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Since Barry Windsor-Smith was absent from the previous post (or there in spirit via the pages of The Studio) I thought I’d post a few of his prints from the mid-70s. As I said in the Snaps piece, Smith and co. set up The Studio in order...
Image of wildfires in Montana comes from rawpixel.com, and is labeled Public Domain. The media are full of ‘explanations’ (opinions) about what is going on in the world. What is Trump thinking. What does country X ‘want’. Why is this the...
One of today’s clients had to cancel the house inspection at the last minute. With about six visits a day, this happens every now and then. Sometimes it’s possible to do the next job earlier, sometimes it’s not. Today it was the latter....
Is this it, at last? The brilliant book written by AI? Probably not, though the headline at The Bookseller does raise hopes. It reads ‘Genius novel’ sold in six and seven-figure deals at auction pulled over suspected AI use. The Mirror...
I went to see a film today. To the actual cinema, with actual popcorn and drinks and iMax and…well, The Odyssey. I’ve written book reviews before but I know books. Like really know books. Whereas I think this is the first film I’ve seen...
In 1981, the Soviet mathematician V. I. Arnold wrote a little book attempting to explain catastrophe theory to a general audience. It was translated into English by R. K. Thomas and published with the title Catastrophe Theory by Springer...
I have invented a new rule for swimming at the beach: When swimming at the beach, you can never be the furthest from the shore. Frequently asked questions (probably): Q: What if I’m swimming with a friend?A: Worry about yourself! Q: What...
The sun is dying, being feasted on by tiny lifeforms based on Venus. The phenomenon, the "astrophage," is not unique: every star within dozens of light-years of Sol is suffering the same malaise...except one: Tau Ceti. With Earth's...
Kevin Powell tries out Prop For That, makin it look so slick and easy 🫶 Watch on YouTube
In order to make something—anything!—you need to be able to experiment. And most experiments probably won’t work. If you don’t want them to reflect poorly on your body of work, call them what they are: experiments. Or, practice. They’re...
I drew the illustration above on the back of an actual envelope (one of my new “things” these days). It’s either the most or the least appropriate medium for a diagram about attack surface. Your call. It’s here because my colleague Mark...
One of the cult youtube channels of machinists is the channel of Dan Gelbart. Youtube’s suggestion algorithm found him for me, and it made me nostalgic for all the talented machinists (often with similarly funny accents) I used to run...
Why does no one ever read the end of the story? Or if they do, why don’t they pay attention? Ever since Mary Shelley gave us Frankenstein, laying out a moral of a story proving that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, there...
RomM is the best thing to happen to my game library, and I think it is a preview of how personal media should work generally. Point it at a collection and it scans the files, identifies their systems, enriches them with metadata and...