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He doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar. – Jon Ossoff One thing that never ceases to amuse me is the inability of...
Michael Redgrave & Michael Denison.It's surprising that Oscar Wilde's most beloved stage play, The Importance of Being Earnest, has only been adapted for the screen twice. The reason is likely due to the quality of those productions,...
Last week Tessera group meeting On Monday there was a small Tessera group show-and-tell in the lab for one of the funders, where I presented some of the habitat map work I've been doing with Tessera. The collective set of talks and demos...
As long as I can remember, money has been one of the most important subjects in my life. I remember being seven or eight years old and already understanding that money was a problem in our household. It caused fights, pain, and struggle....
If you’re an avid reader of culture journalists, then it seems as though there is always some country or other “taking over Hollywood”. In the 2000s it was the Australians. In the 2010s it was the Brits (when Spider-Man, Superman and...
The Red Mailbox next to our village’s primary school is my primary drop-off point for writing letters. Over the decades, its bright deep red brilliance has been gradually replaced by a patina of sunburned broken red. And yet, The Red...
“Blood for blood,” the story of Electra and her mother Clytemnestra is one of mutual grief and a weaponised, almost pathological sense of revenge that has them pulling in opposite directions in the search for justice. The National...
24 August 2026 (The file burning stove, 2009) To du list is a single-page to-do list for people at the centre of the office-productivity/Marcel Duchamp Venn diagram (hi, both of you). It has strange behaviours, it deletes things, and you...
It’s August and true-to-form, I have been a bit slow at updating the masses with the incomings and outgoings of everyone’s favourite underused and undervalued social media website for the people of Oslo, oslo.town. And that’s mostly...
On the 21st March 1988, Danny John-Jules appeared as The Cat in the Red Dwarf episode “Me2“, the final episode of Series 1. On the 6th September 1988, Danny John-Jules appeared as The Cat in the Red Dwarf episode “Kryten”, the first...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 26th June 2026 I missed the well regarded ‘Shrines of Absurdity’ debut from New York death metal titans Thætas back in 2020 because, well, the world was falling apart and I wasn’t quite so deep in the...
Watched: Swingers from the Sixties, Over There (The Knack), Over Here (Elvis)THE KNACK … and HOW TO GET IT (1965) --- This is what director Richard Lester was up to between A Hard Day’s Night and Help!, him on to things mod, hip, gear,...
It was one of those weeks when I was furiously scrambling around town, trying desperately to get something off the ground that will probably never see the light of day. I was going home late at night and leaving early … Continue reading →
I've done posts like this before but it has always been around little systems I've built, like my email setup. I figured since I've been using Linux since 1998 maybe I could share the tools I use and what my typical setup looks like. I...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks: What message would you like to see fly by overhead toted by an airplane? It can be about #ds106, #MYFest26, or any other...