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Acknowledgements The code in this post is indebted (and in some cases wholly ripped off from) work by the glorious Finn Lindgren, who emailed me some code to do this probably a decade ago. Yes I am behind on my emails. Finn’s code can be found here as part of the glorious INLAbru project. Code availability The code from this post can be found in my github repo. The time …

Featuring sessions from Papa Wemba and Pavement.Listen HerePutters - Muscle Car (Empty)Pavement - Secret Knowledge Of Back Roads (Session)The Moles - What's The New Mary Jane (Ringers Lactate)Papa Wemba - Madilamba (Session)The Fall - Arid Al's Dream (Volume)Zubbizeretta - Don't You Do It (Bass Sphere)Kill Subil - Lucid (Empty)Babes In Toyland - Sometimes (Volume)Cobra - Hearse (Penthouse)Flophouse - Right Now (Harp)Pavement - Kentucky Cocktail (Session)Aquastep - Oempa Loempa Instrumental (Wonka …

My proposals and invoices now include carbon emissions data, because even the smallest public acts might encourage others to take action too. My guess: it feels easier to take some climate action if you see that others are already taking steps, even if those steps are small. If that’s true, it’s worth showing people that climate action is real, and part of the world already. A Holdfast Projects invoice includes …

Contributed by Stephen ColesSource: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License: All Rights Reserved. The Kamala Harris 2024 campaign identity, designed by Wide Eye Creative, is built around Sans Plomb, a condensed gothic not unlike the Bureau Grot used by Wide Eye for Harris’s 2020 primary bid – in turn inspired by Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 campaign. This time, though, the typeface is from a French foundry, rather than from Anglo-American origins …

Creative incoherence – human and penguin Twenty years ago I wrote about the intriguing imaginary ‘language’ spoken by the much loved cartoon character Pingu, a charming animated penguin. In August 2024, in a short but comprehensive video documentary, France Culture reviewed almost the entire history of the creative use of gibberish (in French ‘charabia‘), also known as ‘Grammelot’ or ‘Macaronic Language’, in performances on stage, in public, in poetry and …

The latest issue of Henry and Glenn has some nostalgic and/or cursed images for punk rock and/or Dell Comics fans:

Back in the late 80s, my mom bought me a 386sx 16MHz computer equipped with a 2400 baud modem. It was my first computer that enabled me to connect to an online world. Back then, there was large behemoths like AOL and CompuServe but there were also independent services called bulletin board systems, aka BBSs. A BBS was somewhat of a one-to-one connection. Most independent BBSs had only one or …

Photo by Bob Hines/NASA – flickr.com, Public Domain A misconception has been circulating in news and on social media for weeks that the NASA astronauts who flew the Boeing Starliner -named Calypso- to the International Space Station are “stranded in space”. It’s easy to make comparisons with airline passengers stranded mid-itinerary in unfamiliar airport terminals. But it’s wrong. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams. – Image: NASA 1. Not Like …

A reader writes: I’ve been following you for about five years now. Am retiring next summer and setting off in May 26 for a ride to Bali. I currently live in Bolton so it was Bolton to Bali but I’m moving when I retire to Lincoln where my son is based in the RAF. So I’ve rebranded – Lincoln to Lombok! My question is about malaria. What’s needed in terms …

A cartoon coded in CSS from comiCSS.

#1 Nota di Viaggio (Rites de Passage) The opening is pure Italian apothecary chic – a veritable cacophony of brackish herbs, aged citrus, and homemade toothpaste underscored by a streak of medicated foot powder and ye olde throat pastilles. Not unpleasant per se, but a jumbled up wall of smell that I associate with many of the openings of Italian artisanal perfumery, like Mem and Noun from Bogue, Lafeogrigio or …

Here’s a round-up of some activities from a busy August. Building noiseboxes At the beginning of the August, a friend asked if I would build them a noisebox for an upcoming film project they were composing for. Whilst I was aware of these instruments, I had never attempted to build one before, so I was honoured to have my friend’s faith placed in my ability to produce something that might …

I recently read an article by Samantha Edmonds, The Shattered Novel: Rules of Fragmented Fiction. I’ve always been tantalised by the idea of writing a novel made of fragments, something that might even accrete from the sort of microfictions I write. For me, fragmented fiction does a better job of describing the world that we live in than the traditional novel. Social media is the most popular form of narrative …

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