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As I'm closing in on the end of the Confrontation project, I've decided to do some gap filling. This essentially means finishing off any WIP figures and making sure each gang is at least 10 …

In Japan, riding a steam train through outer space is a melancholy symbol of the human journey. Like the gentle drift of the sakura petal, the whistle of a train means a transition in life. …

This article appeared in the Washington Monthly, August 25, 2024. “Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in …

I went to Norfolk this month to fish a chalkstream. It was my first foray to the chalkstreams of East Anglia.18 JuneIn the theme of this season the river was bursting at the seams with …

When this blog was in its prime it was a reasonably common occurrence to feature artists that had yet to release any ‘official’ recorded music, instead relying on shaky live You Tube clips or dodgy …

Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This Month, we are featuring Seleus Blelis who writes at Silver Screen Classics and Nostalgia.1. Why do you blog?Ever since …

On All Hallow’s Eve, we quite naturally watched Buster Keaton’s 1921 two-reeler, The Haunted House. And of course, there on camera, displayed in all his glory, was The Great Stone Face, as Keaton is known …

I fell in love with Grimsby and Cleethorpes back in 2018 when I visited for Chasetown’s match at Clee Town – and I have returned every year since. The people, the chippy, the bottle shop, …

Nicholas Shackel (Cardiff) has a new book out that might be of interest to readers, and there is a discount code available that Nick has asked me to pass on. Details below.Bertrand’s Paradox and the …

I don't know if there's anything that can be added to what Kelvin posted. I can only repeat it.

All Happy Families is director/co-writer Haroula Rose’s highly amusing foray into dysfunctional family dynamics. With all of the film’s endearing characters’ quirks and through all of the plot’s engaging twists, everything is wrong — until …

I’ve finally got around to finishing pretty comprehensive support for “remapping” pixel values from images within my image-processing infrastructure, so as to be able to scale or remap pixel values in an image to another …

1987 Starvision Platform: Commodore Amiga A very short entry now for a title called Gigaball that was due for release by short-lived Danish software house – Starvision. The game was mentioned by founder Sören Grönbech …

After David’s memorial service in May (a video recording of which is permanently on Vimeo with no password necessary), some people on my Facebook page asked if a collection of photographs of David could be …

Grouping items in an array is one of those things you've probably done a load of times. Each time you would have written a grouping function by hand or perhaps reached for lodash's groupBy function. …