A retrospective included with the August 2022 issue of Musica Jazz, tracing the distinct, bittersweet trumpet voice of the late Polish master across a slew of ECM recordings. The title Songs seems almost provocatively plain for an artist whose music could turn breath into a philosophical emergency. His trumpet worried at a composition’s hidden seam until grief entered the room. Grainy at the edges and luminous within, that sound belongs to modern jazz history because it made European…
Stationery Fest was a big event in many ways, and Myke and I were on site in Brooklyn, New York, to take it all in. We run through our entire experience, the pros and cons, the panels we hosted, and our wide-ranging acquisitions. Then Myke ruins everything. Show Notes & Download Links This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Kaleidocraft: Playful stationery and functional goods. Get 15% off and an exclusive Pen Addict washi insert with code penaddict. Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food…
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The popular weekly email newsletter, written by Melbourne based Australia curator and publisher Kai Brach, has actually been published five-hundred-and-seventy-nine times, but earlier editions were written under another title. But who’s counting? True to its tagline, “one email worth opening, every week”, Dense Discovery (DD) is something I’ve been reading for years. Er, this is via the web rather than email, but DD is certainly one website worth reading every week, for all things art, design,…
“They’ve gone, gone to a new place,we yearn for them, they must’ve forgotten us.Come home, come to your country, come on back.You’ll be back when we’re not around”– Translated from a Pothwari sher by Ch. Muneer Hussain In June, I went to Portugal for 3 weeks. It was just to get away from my life here in the States. It was the first time I had done something of the sort, no agenda, not a vacation with an itinerary, nobody to visit there. It didn’t give me an immediate epiphany of any sort but it…
The Z323 said goodbye It all started last Wednesday. I wanted to listen to some lo-fi music while coding. I turned on my speakers, and nothing happened. I tried turning them off and on again: nothing. I even plugged them into another wall socket, but the LED stayed dark. It came as a surprise. I had that 2.1 speaker system for 15 years and never had any problems with it. It also never showed any signs of issues before it broke. It was a Logitech Z323. The first movie I watched with it was The…
I did it! I read everything Comico The Comic Company ever published! You can share my pain over there, on the Comico blog, if you haven’t already been doing. Tsk tsk!
I had a lot to say in my twenties. I was what you’d call a smart-ass. The problem was that I was quite good at arguing against my own position. I didn’t like writing that way. It felt unclean. I think part of this was a rooted fear of being wrong. Well, it is years later and while I was told back then “don’t believe everything you read on the internet,” that was before malicious bots and bad actors filled the web with pseudoscience and false claims as an explicit attack on democratic customs.…
In this edition:Khurram Shahzad on satellite challengesWill satellites overtake fibre and mobile?Chorus TimeSyncComCom fibre reviewDatagrid signs Tasman Ring contractSpace-based cellular networks are reshaping Aotearoa’s market. Bill Bennett interviewed Khurram Shahzad, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner to get the big picture.Starlink fixes pain points and creates new onesWhile mobile networks cover roughly 98 percent of New Zealand's population, they only reach about 50 percent of the…
Saw a dude proclaim that xitter was “good again” so yeah I’m gonna go ahead and stop paying for your app now. There is no world where we can disagree that hard on the word “good” and I can support any version of your future work. 🚮
Here are three spots that, each for their own reason, stuck with me in Nanjing. The post Beyond the Obvious – Three Nanjing Spots I Loved first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
Robb Knight: I’m shutting down EchoFeed within the next 12 months when the final subscriptions expire. It will continue to run as it is until then so if you’ve already paid you have access until the end of your subscription. EchoFeed was launched just a couple of years ago and I have been using it ever since to automatically publish links to the latest posts on Bluesky and Mastodon. It has been a really good service — the kind of thing I happily paid for and, in the best way, would forget…
I am waiting on a shipment of 10-0 paint brushes. This is Reapers #02983, Familiar Pack IX. This is from their Dark Heaven Legends series. This set includes some interesting characters. Counting the last set I took in that is twelve miniatures to paint. It will be fun.
More Awful British Comedians, because there are ALWAYS more. I picked up the Network DVD of FREEDOM OF THE SEAS because it was pretty cheap and pretty mysterious. I hadn’t heard of anybody in this 1934 comedy, which is highly unusual. There’s generally somebody from a Hitchcock or a Powell quota quickie. I guess I’ve […]
On Tuesday, Gina and Lindy and me went for our annual lunch together, going to a oc park afterwards where we watched a very friendly fox pottering around. It was so relaxed that it was perfectly happy for children to film it on their phones. There were tiny blue butterflies landing on the flowers around us, and a dusting of drizzle swept past us to complete the magical experience.I had to cancel everything last week because of illness, but thankfully everything slotted in an exact week later.…
I'd lived in LA for nearly 11 years without ever visiting the Getty Villa. I finally managed to get my ass over there last week. It was fun! I enjoyed it. I think I was surprised by how small the Villa is, but upon reflection, I shouldn't have been surprised at all. It is a weird house that a guy was hoarding art in. I should not have expected it to be as large or full or dense as the Getty proper is. It's small enough that you could see the whole thing in one trip. Maybe that makes it a better…
Queanbeyan, NSW, based author and visual artist Omar Musa, has been named winner of the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award, for his 2025 novel Fierceland. Fierceland is Musa’s second novel, and tells the story of two siblings returning to their home in Malaysian Borneo, for their father’s funeral, having lived overseas for years: After many years abroad, Roz and Harun return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their father Yusuf — and to reckon with their inheritance. A renowned palm-oil…
I’ve really been getting into The Hellacopters recently. So far I’ve been working through their releases on Bandcamp, with Head Off and Grande Rock the primaries, but I’m looking forward to expanding my listening beyond that. 🎵
It's not a new bike, its from 1993 but it's in flawless shape. My birthday is at the end of the month but I didn't want to get outbid on the ebay listing for it lol. It came with different handlebars and tires which I swapped on to my sons bike so he can take it to college. His is an old Raleigh we had in the garage I took the liberty of putting on new click shifters (It had grip shifts which I hate, everyone hates, ew ew ew), chain, and tires. It's also too big of a bike for me or else I would…
From Laura Michet's blog, a post about an abandoned project to catalog Los Angeles' "No Pedestrian Crossing" signs: The main thing I'd want to communicate is that the places where these signs go up are uniformly miserable. It sucks to be a person on foot in a place where the state has to warn you that it's too dangerous to cross a regular city street. These streets are terrible, loud, dirty, and they smell bad. A crowded urban street with a "no pedestrian crossing" sign is a place created by…
Major model releases while an OpenAI test agent escaped its sandbox to hack Hugging Face and 1,300+ frontier lab employees called for slowing AI progress.
Created by ChatGPT Dec. 2025 by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy I recently described the district court’s decision in the case of Amazon v. Perplexity as “a shockingly poor effort to grapple with CFAA applicability to agentic AI technology.” The Ninth Circuit appears to have agreed. This week, the Ninth Circuit panel published its opinion vacating the district court’s preliminary injunction and remanding for further proceedings. Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., 2026 WL 2237587…
I confess that I am "first among sinners." Why? Because all that I behold I only know through the shattered lens of my ego, distorted by a mind that projects its own blurred vision on the other. The world I see is fragmented, flawed because my mind is fragmented and flawed, apprehending only itself in what it beholds. So declares the Yogic scripture: "Yatha drishti, tatha srishti: as
We’re delighted to announce a 2026 Chicago session of our “inexcusably fun” two-day intensive course in public transit network design. This course, which we at Jarrett Walker + Associates have been teaching since 2011, is a chance to work intensively with me and our team to explore the challenges of designing transit networks in various geographies and situations. It’s not just for budding transit planners, but also for advocates, executives, city planners, developers — anyone who wants to…
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. party rock rock 🤬 wait this might be the worst svt solo ever.. zzan 😡 we're wasting electricity atp....omg it's getting worse mi cheo…
This is a truly fantastic album cover: Is the guy on the left aiming to block the shot of the guy on the right? Or is he also aiming for the red ball, but has poor vision? What is the guy in the white suit (Isao, I assume) hoping is the outcome of this particular battle? Does “Three Cushion” mean something that I don’t know? The back cover creates more questions rather than providing answers: Isao Suzuki was a bad ass bass player. His album covers were nearly as bad ass.
Ben Yagoda has a post about the recent rise in frequency of the word alongside: The American-born University of Sussex linguist Lynne Murphy recently remarked on her blog (Separated by A Common Language): “A few months ago, an American friend of my spouse asked him to ask me: ‘Why is everyone suddenly saying alongside?’” That put the word on my radar, and within days I was asking the same question as Lynne’s friend. It seemed like I couldn’t avoid “alongside”! And a little research demonstrated…
Puffbird similar to Fossil Birds found at Driftwood Canyon Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hectares of the Bulkley River Valley, on the east side of Driftwood Creek, a tributary of the Bulkley River, 10 km northeast of the town of Smithers in northern British Columbia. Driftwood Canyon is recognized as one of the world’s most significant
Is it safe to say the daily Pook-Emu Bee links are “daily” again with three posts in a row? I did laundry yesterday evening. 1 – Video Game Accounts Can Be Inherited, Chinese Court Rules (Li Xin for Sixth Tone. August 6, 2026.) The game account inheritance news from China you have been waiting for. 2 – Switch 2 Surpasses 23 Million Units As Nintendo Claims Sales Remain “Solid” (Ollie Reynolds for Nintendo Life. August 6, 2026.) While I do not plan to contribute to Switch 2’s sales (as much as…
