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Director Agnieszka Holland subverts traditional biopic structure in Franz, a fragmented look at the life of Franz Kafka, the Czech author who died in 1924. Holland (Green Border) blends Kafka’s personal and aesthetic sensibilities with...
The idea of over-optimized everyday life and business, in all facets, has been banging around in my head for years. Fortunately, Daniel Frank put it into words with fifteen theses on what’s going on. Just about every point is quotable.
20 Aug 2026 emacs it Table of Contents Preamble Mastodon.el overview Mastodon.el common configuration Hacking the Mastodon.el TL icons Use Nerd Icons for toots stats Use Nerd Icons to show successful completion of actions Increasing the...
# New EP dropping on Friday. That's right, my next release is just a couple of days away. It is called "is, was, and always will be" including 6 acid tracks across different styles. It will initially be available from Subvert.fm for a...
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. AppleInsider had a piece yesterday framing Apple's Services business as being in real trouble. A 10-Q filing warns that alternative distribution and external payment links "may earn a...
In the last few days, I’ve returned to two movies from long ago that gave me great pleasure then and have just brought me fresh joy. From 1953 (when I was in high school, in Pennsylvania), Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and...
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours In advance of Peta Bridle’s forthcoming exhibition London Day by Day at Southwark Cathedral from September 3rd to 14th October, here are a selection of drawings from her City of London...
Changed our curtains since it has been so blazingThese curtains were from when we were living in Osaka because Satoshi had complained that even with the curtains we had back then, it was too bright.Well, we got these the other day and...
A few days ago, after getting annoyed that Apple Mail doesn’t have a normal Zoom-in function (Magnifier isn’t what I consider normal), I downloaded Thunderbird for my personal/blog emails. I’m impressed. I remember it being a mess. It’s...
Jazz & Τζαζ, the prominent Greek monthly founded by Giorgos Charonitis in 1993, chronicled the Greek and international jazz scenes for 245 issues before ending in July 2013. Each issue carried a compilation CD, turning the magazine into...
THE MAD WORLD OF HARVEY KURTZMAN, screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, celebrates the creator of Mad Magazine and shows there was much more to the man than just one paradigm-changing publication which permanently altered...
Dune is, it’s fair to say, a fairly troubled franchise. In terms of the novels, the original book is a landmark of science fiction by any measure, but its sequels are a bit of a bumpy ride, incorporating thoughtful and welcome...
This looks like a Rubik’s Cube, but it’s not: It seems that an open-cab truck filled to the brim with Rubik’s Cubes hit a bump in the road, causing some of the cubes to spill out of the truck bed and onto the roadway. When, mere moments...
I don't feel up to a full post today, but I will be writing a eulogy for ZZ Top's drummer Frank Beard, who died on August 17, 2026. With that in mind, I will leave you with what might be ZZ Top's most successful single, "Sharp Dressed Man."
To target multiple classes that share the same prefix, you’d typically have to resort to brittle attribute selectors or add extra base classes to your markup. To make things easier, CSS is getting a new selector: The Class Prefix...