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Continuing Apple’s love affair with sport, if you love sport and run an Apple device you may be interested in Apple Sports, the company’s new and free app for sports fans. Apple Sports aims to …

Sometimes when you watch a particularly low budget horror movie or tokusatsu production, it's inspirational: these works stand as proof that it's possible to create interesting, entertaining works on modest budgets. Silk is kind of …

The Templar, Leeds, Yorkshire LS2 7NU A long but shallow street-corner pub on the north-east side of the city centre, the Templar has an impressive tiled façade advertising Melbourne Brewery, who were later taken over …

The Owd Tatts, Chadderton, Lancashire A white-painted pub with an unusual name on a back road on the south-west side of Oldham. There are now plans to demolish it and build a convenience store on …

The Daily Telegraph reports that an increasingly abstemious younger generation are blowing a large hole in the government’s revenue forecasts: Clean-living youngsters threaten to blow a multibillion-pound hole in public finances as alcohol and tobacco …

Hi I have an update on the appointment booking system. Short version: I’m moving to a straightforward waiting list for appointments. Nobody likes waiting lists but this is the most fair system. My previous attempt …

5/5 golden merles The Palestine Solidarity Compilation is one of the most stacked comps of the era and for the cause eating at the conscience of the world. Just look at the list for many …

You’ve probably had some exposure to the concept of fight or flight by now. It’s a pretty well known, evolutionarily programmed response living things have to sensing and responding to perceived danger in their environment …

Content warning: Discussion of hospital stay, procedure, and graphic images in the links. Checking in for 2024-02-22: The procedure went well for my Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. I was a little doppy when I woke up …

Why do so many guitar players resist learning the notes on the fretboard? This is my most complex set of animations so far, built in service of the simplest topic I’ve covered to date: how …

This is massively a MQoS Not Dead Yet posting, noting that I am currently in a state of body and mind unlike anything I’ve previously reported on, and opening up a lot of questions about …

As part of my current hydroculture experiments, I am using a lot of PVC piping. And while it can be cut with regular woodworking tooling, it can be a bit brittle and crack or even …

I’m always on the lookout for local materials I can use to build stick chairs. Elm is my favorite wood, but it can be difficult to find for purchase. Last month Shea Alexander of Alexander …

My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …

Alexander Saeedy and Alexandra Bruell at the Wall Street Journal, via Apple News: Vice Media said it would stop publishing content on its flagship website and plans to cut hundreds of jobs, following a failed …