Today’s recording starts with the end of The Story of Tracy Beaker. There’s a promo for the Beakeriser website. Then it’s What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman. I didn’t quite understand what the title of this episode meant, until I realised that “Simple Plan” are a pop group and they are playing themselves in this episode. They’re Canadian, apparently. And use the same barber, it would seem. (I looked them up, and in fact they are the band who played the theme to the…

Alex Ross is a modern master of the comic art form. He's incredible, full stop. If Marvel Dimensions were advertised more as being just a collection of cool Alex Ross art, as opposed to telling a story, that might have been better. I say that as Ross wrote and illustrated this big hardcover story about the Marvel heroes going up against alternate-universe evil versions. It is beautiful and has some creative design elements, but the plot left me bored. I mean, when the story actually seems to be…

Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfie & Leo’s Amnesia dance-floor… Dexys Midnight Runners / You Got The Love (David Holmes Remix) / Heavenly Records David Holmes’ remix of Dexys Midnight Runners’ single “You Got The Love” is only currently available as part of the deluxe download of their new album “Love”. Holmes, who also produced the original, has a whole lot of fun, teasing with the song’s emotions by chopping it into…

Wally’s “Flashes of Insight” have served him well…so far. He has made Central City a safe place. I mean, truly safe. Absolutely nothing goes wrong in Central City. Thank you, Flash! Oh, and Metropolis is just as safe now! Thank you, Flash? And even Star City…no thanks, Green Arrow, thank you…Flash? Wally means well, but is he going too far? We’ll get the answer in this issue, along with some JL members who aren’t too happy about what our favorite speedster is doing. Wanna know more? Follow us…

Around the workshop These are the main projects that I am focused on these days: Wonder of the Word templates – I finished up work on the two templates that needed to be done for the October 1 launch of these pages. I have been working with our backend developer to refine some dynamic pieces. I started addressing some issues that came up in the design and content reviews. I am planning that there will be some more updates this coming week before the project goes live on Thursday. Study through…

school update day 4 of school, you cried so hard that you didn't want to go second week of school, lots of tears third week of school, 2/4 days with tears fourth week, you did it!!! no tears friends update we love our neighbors and their friends (especially little B!) we had a playdate with the other half Colombian girl in school, and now we're good friends! did a playdate at New Belgium & dad and I just went rock climbing with her dad all of our neighbors in the community are so fun! school…

Surreeality Standing on Monday morning in Noordeinde in the Hague waiting for a friend I was drawn to the window of an art dealership across the street. I hadn’t realised how weird the picture would seem until I printed it. Quote of the Day “Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I’ll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?” Spike Milligan Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Peaks | The Cormorant Link This was new to me, but a real gem. Peaks is a musical partnership…

Discovered: Decoy Font, a TTF font that “attempts” to conceal what’s written to AI. Clever idea, though I agree with Anthony Feint (original blogger by which I found this), who admits AI can be trained to read this, but… here we are, in 2026, wishing something like this could work.

This post includes personal updates and some open source project updates. Personal things もしもし、マリウスです, faxing at 9600 baud directly from Tokyo, Japan. After a short hop over to Hong Kong and Shenzhen, I’m back in the beautiful neighborhood of Shimokitazawa, where I’m spending almost the entire rest of the year until right before Xmas, when I’ll be heading back to Shenzhen. First things first, a warning: This is a very long post as it includes a metric ton of project updates. If you’re…

Coyote in Saguaro National Park - September 12, 2026 (iPhone 16 Pro) Last September, my nephew and a few of his friends from college visited Arizona for a college football game. On our way to Tucson, we drove through Saguaro National Park so the "Kansas kids" could get a feel for desert flora. It was pretty hot, so we didn't expect to see much fauna. We stopped at a roadside picnic area to allow everyone out of the car to view the varieties of cactus, cholla, and other spiny things up close. As…

David Pogue sums up his experiences with Apple’s new Siri: As you can see by the Farmer’s Fridge food fail, the new Siri doesn’t always get it right. But overall, it’s an enormous leap in efficiency and precision. It’s a personal assistant, a second brain, a ChatGPT of your own life. You just have to will yourself to use it. After 19 years of performing the unlock-phone/open-app/search routine, you’ll need some time to acclimate. The other thing people will need to overcome is their distrust…

Via NASAPart 1Part 2The absolute madman, he can’t keep getting away with it, etc etc.This is a cobbled-together hackjob (as all good planet generation systems are) pulling from Classic Traveller, 60 Years in Space, Jon Zeigler’s CT adaptation of Architect of Worlds, the RTT Complicated Star System Generator, GURPS Space 4e, Perilous Void, and a couple odds and ends from Orion’s Arm. Mostly the first two.So as to make sure that this remains semi-functional, I'm limiting it to temperate /…

Where were we? Oh, yes! Hunter Zolomon was getting ready to end Wally’s life! In the Absolute Universe, Zolomon can see just far enough into the future to know every move Wally is about to make. Wally can’t get a break, and things are looking bleak for him. That’s just part of what’s going on in this issue – and something you may have taken for a fact before may turn out to be…well, wanna know more? Follow us after the jump! SPOILERS AHEAD! Let’s skip ahead in the story to Linda, Grodd, and the…

Tomorrow is the start of Orktober 2026 and I am very much looking forward to it. September has been a rough month for many reasons and I haven’t done anything in the hobby. So, with September behind me and Orktober in front of me I’m quite excited. Some of you might remember the absolute thrashing I gave my adversary, Mr Wudugast, last year BUT in all fairness he didn’t bring his A-game due to real life getting in the way a bit. So even though it was a victory for me it felt like I was a having…

Food Network's most-popular show, Tournament of Champions, starts filming season eight next week—and you can get free tickets to be in the audience.

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. 21st century girl 🤬 namjoon just ragebaiting me at this point and this beat drop is so fugly outro:wings 🤬 the hell..... bts cypher…

Well, it's almost October, when Turner Classic Movies will show several classic horror movies. Of course, among these will be several from Hammer Film Productions, perhaps the most beloved studio of classic horror fans besides Universal. Unfortunately, I am somewhat disappointed in how TCM is handling the Hammer Horrors this year. The bulk of them are being shown very late at night or early of a morning, and none of them are being shown in the days leading up to Halloween. Indeed, for the first…

Following is my first batch of Fall 2026 images. Each time I go out shooting my goal is to find something new, given the the reality of distance, access and conditions. In my search, I am often drawn to scenes I have photographed before. I suppose for the same reason they captured me in the … Continue reading It’s Autumn Again!

20-09-26 - Perhaps the final visit to Saltoun this year. It has not been as amazing as previous years. And this trip might have been the least busy with butterflies. I had been watching the weather and thought today looked about as good as we've been getting of late - a bit patchy but some moments of blue skies and full on sunshine. I opted to get the bus again since that went well last time. It worked okay this trip although there were some issues. I have been trying to get back into running…

THE ECONOMIST AND THE BALLERINA That “iron streak of tinsel” which Alan Bennett once observed in Nicholas Hytner has again come good, giving us a play about early 20c economic theory which we can go home humming. Literally: I am happy to report that on the way out I both overheard both the words “of course the money supply..” , and “Cezanne”, and several were humming tunes from Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet. I call that a result. James Graham hit on the life of the economist John Maynard Keynes…

Click here to book for my tours Often when I set out for a walk from Spitalfields, my footsteps lead me to the crossroads outside the Bank of England , at the place where Richard Jefferies – a writer whose work has been an enduring inspiration – once stood. Like me, Jefferies also came to the city from the countryside and his response to London was one of awe and fascination. Whenever I feel lost in the metropolis, his writing is always a consolation, granting a liberating perspective upon the…

Our computers are so much more powerful than they were a decade or two ago. We have vast multi-core CPUs, massively parallel GPUs, neural processing, hardware compression/decompression and encryption/decryption, even hardware virtualization. I wouldn't be surprised if the latest CPUs had an instruction called "MOVCOFFEE!" We have thrown mountains of silicon at every single "problem" imaginable, and have ended up with incredibly potent computing devices. But what are we doing with it? How are we…

We tried Izugiku recentlyThis shokudo has been around for 100 years!Bummer is that they allow smoking, so you have to take your chances when eating here.Satoshi had their daily special, which was katsuo sashimi and fried shrimp...1000 yen (tax included)He said he enjoyed thisKat tried their taco rice...900 yen (tax included) and didn't know they served it with miso soup...Anyway, I enjoyed this

The Ware for September 2026 is shown below. We seem to be on a theme of hybrid circuits! This aesthetically pleasing ware was submitted anonymously. Thank you, you know who you are! While I realize that color palettes are not actually a deciding factor in most circuit board designs, I still appreciate it when things work out to have a nice color scheme overall. I like how the bold colors of the main circuit board draw contrast with the pastel earth-tones of the hybrid circuits.

Three interesting creative people interviewed by curious interviewers, each worth a listen:Bjarke IngelsSylvester StalloneAaron Sorkin

The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”, part number 99-35107. Above is a contextual photo of how the unit looked mounted in the kit. And above are a couple examples of projects you can build with the “IC” as part of the kit. Answering Hales’ question, the part itself is covered with a clear overcoat of polymer that looks liquidy, but it is in fact a durable, hard coating. As a child, I appreciated how almost every part was out there and…

This is my last piece is right : smart devices without the smarts are barely functional devices. Seeing the explosion of customisations, and coding, AI is producing, gives me hope we can bring those devices back. AI vibe coding (we still call it that?) lately has been of decent quality (it works, and that’s enough for most people) and as more people discover this, some will point the clankers to reverse engineer those abandoned systems and give them new life. I know we will, because we were…

I got angry in the water today. Not at any person. (Man vs Man) Not at the water. (Man vs. Nature) Not at myself. (Man vs. Self) And maybe it wasn’t anger. The surf is big right now. And the tide was high this morning. Big waves; large crashing wipeouts. I did a lot of paddling. And I got a few good rides. On one good ride, it ended–as they often do–with me underwater. I was under for rather longer than I wished to be under. That didn’t make me angry. I mostly felt puzzled. The currents weren’t…

I just keep the wheels turning.