I haven’t seen this title page before and yet I immediately stopped the timeline to peer at what was so obviously a Baskerville.
Just incredibly elegant work. Beautiful type. From 1760!
Not one for posting game scores but I’ve stuck with this starter word for two years in anticipation of this moment so
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Should potholing be banned?
You'll only drive it underground.
And while that’s got you distracted, its descendants come creeping out of the waves behind you… 🐊
“Our business model is unsustainable. Here’s what that means for you:”
Cheers! It’s lovely weather too and I’ve taken the week off work, so I’m going to celebrate by *checks notes* sitting at my desk writing code for fun on my Mac Mini 😂
just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
Derelict spaceship survivor is a pretty sweet gig. Would it be better if the spaceship wasn’t derelict? Maybe. Are the fleshwraiths more of a negative than a positive? Sure, but now you’re nitpicking
Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
I once caught an episode of the 1980s TV adaptation and it had Adrian and another character on a balcony of the Haymarket Shopping Centre, by the Clock Tower in the centre of Leicester. But I knew that you couldn’t get to that balcony without going through some disused office space above the shops.
It's 10 years today since Prince died.
So a reminder of this, that happened on the other place, because sometimes sadness can still bring laughter.
Someone pointed out that all the tech billionaires are doing steroids now because they think AI will fix whatever health problems it causes in a few years
For those who like to keep track of those little signs of the changing of the seasons, this is the week of the year that I've switched from wearing thick woolly socks to thin cotton ones.
The phone is sufficiently location-aware that it can turn my living room lights to a specific level as I arrive back from the kebab shop round the corner, so it should be possible for it to use Land Registry records to restrict external audio to your own home and garden.
#TubesOnTuesday The Elizabeth Line at Farringdon
Early stroll. Horizon like a one-bar electric fire. A curling wave of orange peel. That snail’s long journey. A blackbird’s sculpted song. A dropped piece of string as long as a piece of string.
I suspect the author has inadvertently revealed that he doesn’t know a damn thing about cooking, but if there’s a way of thawing frozen lamb chops in three or four minutes without using a microwave, I’d be interested to hear it!
Reading “I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson and he describes the protagonist cooking. Puts a pan of water on to boil, then “thawed out the chops and put them under the broiler”. How did he thaw the chops in the time it takes a pan to boil? It was written in the 1950s; no mention of a microwave.
Me whenever I hear someone say "forehead" properly: "Oh my gosh, you say forehead properly!!!" 🥹
I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works!
This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one).
Hope you enjoy it!
perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
Orange fluffy cat inside my car.
I have to go to work and this is not my cat.
I love the highlands. My two hour bus trip which goes on a ferry costs £2 and is basically just a big car. “We don’t recognise you!” the driver says. I am now being made to introduce myself to the 4 other passengers.
A conjoined banana.
Two bananas inside the same skin.
Double banana! First time ever!
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
I’m old enough to remember literally spending a penny to access a public lavatory. I think there’s an age component to this too; I wouldn’t be surprised if a young British person today had never encountered that euphemism.
Old pennies they were, sometimes with Queen Victoria’s head on them! #OldGit
Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely
Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending
For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!
No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...
Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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Just remembered that people used to play Werewolf in the evenings at #BarCampLondon, and realised that you can only play that game if everyone’s young enough to get up out of a chair without making a noise.
I see people questioning what use this could have, but consider that we’re closer than ever to building a robot that can run away when you catch it stealing a pie from your windowsill
Side by side view comparing Bo'ness on historic Ordnance Survey maps from 1855 and 1895
This #MapMonday explore historic Linlithgowshire in great detail 🔎
You can now view a georeferenced layer of Ordnance Survey 25-inch mapping from the 1850s on our maps website.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
