This video pops up every now and again, and I reckon it’s the dog equivalent of the Tom Holland dance video. A must-watch.

I think about this a lot.

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist.

He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

The Tuatha Dé Danann always had a keen eye for a good deal on Dutch Gold

When I'm waiting for trains in Manchester, I have to have some hard Italian cheese with tangy yellow chutney.

It's my Piccadilly pecorino/piccalilli peccadillo.

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

For a while now the only thing I used my desktop PC for was gaming; but when Windows 10 went kaput I decided to try Kubuntu. I'm very impressed with how well games work on Proton; so far its been a pretty frictionless experience. No more need for Windows it seems...

PRIMARY TEACHERS! This "disappearing rainbow" works because of the way light is refracted and totally internally reflected - the same phenomena at play in the making of a real rainbow. It's a demonstration you can use to explore / explain rainbows to your students. More in the link below.

I feel I’m making love to a photograph: the best of Robyn Hitchcock 1979-1993 As much as The Railway Chldren, Michael Penn, and Midnight Oil number ones define the Poppy Bush Interzone of college radio hits, Robyn Hitchcock’s consistent popularity proves a easy marker.

A master of post-sixties anthropomorphism leavened by twelve-string hooks, Robyn Hitchcock provided an acid-drenched sensibility without the damage. Those hits with the Egyptians help define the Poppy Bush Interzone. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/i...

Album cover for Singularity by Jon Hopkins stood on top of record player as record spins underneath. Glass of whisky sat to the side

And for tonight's whisky pairing...

Psychedelia meets transcending choral techno. Played as loud as your neighbours will endure, it just sounds incredible x

#NowPlaying

Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots.

Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/

hyperion one of the standalone sci fi GOATs, rip dan simmons

Soda Blonde are touring North America and release'Suit & Tie', a song inspired by Ireland’s cultural resurgence | Nialler9 Last week, the band were announced for Irish festival All Together Now.

Soda Blonde are touring North America and release'Suit & Tie', a song inspired by Ireland’s cultural resurgence
nialler9.com/soda-blonde-...

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

This diagram changed how I see a lot of things (but I don't know enough to know of it's true)

My choices were:

One Day, Three Autumns by Liu Zhenyun, tr Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin

Old Kiln by Jia Pingwa, tr James Trapp, Olivia Millburn, Christopher Payne.

I Live in the Slums by Can Xue, tr Chen Zeping, Karen Gernant.

Seaside

Local beach with mini-skellig...just as the rain temporarily dispersed

Kind of feel like Infinite Jest’s modern reputation is because of a couple of specific guys that annoyed a lot of New York culture writers in about 2008. It’s really good!

Not sure if you're taking family, but our standout highlight from last year was getting a couple of these tandems and just bimbling around on them, exploring. The kids still talk about how much they loved them.

How incredible

On this day in 1967 while spending time in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, John Lennon visited an antique shop and purchased a circus poster from 1843.

That circus poster inspired most of the lyrics to The Beatles' "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite."

I am a man with an enormous amount of respect for Imbolc, the Old Irish spelling of the winter festival of light Imbolg, but I'm pretty sure it's not observed to the extent that hardware shops are closing for it.

If your ship is on fire, firstly you must promptly fly the 'I am on fire, keep clear of me' flag - unless you are also having an existential crisis, in which case the 'no meaning' flag should be raised.

A friend of mine once did a very cool poem with this!

Station to Station

The #cowcushion is now listening to #bowie #vinyl

It would probably save a lot of time if they just worked on creating the Torment Nexus Panopticon from scratch, rather than trying to integrate the two platforms later on.