ANAKIN SKYWALKER Mail-Away or POTF2 Style The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch basic figure Item No.: Asst. F6878 No. G2610 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: #405 Includes: Cloth robes Action Feature: Removable robes Retail: $19.99 Availability: August 2026 Appearances: Return of the Jedi Bio: On Endor, Anakin watched over Luke and his friends Yoda and Obi-Wan as they celebrated the galaxy’s new freedom . (Taken from the cardback.) Image: Adam's photo lab. Availability: Click here to buy it at eBay…

A slightly different kind of Games That Weren’t entry today, with some newly surfaced development material relating to Atari’s unreleased all-in-one Jaguar and Jaguar CD console. John Hardie very kindly got in touch with GTW after going through an old floppy disk that he had obtained from Atari many years ago. To his surprise, the disk contained the original FlexiCAD vector drawings for the proposed Jaguar/CD combination unit. Atari’s redesigned system was intended to combine the standard…

Don’t shoot the messager The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has just published a report on the Office of Budget Responsibility, the UK’s Fiscal Council or Independent Fiscal Institution. It addresses in particular many calls from some on the left for reform of the OBR, amid claims that the OBR rather than the elected government is running fiscal policy. The TSC largely rejects such claims. It argues that critics, including those within government, “must resist the temptation to blame the…

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten back on the saddle, and to be fair, done any work relating to my… work! Starting with the podcast was the best way for me to start my business back up, again. With more videos/podcast coming down the line very soon. So you’re the first to hear about this, and you’re welcome to share it, I’ll do the push on social media once I’m 100% ready… right now I’m 93.27% ready. With that, I’ve also updated the website About and Work pages to reflect the direction I’ll…

An academic friend on Facebook posted a link to a news story this morning and commented, “I’m feeling extremely low, as if everything noble and good I’ve devoted my life to is meaningless.” At this point we could play ‘Guess the News Story’, as more or less everything that appears in the media related to higher education at the moment offers evidence for the ongoing, over-determined campaign for its destruction, just in different ways and to different extents across the globe, whether driven by…

This is a list of inspiring personal websites. Many of these websites are minimal and share my affinity for Bearblog, Indieweb principles and plaintext: ...hi, this is ava Alan Trotter Alexander Sandberg Anh Colin Wright Derek Sivers Eddie Dale Grant Slatton gwern.net Jamesg Jimmy Daly karpathy Laurel Schwulst Maggie Appleton Mandy Brown Manuel Moreale mighil.com MinChi Park museum of me Nate Spot Noah Zender Paco Coursey Paul Graham Paul Stamatiou Ryan Law Sophie Koonin Stephan Ango…

I’ve been making more of an effort this year to show up to meetups and events happening in the area so I eagerly looking forward to IndiaFOSS 2026. A lot of my friends over at the IndieWebClub were also planning to visit so there was going to be no lack of familiar faces, and hopefully some new ones too 😄 Day 1 Fenil, Yash, and I had decided to leave together bright and early so Fenil biked down to our place and we took a cab together. We made it well in time for breakfast and the welcome…

The premise is deceptively simple… What's your favourite movie from the year you turned 21? Are you sure…? Easy-peasy — "Bring It On"! Oh, no, wait… "Memento" No, "The Cell" Ah, no "Requiem for a Dream" "American Psycho"! "Best in Show" Ooh, no it's "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Ah, "Pitch Black" No, no, it's fucking "Ginger Snaps"!!!!!!! This meme can't be done! Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.

How do you discover new music, and what’s the latest gem you’ve found? I have two sources. Pitchfork (American skewed), and 6Music. I’m listening to the later at the moment, as I do most workdays when I can. 6Music, a digital radio station from the BBC, has been a source of new music for a while now. Their remit is to play "a wide range of alternative music, from established and emerging artists and bands." and I am smack bang in their catchment audience. Pitchfork widens my musical view to…

There are lots of 3D maps that visualize the tens of thousands of human-made satellites orbiting the Earth, such as SatelliteeXplorer and James Darpinian's See a Satellite Tonight, which uses Google's Street View imagery to show you exactly where to look in the night sky if you want to watch a satellite passing overhead. Perigee takes a rather broader view of humanity's presence in space. As well as visualizing thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth, this impressive 3D viewer lets you…

It has been a weird season this year, starting really well and ending really well with despair in the middle. I put together a really good winter block aiming for a marathon somewhere around 3:25, and the sessions were going so well I started to believe the number on the plan might be real. In the middle of a progressive long run in mid-March I suffered a nasty calf tear and that was the end of it.Of course I tried to run a few times, far too soon, desperate to get back on track, but every time…

Yet another unemployment log

It’s just two weeks shy of being October, the spookiest month of the year. October does not just signify Inktober or any other compound word involving the name of the month. No; October means playing Mega Ran, Richie Branson & Kadesh Flow’s Ghouls ‘N Ghosts albums on repeat (we’re the kings of the night; GnG resurrected). I have high hopes of them releasing album number five, but in the meantime, just listen to a few tracks of the latest album and you’ll know why it’s part of the October canon:…

Calls to Action Read the draft protocol and tell cmart your comments. I expect and welcome comments like “This would work for me if you changed XYZ”. I also welcome comments like “This is stupid and I don’t like it”, but we might not reach a compromise. If you want to join, paint your availability on this when2meet poll. If you haven’t already, join the mailing list where we coordinate and announce meetups. Draft Protocol Hardcore Coworking meets at a library or cafe where folks are not already…

Hey there ULGers, Many of you have been along term perfumistas and will get that this bottle is an icon. For the newbies amongst us, Chaos Donna Karan is a 2008 reboot of a 1996 killer perfume that broke all the feminine fragrance rules wide open. A spicy aromatic woodsy amber. It hit all the […]

Sandbag duty. Weight limit is one thing, but the rule of thumb is that the wheels still turn under the sunken bed. Tailgating is a frequent use. Some of the dents. I realize as I post this that I have mentioned and showed the keitora here many times before. I will again.

okay time is ticking, and i'm going to be 33 soon!! must think of birthday plans, but its on a tuesday so i doubt anything will happen but i can at least use it as an excuse to have nick to let me do whatever i want (he does that already). so i spent the most of the week in utah, which probably deserves its own blog post, so this is kind of sparse because i need to go through photos before i can blog about it and instead i slept in til 2. i was going to start blogging earlier but olive has been…

It really, really isn’t easy being cheesy Developer: Art & Magic Publisher: Art & Magic Release Dates: 1994 (Arcade), September 19th, 2023 (Antstream) Available On: Arcade, Antstream Genre: Maze Game Arcade games are really having a moment lately, aren’t they? You know, beyond their initial decades of mainstream existence, anyway. What I mean is that there seems to be a big influx of people visiting these games in 2026, many of which are doing so for the first time, and really getting the most…

Walking down to the design studio entrance of doom doesn’t really do much for the soul, if I’m honest. Once you’ve negotiated two layers of security, you’re greeted by a corridor painted black, which, considering it’s supposedly a place dedicated to artistic creativity, doesn’t exactly get the creative juices flowing.Thankfully there was light at the end of this particularly miserable tunnel, and that light came in the form of rods strapped to the roof, tackle in the boot and the knowledge that…

Well well well, look who's having a birthday. It's GDB friend MS! Sue B. provided this fun scan of a 1956 birthday party. Note to self: buy polka-dotted curtains. You have to take a photo when a kid is blowing out candles on a cake, it's a law that actually goes back to President James Madison. Are the two girls singing "Happy Birthday"? They have glasses of milk, paper bowls with scoops of vanilla ice cream, and tea (or coffee) coups for... something. Bourbon? It goes surprisingly well with…

Listen to this episode here. Further reading Back Tower Runners on Kickstarter! DrachenFest Incantrix Productions Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells Socials Caro’s website Sam on Bluesky and itch The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show! Dice Exploder on Patreon Credits Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is…

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)

Another Substack interlude. Almost everything you've ever wanted to know about Porsche 911 ownership but were afraid to ask. Click the pic to read. You can thank me later but most likely you won't. Never mind. Only 10 years plus in the making.

I’m mostly a descriptivist when it comes to the meaning of words. If everyone uses “literally” to mean “figuratively”, that’s fine by me. Same if there is no likelihood of confusion, as with “aggravate” for “annoy” as well as “exacerbate”. But that still leaves me plenty of room to gripe about the way in which words are used, so it’s time for a good old whinge. What got me started on this was talk about “demand destruction” in oil markets, often claimed to be a term used by economists. This…

Source Sunball Rocket. Gold Winner, Birds in the Environment, and Bird Photographer of the Year 2026. “A northern gannet seems to burst through the sun as it pierces down through the water. The handsome northern gannets lead a dualistic existence. In the nest, their newborn is carefully nurtured, and a couple’s bond is reinforced by pointing sharp beaks to the sky as they tenderly stroke their white necks together. In flight, hunting mode takes over, and piercing yellow eyes, fringed with blue…

Well, the day started off fair enough. There were not too many complications with getting Grandma situated before I had to leave for work. I got her lunch ready, and she had actually finished eating before I had to head out, so I whipped up the dishes quickly as well. Unfortunately, when I got home, Christina did not have the same report. Apparently, at around noon, an occupational therapist called Christina to let her know she would be coming over today when Christina got off work. The lady…

For folks of a certain age, it was a bit amusing watching the post-retirement revival of longtime ADL chief Abe Foxman as a progressive mensch. In his dotage, he became unsparing in his criticism of a Jewish establishment that had (in his fabulous coinage) "Washington Post syndrome" (a maddening refusal to take on mainstream conservatives no matter how extreme they get, coupled with hyper-policing of the mainstream left). You loved to see it.Sadly, if this article on J Street's newly emergent…

If you're looking for a fun, fast, family-friendly recipe that delivers big pizza flavour with almost no effort, this Pepperoni Pull-Apart Pizza Bread is destined to become a favourite! Made with simple ingredients - canned biscuits, spaghetti sauce, pepperoni and plenty of gooey cheese - it bakes into a pull-apart, bubbly, golden dish that's perfect for busy weeknights, parties or anytime you are craving something warm and comforting.Think monkey bread meets pizza night: quick to prep,…

30 unblogged things I did on September 28th Mon 28: When I went to make my first cuppa of the day the tap spluttered to life, suggesting the water supply had been off overnight, but thankfully it powered back into action and I got my hot mug. Mon 28: Annoyed that it took me four goes to guess today's Daily Metro, I should definitely have got it in three. Mon 28: [gets on scales] A month ago I mentioned I'd put on three pounds during my holiday in Spain and it hadn't shifted. It still hasn't,…