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Weather Systems debuts with their spiritual Anathema successor.

Photographed with a Fujifilm X100VI – 23 mm focal length – 1/900″ at f/8 – ISO 125 Teton Pass, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land This photograph, titled “Weather inversion over Jackson Hole, as seen from Teton Pass. September, 2024.”, was originally published on All-Encompassing Trip.

Rapido Trains UK have announced a range of generic pre-grouping coaches, with the new 00 Gauge 48’ ‘Evolution’ Bogie Coaches. There is such a variety of coaching prototypes in the pre-grouping era that it has been difficult for the industry to justify making 100% accurate models for all of them. Rapido Trains UK are filling this gap with a selection of generic 48’ bogie coaches, including SECR, LBSC and SDJR, …

The LEGO® Pharrell Williams collaborative set 10391 Over the Moon was revealed earlier this month in advance of the October release of the film Piece by Piece, an animated biopic directed by Academy Award® winner Morgan Neville.A gold-adorned space shuttle and a pile of minifigure heads certainly caught our attention when the set was announced, so read on to find out more.Continue reading »

In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, the eminent physicist Richard Feynman was called in to find out what had gone wrong. He later demonstrated that the “O-ring” seals, which were meant to join sections of the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters, had failed due to cold temperatures, with catastrophic results. But he also discovered more than a few other... Source

I probably should wait a bit before writing these notes – I had my diabetes eye screening this morning which includes the demon drops that leave my vision even more compromised than usual. I am fully Mr Magoo-ing it at the moment but this is the window I put aside to write so I’ll persist….and hope for the best! I had a bit of a bumpy return from Hamburg – …

iSelection: One for Juan (J. Heath) https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/heath-brothers_one-for-juam_-the-heath-brothers-paris-76_srlp29_sam-records-fr_kevin-gray_ljc.mp3 . . . Track List A1 One For Juan (J. Heath) 13:11A2 Watergate Blues (P. Heath) 6:14B1 Smilin’ Billy (J. Heath) 22:36 Full Production Credits (including essential detail omitted from the hype sticker): “Recording of The Heath Brothers “Jazz Vivant” radio show performance before a live audience at Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris, on April 16, 1976, Original stereo master tapes …

In the second season of Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock focuses his search for a lost ancient civilization on the Americas. The presentation is, if anything, even slicker than in the first season. The cinematography looks amazing, the music is inspiring, the editing is masterful. I am sure it will be a stunningly beautiful travelog. Right from the first few seconds of the trailer though, Hancock gets into some conceptual trouble. …

Before the election, Labour promised to make broad changes to the standards regime. Yet two months after the election, progress on many aspects of their plans has been slow, and the new government has already been accused of ‘cronyism’ and other ethical missteps. Peter Riddell argues that urgent action to create new safeguards (including legislation) is required, and that ministers cannot brush aside criticism on the grounds that their intentions …

If you have followed this site for very long, you know there are two things that I don’t do very much of – interviews and breaking news. This is more of an opinion site. I let others do the interviews and the reporting. Then I sort of take it all in, let it digest and […]

Reading Time: 33 minutes I ought to be in Slovenia right now, hanging out with nice internet people and thinking about nice internet things, but instead I am in my kitchen in London, in my pants, a bit tired and hungover and generally feeling quite resentful at the fact that things like ‘needing to earn money to eat’ have prevented me from travelling to Naive Yearly. To all those of …

I recently entered the Shropshire Shufflers’ Severn Bridges 10k in Shrewsbury (after a little bit of a kerfuffle where it wouldn’t accept my affiliated club name) and ran with Gaz to celebrate his birthday. Never expected Gaz to choose a 10k to as a birthday celebration and yet here we are; I like to think of it as my good influence as a long time runner Katie, at lifeofamissfit… Source

1988 Infocom Platforms: Apple II GS, PC Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth is an RPG title that was created for the Apple Macintosh back in 1988 for Infocom. It featured text entry, but also a dynamically generated map and graphics … Continue reading →

a daytime picture of the pike place market sign with a fancy vsco filter on it. this is one of the first pictures i took in seattle ten years ago. we’ve lived in this city for almost a decade now. seattle belongs to more people than the ones who can afford it. I’m traveling this week and I spent most of my writing time on my public testimony against the …

Una mostra principalmente analogica sull’arte digitale, Radical Software si focalizza sulle decadi che hanno preceduto l’ascesa del World Wide Web e sulla successiva proliferazione di informazioni e immagini digitali, le quali hanno dato forma alla produzione artistica e alla cultura visiva delle decadi seguenti. The post Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 appeared first on Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture.