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"In the last 10 days, I’ve spent $21, repeatedly drained my phone battery, and blown a deadline for the first time in years—all so I could play a game for which I have absolutely no aptitude. I’ve been tapping away at Candy Crush Saga on the subway (like half of New York), in front of the television, and, yes, in the bathroom for countless hours, and despite all that expense and devotion, I’m stuck at Level 38." -- June Thomas, Slate

Another great outsider musician named Daniel, Dan Knudsen is just as sincere, child-like, likeable, odd and God-fearing as D. Johnston, minus the mental-illness related drama and trauma (so far as I know). In spite, or maybe because of the fact that this janitor at a YMCA couldn't be more different from other Portland, Maine punk/industrial/avant artists, he's championed by this small-but-tightknit scene, doing shows with him after he started appearing at open mics, backing him live, even putting together a tribute covers album.

Knudsen's many wonderful releases are now up for free streaming/buying, all featuring his cheap xeroxed album covers, his acoustic guitar (and some rinky-dink electronics), and his high 'n' homely voice. They can be addictive - I've found myself playing one of his EPs after another. 

The six track "Beaches and Zoos" from 2005 is as good a place to start as any - in the somewhat creepy sing-along opener, Knudsen insists that he won't hurt you ("Your face will never be black and bluuuue! Aren't you glad, aren't you glad?"); both "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Lord of The Rings" are summarized in song; the Jonathan Richman-like title track promises numerous visits to, you got it, beaches and zoos, with some truly unique lyrical rhyming (e.g.: "USA" and "Flori-day"); and when you do go to the beach, once again, you have nothing to fear: "The Sharks are Gone!" Few performers could so unselfconsciously sing lines like: "I'm well-trained and skilled in aquatic safety," but Knudsen makes it all seem so natural.

The Dan Knudsen story began with 2000's lo-fi "Sunsong," six painfully sincere tales of love and heartbreak. "Grass, Grain, and Appleseeds" from 2002 has one of my favorite oddities from the Knudsen oeuvre, the spacey "We Are Not Alone." The beautiful title song sums up life as well as any. The chorus of "Rockin' On The Railroad" sounds a little too much like Neil Young's "Rockin In The Free World" to be a coincidence, just as "Rain Falls Outside My Window" appears to be a bizarre re-write of John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulder" ("If the rain falls thru a hole in my roof, it will make me drown...") [UPDATE 7/9/13: re "Rockin' On The Railroad", got an email from a reader who noticed "If you listen to the guitar riff, it sounds very similar to the Traveling Wilbury's "At the end of the line". And guess what is featured in the Wilbury's youtube video of the song?? They are singing the song while riding on a train.  Coincidence?!]

The catchy title track to 2011's "Lost Airways" finds him taking a flight, looking forward to seeing family and friends, worrying about terrorist attacks, and singing: "It's almost a six mile altitude/the roar of the engines sounds real rude" over guitars and cheezy Casios. He also points out that "We All Make Mistakes."

Advanced students may want to move on to "Outer Space," a sci-fi fantasy that's pretty out-there, in all senses of the phrase.

Sweet and guileless, utterly without pretension or show-biz posturing, with a slightly ominous undercurrent that keeps it from being too corny and wholesome...count me in as another "DanFan."

Dan Knudsen's Bandcamp page

Basic Role-Playing, the system which underlies Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, Pendragon, Runequest and a buncha other games has this mechanic: you have a stat, you try to roll equal or under it.

For head to head contests, there's this system: both parties try to roll as high as possible without going over their stat.

Here is the first point I want to make about this system: it's awesome.

1. It can be explained immediately and easily to new players.

2. It requires no charts to look anything up.

3. It requires no addition or subtraction.  (Here it beats my go-to spot mechanic: both sides roll the same die and you add your whole score.)

4. (Therefore) You immediately know if you succeeded or failed.

5. It can work on ability scores scaled to any die (You could build a game where your stats ranged 1-10 and roll a d10 and it'd still work). Which means you could use it in any system that rates abilities in numbers of any kind.

6. It respects high scores in detail--for every pip your score goes up, your chances get a little better. So you can use it in a campaign-oriented game where PCs slowly improve by steps.

7. It has a degrees-of-success system built in: there's fumble (rolling the max score), failure (rolling over), weak success (rolling under but not better than the other guy or--with a slight hack--a static opposing target number), success (rolling under), mega success (rolling exactly your score).

8. It requires no derived numbers. Like a score of 17 is a score of 17, not 17 (+3) or 17 (+1). (Like, ok, a lot of non-D&D systems.)
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For some reason, despite all the intertalk you hear about folks clinging to various old D&D rules purely out of nostalgia even when the rule in question is patently useful, folks rarely bring up the fact that this rule pretty much beats the hell out of D&Ds: d20-add-derived-numbers-roll-high-meet-a-target-number (and sometimes also roll under or roll a d6 trying to meet a derived number instead).

Why? Because nearly everyone who would make it is either still using the d20-roll-high system (WOTC D&Ds keep it) or is using some other less-elegant system that, if we're honest, is probably only still being used (if it was invented before BRP) out of nostalgia or (if it was invented after BRP) out of pure neophilia or just a desire to avoid a lawsuit from Chaosium.

The system has, for all the parameters above, never been beat. Lots and lots of games don't use it--very few don't use it for any kind of good reason.

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It does have two drawbacks I can immediately think of:

1-You don't try to roll as high as possible. People like that 00 or 20 means something good. Or at least they seem to.

2-Not every player is trying to hit the exact same set of numbers when they roll, so you can't add bonus fun where you key the die roll to a table where, say 1 always means This and rolling your score always means That and rolling 15 always means The Other Thing.

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(Here's a roll-high variant that solves both of those problems: you try to roll as high as possible. If your roll is lower than your score in the relevant stat, you get to roll again, once. It creates new problems--the most obvious one is possibly having to roll twice. It'd work well for something like DCC spell checks.)

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(Some of you may be eyeballing "Roll as high as possible or take your stat, whichever is highest" but that's a drag because basically if the GM wrote the adventure, the GM knows in advance if the PC will win any contest with a static target so you're basically just deciding what will happen when you write the adventure.)

Another observation:

I've played games that work the BRP way, and then, hours later, played games with less elegant resolution systems. Y'know what? You don't much notice the difference in play. At a certain point these things just don't matter that much. I mean: if you were building a language from scratch you probably would spell "would" differently---but it works out alright anyway.
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Movie and comedy superstar Eddie Murphy has teamed up with Snoop Lion (still busy promoting his reinvention from Hip Hop star to reggae singer) to record a a very catchy and timely song about racial profiling in the age of stop and frisk and the Trayvon Martin murder trial.

The reggae track, titled 'Redlight', is credited to "Eddie Murphy ft Snoop Lion aka Snoop Dogg." It was uploaded to YouTube on June 27th backed by a video featuring footage of Snoop and Murphy in the recording studio.

“Redlight, stop right there where you are,” Murphy sings. “Emancipation [gone], race relations [gone], all our rebels are gone.” He later name-checks the loss of leaders like Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King.

Best known as a comedian and the star of the Beverly Hills Cop movies, Murphy kept up a sporadic recording career in the '80s and '90s, releasing three albums and scoring a U.S. Number Two hit single with 1985's 'Party All The Time', which was produced by Rick James.

From the Daily Kennebec Journal - Aug 23, 1928:


Although the article says the trillions of marks were acquired during World War I, that must be wrong. The period of German hyperinflation occurred from 1921-1924.

Developer Bruno R. Marcos (Maximus Action Carnage, Cavenaut) has released the sequel to 1984's 8-bit hit, Bruce Lee, recreating the visuals rather faithfully. While the high score mechanism is gone in Bruce Lee II, super tough platforming sequences and aggressive enemies remain. Headset warning: the game's audio will kill your ears, especially during boot up.

How close to the original is Bruce Lee II? Feel free to play Bruno's new game and compare it to this YouTube video, to see for yourself. And if you enjoy your experience, consider going back to the dev's site and donating some cash via Paypal.

[source: @bruneras_com]

 Nature abhors a vacuum, a truism that seems very evident in the current race in the marketplace to replace Google Reader when the doomed service closes down for good on July 1.

For a service that Google felt was too much of a bother to keep running for its users, building the next great RSS newsreader tool seem to be the summer's big event in the technology world. The "race" metaphor seem particularly apt, with competitors employing terms like countdown clocks and finish line - all tied around that fateful July 1 date.

As June draws to a close, the contenders in the race are popping up fast and furious, each trying to grab eyeball share from the vast diaspora of Google Reader users that are currently looking for a new home to gather information via automated news feeds created by publishers. Here's the state of the race thus far.

In The Homestretch

For anyone wondering what the fuss is about, newsreaders are software applications or online services that monitor syndicated feeds—typically using formats such as RSS, or Rich Site Summary, or Atom—from subscribed websites. Subscribe to a site's news feed, and any time the site publishes new content, the content pops up in the newsreader, all nice and aggregated in one place.

There are a variety of newsreader services out there, some meant to be installed as software on your computer or smartphone, and others based online. Over the years, the marketplace started to lean heavily on Google's Reader offering, which was widely regarded as not only being the best tool to use, but also had a growing community of users that would become as tight-knit and passionate about sharing content and information as Google ever hoped its Google+ network could be.

So popular was Google Reader, software was built that used Google's service as a source. NextGen Reader for Windows, Press for Android and Reeder for OS X and iOS. With the closure of Google Reader, those apps' users will need to look for a new home, along with anyone else tied directly or indirectly into Google Reader.

The Call Of The Race

Here is where the race stands as of today:

• Digg, the venerable link sharing and news aggregation site, is in beta mode for a new Digg Reader they've had in development since Google announced the shutdown of Reader in March. Their countdown clock is showing the days until July 1, but the beta for their new tool is already out, and various media sources are indicating that the full version will be ready to go sometime this week.

• AOL - yes, that AOL - has launched its own Reader service today, complete with importation of feeds and an application programming interface so other developers might tie their apps into AOL's feeds, just as apps were doing with Google Reader. The service, like that of Digg's, is in beta now. Notably, the AOL Reader's API is free of charge to use now, but the implication is that this will change.

• Feedly, a pre-existing service that seems to the heir apparent to Google Reader, is quickly updating its service on both the web and mobile interfaces. Since Feedly was already a player in this space, they have a head start on catching many migrating Google Reader users. Last week, they launched a new Web interface that promises a more Reader-like experience.

There are likely to be more RSS-oriented services to come in the days ahead. App.net developer Alex Kessenger has been noodling around the topic of a newsreader of late, so it would not be a surprise to see some effort from that quarter.

Is Anyone Watching The Finish?

Aggregated content was once the sole domain of newsreaders that relied on RSS and Atom feeds from Web sites. But now there are broader aggregation tools that use not just RSS newsreader feeds but also aggregated content from social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Flipboard is a flagship example of this kind of aggregator, which represents a threat to "plain" RSS newsreader technology.

Facebook is jumping into this expanded aggregation service, the Wall Street Journal is reporting today: "The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tailored for mobile devices, people with knowledge of the matter said."

Such applications will challenge the traditional RSS readers, especially where users are more mobile-oriented. That will make a difference in this race to capture Google Reader users, because if such meta-aggregation services are draining the RSS aggregation world of users, then this may be a race where no one will be watching to see who won.

“We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader.” – Google, March 2013. 

Today, Google Reader’s remaining users will “Mark All As Read” one last time. There are two schools of thought on Google’s decision to move on from its aging RSS aggregator, never adopted by the mainstream: one, that’s it’s pretty much the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet. Ever! And two: who cares?

Even though I count myself as someone who falls into that earlier group, it’s hard to argue against Google’s thinking in the matter. Following websites using RSS feeds is just not something the “normals” do. So an RSS reader like Google’s remained in the hands of the tech elite, the domain of the I.T. crowd, the programmers, the researchers, the journalists.

The rest of the world merely surfs the web, and now they just tweet.

But Google Reader was special because it was one of the last remaining places on the Internet you could really call your own. In every other way, the nature of news reading on the web these days and the social services that now dominate your attention are crafted by others who dictate what you will read and when. Whether browsing through an editorially run news site, parsing your Twitter stream or reading your Facebook News Feed, the links before you are those that others have deemed important.

There’s value in this signal, of course – a sense of what’s trending in the larger world allows for serendipitous discovery. But it’s also a relinquishing of control. Oh sure, you can choose who to follow, but it’s not the same as choosing which news news sources’ feeds you will subscribe, why, and how often you will read them.

In Google Reader, I’ve gleefully stuffed websites into collections like “B-List” and “C-List” and “Can’t Miss” and “Panic Button,” instead of more proper names like “top tech sites” or “Apple bloggers.” It’s my decision which headline collections get scanned with a glance, and which writers will see me devouring their every word.

Meanwhile on Twitter, every missive is as important as the one that preceded it. A photo of your cat. News from the war. A beautiful sunset on Instagram. A government overthrown. It’s a real-time firehouse of information that you dip into as you can. There’s no unread count. You just refresh and refresh and refresh for more.

Days Until Cancellation: 0

Having never caught on as a social network in its own right outside of a niche group of users, Google Reader couldn’t rival something like Twitter. The writing was on the wall for its demise when Google ripped out the social features in the product back in October 2011 in order to make room for deeper integration with Google’s newer social network Google+.

The move, essentially a big @#$% you to Reader’s small but highly engaged audience of users, may have come as a surprise to some, but with the internal thinking at Google, perhaps it was a miracle that Reader was being given any sort of development attention at all.

In the definitive recounting of Google Reader’s history here on BuzzFeed, Brian Shih, who became Reader Product Manager in fall 2008, spoke of how the team had to fight internally for what, in terms of Google’s scale, was a really, really, really small project. “Someone hung a sign in the Reader offices that said “DAYS SINCE LAST THREAT OF CANCELLATION.” The number was almost always zero,” he said.

At Google, senior execs only cared about absolute user numbers, not on growth or market share.

But even though Google Reader could never compete in numbers with Gmail or other Google products, it wiped out the market of RSS competitors, while letting its 800-pound gorilla sit and rot.

Today, Google is too busy trying to change the world with self-driving cars and face computers, search engines that think for you and a balloon-powered Internet to care about Google Reader. It’s thinking of how to dominate mobile and connect the next 5 billion users to the web – lofty goals that leave no time for a silly little product from Web 2.0′s early days.

At least by shutting down Reader, Google is admitting that its stewardship in this area has failed.

Google can’t – and no longer wants to – do it all.

We’ve seen evidence of that already in the systematic shutdowns of other dated, stagnant services through Google’s “Spring Cleanings.” Google Reader was not the first, nor will it be the last that fails to survive these cuts. Google Alerts and Feedburner are other prime candidates at this point.

We’re retiring Reader on July 1. We know many of you will be sad to see it go. Thanks for 8 great years! http://t.co/0jtSqBnORp

— Google Reader (@googlereader) March 13, 2013

Ever since Google’s announcement this spring, many new services have stepped up to help fill the void Google Reader leaves behind, but none will ever fill its shoes. None of those that now vie to become the new incumbent even have search built in, for example. A few promise “yeah, it’s coming” but too many startups begging for a second look think that merely supporting RSS feeds makes them a Google Reader clone.

Google Reader wasn’t a list of things to read. It wasn’t a collection of RSS feeds.

It was your own, personal Google. A search engine built on top of the sites you cared about. A Google News with the stories you wanted to see. A taxonomy where you chose the labels, and drove the SEO. Google Reader was your web, your slice of the Internet.

Social media, now, is theirs.

Reader’s death isn’t the end of a product, it’s the end of an era. We have protested, bargained, begged, and cried. Now we have to accept and adapt.

Google Reader, thank you for eight great years.

Goodbye.

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OK kids, it's time. Throw this on in one tab http://t.co/Mj3njMeWZn open "All Items" in @GoogleReader & "Mark all as read" One. Last. Time.

— Jason Shellen (@shellen) July 1, 2013

The NY Times Real Estate section is the Rosencrantz to the Style Section's Guildenstern, the yin and yang of out-of-touch manufactured high class trend stories. This weekend, the world's most unintentionally hilarious newspaper put forth yet another brilliant missive about the struggles of the oh so rich centered around a particularly relatable concern: "You are seeing people ask themselves: Do I have an affair, get a divorce or get a downtown apartment?" said Michele Kleier, the president and chairwoman of Kleier Residential. "It has become a very sexy thing to do, especially for those people living a sedate Park Avenue lifestyle." [ more › ]

100 Books that SHOULD be Written

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Now that the first half of 2013 is over, here’s an update on the search-engine market in China: Google is now at fifth place and only has 2.13 percent of the traffic share in terms of page views, while Chinese search giant Baidu has also been been on a steady decline with less than 70 percent of the share now.

According to data from CNZZ (via Tech in Asia), Google has been shedding its search market share in China steadily. It slid from fourth place to fifth place in March, and its traffic share in terms of page-views for June has declined by nearly a full percentage point from the same month a year ago.

At the same time, Baidu is also coming under intense rivalry from other players in the search market, particularly new entrant Qihoo, which launched its search engine in August last year and quickly jumped into second place. Back in November, CEO Zhou Yongyi set his sights on a 15 to 20 percent share of the market, enough to “destroy” Baidu’s monopoly. In June, it crossed the 15 percent mark.

Currently, Qihoo’s search engine occupies 15.26 percent of traffic share in terms of page-views, tipping Baidu off its pedestal as the latter has fallen below 70 percent — with 69.37 percent of the share. Earlier this year, Qihoo’s Zhou expressed his ambition for the company’s search engine to reach 20 percent market share by the end of this year, and it seems to be on track to do so.

Sohu’s Sogou and Tencent’s Soso occupy third and fourth place respectively, with Sogou taking 8.83 percent of the traffic share and Soso having 3.4 percent.

Google’s steady decline does not come as much of a surprise since it left the Chinese search market in 2010. However, Baidu – once a monopoly in the market with an 80 percent share – has been experiencing a rather surprising change in fortune as Qihoo’s entrance has posed one of the first credible threats to Baidu’s position.

Despite focusing on mobile and revealing that it hit 100 million daily active users on its mobile search product in Q1 2013, Baidu’s earnings fell short of analyst expectations with $961 million in revenue and adjusted earnings per share of $1.00. It is expected that competition between Qihoo and Baidu will be fierce, and the coming Chinese search war will be waged on the mobile front.

Image Credit: Feng Li via Getty Images

As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts http://nyti.ms/17RhbXH

 

Your refrigerator needs a few inches of space on the hinge side in order for the door to open fully. If there’s a wall on that side it means you leave a gap. A bit of lumber and some inexpensive hardware can turn that gap into a pull-out pantry.

This picture is from [Ratmax00's] pantry project. He had a 6.5″ gap to work with and started the build by making a wooden frame using pocket screws for the butt joints. Four casters were added to the bottom to make it roll in and out easily. He needed a handle and a way to make sure commodities didn’t fall off the shelves. He chose to use a 3D printer for brackets that hold the fence dowels and a custom handle. If you don’t have that just hit the cabinet hardware aisle at your local home store.

We wonder if it would have been possible to use full-extension draw rails mounted above and below the cabinet in addition to a couple of wheels? This would help keep the pantry from scraping against the fridge or the wall.

While you’re building bookshelf sized things why not get to work on a hidden door as well?

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Hordes of Coney Island tourists no longer have to fear getting crushed by our very own Swaying Tower of Pisa, the Coney Island Astrotower, thanks to the partial dismantling of the half-century-old structure this week. It's really quite sad for the gyro tower, in the course of two days having gone from being an impressive 275 feet to a mere 92 feet. O, how the giants fall! [ more › ]

The Complete Marvel Reading Order is a website representing one man's attempt to figure out what order a picky reader should follow if attempting to reading the entirety of Marvel Comics' in-continuity canon. You can check the entire list, commencing with "Fantastic Four #1" from 1961, or filter on particular titles, characters, or story arcs. The site is highly customizable and also includes an active blog and links to two different site podcasts.

Anagramatron is a tumblr blog that hosts algorithmically detected pairs of twitter anagrams. [via mefi projects]

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata: "It may come as a shock to some of you that most gamers today can not finish the original Super Mario Brothers game. We have conducted this test over the past few years to see how difficult we should make our games and have found that the number of people unable to finish the first level is steadily increasing. This year, around 90 percent of the test participants were unable to complete the first level of Super Mario Brothers."

"Many (gamers) did not understand simple concepts like bottomless pits. Around 70 percent died to the first Goomba. Another 50 percent died twice. Many thought the coins were enemies and tried to avoid them. Also, most of them did not use the run button. There were many other depressing things we noted but I can not remember them at the moment.

So, as a stockholder, you should be relieved to know that our games are easier in order to attract a wider audience. As a gamer, you might feel a little sad, and you should be. It is quite sad." [via]

Tokyo Fashion Diaries reports on "tattoo stockings" that are apparently hot items this summer. They make their wearers appear to have elaborate tattoos up and down their legs -- a lower-limb twist on the tattoo sleeve shirts.

TATTOO STOCKINGS ARE STILL BOOMING IN JAPAN. HERE ARE SOME OF THE COOLEST (AND WEIRDEST?) FOR THIS SUMMER (translation)

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Now that she's stepped down from the board of the Science Fiction Writers of America after yeoman service, Mary Robinette Kowal is free to speak her mind about SFWA's small clutch of absolutely horrific trolls. She's called her post Dear Twelve Rabid Weasels of SFWA, please shut the fuck up. These people have dominated online science fiction forums since the 1980s, and appear to have taken up the cause of being rude and nasty as a permanent political ideology. It's not just SFWA, of course -- this is a microcosm for so many online worlds.

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See 11 minutes of Star Wars -- Dubbed into Navajo!

The Lone Ranger is now in movie theaters. Currently rated an amazingly low 23% at Rotten Tomatoes, this film is a train wreck. Even the horse is lousy. It could be worse.

Abubakar Suleiman, a 15 year-old Boston student whose hobbies apparently include taking condescending local reporters for a ride. When one of the more august organs of the American press, the Boston Globe (founded 1872), came calling this week at his school in Boston's suburbs in order to tell his story, he was only too happy to provide them with some quite remarkable copy.via

Print textbooks still have a place, says Cengage Learning's chief executive. But as the company restructures, its focus will shift more toward digital products.

The words "stealth wear" have us thinking of James Bond, undercover spies and other people who don't want to be found. But it could become a fashion trend for the masses

One designer, Adam Harvey from the School of Visual Arts, has started designing products that make you invisible to technology. He has created, with the designer Johanna Bloomfield, a collection of counter-surveillance garments that includes a shirt to protect the heart from X-rays, clothing that blocks thermal imaging and pockets that cut out phone signals.

Harvey's interest in the clandestine began years ago when he was a party photographer. In an interview with Tank Magazine, he said, "I spent a lot of time photographing people who didn't always want to be photographed." Once Harvey realized the pictures he took could be used as a source of incriminating evidence, he turned to creating products that prevented that Read more...

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Transit Strike Shows the Dark Side of Silicon Valley’s Privatization Fetish http://nym.ag/168pBH2

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If I’ve learned anything from video games, it is that when you meet enemies, it means that you’re going in the right direction.

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Today the corner of Court and Pacific Streets is squarely in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood.

If you were standing here in the 17th century, however, you’d be in an enclave Dutch settlers called Ponkiesberg.

Ponkiesberg? Also spelled with an h at the end, it actually translates into “cobble hill,” says The New York Times, which explains that the name stems from the steep cobblestone road once at this corner.

Articles from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle archives supply more info.

Ponkiesberg was the name of a “conical hill which was situated from sixty to eighty feet above the present grade of the streets,” a story from 1896 tell us.

“[A] circular road led up to the strange looking elevation, which many persons thought was the work of clever colonists rather than nature.”

Ponkiesberg the hill gave patriots an edge in the Revolutionary War.

A plaque on the side of Trader Joe’s, which now occupies the corner, states that from the Ponkiesberg fortification built here, George Washington was able to observe the fighting at Gowanus during the Battle of Long Island in 1776.

Maybe we’ll see a real estate rebranding of the neighborhood?

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