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In the category of “most likely to graduate to the full linkroll”, we have Aporee.org, a collection of soundscapes from all around the world And on a similar note, here’s some sounds of the forest(s) William Buckley, a convict who was sentenced to Austral…

Nobody will believe you when you say this, but the phrase “sweet summer’s child” is from Game of Thrones.

Tombstone (1993).

Got a new computer!

The Verge takes a trip on a submarine-cable-repair ship Vici.org, an “archæological atlas of antiquity” that shows you Græco-Roman history and artefacts in your area In Vesuvius Prize news, the vulcanised scrolls have now revealed Plato’s precise burial p…

Hello.

Frank Sinatra covers “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Mini rope bridges built in Forest of Dean to help dormice.

Aniara (2018).

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It still confuses me a little why Minecraft doesn’t have a Swahili translation.

“Spacebloom: A Field Guide to Cosmic Xflora”.

Step 1: Go on Wikipedia, as one does.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, season three.

Every Best Picture winner ranked by how good a Muppets version would be Well this is fucking insane: real-time machine-learning image generation.1 The singularity is here; it’s just not evenly distributed yet (as the saying goes).

>called Kim Jong II >not the second Kim Jong >called Kim Jong Un >not the first Kim Jong ????

I’ve been trying to pick up vector mapmaking, since the raster image editing situation on Linux is so dire — so here’s something.

60% or so of uploads of “Tainted Love” on Youtube have the 👏️👏️ muffled to a damp squib, and it’s always a game of Russian roulette trying to listen to it.

I started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation recently — starting at season three, of course, as i was repeatedly advised — and i’m positively kicking myself for not doing it earlier.

I’ve been programming a music player and gotten deep in the weeds of metadata formatting — turns out the library i was using only supported reading, not editing — and i just have to say: thank the Gods for UTF-8.

Hail, the mustelid!

Poor Things (2023) Some Like It Hot (1959).

If Neptune isn’t really that blue, can we at least put it in the club with Mars, where we just pretend it’s that bright because it looks cooler in movies?

I would like to kick off the second annual Satyrs’ Forest Horny Awards™ with an epigraph from myself, at the end of 2021, predicting what lay ahead.

Pic loosely-related, from Darren Aronofsky’s π — JS makes me want to drill my brain out sometimes, too.

I must apologise most profusely for not putting the other submissions for Lords of Misrule on the blog in a timely fashion.

Iō Saturnalia!

It’s that time of year again for the dictionaries of the world to come remind people that they still exist, and that there is absolutely, definitely a reason for anyone to ever pay for them instead of going on Wiktionary for free1, by proclaiming a singul…

I hope dearly that Jodie Whittaker gets 9,000 Big Finish stories to make up for the Chibnall years of Doctor Who.

マリウス.com Lucas Pope on making a Game and Watch–style demake of Papers, Please Abaroth’s World: “An eclectic mixture of my interests including models, optical illusions, historic buildings, roleplaying games, heraldry, puzzles and gardening.”

I have officially decided to become annoying and switch to Linux.

It’s been a long year.

Gremlins 2 is the hardest i’ve laughed at a film in some time — a movie written and directed by cocaine.

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Rudiments of curvilinear design woahhh The Hot Ones crew unveils Pepper X, the new world’s hottest The Economist has a lovely obituary for the Sycamore Gap tree — may it rest in peace.

Yep, that one's going in my Rich Evans Folder (2.1TB)

Hope whoever felled the Sycamore Gap tree enjoyed whatever kicks they got out of destroying a centuries old piece of local heritage.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlefolk!

I was, tentatively, putting off finishing this until i’d gotten the relevant part of the main site in a working state.

I don’t know if it’ll come across too well in photo form.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 was really good.

Good evening, “Greece” was a 1000-year social experiment conducted by Oxford’s classics department.

2008 Tom Scott video: The First Annual Yorkshire Pudding And Spoon Race 2013 Tom Scott video: The Blinking Light That Keeps Pedestrians Safe 2018 Tom Scott video: I Got To Go-Kart Around A Particle Accelarator 2023 Tom Scott video: It's like a TARDIS for…

Well, i rode it out for three years, but i finally caught covid. o7

The internet was lit ablaze last year with the rediscovery of Martin Scorcese’s obscure masterpiece Goncharov, and it’s easy to see why.

I hate this sort of thing, you hate this sort of thing, let’s get it out of the way.

The uncanny-valley tendencies of AI should be used to innovate and create new, terrifying non-binary genitalia, neither male nor female but a horrifying third thing the likes of which homines sapientes have never before seen