#106 in a series of articles about the technology behind Bang & Olufsen loudspeakers I’ve started working with a number of my colleagues on a series of videos for internal training at Bang & Olufsen. They were kind enough to make some of these videos publicly available. This video demonstrates some of the individual components of a room’s acoustical contributions.
High in the hills of Assynt, these caves contain traces of animals that roamed the landscape between the ice ages
Every person is unique. No two people are identical. We differ in physical appearance, personality, fingerprints, heartbeat, gait, and DNA. Such differences are used to identify criminals and in video surveillance of citizens by nation states. Yet in other ways all humans are the same. We all have brains, hearts, and lungs. All our bodies use the same biochemistry to stay alive: whether to breathe oxygen, digest food, or fight infections. On some level we have common aspirations: to survive, to…
Dear Daring Adventurer, by receiving this Fediverse challenge coin, you hereby join the Fediverse Rebel Alliance. As you may notice, this coin has identical sides, unlike military-inspired challenge coins. That is because the powerful object now in your possession is not made to pursue petty personal competitions, where an individual is the winner and another one is the loser. This coin is a collective challenge to the rich, the machos, the arrogants, the ableists, the manspreaders, the…
My starting point is not what Andy Burnham said but points recently made by Chris Dillow. Here he argues that we shouldn’t worry about the bond market per se, because that market is just an early warning system for future problems that any government should be worring about anyway. In that sense, the bond market is no different from, and less important than, an OBR forecast. For example, if the government were to start borrowing more to increase public spending, interest rates in the bond…
My home audio system goes through a Denon AVR-X1700H as the primary receiver. My house has three pairs of ceiling speakers: one in the living room, one in the dining room, and one in the kitchen. When listening to music I want them all streaming from the same Spotify source, but if I'm playing video games I occasionally want Spotify from just the kitchen/dining room. Let's reverse engineer how the app controls the receicver so I can swap from my watch.
Polbrook Gurney Colliery skulks deep within an uncharted corner of the North Somerset Coalfield, in a mysterious region known locally as Titfield Thunderbolt Country—a place so elusive even the pigeons refuse to deliver mail there.You won’t find it on any map, railway atlas, or even scribbled on the back of a suspiciously sticky beer mat. However, it did make a cameo in an Ealing Comedy film during the early 1950s, which is clearly irrefutable proof of its existence—far more reliable than…
The heat persists throughout the day, and even at night it does not relent. Outside it is more pleasant, yet inside the house it is still nearly 30°C. On the late evening of such a hot day, I set out to take a walk and escape the trapped heat within my home. Twilight transitions into a tepid night. Having arrived at the top of the sports field, the world is shrouded in darkness. I walk deliberately slowly; in the distance lies a dark-red stripe across the horizon, each step on the gravel…
If you are tired of standard map-guessing games that rely on scouring satellite imagery or wandering through street-level panoramas, my new interactive game Sonar City offers a refreshing challenge. This game strips away the visual map entirely, plunging the world into shadow and leaving you with a single tactical tool: a glowing radar array. Your mission - if you choose to accept it - is
Daily Drawing 905
This post “Nature’s Calligraphy: The Art of Seeing” features a series of photos of ducks and swans. While it might look like a typical summer update, it illustrates a theme I’ve discussed before: we see how we think. [1] What occupies our mind shapes our vision. Looking at these photos, you can easily tell what was driving me artistically at the exact moment I pressed the shutter—whether it was a tourist photo, minimalism, calligraphy, or traditional Chinese painting. The sequence of the…
The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:In Episode 7, I chat with Ana, the author of ohhelloana.blog. We talk about, among other things, the growth we see in our websites over time, finding an in-person indie web community, and connecting with people using personal websites.I hope you enjoy the episode!Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts. Ana ohhelloana.blog The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out…
Despite all banks repeatedly telling us as customers about being wary of unexpected calls, and not giving out personal information,...
Well, if the Met Office are to be believed, Stratford-upon-Avon could be nudging 40 degrees this week. Forty! That's not weather for Warwickshire; that's weather for lizards, tourists with regrettable sunburn, and blokes who insist on wearing socks with sandals. I spent most of the morning wondering whether to fill the bird bath or simply climb into it myself.The talk everywhere seems to be air-conditioning. A few years ago, buying an air-conditioning unit in Britain felt about as necessary as…
One night is all it takes Developer: Takumi Corporation Publisher: Takumi Corporation Release Dates: 2001 (Arcade), October 10th, 2002 Available On: Arcade, Playstation Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up (Vertical) You ever feel wholly unqualified to do something but go ahead and do it anyway? I don’t typically fall prey to negative thoughts like that or imposter syndrome- I’m happy just doing my thing here with the audience I’ve cultivated- but Night Raid is a game that has me doubting myself perhaps more…
I'll admit it. I will. Just watch me! You think I won't but I'll surprise everyone! Uh, what were we talking about? Oh right. I have two "mid" Knott's Berry Farm scans for you. They're OK, but not that special. But I've zigged at the end for a little extra something. The cherry on top. The "Inferno" hot sauce from Taco Bell. Here's a nice lady (I can just tell) having fun posing with Whiskey Bill. Hey Bill, here eyes are up HERE! The lady is nice, but it's fun to pretend to be a little bit…
101 Dalmatians (1996)
We used to compose in solitude, without industry or recordings. https://strolling.rosano.ca/0267/ 09h00 from Berlin / Germany
Green thoughtsChurchyards. I’ve been in a lot of them in my time and mostly I can concur with the narrator of Samuel Beckett’s First Love, ‘Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.’ I’ve known churchyards where grass grew knee-high, and others mown to within a millimetre of their lives; churchyards in Leicestershire full of elegantly cut slate gravestones and ones in the Cotswolds…
Here is a beautiful grafted buttonhole for double thick fabric, such as a folded-over button-band. These are GORGEOUS buttonholes: blue-ribbon, state-fair stuff. But! They are very stretchy because grafting does not constrain the buttonhole in any way: structurally, grafting IS knitting. Rough handling will stretch these out. (For a good-looking buttonhole that can take a beating, use my&
My company is in the process of moving out of offices we've occupied for more than 40 years.It means decades of paperwork is being slung out, and with it a lot of storage devices which are increasingly a thing of the past - the humble box file.There are many uses which can be found for these for the railway modeller who has an urge to recycle.For example, slice up a redundant shoe box and you can transform you old box file into a cheap & cheerful stock box perfect for storing up to half a dozen…
The Most Transparent Administration Ever!
I'm in need for some lighthearted stuff. I finally finished a painting from a few months ago, and did a quick gouache doodle in my notebook using the Google captcha look (but slightly wrong). Gonna redo that on proper paper some time with taping off sections, nicer letters and the correct amount of squares; but I think that is so fun, I can think of so many things to draw in this design. I really wanna make (and post) more art. Over the weekend, we hosted friends for some MtG. Baked a cake,…
This post was written entirely by a flesh-and-blood human and therefore represents the pinnacle of artistic expression and human achievement. Too many slop grenades these days. LLMs are cool and all, but does every Slack message need to be a bulleted list where the first sentence of each item is bold? I recently read one too many blog posts with the phrase, "it's not X, it's Y" as a one-line paragraph and finally snapped. It is now my life's mission to purge selfish LLM usage from the internet.…
A poem by David White. Your great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere a progressive and cunning crimewith no witness to the tiny hiddentransgressions. To feel abandoned is to denythe intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,even you, at times, have felt the grand array;the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowdingout your solo voice. You must notethe way the soap dish enables you,or the window latch grants you freedom.Alertness is the hidden discipline of…
I noticed the first drops of rain from this event riding back over Wanstead Flats from the Holly Tree around 10pm, thoughts of Messi’s majesty in Argentina’s win against Austria fast being replaced by watching clouds bubbling overhead. Reaching home the drops didn’t come to much and I wondered if the action would miss us, like so many damp squibs in the past. Nevertheless, I closed the roof windows and sure enough the first heavy rain arrived at 0130. And rumbled on and off for another four…
We have three rescue cats. People ask me what that’s like, and I never know how to answer. It’s like running a small, chaotic republic where the government is feline, the laws change daily, Jane handles Interior Affairs (litter logistics, vet diplomacy, treaty negotiations), and I am merely the Minister of Food Distribution. They arrived in our lives the way most good things do: by accident. The rescue centre in Trento had a habit of calling us whenever they had a cat that was too weird, too…
May was a great month for casual gamers, with pretty much every week having a release for every taste and mood. Thrifty Business was released during this cozy-indie wave on the 18th of May and just like the name gives away, this is a management game where you run your own thrift store. The game was developed and published by Spellgarden Games, the same studio that made Sticky Business, another game I really enjoyed and recommend whenever someone asks for a laid-back game recommendation. I’ve…
Last full day in the UK, where they do doorbells well.
