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A flat in Hampstead is up for sale. Boasting over 1,332 sq feet of living space, a private terrace and close proximity to Hampstead High Street, this top floor flat – with its plain white walls, battered leather seats and eclectic set of metal map chests and chairs – has an asking price of £1.8 […]

Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/atlantic-ocean-circulation-nearing-devastating-tipping-point-study-finds

Yellow Cab is a fascinating look at New York City from the perspective of a filmmaker. It’s adapted by Chabouté from a book by Benoit Cohen and translated from the French by Edward Gauvin. Almost ten years ago, Cohen finds himself exhausted. He doesn’t have stories to tell or energy to tell them. In order to try something different, and better understand the NYC culture he’s visiting, he decides to …

It’s been tough to find enjoyable workshop time of late. There is some work being done on the house and as cramped as my 12′ x 13′ (3.5m x 4m) workshop is at the best of times, it’s even worse when more than half of it is filled with furniture from other rooms. I’ve got about 5 […]

The systemic moral imperative seeks the distribution of power over its concentration, and thus the reduction of inequities of power. Money is usually a good proxy for power, so it's tempting to regard any redirection of money to the preexistingly unwealthy as moral. But this is both a dangerous conflation of cause and effect, and an attractive nuisance of potentially misleading measurement. In fact, the most common nominal redistributions of …

Kingston Upon Thames (or simply Kingston) is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames with a population of around 43,000 people (the wider borough is home to 163,000). It historically sat in the county of Surrey, but became part of Greater London in 1965. The earliest written record of the name is from Saxon times (838) when it was recorded as 'Cyninges Tun'. Over the next few …

February 2024:We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion.Skiff’s mission is to bring freedom to the internet by helping people collaborate and communicate with freedom and privacy. …We’re extremely excited to accelerate our mission by joining forces with Notion’s world-class team. We sincerely hope that the Skiff community will join us for this next stage of our journey. We’re pursuing big plans for making all of our online …

Soon our local hackerspace Toolbox Bodensee has its 10-year anniversary, and it will also be present at the IBO fair 2024 in Friedrichshafen. Some five or six years ago I already prepared a small setup at one of the Toolbox open-door-days with an oscilloscope and a laptop playing Jerobeam Fendersons Oscilloscope Music. But it never looked quite right. So I decided to tackle the topic again this year. 'Function' with …

Love Letter to my Dog It's exactly one year since Kaddi and I drove to the shelter and picked up Tarly the dog. One year of daily walks. One year of feeding, grooming and petting. One year of setting rules and boundaries and sometimes letting them slide. One year of growing closer and more comfortable with each other. One year of falling in love. I had pets in the past, …

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We are collectors. We don’t just collect books, we collect everything we like that we find on the beach. Beachcombing is our hobby, which is not only motivated by the joy of searching and finding, but is also healthy. It’s a luxury, a relaxing pastime that gets us away from the computer screen and onto ...

⤳ Highlight of the week was convincing my friend Matt (owner of the amazing When Spaceships Appear record shop) to come down to South East London for a spot of record shopping, a few pints and a pizza. Along the way we stopped in at the Book and Record Bar in West Norwood and the Four Quarters Arcade Bar and Bar Jazu in Peckham. ⤳ I started watching Mr & …

Despite the fact its already February, I am going to do another of these annual end of the year reflections. They’re likely to be of little interest to anyone else, but I find the practice useful. I’ve previously done these for 2020, 2021 and 2022. What follows is a mix of personal reflections on the year, as well as a brief lists of the things I’ve enjoyed watching, reading and …

Sounds dirty, doesn’t it, getting your palimpsest on? In fact, it’s the broadest sort of euphemism for swearing. It’s not total absence of profanity from a text or conversation. Profanity is there, legible in occasional traces despite the better-behaved language that effaces it. When your grandmother says she never swears, I call bullshit. When authors avoid profanity but acknowledge that their characters (including a narrator) swear just beyond our hearing, …