Courtesy of Katherine via Nic Chan's "People & Blogs" interview, I learned about intentionally blank pages. Having read a book or two in my time, I've seen these blank pages; usually a quirk of the way books are bound in bundles of evenly numbered pages that doesn't always align exactly to the number of...

10th November - 16th November I went for a walk this week; took the dog out early doors, pre-dawn. I thought it was a bit blowy. When I got home my wife informed me there's a yellow weather warning for a named storm coming in. Storm Claudia took out some trees, cars, and houses. We escaped the worst of it; the bins...

I was skimming through a children's book on demolition today (kids love construction vehicles) and read about the crew hosing the site down to make it less dusty. So, what's all that about then? Many of the materials buildings are made of produce particulates when crushed; concrete, stone, wood. These particulates...

I am currently working on a project that requires localisation for providing native language content to various diaspora and migrant communities. As a curiosity, I wondered just how many distinct languages there. According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 7,159 separate languages in current use. This number...

Ad Infinitum drop another single, "Regicide", with their new "electronica" tinge. Big fan of Melissa Bonny and her numerous projects; concerned the electronic direction might overlap Ad Infinitum with Rage of Light. A solid offering though — I'm looking forward to a full length album. Classic Katatonia down-tempo...

Back in September when I was watching "Under The Bridge", little did I know lead actress Riley Keough is American Royalty — granddaughter of the King himself, Elvis Presley! Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.

Brian DePalma's 1983 gangster movie, "Scarface" is a polarising classic. Al Pacino's delivery of Oliver Stone's eminently quotable script garnered him a nomination for Best Actor at the Golden Globes. Giorgio Moroder's score was also nominated. But I didn't know until today that the movie is a remake of a 1932 movie...

Novelist Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein: or A Modern Prometheus" and invented an entire genre of literature when she was 19 years old following the death of her premature daughter. Seeing Victor Frankenstein through a lens of grief casts a sympathetic shadow over a man often portrayed as a "mad scientist"....

I was today years old when I learned why Lionel Hutz hasn't spoken since 1998

Sorry but ten became thirty real quick!

In which I yammer about the moon, bats, and a broken camera

I was today years old when I learned how cameras film in the rain