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I like to make things, and I’ve had a ~/local directory full of projects for as long as I can remember. I have my own ~/local/bin of command-line tools I’ve made over the years, and individual projects live in ~/local/{project}. It’s my...
I am sensing a theme.
Keep Watching the Stars!In 1978, 2000 AD launched a weekly sister comic aimed at an older audience and boasting higher production values – its name was Starlord.A plethora of the best comics writers and artists in the UK ensured the new...
It’s a blazing hot Saturday afternoon and you’re playing pick-up basketball in the park. When the sun beats down and your sweatstache starts dripping someone thankfully calls a time out. Wiping your forearm across your forehead, you jog...
Stephen Colbert’s run at the late show is over and it got me thinking about the tiny backwards message that he put into his 2007 audiobook, I Am America (And So Can You). So I updated my old posting about it from Shockwave Flash to...
This game My Grand View Garden (我的大观园) is made by the Dream of the Red Chamber Society of University Malaya. I recently met a teacher Pey Ling who specialises in the four major Chinese literary works and runs courses analysing them. She...
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My look at Twin Peaks publicity photos from 1990 continues with a black and white portrait of Dana Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs. This 8-inch by 10-inch photo was part of a series of character photos released by Capital Cities / ABC...
asteraceae – apparitions Tonight’s mailbox roundup is focused entirely on succinct cuts of online jungle–the type of thing I keep finding my way back to, most of which is less homage to the East London forebears than it is an embodiment...
I thought I would try something else. Since I liked Blood Song, the first book in the Raven's Shadow series, I went with another Anthony Ryan book, but from another series (Covenant of Steel). This allows me to understand the writer more...
A shout out to Neil Turner. Please get well soon.