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We've all noticed. Pink boots — or cleats, as Americans inexplicably call them — are all the rage at the 2026 World Cup. Of the 26 players in the England squad, the Financial Times tots up, 22 have worn pink boots during the competition....
We've all noticed. Pink boots — or cleats, as Americans inexplicably call them — are all the rage at the 2026 World Cup. Of the 26 players in the England squad, the Financial Times tots up, 22 have worn pink boots during the competition....
I had a lemon to kill and I’d been thinking about revisiting this hybrid Mai Tai / Blue Hawaii cocktail that I developed a few years back. It leans sweet, so feel free to pull back on the simple syrup, but I do still think this works and...
Madonna “Danceteria” Madonna has spent much of the past 20 years artistically lost at sea, attempting to navigate a unique set of circumstances – trying to stay vital and relevant in the pop market in her 50s and 60s, attempting to live...
Hey people! I remember that, back in 2019 or thereabouts, I was listening to Nina Nesbitt a good deal, and a lot of other similar British artists; even shared some of her songs on the blog but have deleted those posts since. I...
If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we and lots of you loved, refer to the...
Phantom Canyon (2006) is another short animated film by Stacey Steers where many of the backgrounds and other details are collaged pieces from old engravings. There are so many of these films by Steers and older directors like Lawrence...
Read the full post at - Gospel of Thomas Edited by Stevan Davies I picked up the Gospel of Thomas recently while working through Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. I hadn’t read the Gospel of Thomas in a...
Time has a way of rearranging priorities. Between projects and a few private matters, this blog has been unusually quiet for some time. Today it returns – with the clocks of George Sowden. Between 1981 and 1988, the Memphis design...
Most people turn dreams into goals too quickly. They get a spark of desire, and within minutes they start asking practical questions. When will I do it? How much will it cost? How will I measure it? What is the deadline? What is the...
This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin. Tim Cook describes how Apple does things, “We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the...
[Jewelers, you’re not great.] Has your once-storybook marriage crumbled, leading to a divorce that devastated both your heart and your finances? Perhaps you’d like to memorialize that by paying to repurpose your engagement ring into a...
Once again, my R2 unit and I will be heading across the country. This time, we are visiting Portland for the Pacific Northwest Pen Show and to help Dromgoole’s sell lots of ink, pens, paper and stationery. I don’t arrive to PDX until 7pm...
A new, computer-based calculation shows that our solar system used to have 5 or 6, rather than 4 gas giants. It seems that, billions of years ago, we lost two planets due to an instability that probably also tilted Uranus’s axis and...