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From weird existential thrillers like The Legend Of Tim Tyler to high-concept comedies like Big John, Little John, there were a lot of imported children's shows that felt like they 'belonged' on the BBC...
by The Pudding Pretty cool study about how our brains work in finding optimal routes and how surprisingly good we are at it, even when compared to computers. Lots of visual and interactive demos inside!
Playing the songs 'out' on Saturday has taught me a lot. I'm going to swap to playing the Telecaster for some songs- which means quite a lot of re-recording. The Green Goddess sounds just too pretty for a couple of the more energised...
A quick note on startups
Toronto Zoo announced the birth a female pygmy hippo calf on 2nd August 2026. This is mother Kindia’s third child. Congrats to all of them! The post Another day, another newborn baby pygmy hippo! appeared first on Cultrface.
I found out about this when looking at my website’s analytics: this is cool! It’s an aggregator of cool links from the indie web, where nobody posts anything: every link comes from RSS feeds of various sites, and users upvote the best to...
Not every historical artefact is a masterpiece.Some survive because they changed theatre. Some because they reveal something vital about the people who created them. Others survive because scandal proves more durable than artistic merit....
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin! If you’re not sure what the Spins are, here’s a reminder: The rules for Spin #45: * List any twenty books you have left to read from your Classics Club list. * Number them from 1 to 20. * On...
My thoughts on why Bear Notes is still worth paying for every year.
The Edinburgh Fringe has always operated on a simple principle: absolutely anything can become art. A dictator can become a tap dance. A kitchen sink can become a metaphor for late capitalism. Somewhere, right now, somebody is probably...
Welcome to another Wednesday, we start all at sea with marcus and some more terrain scatter pieces for the bottom of the ocean. I think some of these will also double up as objective markers. Moving on and Phil gives us a glimpse of his...
On the first day of my 60th year, I’m thinking about how we report our age as the last year of life we completed, rather than the one we’re now living. US 40, the old National Road, in Brazil, Indiana I’m also thinking about the year I...
Once again, I got a bit out of hand. It's Geoffrey's fault.
Tom Stoppard famously begins Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with a coin spinning through probability, each toss raising questions about fate, free will and authorship. Emma Howlett’s The Plot opens with a different game: keeping a...
It’s been awhile. The advantage is that we can concentrate on a few things rahter than the day-to-day sewage. The big story is Trump’s failed war with Iran. To explain that we have to look back at his intervention in Venezuela in...