Today’s recording starts with the end of the National Lottery Draw. There’s a trail for Turn Back Time: The High Street. Gregg Wallace alert. A trail for How Not To Live Your Life. And a trail for a Psychoville Halloween special which YouTube has blocked. Sorry. Then it’s a seasonal movie, Halloween: Resurrection. This one comes a few years after Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and opens with Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode who’s in a mental hospital after having a breakdown on learning that the…

Here is an interesting tidbit from Politico’s Canada Playbook newsletter. Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Mike Blanchfield, and Mickey Djuric: Meta says it hopes to restore news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada by year’s end, Rachel Curran, director of public policy at Meta Canada, told Playbook. She said it will “very likely” be resolved through Canada-U.S. trade talks. “If we are able to reach agreement post-midterms — and it sounds like there’s activity in that direction — the news stuff will be…

When new sidewalks are poured they are stamped with the year and construction company, presumably so that if they aren’t properly made they know who to blame. Our family has taken to playing a “game” where we try to find sidewalks from our birth years.The dynamics of this game are mildly interesting. You have the most matching sidewalks at the end of your birth year and it only goes down from there as they slowly get replaced. (Also for some reason only the ends get stamped, so once the two…

… A FINALE SIGN-OFF FROM THEATRECAT.COM AFTER 13 YEARS This, written largely on a diverted 453 bus on the night of the Regent St lights switch-on, is the last review on this theatrecat.com site. It has been fun, and interesting, and wonderfully supported with press seats for which I am grateful. But being free -to-air it has become hideously expensive in travel – – I live 100 miles from London and still further from other centres of the art – and expensive in time and energy too. So alas, no…

I’m trying out a new setup in the Jeep. I now have a small seat and a little desk so I can sit in the back of the Jeep, even on a rainy day, and enjoy some geek time out and about in Mother Nature. I’m trying this while sitting in the driveway. So far the arrangement is working quite well and I feel quite comfortable. I feel like I could sit in this position for a long while. My legs are straddling the desk, so they’re raised up a bit more than what I would have if I was working at a desk,…

Sir Patrick Stewart died on October 28, 2026, at the age of 86. He had Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. Although best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Xavier in the X-Men movies, he appeared in a wide variety of roles, from Sejanus in I, Claudius to Gurney Halleck in Dune (1984).Patrick Stewart was born on July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire. He attended Crowlees Junior and Infants School in Mirfield and then Mirfield…

I’m bored of my home network SSID but the thought of reconfiguring devices to find a new network is overwhelming.

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I can use a hammer to make a terrible-looking chair. Someone else could make a beautiful chair with that same hammer. Agentic coding is no different. It's a tool that benefits from a skilled user. The post your vibecoded website looks bad appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

This week on the podcast: Federico is back from the MacBook Pro event in LA, just in time to explain what’s going on with Siri AI in iOS 27.3. Meanwhile, Myke thinks the new iPad mini is fake, and Stephen interrupts with a good word from Sweden.

My post about modular industrial dashboards from a month ago gathered a lot of reactions, so I thought I would summarize some fun things sent my way. If this didn’t seem interesting to you, feel free to skip this post! First of all, some clarifications for the things I speculated or didn’t explain well: The word “Rotte” (English: gang, pack) often designates a small number of people or crafts that operate together. In the railroad context, […] the “Rotte” flags inform the operators that there…

A few days after last month's issue I got sick again — fever, several days fully in bed, the whole bit — and then about a week of house guests, so it's been another month with that "hole punched through it" feeling. And now it's November! We've shifted fully from "the leaves are starting to turn" to "the leaves are dropping, and there are still a few trees hanging on." Big sections of the park are bare.Word count for the Special Project now stands at 45,891 words. This is a little disappointing…

Yes, this year's annual round-up is posting earlier, for a couple of reasons.For starters, bands are announcing their dates much sooner ... and, since many of these gigs sell out quickly, it makes more sense to let you faithful followers know as soon as possible.I already have 143 entries, many with multiple listings, from 35 states and Washington, D.C.; five Canadian provinces; one UK group; and — for the first time! — one show each in Germany and Australia.Additionally, many combos also are…

As foretold in the prophesies (a.k.a. today's docket), Bill was back in court today for his first appearance on his new charges (obstruction of justice, failure to comply with a release order, and two counts of failure to attend court while on a release order.First of all, I want to be clear about one thing: the obstruction of justice charge is not related to him barricading himself behind plywood at Treasure Island. While that may have violated a number of building and fire codes, there is not…

I dunno. This is going to change. But I'm gonna change the picture and nothing else. Why? Not.8 words · 5 images

Three Monevator readers in a fortnight emailed to ask how I think the much-vaunted ‘AI revolution’ should cause us to rethink our financial planning. (Or to ask a chatbot to rethink it, I suppose.) My knee-jerk response: “Search me.“ It’s not that I doubt the borderline hysteria about AI we’ve seen in recent years will amount to anything. From the sheer wodge spent on it – it will approach $2 trillion by the end of 2026, according to Goldman Sachs – to the disruptive potential of the technology…

What connects a “Blue Tsunami” in US midterms, Binance’s reported $6.3B hack, and regime change in Paraguay? Matt Dines and I examine the battle for control of digital token distribution, financial market integration, and mounting risks to the AI-driven economy.

Hello, I am still here. I am doing pretty well, tho. I do have ideas on what to write about, but I have just not gotten to it. Here's what's been going on through my head recently: Visiting my hometown in my home country, feeling like I own the streets, coming back to Germany, feeling the same and then feeling weird about it. I believe that, subconsciously, I'm still trying to be the good well-behaved assimilated person in order to prove that I have a right to be here or something. I know it's…

Like the movie it's about, I Play Rocky tells a story about an underdog who earns his day in the sun. A perennial favorite for repeat viewings among generations of viewers, Rocky won an Oscar for best picture in 1977, sparking a series of sequels that continued the Rocky legend. Credit I Play Rocky with riding the waves of affection viewers have for a film released thirty years ago. The movie aspires to be an unabashed crowdpleaser built around an engaging performance from Anthony Ippolito as…

He's a big name in his own right now but Robert Icke continues to be inspired by Ivo van Hove, a director who alternates stage classics with adaptations of films. And it's the latter Icke tackles in his latest West End venture, taking us back to the Cold War for his version of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others. In 1984 East Germany, Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler (Stephen Dillane) is sent to the premiere of a new play to pick out artists likely to be dissidents. He chooses…

Take this with a grain of salt as I’m in my mid-thirties and I still (hopefully) have another half of my life to live. I think our teenage years are some of the hardest to live through. Specifically those latter teenage years. It’s not about high school, peer pressure, or changes happening both inside and outside of your body. Although those are all difficult things to go through. It’s the pressure to find purpose which I think makes those years so hard. “What do you want to do when you get…

"A nutty Puritanism still flourishes in the arts, not just in the schoolteachers’ approach of wanting art to be “worthwhile,” but in the higher reaches of the academic life with those ideologues who denounce us for enjoying trash as if this enjoyment took us away from the really disturbing, angry new art of our time and somehow destroyed us....."The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing…

Photo by Tom Eckstrom In her later years, famous photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) adopted a uniform of sorts—a dark dress, dark stockings, a big cape and sensible shoes. But to add an element of whimsy, she included unusual hats. “We saw her striding around San Francisco,” wrote one admirer, “easily recognizable by the beaded cap atop a fringe of white bangs and the cape winging behind her” (After Ninety, 10). Imagine how easy it must have been to get dressed in the morning. Put on…

A strange, irritable, almost itchy kind of review by Dave McC, as if trying to think up reasons why it wasn't a great recordActually I remember feeling unimpressed by "Pocket Calculator" at the timeBut "Computer Love" and "Home Computer" make this is a stone classic - worth far more than the tepid three stars bestowed

As all of us that have been deeply troubled by what President Trump has done to the country bask in the voters’ response this week, I want to think about what is to come. I will no doubt have some of my usual technical procedural posts once the dust settles and we get a clearer sense of how the new Congress will shape up. For now, however, I want to focus on one particular problem that could be quite immediate. Numerous news reports that I take seriously suggest that President Trump may be…

My Dad’s brother recently had some health issues which he was recovering from but passed away suddenlyWe will miss his kindness and all that he did for our familyThank you Uncle, you will be missed!

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Radhika Singh’s debut novel Earthly Playing Field is a thought-provoking work of speculative fiction. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “A complex coming-of-political-consciousness…

After starting out strong with Ryan North writing, IDW’s Star Trek: Lower Decks comic series took in a limited series, a comic book gamebook, and a regular series. North would write the first six issues of the latter before handing over the baton to Tim Sheridan, who’d write the remainder of it – issue 18 being the final comic in the series. Last time I got as far as Mixed Signals, the collection that gathers the first six Sheridan-penned issues; Second Second Contact, the final trade…

Twisted was originally the network component of a text-based role-playing game engine. In the late 90s when it was first developed, the idea of a video game being able to send you actual emails and instant messages1 seemed pretty neat, rather than the valence that it would have today (nightmare). We never ended up making an actual game, so we eventually removed the “game engine” piece, and just kept the protocol implementations of the email and the AOL Instant Messenger, and the DNS and…

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