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Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink beneath the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. The King in Yellow, Act i, Scene 2 It’s been a while since I posted anything here which has been created solely for myself rather than a commission. This new …
Living London History, 2 days ago, more info
You may well be familiar with the Holborn Viaduct, an impressive Victorian construction acting as a bridge over Farringdon Street linking Newgate Street and Holborn. Did you know though that it was once home to the world’s first ever coal-fired power station? The Holborn Viaduct Down the Western edge of London once ran the Fleet […] The post The Holborn Viaduct And The World’s First Coal-Fired Power Station appeared first …
Critic After Dark, 2 days ago, more info
The mild robotDreamworks' latest (and arguably last to be fully animated in-house) movie has at least two things going for it: 1) the flattened handmade painterly look of the Spiderverse movies and Puss n Boots: The Last Wish that's currently all the rage; and 2) the fact that it's not Pixar or Disney.On the minus side are two: 1) It's not Pixar or Disney but sure as hell feels like …
My best shot | Artanddesign | The Guardian, 2 days ago, more info
‘Noel can usually spot a camera 500 yards away so it’s unusual to capture him unposed. And Rich Fulcher’s bellybutton was an essential part of his act – if it wasn’t out, the comedy wasn’t as good’I met Noel Fielding at Croydon art college, then we lived together when we were at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education, along with Nigel Coan who went on to do all the Boosh animation. …
my name is mwd: photos, 2 days ago, more info
If, like me, you sit at the intersection of being someone who likes music, and someone who has a nostalgia for when people could design interesting interfaces, then I can commend upon to ye the works of Mario Guzman. For a long time now I’ve been using Music MiniPlayer, which is a custom UI for interacting with the current playing album in Apple’s Music app, something you need as the …
Joel's Blog, 2 days ago, more info
Last week I wrote about the designer furniture district, and I pointed out that these high end corporate big businesses are the direct competition to furniture makers like yourselves. If you're a professional furniture maker, you are competing for customers who walk into this these giant showrooms, see a lot of similar furniture from showroom to showroom, and are convinced to buy by professional sales people who work on commission …
Austin Kleon is a writer who draws., 2 days ago, more info
Amy Sillman, Faux Pas I’m reading Amy Sillman’s Faux Pas and when I was searching her name in the Podcasts app I came across this conversation with writer Sheila Heti: SHEILA HETI: With my novels… at a certain point I just have to do the thing that I absolutely don’t want to do, that’s going to embarrass me, or that’s going to make me feel like I’m doing something bad. …
Minutes to Midnight - Blog, 2 days ago, more info
Do I always have to write a tldr? I live in Britain, I like to talk about the weather. While all my favourite writers on the internet are pouring their thoughts on the current debate about what a social web is, I deleted my Echofeed account, de facto quitting my sterile 'social media' broadcast routine. Instead, I'm enjoying the sound of heavy rain battering the roof. There was this brief …
Places Journal, 2 days ago, more info
In the next decades, climate migration will redraw the demographic map of America. Two recent books tell an unsettling story of migration and displacement that is already underway. Read on Places Journal
Magical Trash, 2 days ago, more info
Every can needs a tram.// Disneyland Resort, 2007[Source: Jason Schultz / Parkendium. Used by Permission.]
Computational Complexity, 2 days ago, more info
September EditionWho thought the algorithm behind machine learning would have cool complexity implications?The Complexity of Gradient Descent: CLS = PPAD ∩ PLSJohn Fearnley, Paul Goldberg, Alexandros Hollender and Rahul SavaniLet's unpack these classes, subclasses of TFNP, where for every input we know there is an easily verifiable solution and we are looking at the complexity of finding it. PPAD is the class famous for having finding a Nash Equilibrium as …
The Passing Tramp, 2 days ago, more info
"From what I've seen, I shouldn't think there's a house or cottage in Thornden where they aren't chewing over the crime at this very moment."[Mrs. Haswell] and Miss Patterdale were agreed that although it was disagreeable to persons of their generation to have a murder committed in their midst, it was very nice for the children to have something to occupy them, Thornden being such a quiet place, with really …
The Pulp Super-Fan, 2 days ago, more info
I got the latest volume in The Red Menace series by James Mullaney from Bold Venture Press: The Sky Is Red. Mullaney is probably best known as a ghost-writer for The Destroyer #111-131, along with the later “new Destroyer” novels. I had gotten into The Destroyer in the late ’80s, reading many of the earlier […]
Daily Developer Tips | Go Make Things, 2 days ago, more info
Earlier this year, Zach Leatherman published an epic article on the good, the bad, and the ugly of Web Components, based on his talk at JSHeroes. One of the most interesting and surprising things I learned was just how widespread Web Component usage already is… Despite some notable criticism, web components are already widely used across the web. In August 2023, Chrome Platform Status reports that 19.4% of page loads …
Popular history books homepage, 2 days ago, more info
A great list this month, possibly the largest number of high quality history books published in a single month since my records began! (in 2019) There are four in particular that I'm looking out for, detailed below. Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you like to buy your books there. ✕ book cover [title] [by author] [publish date] Our Review Amazon …