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Duncan Rawlinson created this work using artificial intelligence to explore a ceramic rupture. A rigid green door-slab has blown free, releasing a thick red flow studded with intact yellow vessels. The torrent carries cups and bowls...
Personal notes for week 33 of 2026
Same place, same curse, different protagonist—and a brand new feature. Set one year after the events of the first game, Nanashi no Game Me gets its unusual title (“Me” as in “The Japanese word for ‘eye’ “) from an early ghostly incident:...
Kazuhiro Ishikawa. Marc Weidenbaum. Wallace Chan. morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day. Press the floating Subscribe button to have these notes sent to you. My free weekly newsletter is at...
More famous for his science fiction and dark fantasy, Ray Bradbury also tried his hand at crime fiction, with often-fascinating results. Writer, critic, and editor Aigner Loren Wilson talks us through the strange flourishes and tonal...
Antony Szmierek Flight Simulator Following on from his distinctive and cinematic piece, Chalk, featured on BlackPlastic in March, British electronic producer Antony Szmierek is back with new single Flight Simulator. Szmierek was working...
John Wyver writes: In my previous post I enthused about Elizabeth Darling’s new book Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922-1932. Here I want to focus on just one aspect that Darling throws some...
At time of writing, the long hot summer of 2026 is continuing. You won't catch me on holiday in southern Europe, but today I've brought it home with four beers by Basqueland.I thought 5.6% ABV was a bit strong for something called...
Blanche, our 2019 Ram Promaster, After several years of adventures, road trips, camping trips, and more than a few nights spent gazing at the stars as we sat by a crackling campfire, we’ve decided it’s time to find Blanche, our 2019 Ram...
The first essay in this series argued that the six forms of "psychological debt" are old wounds under new names; this one concerns what happens when the wound is given a number. Guy Champniss's method is straightforward enough: a battery...
Another lovely day. Clearing under the rhodies. Done one bed. Ran out of juice on the way home at noon. Had to get a gallon from Little Neston. 5.10½.
Another roasty hot day, but eight members had a pleasant afternoon playing trains and talking a lot. John and Amanda brought a load of old N gauge trains belonging to his father and grandfather for us to peruse. Mainly old Poole Farish,...
August 10, 2026 So many of our heroines this months are absolutely buried (metaphorically speaking, of course) in advertising for fall clothes. It’s so easy to see a handful of things that catch your eye – you buy on impulse – your tidy...
Berka v1.1.0 is out. This release makes the four Berka families easier to inspect, compare, and try before installing them. The font binaries are unchanged from v1.0.1. The release focuses on the showcase and specimen experience. An...