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I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only in the most exotic and violent events: a high-speed collision of asteroids, lightning...
The 15 Minute City Score Europe Map shows how easy it is for people in European cities to reach everyday services - such as shops, schools, healthcare, parks, and public transport - within a 15-minute walk. Each colored dot on the map...
A FUNNY SHOW HAPPENENED ON THE WAY TO THE COLISEUM Ancient Greece is suffering drought and near-famine, and on a small island (population 16 and a half) prayers to Dionysius (“Dionysus, end this crisis!”) are getting … Continue reading →
I’ve been rooting around in The Cupboard Of Mystery this week and getting rid of stuff that’s not useful any more (giving away, selling or taking to the recycling). But what do you do with gadgets like this? OK, the MP3 Sony Walkman is...
Last week, I saw a blurb on social media that Katherine Legge was planning on doing The Double; you know – race the Indianapolis 500 in the early afternoon, then jet off to Charlotte to run the Coca-Cola 600 that night. I dismissed it...
Welcome to the Thursday blog post! It features new albums from Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Tall Friend, and U.S. Highball, and a new compilation from Smug Brothers. Also, the April 2026 playlist went up on Monday, so check that out too if...
Here's why my use of Claude to write an essay was not AI slop.
Toledo, day 8.
Johnny Hallyday made his 90th appearance on the cover of Paris-Match this week. His first was in 1963. He died in 2017, of course, and around a million people turned out in the streets of the French capital to watch his funeral cortège...
Over the last few years, I've spent time working on projects like dependency-management-data with the intent that I could provide visibility into organisational usage of dependencies and insight into how outdated they are, which...