Quizá te has tropezado con el anuncio de una empresa comercializadora de derivados del petróleo que dice algo así como: ¿Por qué se llaman interruptores si no interrumpen nada?. Si acudes a la definición, interruptor es: adj. Que interrumpe. m. Mecanismo destinado a interrumpir o establecer un circuito eléctrico....

What are the walls I need to overcome to blog more? Why don't I just write? I have been pondering these for a while now and I think I have broken it down into several components: Conflict between real and online personas High standards... do I really want this on my blog? Is this worth writing about? Irregularity...

For this post I traded titles with Zachary Kai. He suggested the title of this post and in return I suggested “A Sense Of Place” for him – a post title that has been sitting in my drafts for nearly a year as I try to gather the thoughts attached to it. Zachary’s approach to […]

Alucinante esta web: “Frame of Preference” es una historia interactiva de los paneles de configuración de los Mac entre 1984 y 2004. El artículo analiza su evolución con emuladores reales en el navegador. Continuar leyendo Frame of Preference en Papel Continuo.

A week notes addendum with an actual update, maybe.

The world is my task list

ritual and workshop, july 5th 2025, antidefuturing, whiddy summer school, whiddy island, co. cork I was invited to be part of the programme at AGON-A, the first Whiddy Island Summer School, where artists, academics and designers came together to discuss futures. I collaborated on a session with futures literacy...

I’ve been writing code for about thirty years now. I say that with no small amount of gratitude and a touch of disbelief. Thirty years of debugging, designing, deleting, rewriting. Of shipping things that broke and patching things that probably should not have seen the light of day. Of staying up way too late for...

2 new wallpapers, with light and dark variants, available for download.

I know a lot of you follow me over on The Linux Cast, but for those of you who don’t, it’s probably odd to hear me say that I’ve hopped to a different distro. What’s a distro? What’s Linux? Well, that’s fine if you don’t know what those are, it’s really not the point of today’s ramble. Instead, I want to discuss...

I've been on vacation recently so haven't put much time into updating the blog but I did recently find some really cool websites that I wanted to share! Tools powRSS This website is phenomenal, even if simple. It's basically an RSS aggregator but driven by a community of people who want to help others discover...

In which Stephen challenges motornormativity at The Press

I think about Crusades a lot because that’s my job. I also think about them a lot because, well, there were a lot of them – which is pretty wild when you consider they didn’t exist as a phenomenon until the high medieval period and yet they still managed to do way too many of … Continue reading "On Crusades, or, how...

Ho una confessione da fare! Sebbene disprezzi i Casinò dal punto di vista etico/sociale e sarei ben felice venissero rasi al suolo...