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That question is the last thing the physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote in his journal, at 95 years old. Quite a question. The longer I live, the more I appreciate Kurt Gödel’s proof that we can never know everything about the universe.

the creator of A Short Hike relaunched his charming interactive ghost town where players design and share jack-o-lanterns #

RSS fans will have spotted this previously-empty post appear in their feeds. That's what happens when you mess around with your system! I reinstalled a new Linux distro on my Chromebook - Lubuntu instead of Mint - and as this is my main blogging machine, I had to reinstall eleventy. And, feeling optimistic on the train the other day, I started a new blog post entitled DECADE... and then never …

Walkies Went for a walk with friends and dogs, which was lovely.

Sadly, there is, once again, no still photographer on this year's list of MacArthur Fellows. There often isn't, but for some reason this year it feels more elegiac—the recipients' list is often carefully crafted for inclusiveness, gender balance, and of course the coolness level and social significance of whatever the recipients are engaged in. Like a little microcosm of what enlightened intellectuals are finding worthy of approval in the present …

Ever since I first learned about YES Watch back in 2011, I’ve been intrigued by what they’ve been creating. Along with regular timekeeping, they’ve created watches that can track all manner of solar- and lunar-related metrics. If you’re like me, and have held off because of the case size, the new YES Watch Copernicus might get you over the hurdle. YES Watch Copernicus: what it is To look at the …

We’ve added a new class: Build an 18th-century Southern Table with Jerome Bias – it’s Feb. 17-21, 2025, in our Covington, Kentucky, shop. You can read more about it (and register now) at our ticketing site – but if you’re interested, don’t dally. Space is limited! – Fitz

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 …

Y'know, the topic of fraudulent research has been coming up a lot here recently, so I wanted to bring up one more aspect of the problem while it's on my mind. So many of these cases have turned on faked graphical representations of data - Western blots that have been cut-'n-pasted to say just what you want them to say without any of that inconvenient Other Stuff, photomicrographs of cells …

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 …

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 …

‘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. …

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 …

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 …

The reviews have been savage. “the worst film ever made”, “The worst film I’ve ever seen”, “I beg you not to see this movie” are just some of the reactions to Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in twelve years. Can it really be that bad? Only one way to find out. Well, it is not the worst film I’ve ever seen – believe me I’ve seen far worse- rather it’s …