for the NordicT...
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